This workshop provides an opportunity for survivors to connect to their body in a safe way through drama and movement activities.

Depending on context and participants’ needs this workshop can offer a space for taking the first steps of speaking out or focus on specific aspects such as speaking publicly, creating our own narratives and messages, and practising self-care while speaking out.

This workshop is designed for anyone who works in a setting where our lived experience as survivors might be relevant to our work. It covers how to navigate the workplace as a survivor and how and when to draw on your lived experience as an expertise to inform your work.

In a society where we are routinely ‘talked about’ rather than asked for our insights as experts of our experience, it is important to create spaces for survivors to come together and explore our experiences with each other. I offer training for organisations if you want to learn more about how your organisation can build these spaces, but am also happy to come in to facilitate a survivors’ forum or workshop on a specific theme.

In my work with survivors, I have received continuous feedback that it is very important for participants that groups and activities are facilitated by other survivors, and that other aspect of their lived experience are reflected in the facilitation teams. I have therefore developed a training specifically designed to enable survivors to join facilitation teams as well as to run their own workshops for each other. Survivors in the university context have used this training to successfully implement women-only workshops as well as workshops by and for survivors of colour.