Student Workshops

This 90 minute training focuses on understanding what trauma is, as well as relevant trauma-informed practices that can be applied to the University of Richmond community to offer support and resources for community members. Participants will:

• Understand prevalence of sexual violence on campuses and beyond.
• Identify 4 neurobiological responses to trauma, as well as behavioral, cognitive, and emotional responses to trauma.
• Define trauma-informed practice.
• Identify at least one trauma-informed practice to implement in their work.

Interactive workshop on consent and sexual health. Participants will: 

• Gain a holistic understanding of behaviors that make up the continuum of violence.
• Recognize the signs of enthusiastic consent as well as red flags of violence.
• Increase confidence and tools for negotiating consent.
• Identify barrier methods such as external condoms, internal condoms, and dental dams and understand proper use.
• Identify campus and community resources to provide support for people impacted by interpersonal violence.

We all exist in relationships with one another. Whether it’s a [capital R] Relation-ship, a situation-ship, a flirtation-ship, a penetration-ship, or a friend-ship, healthy and unhealthy behaviors can show up in all types of interactions with others. In this workshop, participants will:

• Understand healthy, unhealthy and abusive behaviors in relationships and how context matters. 
• Identify campus and community resources to provide support for people impacted by interpersonal violence.

A workshop on being trauma-informed in our responses to someone disclosing they’ve experienced violence. Participants will: 

• Gain a holistic understanding of behaviors that make up the continuum of sexual and interpersonal violence.
• Learn what advocacy means in relation to supporting survivors of interpersonal violence and how this is different than counseling.
• Identify ways to be trauma-informed in their response to someone disclosing they’ve experienced interpersonal violence.
• Identify campus and community resources to provide support for people impacted by interpersonal violence.

Positive sexual experiences can’t exist without all parties involved enthusiastically consenting. In this workshop, participants will:

• Identify red, yellow, and green lights of consent. 
• Identify campus and community resources to provide support for people impacted by interpersonal violence.

Participants will:

• Increase confidence to be an active bystander.
• Gain at least one new strategy for bystander intervention
• Increase knowledge of warning signs of problematic situations.
• Identify campus and community resources to provide support for people impacted by interpersonal violence.

The One Love Foundation was created in honor of Yeardley Love, a senior at UVA, who was killed by her ex-boyfriend in 2010. “Escalation” is a compelling film that tells the story of an abusive relationship - from it’s sweet beginnings to it’s tragic end. Participants will be able to:

• Identify red flags of intimate partner violence.
• Identify tools for intervening when they are concerned about a friend’s relationship.
• Identify campus and community resources to provide support for people impacted by interpersonal violence.

The One Love Foundation was created in honor of Yeardley Love, a senior at UVA, who was killed by her ex-boyfriend in 2010. This workshop explores the ways social media can skew our view of the relationships around us and influence our decisions to stay in unhealthy ones. Participants will be able to:

• Gain a better understanding of digital consent.
• Identify red flags of intimate partner violence.
• Identify campus and community resources to provide support for people impacted by interpersonal violence.

The One Love Foundation was created in honor of Yeardley Love, a senior at UVA, who was killed by her ex-boyfriend in 2010. In this film, viewers follow the relationship of Julio and Mariana, who’s relationship may look like amor del bueno or real love on the surface, but underneath lies unhealthy dynamics. Participants will be able to:

• Identify signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships. 
• Identify campus and community resources to provide support for people impacted by interpersonal violence.

The One Love Foundation was created in honor of Yeardley Love, a senior at UVA, who was killed by her ex-boyfriend in 2010. In these short films, viewers see how seemingly healthy phrases like “Because I love you” can be used as a tool for manipulation, deflecting responsibility, and control. Participants will:

• Identify signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
• Identify ways to intervene when concerned about a friend’s relationship.
• Identify campus and community resources to provide support for people impacted by interpersonal violence.

Breakups are tough, but that doesn’t mean they have to be messy. Did you know that people 18-24 (traditional college aged students) experience stalking at the highest rates of any age group, and the majority of victims are stalked by someone they know, like a current/former partner or acquaintance? In this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify the signs of stalking.
• Identify healthy and unhealthy behaviors when breaking up or changing the status of a relationship.
• Identify campus and community resources to provide support for people impacted by interpersonal violence.

When thinking about what causes violence, people often look at individual or interpersonal factors. How do society, media, policies, norms and other factors create a culture which allows violence to continue happening? In this workshop, participants will:

• Define rape culture.
• Identify ways media, gender roles, and norms contribute to violence.
• Identify ways to undermine the culture of violence.
• Identify campus and community resources to provide support for people impacted by interpersonal violence.

Where do we learn about healthy and unhealthy sexual relationships? Some of us are taught in school or by family members or friends. Media impacts the ways we view sex and relationships, even if it doesn’t do so explicitly. In this workshop participants will:

• Identify healthy and unhealthy messages in popular songs and other media.
• Identify problematic narratives around sex, identities, and relationships that play out in pornography.
• Identify campus and community resources to provide support for people impacted by interpersonal violence.