so called honour based abuse

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

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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Utilising Lived Experience in Participatory Arts: Why Creative Approaches Work

‘Lived experience’ is a term used frequently across the safeguarding and domestic abuse sectors, but meaningful and ethical involvement of those with lived experience can be tricky to get right. At our recent conference, ‘Walking on Eggshells: Ending Male Violence Against Women’, we demonstrated how creative mediums allow lived experience to be central without placing

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

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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