RELATIONAL AGGRESSION and COVERT BULLYING

Archive for November 26th, 2005

Ophelia Undone

Posted in November 26th, 2005

by Cheryl Dellasega in Cheryl Dellasega, Guest Authors

This month at one of the middle schools where I collaborate we are beginning to “rewrite” the play Hamlet –from Ophelia’s point of view. As we work our way through the script and watch clips from the movie, it’s striking to see how very sweet and uncertain and eager-to-please and tragic Ophelia was. […]

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For Our Daughters

Backstabber

This is a song I wrote from my personal experience with relational aggression.

Stream Song Broadband
Stream Song Dial Up

The double dragon is an appropriate symbol for the topic of relational aggression and female power - two heads coming out of one body.

For in truth, the dragons exist one within the other, as both aggression and empowerment exist within each person.

Relational aggression isn't so much about a specific person, a "bitch" we love to hate, as much as a state of mind; a set of choices we all can make.

Certainly, aggressors and targets are specific roles that people do play, but the point here is that the possibility for their manifestation exists in every person.

On this healing journey, it is important to remember that the reality of an aggressor is only a choice away for each one of us.

Be willing then, to see yourself, if only in potential, in both roles - aggressor and target. Doing so will give you the blessing of insight and understanding, and with that, true empowerment.

Demian,
~"DreamSinger"