Request a Workshop or Training about Sexual Violence
Thank you for your interest in scheduling a workshop with Sexual Violence Response. If you are looking for an SVR presentation for new student orientation, please use this form.
Please submit the workshop request form to schedule a workshop. Workshops listed below are available for students of Columbia University and affiliated schools. Workshops are divided into categories based on topic area. SVR programs are appropriate for all community members. Faculty and staff can request a workshop by emailing [email protected].
The Workshop Request Form must be submitted at least three weeks prior to the requested date and the location must be reserved and confirmed at least one week in advance.
Programs will be facilitated in-person or virtually by SVR student volunteers and/or SVR professional staff.
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Workshop Descriptions
Understanding Gender- and Power-based Violence
- Recognizing and Responding to Intimate Partner Violence
- Recognizing and Responding to Stalking
- Sexual Harassment 1.5
How to Take Action to Address Gender- and Power-based Violence
Understanding Gender- and Power-based Violence
Program Description: An introductory session to understanding the dynamics of intimate partner violence. Participants will explore the role of various types of power in relationships and how the application of certain types of power leads to abuse. Participants will also explore the short- and long-term physical, psychological, economic, social, and spiritual impacts of violence in intimate relationships and will learn about the ways to support individuals who are currently experiencing or have experienced violence in their intimate relationships.
- Total Program Time: 75 minutes (Intro/Resources: 15 min + Program Content: 60 min)
- Capacity: Up to 50
Program Description: An introductory session to understanding stalking as a form of violence. Stalking and its short- and long-term physical, psychological, economic, social, and spiritual impacts will be defined. Participants will explore the barriers individuals face in recognizing and responding to incidents of stalking and ways to address this on an individual and systemic level. Finally, participants will learn how to apply bystander intervention techniques in various scenarios.
- Total Program Time: 75 minutes (Intro/Resources: 15 min + Program Content: 60 min)
- Capacity: Up to 50
Program Description: This workshop is geared towards those who have a basic knowledge of sexual harassment but are looking for a deeper dive into definitions, how to recognize it, and how to support and intervene when you witness it as a bystander. Using various media, participants will practice intervention strategies with scenarios based on real-life examples of sexual harassment.
- Total program time: 90 minutes (Intro/Resources: 15 min + Program Content: 75 min)
- Capacity: Up to 30
How to Take Action to Address Gender- and Power-based Violence
Program Description: This workshop will give participants a foundational understanding of what violence and abuse may look like, how it may impact victims or survivors, and the skills to respond to disclosure in a supportive and trauma-informed way. The goal of this workshop is to begin to equip participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to respond when a peer or loved one discloses harm this has occurred or is occurring to them.
- Total Program Time: 90 minutes (Intro/Resources: 15 min + Program Content: 75 min)
- Capacity: Up to 50
Program Description: This workshop introduces bystander intervention as a strategy for disrupting gender- and power-based violence, including sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and sexual harassment. Participants will learn the foundations of bystander intervention including strategies for how to intervene in instances of violence. Participants will have the opportunity to apply the skills they learn in practice scenarios.
- Total Program Time: 90 minutes (Intro/Resources: 15 min + Program Content: 75 min)
- Capacity: Up to 100
Navigating Masculinities
Masculinities - patterns of gender practice.
Program Description: This workshop, available for groups of any gender identity, will explore how social and cultural expectations of masculinity are learned, reproduced, and can contribute to a culture of power-based personal violence. Through the workshop, participants will learn how to challenge norms and positively contribute to a culture of consent and care in the Columbia community and beyond.
- Total Program Time: 90 minutes (Intro/Resources: 15 min + Program Content: 75 min)
- Capacity: Up to 50
- Audience: Undergraduate students
Program Description: Through media and facilitated discussion, participants of this workshop will identify dominant narratives of masculinity and explore how these narratives shape their experiences and interpersonal relationships. Using segments from actor Justin Baldoni’s web series, Man Enough, participants will develop an understanding of masculinity through cultural, generational, and institutional differences and how these expectations can impact power-based personal violence and societal violence. Ultimately, participants will be able to articulate counter-narratives of masculinity and plan for how they can support these counter-narratives within their everyday lives, interpersonal relationships, and community-making at Columbia. This workshop is open to all gender identities.
- Total Program Time: 90 minutes (Intro/Resources: 15 min + Program Content: 75 min)
- Capacity: Up to 50
- Audience: Any
Skills for Thriving, Compassionate Relationships
Program Description: Romantic rejection can be a painful and humiliating experience for all individuals involved. From the confusion of “ghosting” to the myth of being “friend-zoned,” feelings of shame, hurt, and denial can be intense and difficult to manage. Rejection (perceived or actual) has been used by some, especially men rejected by women, to justify their violence, multiplying fear through their actions. The goal of this session is for participants to become more comfortable acknowledging and processing the pain and shame often associated with rejection. Participants will identify ways to navigate and reflect on rejection and, later apply that reflection to thriving relationships. Through this interactive session, participants will also learn how they can normalize clear and respectful communication and acceptance of romantic rejection.
- Total Program Time: 90 minutes (Intro/Resources: 15 min + Program Content: 75 min)
- Capacity: Up to 50
Program Description: Consent, although typically only considered through the lens of sexual activity, plays a role in all types of relationships. During this workshop, participants will be encouraged to consider unique ways in which consent is important in various platonic and sexual/romantic relationships. Finally, participants will also partake in an activity in which they will identify a series of healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors.
- Total Program Time: 90 minutes (Intro/Resources: 15 min + Program Content: 75 min)
- Capacity: Up to 50
Program Description: In the wake of relationship violence and trauma, establishing healthy relationship dynamics can be particularly difficult. It is increasingly common to romanticize toxic behaviors. According to John Kim, also known as The Angry Therapist, “we focus so much on who we want to love, we forget about how we want to be loved.” In Loving Me Means This, students will consider what it means for a partner to love them, and then examine toxic relationship habits that most people believe are acceptable, or even romantic, as well as healthy behaviors often considered venomous, following the framework established by author Mark Manson. The goal of this workshop is to unpack internalized toxicity regarding relationships – romantic and beyond.
- Total Program Time: 90 minutes (Intro/Resources: 15 min + Program Content: 75 min)
- Capacity: Up to 50
Program Description: An interactive workshop that uses short films and television clips to help students identify effective and accessible communication methods relating to sexual relationships. Participants will also explore the barriers to successful communication and negotiation regarding individual sexual wants and needs with partners.
- Total Program Time: 90 minutes (Intro/Resources: 15 min + Program Content: 75 min)
- Capacity: Up to 50