Curriculum Workshops

Aurora Center Overview

• Brief 15-30 minute option
• Introduction to the Aurora Center and its confidential services
• Information on resources
• Information on mandatory reporting responsibilities for non-confidential University employees

Supporting Survivors

• Review of barriers to disclosure and reporting
• What does a trauma response look like?
• Active listening
• How to respond to disclosures
• Secondary victimization/trauma and self care

Healthy Relationships

• Consent in relationships
• Dynamics of relationship violence
• Healthy/unhealthy/abusive relationships
• Supporting a friend in an abusive relationship

Bystander Intervention

• Reasons why folks don’t intervene
• Barriers to intervention
• Intervention strategies
• Navigating scenarios
• Tips for de-escalation

Consent and Sexual Violence

• Consent
• Indicators of affirmative consent
• Power dynamics
• Coercion
• Alcohol

Fraternity & Sorority New Member Seminars

Introduction to Rape Culture

• Defining rape culture
• Addressing rape culture myths
• Connecting a model of oppression to cultures of sexual violence
• Barriers to reporting and seeking help

Introduction to Masculinities

• Healthy masculinities
• Harmful social norms and the connection to sexual violence
• Supporting male survivors
• Rolling with rejection
• Bystander intervention and accountability in male communities
• Intersectionality

Intersections of Race and Sexual Violence

• Violence used as a tool for oppression
• Intersectionality
• Exploring self identity
• Narratives from people of color (Identity and sexual violence)
• Unique barriers to accessing resources or reporting for people of color

Intersections of Gender, Sexuality and Sexual Violence (under construction)

• The ways violence can manifest
• Intersectionality
• Exploring self identity
• Narratives from queer and trans folks (Identity and sexual violence)
• Unique barriers to accessing resources or reporting for queer and trans folks

B.E.S.T. Party Model

• Explores how parties can be designed to be safer and more equitable
• Social environment shaping
• Values, interconnection, and community-building

Empowerment Self-Defense

• Self-defense as: Self-care, self-empowerment, self-advocacy
• Variety of strategies for emotional & physical safety, active resistance, de-escalation of situations and conflicts
• Identifies core values & preferences
• Body and spatial awareness, emotional regulation, verbal & physical boundaries, assertiveness
• Reduces rates of sexual violence, self-blame, guilt, and shame