dove house
CONSENTRIC CIRCLE conversationS
April 24th +
May 8th, 2021
10 am - noon
HOW TO INVITE AN ALLY

(coming soon)
week by week
1
THE IMPACT OF NO CONSENT
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors
TOPIC:
April 24, 2021
10 am - 12 pm
Considering consent's role in our traumas, its impacts, our needs, and the challenges in navigating a cultural landscape that doesn't always value or prioritize consent
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ALLY MAPPING OFFICE HOURS
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors
TOPIC:
Time and Date
TBD
An additional prep space for folks to prepare their ally invitations - mapping the allies in our lives, answering awkward questions, and testing out ideas direct with facilitators
2
CREATING CONSENT CULTURE
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors + Allies
TOPIC:
May 8, 2021
10 am - 12 pm
Understanding consent's impact and committing to practice consent in all our
micro-cultures and relations

RESOURCES
Healing + Justice
Tools
bloom - Bloom is a free, web-based support service run by Chayn. Designed for anyone who is currently experiencing or has experienced domestic and sexual abuse, support is offered via 5 courses. Each one offers tailored tips, tricks, tools, and comforting words to our community. Working through a course will involve learning, reflecting, and processing how what we’ve experienced has affected us - in a safe and empowering space. All of the courses are delivered anonymously, within a group setting, and alongside other survivors via Telegram and WhatsApp.
Healing + Justice
Re: Our Latest Conversation
Community Responses
Research
Does Rape Culture Predict Rape? Evidence From U.S. Newspapers, 2000–2013 - 'Rape culture has been defined as a set of values and beliefs that provide an environment conducive to rape' (Boswell and Spade 1996) and where 'rape is often not acknowledged as a crime and its victims are frequently blamed ... for their own violation' (Vogelman 1990). This study explores the impact of literature and media on the choices of victims, perpetrators and police.
Community Responses
Book
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, Judith Lewis Herman - Herman draws on her own cutting-edge research in domestic violence as well as on the vast literature of combat veterans and victims of political terror, to show the parallels between private terrors such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism. The book puts individual experience in a broader political frame, arguing that psychological trauma can be understood only in a social context.
Community Responses
Video
Step Inside the Circle - Video from the Compassion Prison Project that demonstrates the power of restorative practices, community and sharing of experiences. Step Inside the Circle is the first of a three-part PSA documentary series which explores the significant correlation between childhood trauma and the lives of the men and women who are incarcerated.










