About Marjorie Ayen
I am Marjorie Ayen and I am an Anti-Bullying Consultant from Mauritius. I worked as an educator for 15 years but experienced workplace bullying for 8 years. After resigning from my job, I decided to retrain professionally as an Anti-Bullying Consultant in 2022.
My aim is to raise awareness of bullying, promote bullying prevention and help victims and perpetrators heal. I am an Associate Member of the Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA)(UK) since August 2022.
MY QUALIFICATIONS
I’ve earned my certifications from the Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA)(UK) (Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Certified), UNICEF, High Speed Training (UK) (CPD Certified, l’Ordre des administrateurs agréés du Québec (ADMA), Udemy, Coursera, the US official anti-bullying website (stopbullying.gov) and Alison Training (Ireland). I’ve been trained in The Method of Shared Concern ( La méthode de la préoccupation partagée d’Anatol Pikas) by the KMOP Education Hub. Moreover, I’ve earned my certifications in Mediation and Conflict Resolution from Alison Training (Ireland), the École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC Business School) and The University of California Irvine (UCI Division of Continuous Education).
In order to be a more effective Anti-Bullying Consultant, I’ve been trained in Counselling skills by the Academy of Modern Applied Psychology (AMAP)(UK) and in Emotional Intelligence by the Priority Academy (Complementary Therapists Accredited Association (CTAA) (UK). I’ve also been trained in Active Listening by Coursera and in Suicide Prevention by the University of Wesleyan.
As an ex-educator, I’ve earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) Joint Humanities (English and French) (University of Mauritius) (2006), a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) (University of South Africa) (2009) and a Master of Education (M.Ed) (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) (2012).
My qualifications can also be viewed on my LinkedIn page:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marjorie-ayen-648947245/details/education/
MY BULLYING STORY
The beginning of my ordeal
I experienced workplace bullying in my 20’s and early 30’s as an educator. Before my own bullying experience, I’ve heard of bullying and was compassionate about victims of bullying. But I never would have thought that I would endure bullying one day. I was naive to believe that I was safe in a school environment. When the bullying started, I was not even aware that it was bullying. The latter started in 2011, when I’d just completed my Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). My colleagues, especially much older than me, started to pick on me, out of jealousy. However, they didn’t do so directly but in a covert way. One male colleague started to mock me and spread rumours about me regularly, encouraging other colleagues to do so. Of course, not only did the teaching staff believed rumours about me, but also the non-teaching staff and many students. The bullying got worse when I started my Master of Education (M.Ed) and bought my car. By then, I started to notice that many personal objects were being stolen from my desk such as calendars, an educational DVD and even flowers that school leavers had left for me.
“ People are forever changed by painful events and always remember profound losses but they can come back and move forward; living healthy and productive lives. ”
Richard Schwindt
Emotional Recovery from Workplace Mobbing: A Guide for Targets and Their Supports