● What were you teased about in middle school or high school? How did you respond?

● Were you intimidated by another child or an adult when you were young? Did you ask

for help? From whom? What was the result?

● Did a friend or peer lie about you, betray a confidence, or fail to back you up? How do

you think those experiences impacted you?

● Did you ever do any of these things to a friend?

● What group, if any, were you a part of during middle or high school?

● Who was your first crush? How did you feel when you saw that person? Did you ever

tell that person you were interested?

● What was the biggest lie you ever told an adult when you were a child or a teen? Did

you get caught?

● When you were growing up, what got you respect and high social status as a boy or

young man in your community?

● What got you respect and high social status as a girl or young woman?

● Who was the best teacher or coach you had as a teen? Why?

● Who was the worst teacher or coach you had as a teen? Why?

● How do all these experiences influence the way you work with youth and adults in your

community now?

● What characteristics do you have that would discourage any student from approaching

you when they need help?

● What characteristics do you have that would encourage any student to approach you

when they need help?