A half-day interactive and scenario-based training workshop to explore sexual harassment from an inclusive perspective: When it happens, the negative impacts are far reaching and long lived; so it’s everyone’s role to spot it and eradicate it.
Sexual Harassment Training – Course Overview
| Time | Content |
|---|---|
| 10 mins | Introductions and welcome |
| 30 mins | Sexual harassment: Not just a ‘man thing’: What is harassment? What is sexual harassment? Objectification: Why some compliments and over familiarities are unwanted. |
| 30 mins | Misogyny matters: What is it? Is it intentional? So sexual harassment is not just a man thing, but is misogyny? (no! – women can be misogynists too) An important word on misandry (hostility towards men) and homophobia too. What’s the common theme here? |
| 30 mins | Why do people get hung up on gender difference? Why people use gender and sex and sexuality to demean others: The negative side of affinity bias: We like people who are like us; and so don’t like people who are not. Why do people join in: Stories about how you’ve been influenced by conformity bias that will surprise you. |
| 30 mins | Why deal with behaviour that’s not okay: Health and wellbeing – your own and everyone else’s What if you’re ‘just’ a bystander. |
| 30 mins | How to deal with behaviour that’s not okay: Speaking out Receiving ‘that’s not okay’ feedback well – and why it’s easier said than done. How our organisation will act to support an inclusive culture and root out harassment. |
| 10 mins | Key learnings and action points |
| 10 mins | Close |
