Upcoming Bystander Intervention Training

Bystander Intervention Training with Right To Be
August 11, 2025, from 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST - Webinar

The human response to witnessing injustice often defaults to fight, flight, or freeze. If we are reactive without having foundational tools to respond, we may not achieve the result we hoped for. If we turn our eyes to injustice, we can be found complicit. If we freeze, we may find ourselves in uncomfortable or perilous positions. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was intentional in helping to train people in civil discourse and nonviolent approaches to conflict resolution.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Granville will offer various trainings to help equip God’s people to engage in situations of discomfort. The first training will be Bystander Intervention Training through Right To Be. This one-hour webinar will provide you with the resources to make a decision of action that matches your level of ability.  

Right To Be shares, “How can we take action if we don’t know what to do? Right To Be is offering this free, one-hour, interactive training to train people on how to safely intervene when you witness street harassment or experience it yourself. During this training, you’ll learn a clear, adaptable, and expert-approved set of tools that have been proven to reduce the prevalence of street harassment: Right To Be’s 5Ds of bystander intervention.

We’ll start by deepening our understanding of street harassment and its impact. Then, we’ll talk through five strategies for intervention: distract, delegate, document, delay, and direct, and how to prioritize your own safety while intervening. We’ll also talk about what to do if you’re worried the violence will turn on you and how to avoid escalating the situation. Then, we’ll talk about what to do if you experience harassment and give you tools to safely get your power back.

We’ll have time at the end for practice. Exit polls show 98.8% of attendees leave the training feeling like there is at least one thing they can do the next time they witness harassment.”

Please register for a spot in this training by accessing registration here

If you have any questions please email Rev. Julia Joyce-Miesse at revjulia@stlukesgranville.org