When it comes to bullying within public schools,
most quick fixes have unintended consequences:
They make no differences or make matters worse in the long run.
| THE CHALLENGE | US | THEM |
| Motivation: Why should we change? | Show responsibility for current reality. | Appeal to desire or fear. |
| Collaboration: Why should we work together? | Demonstrate how people’s current ways of interacting undermine both their individual and their collective performance. | Tell people they should. |
| Focus: What should we do? | Use leverage to change the few things that change everything else | Tackle many issues independently and simultaneously attack symptoms. |
| Learning: Why bother? | Recognize that our actions matter, and that we need to learn from the consequences of our actions. | Assume that others are at fault and must learn. |
Systems thinking about anti-bullying supports mutually reinforcing activities. It builds trust by affirming that everyone is doing their best with what they know at the time. It also builds vulnerability by helping people recognize the negative unintended consequences of their well-intentioned actions on both others and themselves.
Understanding these consequences enables people to appreciate the extent of their interdependence while simultaneously making their individual accountability for the current situation more transparent. By surfacing the deeper nature of both their connectedness and individual impacts, system thinking increases the likelihood that people’s actions will in fact be mutually supportive.


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