Role playing game

Rolling cards for the conference

Role card: Management of the institution (for example, director, board)

Your role as a leadership is to take a neutral attitude that allows all parties to present their view of things.
You are paying attention that the tone in the conference remains factual and fair.
You will open and conduct the conference.
First, state the facts shortly.
Let all the facts be described.
Ask questions if something is not clear or if you need more information.
Inform yourself, what rules have been violated and how is it punished in the institution?
Advise yourself well with the participants. Think carefully about the criteria you want to decide.

Role card: Advisory Board (for example, Teaching, Board of Directors)

You will have an advisory role in this conference.
You support the management in the decision-making process.
Ask if you have something unclear or you want more information.
Stand in close coordination with the management
Think carefully about the criteria you want to decide.

Role card: Supervisor (eg class teacher / trainer)

Your role is to feel with a person of the affected person and / or the perpetrator.
You need a little time to familiarize yourself with the case example and also think about how you perceived the situation.
Think about how you learned about the incident and how you responded.
Were there any signs or changes in the participants?
What were your first thoughts and actions?
With whom did you talk about?
Consider a recommendation for decision-making.

Role card: Speaker of the group (e.g., class spokesperson / captain of the team)

Your role is to take an advisory role as a group speaker and feel with him.
You need a little time to familiarize yourself with the case example and also think about how you perceived the situation.
Think about how you learned about the incident and how you responded.
Were there any signs or changes in the participants?
What were your first thoughts and actions?
With whom did you talk about?
Consider a recommendation for decision-making.

Role card: The affected person

Your role is to feel with the affected person.
You need a little time to familiarize yourself with the case example and also think about how you perceived the situation.
Think about the impact of the incident referring to your life. Search very concrete examples.
What were your first thoughts and actions?
With whom did you talk about?
How did you experience the perpetrator?

Role card: Perpetrator

Your role is to be in the perpetrators and to feel like them.
You need a little time to familiarize yourself with the case example and also think about how you perceived the situation.
Think about what triggers have moved you to what you did and what you wanted to achieve.
What were your first thoughts and actions?
With whom did you talk about?
How did you experience the affected person?
Find very concrete examples that you can tell.

Role card: Mother / father of the affected person

Your role is to feel with the mother / father of the affected person.
You need a little time to familiarize yourself with the case example and also think about how you perceived the situation.
Think about how you learned about the incident and how you responded.
Were there any signs or changes in your child?
What were your first thoughts and actions?
With whom did you talk about?

Role card: Mother / father of the perpetrator

Your role is to feel with the mother / father of the perpetrator.
You need a little time to familiarize yourself with the case example and also think about how you perceived the situation.
Think about how you learned about the incident and how you responded.
Were there any signs or changes in your child?
What were your first thoughts and actions?
With whom did you talk about?

Role card: Followers

Your role is to feel with a follower.
You need a little time to familiarize yourself with the case example and also think about how you perceived the situation.
Think about what triggers have moved you to what you did and what you wanted to achieve.
What were your first thoughts and actions?
With whom did you talk about?
How did you experience the affected person?
How did you experience the perpetrator?
Find very concrete examples that you can tell.

Role card: Witnesses (schoolmate / friend)

Your role is to feel like a witness.
You need a little time to familiarize yourself with the case example and also think about how you perceived the situation.
Think about how you learned about the incident and how you responded.
What were your first thoughts and actions?
With whom did you talk about?
Were there any signs or changes in the participants?
What is important to speak out in the conference to make a decision?

Role card: Advisory committee from the institution (for example, student council / pupil council)

Your role is to feel the advisory role.
You need a little time to familiarize yourself with the case example and also think about how you perceived the situation.
Think about how you learned about the incident and how you responded.
Were there any signs or changes in the participants?
What were your first thoughts and actions?
With whom did you talk about?
Consider a recommendation for decision-making.

Free role playing- cards (possibly filled by the specialist or the student)

Final card for the performers of the role playing game

In the following, you will find additional cards that can be distributed to selected roles to keep a brief monologue to the thoughts and feelings about the events after the trial. This should be in each case only one to two minutes per performer.

After the conference

Say a short monologue about your feelings in your role now. Describe your feelings / thoughts, how you are dealing with the decisions made and whether your relationship with the perpetrator and / or affected person has changed.

After the conference

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