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September 08, 2023 at 2:48 PM

From the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse - https://nzfvc.org.nz/node/5043

DATE

Thursday 21 September 2023

TIME

3-5pm NZST (1-3pm AEST)

LOCATION

Online (Australia based)

ORGANISED BY

Our Watch

COST

Free

Join Our Watch for this webinar with live Q and A with people working to prevent violence against women in Australia and to share practice in working with resistance and backlash.

Register for this event

Listing of training and other events does not constitute endorsement by the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse. Information is as provided by the organiser. For further information or queries about training or events, please contact the organiser using the links or contact details provided.

In this webinar you will be able to:

• engage with findings from the 2022 report Understanding, monitoring and responding to resistance and backlash by Our Watch for Respect Victoria
• learn from the reflections and experiences of prevention practitioners and others undertaking transformative change work
• interact and ask questions through the live Q and A platform.

This is a free, national webinar event. 

If you are working to prevent violence against women or a social change practitioner, this event is for you.

Presenters MC

Natalie Wade is Founder and Director of Equality Lawyers, a disability-led, disability rights law firm, providing legal services to people with disabilities.

Key speaker

Dr Sarah Hewitt, Senior Policy Advisor at Our Watch. 

Panelists

Men and Family Centre – The ARC Gender Relations project (Lismore and Tweed region). ARC Gender Relations is a primary prevention of violence project on Bundjalung Country in the Northern Rivers Region of NSW.

National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA): Our Voices, Our Lives, Our Way LGBTIQA+ Disability Social Inclusion capacity-building project

More on resistance and backlash

Resistance and backlash are expected parts of any change process. If you’re working to prevent violence against women, you’ll need to be able to plan for and address the likely resistance that comes with the transformative change process.

Dismantling the gender inequality that drives violence against women is complex. It is often met with denial and inaction. In worst cases, backlash deliberately makes women feel unsafe. Resistance and backlash can be further compounded by racism, homophobia, ableism and other forms of discrimination.

Not all resistance is a bad thing, it can actually demonstrate that we are on the right path for promoting important and necessary social change. To harness resistance in constructive ways, it is important to be able to plan for, address and respond to it.

Understanding, monitoring and responding to resistance and backlash was published by Our Watch for Respect Victoria in 2022 to contribute to the growing body of evidence on the drivers of resistance. The report identifies key strategies for identifying, monitoring, minimising and responding to resistance.

Read before the event:

• Understanding, monitoring and responding to resistance and backlash

• How to respond to resistance and backlash

Any queries, please email: training@ourwatch.org.au