Combating Sexual Violence Training
Reviving Sisterhood offers trainings to build awareness of sexual violence, spur dialogue, and share tools for supporting survivors. We aim to provide language, resources, and other tools to help our community address sexual violence, beginning with naming and identifying it as a problem.
How to Support Survivors
Trainings Offered by Reviving Sisterhood:
Trainer: Asma Nizami
Asma Nizami is Advocacy Director at RISE, where she engages a web of Muslim women to influence public policy through active participation in the political process. She has been deeply involved in local movements that support women and people of color. She was a key leader in efforts to eliminate Minnesota's statute of limitations for reporting sexual violence so that survivors can report cases in their own time. After four years of advocacy, this legislation passed in 2021 as part of a sweeping package of changes to rewrite the state's criminal sexual conduct laws. Asma has held healing circles for survivors, led trainings on consent and bodily autonomy, and spoken for diverse audiences on Muslim women's voices and rights.
This training helps masajids, organizations, and more learn how to be more survivor-centered and trauma-informed in their approaches to commmunity care, education, and direct services. Attendees leave with both cultural understandings of how to support survivors and with pragmatic tools to support those in their own networks and spaces.
This training is particularly helpful for teams and workplaces to create a sexual harassment policy that works for them. Attendees will look at existing laws around sexual harassment, understand how rape culture is embedded in workplaces, and create their own ideas for how to combat it in their own space.
Healing circles are survivor-centered spaces for survivors to come together and share their truth with one another. Survivors may share as much or as little as they wish, and they are provided group affirmations and the opportunity to speak with a mental health professional during and after the circle.
This presentation explores how Muslim women have been on the frontlines of social movements all over the world, with examples from uprisings in Syria, India, and our very own Minneapolis. Attendees are asked to interrogate their own understandings of who Muslim women are and how the visibility of Muslim women in America in 2020 is a form of resistance.
This workshop will help attendees explore their personal + public identities and use their newfound understanding to fuel intentional interactions with their families, coworkers and peers. The workshop uses examples from the occupation of the 4th police precinct in Minneapolis and sexual violence to help attendees understand how intersectionality powers our work.
This workshop was created to help parents and guardians understand their role in teaching consent and healthy boundaries to their children. Teachers have also found this workshop helfpul as they create sexual education curriculum for their students. This workshop assists folks in getting to understand how to fight shame and welcome conversation when talking about our bodies and consent.
This workshop is rooted in the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad PBUH and asks male allies to dig deep and understand how they may be contributing to toxic and violent cultures. The workshop also looks at how the Prophet PBUH addressed masculinity, and looks to the Sunnah for answers around how Muslim men can conduct themselves to be supportive of their sisters rather than upholding toxic systems of masculinity.
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Suggested donation for training ranges between $150-500 per session.