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CONSENTRIC CIRCLE conversationS
tuesday MORNINGS
Aug 18-Nov 17
week by week
1
brain + BOdy
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors
TOPIC: Trauma symptoms and current triggers
August 18, 2020 10 am - 11:30 am
2
brain + BOdy
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors
TOPIC: What support did you need?
August 25, 2020 10 am - 11:30 am
3
COMMUNITY RESPONSES
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors
TOPIC: How did your community respond to you?
September 1, 2020 10 am - 11:30 am
4
COMMUNITY RESPONSES
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors
TOPIC: What did you need from your community?
September 8, 2020 10 am - 11:30 am
5
CONSIDERING OUR ALLIES
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors
TOPIC: Who can we engage to listen + support?
September 15, 2020 10 am - 11:30 am
6
HEALING + JUSTICE SYSTEMS
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors
TOPIC: Experiences with systems + structures
September 22, 2020 10 am - 11:30 am
13
CoMMUNITY CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors + their allies
TOPIC: Impact, responses and transformation
November 10 , 2020 10 am - 12 pm
7
HEALING + JUSTICE SYSTEMS
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors
TOPIC: Experiences with systems + structures
September 29, 2020 10 am - 11:30 am
8
CONSIDERING OUR COMMUNITY
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors
TOPIC: Who should listen, who could help?
October 6, 2020 10 am - 11:30 am
9
Designing Justice & Healing
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors
TOPIC: Defining our justice + healing
October 13, 2020 10 am - 11:30 am
10
CONSIDERING OUR COMMUNITY
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors
TOPIC: Mapping our communities, identifying allies
October 20, 2020 10 am - 11:30 am
11
Your Trauma Brain
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors
TOPIC: Healing the injury of trauma
October 27, 2020 10 am - 11:30 am
12
Designing Justice & Healing
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors
TOPIC: *TBD
November 3, 2020 10 am - 11:30 am
14
Processing + closing
PARTICIPANTS: Survivors
TOPIC: Processing the conversation + closing
November 17, 2020 10 am - 11:30 am
RESOURCES
Healing + Justice
Audio
unladylike - Episode 94: How to Abolish Prison Like a Feminist (1 of 2)
Healing + Justice
Research
Sexual Offender Laws and Prevention of Sexual Violence or Recidivism
Healing + Justice
Article
The Future of Healing: Shifting From Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement
Healing + Justice
Article
Why the sex offender registry isn’t the right way to punish rapists
Healing + Justice
Book
The Little Book of Racial Healing: Coming to the Table for Truth-Telling, Liberation, and Transformation, Thomas Norman DeWolf, Jodie Geddes
Healing + Justice
Book
The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation, Fania E. Davis
Healing + Justice
Book
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle - *Disclaimer - I have not read this one, but it has been recommended by others
Healing + Justice
Video
The Urgency of Intersectionality, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (Ted Talk)
Healing + Justice
Video
A prosecutor's vision for a better justice system, Adam Foss (Ted Talk)
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.
Brain + Body
Audio
Trauma Informed Yoga Class, compliments of Zabie Yamasaki, Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga
Brain + Body
Articles
To Heal Trauma, Work with the Body
Learn moreBrain + Body
Book
My Grandmother's Hands, Resmaa Menakem
Learn moreBrain + Body
Book
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (pdf, though you may also be able to find audiobook or purchase book online)
Brain + Body
Book
The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences, Peter A. Levine
Learn moreCommunity Responses
Audio
24 - The Art of Allyship: Coming Alongside — Jacoby Ballard - conversation and perspectives around trauma and healing, including allyship, accompliceship and solidarity, what they mean and what they require.
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.
Community Responses
Tools
How We Respond to Sexual Violence Matters - A quick primer on sexual violence and how to support survivors of sexual assault.
Community Responses
Tools
Spectrum of Violence - A systematic tool developed by The Prevention Institute that promotes a range of activities for effective violence prevention.
