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The B2U® program provides a sustainable way (via a train-the-trainer component) for everyone to learn upstander intervention techniques to prevent dangerous behaviors such as sexual violence, racism, sexism, and heterosexism, as well as practice upstander intervention skills to take positive action when faced with injustice and intolerance.​

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Program Goals

Bystander to Upstander: Transforming Culture® Workshop

Learn how to identify moments of injustice or intolerance

 

Gain confidence in addressing moments of injustice or intolerance

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Use engagement and conversational tactics to de-escalate harmful situation

Take the most appropriate and effective action to stand up to injustice or intolerance

Bystander to Upstander: Transforming Culture® Train-the-Trainer Workshop

Learn to effectively facilitate the Bystander to Upstander: Transforming Culture® workshop

Customize the Bystander to Upstander: Transforming Culture® workshop to meet the needs of the target group

Gain confidence in addressing potential issues that may arise during the workshop facilitation

Connect with other Bystander to Upstander: Transforming Culture® trainers

Workshops

     Bystander to Upstander: Transforming Culture® workshop

 Bystander to Upstander: Transforming Culture®, teaches participants the knowledge and skills to transform from bystanders to upstanders to take positive action in the face of injustice or intolerance.

    Bystander to Upstander: Transforming Culture® Train-the-Trainer workshop

 Bystander to Upstander: Transforming Culture® Train-the-Trainer workshop, teaches individuals who have already attended the first workshop, Bystander to Upstander: Transforming Culture®, how to facilitate the Bystander to Upstander: Transforming Culture® workshop with other colleagues. Participants who attend the Train-the-Trainer workshop will join a collaborative team of trainers who work together to build communities that support difference and unify against intolerance.

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The program was developed using evidence-based practices and Dr. Elias-Lambert’s expertise in program development, ensuring its effectiveness in fostering a culture of intervention. ​

Utilizing a train-the-trainer model, Dr. Elias-Lambert collaborated with TCU’s Center for Teaching Excellence and Academic Deans to implement B2U with faculty, embedding the program into the university’s culture.

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Impacts

Unlike most campus-based programs that target students, B2U was designed to address the entire campus community, including faculty and staff, based on the CDC’s social-ecological model of prevention. 

The success of B2U at TCU has led to its expansion beyond university settings, making it a valuable resource for workplaces seeking to promote upstander behavior and cultural transformation.

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I learned the importance of being an upstander and what difference it can make in de-escalating situations. 

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I will be more deliberate about intervening to model for students.

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It was a good reminder that taking action to challenge harmful language can have an impact on moving social norms in the right direction.

B2U PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK

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I feel more prepared to handle potential situations in the future. 

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I feel more confident to speak up when necessary. 

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I will encourage colleagues to address situations needing intervention as well. 

B2U PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK

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It makes me think about my own language and the way that I talk with my colleagues. It makes me reevaluate the way that I talk and how that fits into this goal of creating a better culture.

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It has reminded me that it is my business, it is my obligation, it is a part of my job and my duty as a human being and as a professor and as a part of this community to intervene.

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By understanding that we can intervene in a non-threatening way, but simply intervene in a way that is effective, that we can think through our behaviors and hopefully change how the community functions.

B2U TRAINED FACULTY FACILITATOR THOUGHTSTITLE

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I feel that this upstander work allows for more visibility on campus, both in terms of this work and my role in culture-bearer and culture-sharer and a culture-changer. So, I put out this information and it is reflected back at me and so I'm able to see what needs to be nuanced in terms of my delivery and my leadership.

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I'm thinking about gender and gender politics and gender roles. So, I think in terms of my role in changing the culture around sexual violence, it's a conversation about gender and what it actually means to be a man, and the ways in which we are programmed to be and act.

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I think that's a responsibility that all of us needs to take more seriously, to be fighting the toxic masculinity that's intrinsic in rape culture.

B2U TRAINED FACULTY FACILITATOR THOUGHTSTITLE

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