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Change Starts With Me! – Workshops
Project Term: January – December 2019
‘Change Starts With Me’ is a workshop project aiming to change the wrong misconceptions in the society to eliminate sexual violence and abuse, disseminate protective-preventive measures, remind of all individuals’ responsibility in combating sexual violence, and raise awareness. It consists of 4 workshop modules.
Our workshop modules:
| Module.1 | Dating Violence and Safe Relationships |
| ‘Dating violence; its definition and types, concepts and common myths in the society, gender-based violence, characteristics of a safe relationship’ | |
| Module.2 | Protective-Preventive Approach to Sexual Abuse |
| ‘Sexual abuse; its definition and types, protective-preventive approach, methods for prevention, rights-based approach in working with children, concepts around consent and boundaries for children’ | |
| Module.3 | Sexual Violence, Concepts and Methods for Prevention |
| ‘Concepts of gender and LGBTI+, and sexual violence; definitions, types, concepts and common myths in the society, empowering language and approach’ | |
| Module.4 | Struggling Against Sexual Abuse of Animals |
| ‘Types of discrimination, speciesism, definition and types of sexual violence against animals, societal conceptions, animal freedom, rights-based approach, prevention and responsibilities’ |
We received 201 workshop request from 81 groups from 27 cities. CSMD conducted 34 ‘Change Starts With Me: Awareness-raising workshops’ in 17 cities and reached 665 people. 24 of these workshops were out of Istanbul. 6 Module.1 workshops, 10 Module.2 workshops , 10 Module.3 workshops and 8 Module.4 workshops were given. We conducted Module.4 workshops with the cooperation of HAKIM (Animal Rights Monitoring Committee).
Why Such a Project:
- Although sexual violence is evident in our lives, it is not discussed enough because it is seen as taboo.
- Normalization and legitimization of sexual violence in the society.
- Lack of content that is rights-based and empowering, and adopts a favorable language and approach specific to sexual violence.
- Feelings of vulnerability and powerlessness among people when faced with sexual violence, and lack of knowledge about what they can do.
- Lack of methods and materials available for experts working on cases of sexual violence, and that they might reproduce violence themselves.
- Wrong misconceptions in the society which are among the barriers to the elimination of sexual violence.
- Focusing solely on punishing the perpetrator, and the lack of discussion around the drivers of violence and support for violence survivors.
- For sexual violence is a learned act, nonviolence is also learnable.
- Rather than integrating the violence survivors into the society, integrating the society into nonviolence.
- Implementing a protective-preventive project.
Goals of the Project:
- To raise awareness about gender-based violence and sexual violence, change the societal misconceptions, transform the language of violence, contribute to eradicating the standpoints that feed the rape culture, and to disseminate a culture of consent.
- To organize workshops on demand in order to raise awareness about gender-based violence, dating violence, sexual violence, and sexual abuse against animals.
- To support the capacity building of groups such as psychological counsellors, branch teachers, social workers, lawyers, university students, psychologists, civil society workers etc. in combatting sexual violence.
- To produce workshop content to be used in the field which adopts a favorable language and approach, and is inclusive and empowering.
- To contribute to making nonviolence a societal culture.
- To disseminate a rights-based approach among violence survivors, and contribute to eradicating myths and labeling.
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Project Activities:
● 10 workshops in Istanbul
● 24 workshops outside Istanbul
- The workshops are full day.
- The workshops are free of charge.
You can follow the association in order not to miss the workshop application announcements in the future.
You may contact merve@cinselsiddetlemucadele.org for any inquiries.
PROJECT TEAM
Project Coordination, Monitoring-Evaluation and Reporting: Merve Karabulut
Content Development and Implementation:
Merve Karabulut, Nurgül Öztürk, Hilal Esmer, Şehlem Kaçar,
Özge Özgüner, Fatma Biltekin, Nuray Sakarya
Visual Design: Özge Özgüner
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This project is supported by the Swedish Consulate General – Istanbul. The views expressed here are solely those of Association for Struggle Against Sexual Violence and therefore do not in any way represent the views of the Swedish Consulate General – Istanbul.
