Support Group Facilitator Training with an Anti-Oppression Lens is a comprehensive workshop for individuals interested in facilitating support groups from an intersectional feminist approach. This training provides participants with the skills, knowledge, and tools necessary to create safe and empowering spaces for individuals who have experienced trauma.

This workshop is suitable for individuals interested in facilitating support groups, such as mental health professionals, social workers, community activists, educators, and volunteers. Participants should have a basic understanding of feminist principles and social justice issues.

This workshop is suitable for individuals interested in facilitating support groups, such as mental health professionals, social workers, community activists, educators, and volunteers. Participants should have a basic understanding of feminist principles and social justice issues.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn facilitation skills, including active listening, communication, conflict resolution, and managing group dynamics in a supportive and constructive environment.
• Learn trauma and violence-informed practices, how to create a safe space for survivors, self-care strategies, and burnout prevention techniques.
• Learn how to apply anti-oppression principles to facilitation practice, including addressing racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and other forms of oppression.

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The CORE Training on Gender-Based Violence equips participants with the knowledge and skills to prevent and respond to gender-based violence.

Learn about its historical, legal, and social context and how it intersects with substance use and mental health. Discover effective advocacy strategies and systemic responses to support survivors and hold perpetrators accountable.

This training is for individuals who want to become agents of change in their communities and are interested in preventing and responding to gender-based violence, such as professionals working in social services, healthcare, law enforcement, and other related fields, as well as community members.

Learning Outcomes:

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of gender-based violence’s historical, legal, and social context, including its different forms, such as intimate partner and sexual violence.
• Develop a deep understanding of the dynamics and consequences of gender violence and its impact on individuals and society.
• Discover effective advocacy strategies and systemic responses that can help prevent gender-based violence and support survivors.

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This workshop explores the complex intersection between violence, substance use, and mental health and its impact on survivors. The workshop emphasizes culturally sensitive approaches and equips participants with practical skills.

This training is for professionals in mental health, substance use, or violence prevention, as well as anyone interested in learning about these intersecting issues.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn and understand the unique challenges survivors face when navigating violence, substance use, and mental health issues and provide trauma and violence-informed support to women facing the complexities of intersecting issues.
• Learn how to create effective safety plans for survivors experiencing violence, substance use, and mental health challenges.
• Develop strategies for building resilience and promoting healing in women affected by violence, substance use, and mental health challenges.

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Financial abuse is a common tactic of power and control in abusive relationships, which enables an abusive partner to control women by preventing or restricting her access to money, employment or other financial resources.

This workshop provides practical strategies for professionals to recognize and respond to financial abuse in domestic and intimate partner violence survivors.

This training is for financial, housing, and community services professionals.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn to respond effectively to economic abuse in a survivor-centred manner.
• Gain an intersectional perspective on the warning signs of financial abuse and survivor-centred approaches to support.
• Learn the importance of economic stability and independence in promoting physical safety.
• Learn how to implement practical strategies to minimize harm and promote long-term economic safety for survivors.

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This training provides an overview of the long-lasting impacts of trauma and people’s responses in times of crisis. By infusing trauma and violence-informed principles into an intersectional feminist, anti-racist and decolonial framework, participants will obtain the knowledge, analysis, and tools to reduce the chances of re-traumatization while supporting their clients towards finding solutions.

This workshop includes the unique impacts on Black, Indigenous, immigrant and racialized people.

This workshop is for front-line workers, counsellors, social service providers, and other professionals who work in crisis situations with individuals who have experienced trauma.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn how to apply trauma and violence-informed principles during crisis assessment, intervention, and stabilization, reducing the chances of re-traumatizing clients.
• Practical tools and techniques for crisis assessment, intervention, and stabilization while considering the long-lasting impacts of trauma.
• Learn how to apply a trauma and violence-informed lens to your work, incorporating intersectional feminist, anti-racist and decolonial principles to support survivors in finding solutions that align with their unique needs and experiences.

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What options are available when the policies and laws that protect survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault become turned against them?

Survivors can be criminalized for reacting in self-defence, participating in criminal activity under their abusers’ coercion, or failing to protect their children from witnessing or being impacted by violence in the home. Survivors (in particular, Indigenous, Black, immigrant, and racialized) who struggle with mental wellness or substance use or who otherwise don’t fit the framing of the “perfect victim” are disproportionally criminalized.

This workshop is for victim services workers, advocates, counsellors, social workers, and other professionals who work with survivors of gender-based violence.

Learning Outcomes:

• Gain a better understanding of the criminal legal system and its impact on survivors of domestic violence.
• Learn practical strategies for supporting survivors who have been arrested, including tips for safety planning, advocacy, and referrals.
• Be equipped to navigate the criminal legal system with survivors and offer compassionate and practical support to survivors of domestic violence who have been arrested.

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The Culture of Gender Violence exhibits itself through the presence of rape, sexual assault, domestic violence, and sexual exploitation which exist within our culture.

The term “gender violence” reflects the idea that violence often serves to maintain structural gender inequalities, and includes all types of violence against men, women, children, youth, gay, transgender people, and gender non-conforming folks.

This training is for individuals who are interested in changing, preventing, and responding to gender-based violence in their communities, such as professionals working in social services, healthcare, frontline workers, legal system, and other related fields, as well as community members.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn more about the 3 main components that contribute to the existence of gender violence: sexism and misogyny, sexual objectification and victim blaming.
• Have a greater understanding of the pervasive myths and norms that justify sexual violence and that keep the focus on blaming and silencing survivors by looking through the lens of history and our current culture.
• Gain a better and clear understanding of how gender violence highlights a toxic masculinity-patterned violence: a prevalent violence committed most often but not always by men, often motivated by aggression, revenge, competition, and entitlement used to help to maintain patriarchy, dominance, and oppressive stereotypes.

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Intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV), sometimes known as sexual assault in the context of domestic violence, is a pervasive and often hidden problem. IPSV creates a highly dangerous situation and is associated with increased risk of death, severe long-term trauma for victims, and repeated victimization.

This training is designed for individuals interested in facilitating support groups, frontline workers, social workers, mental health professionals, educators, those working in healthcare, law-enforcement, volunteers, and anyone else who is interested in learning about how IPSV affects those we support professionally and personally.

Learning Outcomes:

• Gain a better understanding of the nature and prevalence of IPSV.
• Learn about the dynamics and impact of IPSV and the specific challenges faced by survivors.
• Gain more knowledge about the use of sex as a weapon of power and control and develop strategies for supporting and providing services for survivors.

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The idea of encouraging marginalized and oppressed people of colour who have experienced DV to come forth and seek services and support from community organizations and law enforcement can ignite trauma responses as a result of being abused by the very systems that are said to help and support.

The trauma experienced when your voice is unheard: your experience minimized; and you are blamed as the victim, all contribute to the perpetual cycle of violence, suppression, and rejection that form our unwillingness to seek help. Since the days of slavery, we as a people have been resourceful in creating safety amongst ourselves because safety historically has not existed for us within dominant culture. As enslaved peoples our ancestors created and learned to use codes and underground avenues to create safety and community amongst themselves. This same concept applies for DV survivors of color today; safety and support are sought in unconventional ways.

This training is suitable for individuals interested in facilitating support groups, counsellors, mental health professionals, social workers, community organizers, activists, educators, frontline workers, and volunteers.

Participants should have a basic understanding of social justice issues and must be interested in learning about and working towards dismantling systems of oppression.

Learning Outcomes:

• Gain a better understanding of how survivors work outside of dominant systems when those systems are not safe or reliable.
• Have a deeper knowledge of underground avenues of responding to intimate partner and domestic violence.
• Learn what barriers impact the willingness to seek support.

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This workshop provides a theoretical and practical understanding of oppressions and their basis in power and control. We will capitalize on participant knowledge to establish a working understanding of oppression and draw on participant interests and roles to equip participants to work more effectively for social justice.

This training is designed for educators, frontline workers, community leaders and activists, as well as those in the management field.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn how to differentiate between interpersonal and institutional expressions of oppression.
• Have a better understanding of how impacts of oppression present barriers for DV/IPV/SA survivors and the relevance of intersectionality.
• Gain practical skills to interrupt harmful words/behaviors.

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This workshop covers the definition and signs of stalking behavior, the various relationship dynamics in which a person may experience stalking, the ways that society normalizes stalking, and the support systems/resources a person may access when experiencing stalking.

This training is for those in law enforcement, social workers, frontline workers, teachers, parents, survivors of abuse and stalking, counsellors, and healthcare professionals.

Learning Outcomes:

• Practical knowledge and ideas for how to address stalking.
• Increased awareness of how to create a safer environment for all.

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