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In Our Best Interest

May 8-9, 2008 (Duluth, MN)
August 4-5, 2008 (Duluth, MN)
November 17-18, 2008 (Indianapolis, IN)

A two-day training for battered women, advocates, women's group facilitators, and community activists on the Duluth curriculum In Our Best Interest. Participants will learn how to use an educational model for facilitating groups for women who have been battered. The teaching method examines personal, institutional, and cultural action to end violence against women. Discussions include how racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism contribute to violence against women. Participants come away from this training with new energy for their work. It is open to women only.

This two-day training immerses participants in a process that includes role-plays, exercises, skits, discussions, and presentations about the In Our Best Interest curriculum philosophy.

Topics include:

  • exploring what it means to be an advocate and a teacher
  • designing a liberating group process
  • using education as a process for change
  • relating sexism to other forms of oppression
  • examining personal power vs. "power over"
  • moving from education to action.

Training materials include: sample forms, curriculum supplements, and other handouts. Additional curriculum materials may be ordered. The In Our Best Interest curriculum package ($275) includes the manual, three videos, and posters of the Power and Control and Equality Wheels.

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