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Walking on Eggshells: Ending Male Violence Against Women – Key Learnings

What happens when you bring together practitioners from safeguarding, education, health, social care and the voluntary sector, and immerse them in stories shaped by lived experience? As our ‘Walking on Eggshells: Ending Male Violence Against Women’ conference showed, you get a day filled with insight, emotional honesty and a renewed sense of purpose. “This was […]

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The Role of Music in Lived Experience Training: Learning Beyond Words

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he Role of Music in Lived Experience Training: At our recent conference, ‘Walking on Eggshells: Ending Male Violence Against Women’, the learning didn’t rely on slides or written materials. Instead, we brought our participatory arts approach to life with immersive audio stories, film, music, theatre and hands-on workshops. Among all of these, music emerged as

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The Power of Character Creation: Why It Works & Insights from Our Conference Day

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When delegates arrived at our recent event, ‘Walking on Eggshells: Ending Male Violence Against Women’, we asked them to begin with something a little unexpected for a safeguarding conference: co-create a fictional practitioner. Her name was Jessica, chosen collectively by the room, and over the course of the day she became the emotional thread that

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My experience of writing ‘Sadiqa: An Empowering Story of Hope’

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By Francesca Waite, Artist in Residence at Made By Mortals ‘Sadiqa’ is an audio story that allows the listener to walk in the shoes of a woman from the South Asian community who has experienced domestic and honour-based abuse and has left the abusive situation. It intends to give the listener a better understanding of

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Co-production: Impact on the Artist

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The short film ‘Eggshells‘ was co-produced with women with lived experience of domestic abuse and coercive control. Here the professional artists who supported the making of the film talk about their involvement and the impact of the work on their artistry. Made By Mortals has been working with women living with domestic abuse to coproduce

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Behind the scenes of short film ‘Eggshells’

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With the support of Oldham Safeguarding Adults Board, Dr Saqba Batool and The Ideas Fund, Made By Mortals are producing a short film titled ‘Eggshells’ to raise awareness of domestic abuse in older adults. The recurring theme from the workshops with our co-production group was the feeling of walking on eggshells in your own home

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