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Survivor
Power
Institute

November
5th-7th
2025

This intimate, three-day training in Chicago enables a cohort of participants to learn the foundational principles for Healing to Action’s survivor-led work. Our core modules are the product of over 10 years of tireless collaboration between survivors, labor organizers, attorneys, anti-rape advocates, and community leaders to support survivors of gender-based violence while building survivor power and leadership. Following the training, participants engage in six-months of supportive coaching and brainstorming as they work to implement new initiatives to build survivor-power within their own organizations.

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Organizers, advocates, and leaders participating across different movements will collaborate to explore the root causes of gender-based violence, build concrete skills for supporting survivors, and co-create a critical dream space to imagine new iterations of survivor power.

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Curriculum
  • Core Principles of Survivor Leadership
    Learn about HTA’s core values and fundamentals of survivor leadership as a framework for application in your own work.
  • ​Applied Workshop: Cultivating the Conditions for Survivor Genius
    A deep dive into creating inclusive, accessible spaces for survivors to develop a shared political analysis of the root causes of gender-based violence. Participants will explore how to design programming in their own organizations that facilitates the inclusive participation of survivors.
  • Survivor-Led Organizing: A Case Study
    Hear from HTA survivor leaders about developing their own grassroots campaign to address the root causes of gender-based violence in their community, and lessons learned along the way.
  • Applied Workshop: Collectivizing Survivor Power
    A deep dive into political education and collective decision-making for survivors to ignite organized action in their communities. Participants will reflect on existing decision-making structures in their own movements and how to incorporate and center survivors’ vision for change.
  • Survivor Storytelling as an Engine for Change
    Explore and experiment with creative strategies for storytelling that build survivor power, preserve survivor dignity, and avoid re-traumatization.
  • Applied Workshop: Sustaining Survivor Leadership
    A deep dive into sustaining and nurturing ongoing individual and community transformation with survivor leaders. Participants will explore strategies for survivors in their own organizations to prevent burnout, distribute leadership, and maintain strong relationships while working collectively to end gender-based violence.

We cover the following topics through hands-

on training, facilitated brainstorming, and

action-planning for your organization’s needs:

Who is the Survivor Power Institute for?

Organizational

leaders looking to deepen their analysis of gender-based violence and/or survivor-led organizing 

People who are excited

to build relationships and learn with and from folks from different movements, identities, disciplines,

and experiences 

Leaders committed to putting their learning into action, and ready to

actively experiment with implementing survivor-led strategies in their work

"This is the best facilitated workshop I have ever been to . . . In my coaching calls [they] shared so much knowledge and support with me, pointing me in all sorts of directions of options of where to take my education. The group calls were fantastic to connect with fellow peers"

Colleen Montgomery, 2023 Cohort

CAN Hope: Chicago Advocacy Network for Hope

Pricing

Cost for the Survivor Power Institute

includes three days of in-person training,

follow up coaching and peer learning calls,

and select asynchronous trainings.

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Pricing is on a sliding scale based on organizational budget*:​

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$0-250k: $500
$250k-500k: $750
$500k-1 million: $1000
$1 million - 5 million: $1500
Above 5 million: $2000

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*Cost is per person

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Past Participant Organizations

Applications for the next cohort of the Survivor Power Institute will open on June 1, 2025. Sign up for our newsletter below to be notified when applications open.

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