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.
Curriculum
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Core Principles of Survivor LeadershipLearn about HTA’s core values and fundamentals of survivor leadership as a framework for application in your own work.
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​Applied Workshop: Cultivating the Conditions for Survivor GeniusA 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.
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Survivor-Led Organizing: A Case StudyHear 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.
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Applied Workshop: Collectivizing Survivor PowerA 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.
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Survivor Storytelling as an Engine for ChangeExplore and experiment with creative strategies for storytelling that build survivor power, preserve survivor dignity, and avoid re-traumatization.
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Applied Workshop: Sustaining Survivor LeadershipA 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
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
Past Participant Organizations
