Effective Anti-Bullying Campaign Workshop

IPB School of Business organized a student character development training program with the theme of “Building an Effective Campaign Strategy in Preventing Bullying”. This event held on 28^th August 2020 through a Virtual Zoom Meeting with IPB School of Business undergraduate student as participants. Ulin Ni’am Yusron as a facilitator of this event is an anti-bullying activator and social media specialist. The method that used for delivery is by presentation, question-answer interactive via chatroom and reaction tools, also practice in a group. All of the participants interact each other to make print campaign and got an advice from the facilitator to fix their campaign. In other words, this training held with a workshop method to make active participants.

The purpose of this event is to invites students to leave bullying behavior, optimize student potential to create a conducive campus atmosphere for development, and gave inspiration to students to create anti-bullying campaign. Participants show the graphic and communication skill by making print campaign, then present it and got an advice from facilitator and fellow participants. Facilitator thought that student campaign will show creativity to developed their communication skill in the form of compact writing and pictures, concise, and interesting. This workshop gave a chance for them to deliver all of their creativity and graphic ability which has never been used before in learning and previous training.

Bullying is something that often occurs in everyday student life. With this workshop, student can learn how to prevent bullying and build a conducive campus atmosphere and social media to learn and live life through campaign creation. Social media are often used to cyber-bullying, but now is must be used for spreading anti-bullying spirit. There are four types of bullying, which are physical, verbal, emotional, and cyber. With the high level of social used by student, cyber-bullying is the type of bullying that happen in student life. Bullying like this most often happens because of the possibility of acting anonymously. In extreme case, it can lead to hacking accounts and sharing personal information and images. By this program, IPB School of Business hopes that student not only having a sociable, polite, and cheerful behavior, but also able to build an effective anti-bullying campaign strategy for fellow students.