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While the incident is all but forgotten by the now 18-year-old, Dosedel says the family was surprised by the attack and did not exactly know how to deal with the situation.
"I now have a nine-year-old and I always tell him to be careful and never to hit other people because there are consequences," Dosedel said at a RespectEd workshop on bullying behaviours held in Inuvik recently.
Mary Greenshields, co-ordinator of the Inuvik Interagency Committee, hosted the workshop.
"It's been run by the Red Cross since 1997," Greenshields said of the workshop, which combined dialogue about bullying behaviour with a video presentation of the CBC documentary A Girl's World. Greenshields said Inuvik youth in Grades 7 and 8 were also given the workshop at school.
"It gave them tools to prevent and identify bullying and harassment," she said.
The community workshop was open to everyone interested in the topic.
"This is one of the areas identified by the larger interagency group as something that needed to be addressed in the community," Greenshields said of the reason the workshop was brought to Inuvik.
Greenshields said it was beneficial to have someone neither living in the community or directly involved in a situation to give perspective on such a topic.
"We're hoping this will be the first of several modules."
Karen Platt from Victoria, B.C., the co-ordinator of RespectEd, said the program defines who bullies are, what adults and communities can do and discussion about bullying and harassment.
Her role is to facilitate discussion, more so than tell parents and children what to do, she said.
"Kids need to be aware of what bullying is, but adults are responsible for creating a safe community and school," Platt said.
"With adult education, we can create programs or a culture in which we can deal with it.
"It's way bigger than just the kids and we tend to point fingers at the kids and say this is your problem -- go fix it."
