Act Like You Matter Provides Tools to Help You Build Resilience and Manage Encounters with Rude, Mean, or Bullying Behavior

We offer student-led, age appropriate assemblies and workshops in person (San Diego County) and virtually (Everywhere) as well as scripts of our programs.

Act Like You Matter: Empower Yourself!

For K-3rd: Baffle Away Bullying! Interactive Stage Play

Delivered on site at schools in San Diego County and virtually (Everywhere!)

Run by students ages 11-20 from Theatre of Peace: Youth Anti-Bullying Actors & Empowerment Advocates

Baffle Away Bullying: Interactive Workshop for K-3rd is Now Available on Video!

Just in time for back to school, our most popular program is now available on video for schools, groups, and families to rent! Individuals and families pay as little as $4.99. Schools and businesses working with children pay as little as $49.99.

For Older Elementary: Anti-Bullying Empowerment Workshops & Assemblies

Delivered on site at schools in San Diego County and virtually (Everywhere!)

Run by students ages 11-20 from Theatre of Peace: Youth Anti-Bullying Actors and Empowerment Advocates

For Middle & High School: Anti-Bullying Empowerment Workshops & Assemblies

Delivered on site at schools in San Diego County and virtually (Everywhere!)

Run by students ages 11-20 from Theatre of Peace : Youth Anti-Bullying Actors and Empowerment Advocates (“TOP”)

Bullying Resilience Coaching for Kids, Teens, Families

The KEY is building your resilience and self-esteem so that you deflect – rather than internalize – the negativity of others.

Extending Our Impact: Books & Scripts

Don’t live in SoCal? Don’t have the ability to stream a virtual program? We understand, and we’re working tirelessly to make our content available in other ways. You can rent the video of Baffle Away Bullying or license the script for Baffle Away Bullying now. Other scripts will be available soon!

Students

11,500+ students and 700+ teachers and staff have participated in Act Like You Matter’s Anti-Bullying Empowerment Workshops & Assemblies delivered on-site at schools in San Diego County, LA County, and all locations in between. Here’s what some of them have to say…

Teachers & Staff

My favorite part was that they were kid actors, and they experienced this recently. So they know more about bullying than adults do. 

5th Grader

My favorite part was when they were talking about their personal experiences with bullying and how they dealt with it.

12th Grader

My students were engaged the whole time! After it was over and students were leaving, you could hear them talking about the strategies and how they planned to use them. Excellent program!  

Kindergarten Teacher

This program should be in every school. 

K-8th School Principal

Act Like You Matter Mission:

To empower young people to:

  • Find their voice,

  • Be part of the solution, and

  • Change the way their generation treats each other …

So that schools and communities are places:

  • Of acceptance and tolerance,

  • Where empathy and kindness are second nature, and

  • Where each child can rise to their full potential, without fear of being bullied.

Impactful AND Expanding Beyond San Diego:

The team at Act Like You Matter is focused on the positive and doing everything we can to make our content and programs available in new ways to reach students beyond SoCal. 

FIRST: We’re making our scripts available for Licensing in 2 key ways:

  • Performance Licensing: So our plays can be performed anywhere in the world.
  • Classroom Reading Licensing: So students can study the content, generate important discussions with their peers, and master the life skills taught in our plays without needing to attend an assembly at all!

Our most in demand program Baffle Away Bullying! Interactive Stage Play for K-3rd is available NOW for both  Classroom (traditional or virtual) Reading Licensing and Performance Licensing.

 

Our most popular program Baffle Away Bullying! Interactive Workshop for K-3rd  is available NOW on video for individuals, families, schools, and businesses to rent! This is the first time any of our programs is available outside of Southern California! Click this link to watch the trailer and check out the pricing options.

IN THE NEAR FUTURE, we’ll be publishing  Baffle Away Bullying! as a workbook for purchase by families and discount bulk purchase by schools.

 

Click HERE or the Image Above for Details and to be Notified when Each Product is Ready!

Rude vs. Mean vs. Bullying

The tools we teach can be used with ANY of these behaviors

Rude Behavior

Inadvertently saying or doing something that hurt someone else. (Source: PsychologyToday.com)

Being rough in manner or behavior. Harsh. Ungentle. (Source: dictionary.com)

Rude behavior is not intended to cause harm to another person.

Mean Behavior

Purposefully saying or doing something to hurt someone once (or maybe twice). (Source: PsychologyToday.com)

Main difference from rude behavior: Mean behavior is intentional & strives to hurt another person.

Bullying Behavior

Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. (Source: StopBullying.gov)

Main differences from mean behavior: Bullying behavior is repeated & involves an imbalance of power (real or perceived).

People ask us all the time what the difference is between rude, mean, and bullying behavior. While it’s important to define and understand these behaviors, the strategies and life skills we teach can be used when encountering ANY of these negative behaviors.

You have more power than you realize!

Each of Us Plays a Role in Bullying Behavior. Each of Us Can:

(1) Take action & DO SOMETHING about what’s happening and/or

(2) Choose to behave differently than we have in the past

 

But HOW?

Where do you start?

What do you say?

 

Act Like You Matter and TOP’s programs and social media presence are designed to answer those questions and more: empowering students with tools & strategies they can use right away to build their resilience, make a difference, and be part of the solution.

 

Adults: Click to Learn More About our Programs for K-12thKids & Teens: Click to Meet Theatre of Peace (TOP) & Connect with Us: Talk to TOP

“Roles” in the Cycle of Bullying and the Power You Have to Refuse to Play the Role You’ve Been Handed:

Is Someone Bullying You?

You don’t have to be a victim of bullying just because you’re a target of bullying. We can teach you coping skills and strategies that can help you take back control of your life and happiness.

Have You Witnessed or Heard About Bullying Behavior?

We can show you many different ways to take action safely and make a difference: to move from being a bystander to being an upstander. Confronting the abuser is not the only option!

Do Your Friends Bully People?

Bullying can take hold when you follow along silently or laugh as your friends abuse other kids. If you don’t like the way your friends are treating others, you have more options than you realize. Let us show you what you can do.

Do YOU Bully People?

Recognize that you are not a “bully.” Bullying is a learned behavior – sometimes learned at home – that you can decide to change. It doesn’t have to be part of your permanent identity. Let us tell you more …

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You Can Rent the Video of Our Empowering, Interactive Program for K-3rd!

Families, individual teachers, entire schools (and anyone else!) can rent Baffle Away Bullying! Interactive Workshop for K-3rd on video! Start learning life skills to help you manage encounters with anyone who mistreats you (or anyone else) right NOW.

 

Click Here to Watch the Trailer and Rent this Empowering Program!

  • Family Pricing starts at $4.99
  • School Pricing starts at $49.99

We Believe in the Power of Young People

Real change in the way kids and teens treat each other has to come from them. They have immense capacity to reach each other and connect in ways that adults just can’t. It all starts with giving them the opportunity to talk, ask questions, and learn from each other’s experiences. It grows by making sure each person knows that they matter and that it’s important to be to be true to who they are no matter what anyone else says. 

That’s what Act Like You Matter is all about.

 

Find your voice. Build your resilience. Be part of the solution. Make your world a better place.

YOU Matter!