Section 3: Supporting Survivors Training Guide
Slide Deck Outline
This section complements the facilitator notes included in the slide deck. It provides suggestions on how to “go deeper” into topics depending on time available, audience interest, and goals for the training.
Opening
- Title Slide
- Land acknowledgement: Adapt your institution’s land acknowledgement. Territorial acknowledgements are designed as the very first step to reconciliation. What we do with the knowledge of whose traditional lands we are on is the next important step. Some questions to consider as you acknowledge your territory:
- What do we do as good guests here?
- What can you do in your personal and professional roles to contribute to reconciliation? Should your institution have an approved territorial acknowledgement, please use that to open the session; however, we invite you to consider how to make that institution statement more personal and specific to you in this moment and in the work you are about to delve into with your learners. Alongside every act of violence exists a parallel story of resistance to that violence and so Indigenous people’s historical and ongoing resistance to colonial violence must also be recognized. For more information please see Section 1: Territory Acknowledgement and Section 2: Roots of Violence and the facilitator notes for the Land Acknowledgement slide.
- Welcome and facilitator introductions:
- Option to have name tags for learners where they can indicate their names and preferred pronouns.
- Option to have facilitators’ names, pronouns, and positions on title.
- Recommendation for an additional slide describing the specific department or service at your institution that is providing this workshop as well as the services / programming they provide. Link to your institution’s sexual violence and misconduct policy.
- Workshop expectations: Facilitators should explain that they will be available after the workshop has concluded to debrief with any learners that require support and that the institution’s counselling services are available. Additionally, learners can private message a specific facilitator (email), should they require support.
Section 1: What is Sexual Violence and What Can It Look Like?
- Learning outcomes for this training
- Definitions: Sexual Violence: Recommendation to go deeper by continuing discussion on power, control and privilege in relation to sexual violence i.e.,sexual violence is about power not about sexual desire. For example, understanding sexual violence as an act of force and theft on an individual in the same way that colonization is the forcible theft of land and has supported acts of rape, genital mutilation, forced sterilization, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Girls and Women.
- Definitions: Consent: Recommendation to go deeper by focusing on why it can be challenging for some people to say no, again focusing on power dynamics of situations and relationships. Consider the messages that some people