Prevent Bullying with the Roundies
Bullying is always a group-wide phenomenon, and it is always quite common in groups of children. The Roundies Empathy Wizards programme strengthens social skills, provides structures that prevent bullying in groups, and gives the children words and the tools they need to talk about friendship and the many facets of bullying.
Julia Pöyhönen and Heidi Livingston, both psychologists specialised in social and emotional learning in children, have developed this programme.
Designed for Early Childhood Education
Our high-quality programme includes an easy-to-use online service with training videos & pedagogical tips for educators and step-by-step lesson plans for Empathy Time with children. Programme also includes songs and printed material.
Watch Empathy Wizards music video
Stop Bullying Now music video
Training Materials for Educator
It is only when we understand bullying as a phenomenon in which all children's needs must be seen and recognized that we can find and teach children new ways to face and deal with bullying. Then it also becomes possible to effectively prevent and eradicate the culture of bullying altogether.
- Orientation
- What is Bullying
- How to Prevent Bullying
- Respond to Bullying
Lesson Plans for Children
Story world gives children the opportunity to explore what bullying is like outside of their own daily lives, and they can practice empathy by putting themselves in the shoes of the different characters.
Six ready-scripted sessions for teaching empathy skills include reading stories, discussion, music and fun exercises.
- Crocosmile is a Bully
- What is a Good Group Like?
- Steps of Empathy
- Bullying
- My Boundaries, Your Boundaries
- Being Different, Being Alike
How Does Our Programme Work?
- Easy-to-use, solution-focused online material designed by Finnish psychologists.
- Ready-made lesson plans for Empathy Wizard Sessions.
- You can either use a concise timetable or spread out the sessions in Empathy Time over a longer period.
- During the programme the class works together to achieve a common goal and at the end the accomplishment is celebrated with Empathy Wizards diplomas.
- A computer/smart device is needed only for the educator's use, not for the children.
