Get Savi, an Introduction
Get Savi. 1 hour intro session.
Slide one.
Get Savi, an introduction.
Take this opportunity to thank people for coming along and introduce yourself. Ask the group to introduce themselves individually. Say that this session might raise some issues for people and that you have some support information but you can’t provide support. Let people know they can leave at any point.
Slide two
Being a bystander
Read through this slide.
Slide three
The bystander effect
Read through these points. You might also like to add that the bystander effect is a well researched area in sociology and psychology and that we can take what we have learnt from more general anti-violence research to look at how we challenge gender based violence.
Slide four
Gender based violence
Read through this definition. You might like to add that GENDER is socially constructed rules and roles about how men and women should behave and are perceived (girl=pink, soft, caring/boy=blue, tough, strong) and that this is different from SEX which is biological characteristics.
It’s also important to note that saying “gay” to mean rubbish, or calling someone straight gay is a form of social homophobia. Similarly, saying “throwing like a girl” is a form of social sexism. This means that we all know-socially- that being ‘gay’ or being like a ‘girl’ is bad.
Slide five
Statistics.
Read through stats. Whilst straight men do experience violence, other groups experience it at much higher rates, and for particular social reasons. High proportions of LGBT people and women experience GBV every day. This isn’t ok.
Stress that none of us want this, and that we can challenge GBV specifically, whilst recognising that no-one deserves to be hurt.
Slide six.
Gender Based Violence Bystander programmes
Read through slide. Get SAVI is about creating the space for all of us to challenge GBV, it’s not about judging how we will do this, but it is about recognising that it can be hard to speak up and we can all work together to end GBV.
Slide seven
Play clip of Ellie from Scottish Women’s Aid talking about Get Savi.
Slide 8
GBV programmes cont’d
Read through slide. We can do something about it gender based violence.
Slide 9
Get Savi
Read through slide. Scottish Women’s Aid, LGBT Youth, White Ribbon Scotland, Rape Crisis Scotland and Zero Tolerance came together to develop this programme based on learning from GBV programmes as well as broader anti-violence research and efforts. This presentation is a short version of the longer 6 session programme that they developed.
Slide 10
What causes gender based violence?
Read slide
Slide 11
Constellation of influences
This diagram shows the constellation of influences that shape how we engage with the world. From the relationships with have with our immediate family and friends, to the communities we’re part of, to the institutions we work, study or exist within to the broader society we’re part of- economics, culture and social relationships all impact on our own identities and the individual choices we make. This model allows us to see how complicated, and how interlinked all these layers are, we can’t separate them out. So what we’re interested in is how the social level impacts on people’s individual behaviour in terms of why we don’t do anything about gender based violence, and also why some people choose to be violent.
Slide 12
The goods we buy
So much of our society tell us that women are valued only by their bodies, and that they’re not really as good as men.
Slide 13
The music we listen to
And what happen when a group of people are systematically undervalued and to a certain extent-dehumanised, violence towards them and negative language about them, becomes the norm. We don’t even notice it. These are just two songs that describe rape, but there are plenty to chose from.
Slide 14
The jokes we tell
And, it starts to become funny. (both jokes come from the same edition of one lad’s mag)
Slide 15.
Or.. not at all.
And coupled with these pretty negative representations of women, you have something called symbolic annihilation. This means that other groups of people, or other ways of being a woman, simply aren’t shown. It means socially-they don’t exist. Think about how transgendered people are shown in the media-are they? How are they? Or gay people? Where do we see these groups of people, why are they there?
Slide sixteen
A lot of people will say, oh but that musician doesn’t mean it like that, or that’s just comedy pushing boundaries, but the point is, it isn’t just one joke, or song, it’s everywhere. It is part of what is known as ‘rape culture’ and this means that acts of gender based violence can be at worst justified, and at best ignored. We have to ask “ Most people wouldn’t defend the music of a white power group ..what does it say about our society that women and the feminine are the last acceptable target group for overt hate in popular music?(Jezebel, 2011 “Misogynist lyrics still not novel or groundbreaking” )
Slide seventeen
Get people into three groups- ask them to spend five minutes thinking about what types of violence might be experienced by
- LGB people
- Transgender people
- Women
Ask each group to come up with as many types of abuse that they can think of that their group of people could experience and write each on a separate post-it. Get them to think about abuse that can happen in relationships, in the workplace, on the street, in university/college/school. After five minutes explain that on the wall is line and this represents the continuum of abuse. Get the groups to place their post-its along the
continuum.
Ask the group to spend some time looking at the spectrum and discuss any issues that come up, as this is the short session, you only have 5-10 minutes to do this, but explain the longer sessions allow more time for discussion.
Slide eighteen
Allport’s Scale
Why does this matter? Show the slide and explain that things that could be seen as less harmful have an impact on more harmful behaviour.
Slide nineteen
Amy Roch
Show clip of Amy talking through Allport’s scale of prejudice.
Slide twenty
Intervention
So, knowing all of this, we can see how important it is to intervene at all points across the spectrum.
Read through slide. We intervene all the time, and Get Savi is about thinking how we can apply what we do in other situations to situations of GBV.
Slide twenty-one
Read through slide
Slide twenty-two
Intervention
There are four ways that we can intervene- read through slide- stress that safety is paramount. If at any point you are concerned for your safety, or the safety of others-call the police.
Slide twenty-three
If you have internet connection, click on the links for directly challenge. Talk through how there are many ways to do this. Click on the distract link, and watch the UW intervention video on how to intervene using distraction. Read through the last two ways to intervene.
Slide twenty-four
Scenarios and strategies.
This is the main part of get savi- and in the longer programme you spend quite a bit of time looking at strategies and assertiveness. Here, we’ll just look at a few.
Split the group into smaller groups and hand out strategies. Ask them to spend five minutes thinking about what they could do.
Encourage them to be honest- we all know what we should do, but sometimes we don’t do this. The reasons we don’t are ok- being emotionally as well as physically safe is important (for example- directly challenging family members can feel really tough- that’s ok, so how else could we do it?)
After five minutes, ask people to feedback. You might want to pick up on the following points if they seem relevant-
Do men and women respond differently?
Why?
Does your relationship with the person in the scenario change how you would respond?
Note that everyone’s strategy is different- there are no right or wrong answers, but that this programme is about giving people space and time to think about how they might respond.
Slide twenty-five
This is feedback from the pilot group,say that there is a six session course that expands on this session. Say there is a wiki space too for information and that the NUS Scotland’s Women’s Committee, Scottish Women’s Aid and the White Ribbon Scotland can all provide support to look at ways to develop this approach within your campus.
Thank everyone for taking part.
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