Where does the joke end and the stereotype begin?

For young people living in a multicultural environment it is important to be aware and understand the impact negative behaviours have on others. Therefore, the session aims to equip the participants with knowledge about how to fight stereotypes, bias, prejudice and discrimination and promote respect and tolerance regardless of one's nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, etc.

To empower young people on becoming more respectful and tolerant towards other people in a diverse and multicultural environment.
The aim of the session was to improve the knowledge about negative behaviours in the context of intercultural dialogue (stereotypes, bias, prejudice anddiscrimination) for 8 young people, participants in the European Solidarity Corps programme, through an interactive and informative online workshop session.

There should be a minimum of one facilitator with knowledge and expertise in the field of multiculturalism and intercultural dialogue.

Create a friendly and open environment. Make sure that everybody feels confortable. Since it is an online session, make sure you set the rules at the beginning (camera turned on preferably, but not mandatory, microphone turned off while not speaking) and encourage speaking and engagement.

Lack of involvement of participants due tot the online environment. 
High risk of misunderstanding some concepts.

The session is designed to be facilitated online.

Role-Play: The participants are divided in groups, having in total 4 groups. Each of them will receive the definition of a negative behaviour and will have to prepare a role play showing through the situation exposed how that respective behaviour impacts someone. After each group presents, the others have to guess what was the role play about (which negative behaviour).
 

A debriefing session is conducted at the end:
- "How did you feel while you were performing in the role-play?"
- "Do you think similar situations can happen in real life?"
- "How can we educate ourselves to become more open and tolerant towards the others?"
- " How can we support other people to become more open and tolerant?"
-" How should we act when we witness one situation when one person is the victim of a negative behaviour?"
Q&A session, followed by a set of questions aimed to evaluate the participants' satisfaction and learning:"
- "How did you like the session? What did you learn from it?"