Workshops
Our team is committed and passionate in working with wide-ranging community partners, groups, and workplaces to advance gender equality and prevent all forms of gender-based violence.
Let's keep up the conversation.
Whether you are an educator, a coach, a business leader, or an organization, we have workshops and presentations to fit your needs.
In addition to one-off workshops, trainings, and presentations, White Ribbon supports organizations, workplaces, and institutions with employee engagement programs, policy development, and culture change.
Our Approach
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Creating A Safe Space
The first step towards conducting a White Ribbon workshop is to create a safe space, which allows participants to feel comfortable sharing their knowledge and experiences.
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Acknowledging The Effects
We acknowledge that gender-based violence affects everyone, including male-identified individuals, but that women and girls (including transgender women and girls) are disproportionately and severely impacted by men’s violence.
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Learning Through Sharing
Participants are encouraged to share their views, experiences, and insights on gender-based violence, with the goal of promoting positive roles for male-identified individuals to end gender-based violence.
Our Workshops
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Building Allyship Together With Women and Girls to End Gender-Based Violence
1 hour-1.5 hours
This one-hour introductory workshop is designed to foster understanding about the root causes of gender-based violence (gender norms and expectations) and ways male-identified individuals can prevent it.
This workshop explores the history and work of White Ribbon and introduces approaches to building allyship: understanding emotions, healthy masculinities, identifying one’s power and privilege, consent, ways to intervene when violence occurs, and how to be a positive role model to other male-identified youth/adults.
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White Ribbon Draw-the-Line (DTL) Workshop: Post-Secondary Sector
1.5 hours
Be inspired and walk away with skills and confidence to challenge rape culture and foster male accountability to prevent sexual violence on and off campus. White Ribbon DTL workshops have the following objectives.
To explore the many forms of sexual violence and its prevention;
To build a sense of preparedness and confidence to respond safely, effectively, and using a survivor-centered approach;
To identify numerous concrete actions male-identified students, faculty, and staff can take every day to promote gender equality and prevent sexual violence
Learn more about the Draw-the-Line Campaign.
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Preventing Online Sexual Exploitation and Sextortion Together
This workshop equips participants with essential knowledge about the impact of online sexual exploitation, sex trafficking, and sextortion on youth, as well as strategies for prevention.
Students, parents, and educators will learn how traffickers target victims, how to stay safe online, how to recognize warning signs of sexual exploitation, and how to seek help in risky situations.
Participants will also develop preventative skills, including understanding consent, fostering healthy relationships, practicing allyship, and using bystander intervention.
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Building Allyship and Unpacking “Bro-Culture”
2-2.5 hours
This workshop contains all the elements from Option 1. Additionally, participants will be engaged in questioning systems of violence (white male privilege, rape culture and ‘bro’ culture) present within traditional and social media, and explore ways to promote gender equality and healthy masculinities. Through guided discussions and activities, participants will identify ways of challenging toxic masculinity and of promoting healthy relationships as well as a positive sense of self.
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Building Allyship through Consent Culture and Effective Bystander Intervention
2-2.5 hours
This workshop builds the capacity of participants to grow consent culture in their communities and effectively speak out when they see or hear violence. Through guided discussions and activities, participants will identify ways of challenging toxic masculinity and of promoting healthy relationships as well as a positive sense of self. Through guided role play, participants will develop the skills they need to begin to have courageous but challenging conversations.
What our community partners are saying about us:
“Facilitators from White Ribbon came to our Grade 12 Equity and Social Justice class and ran a very organized, personal, and engaging workshop with 31 students. Jarvis is a very diverse school with many complex gender identities. White Ribbon facilitators were sensitive, without holding back on key messages, including the impact of toxic masculinity on all gender identities, as well as ways that we can all be a part of the solution to ending gender-based violence. I would be very happy to have them facilitate again.”
— Cindy Watson, B.A, B.Ed.,M.S.W., Educator, Jarvis C.I.
“White Ribbon facilitated Building Ally-Ship and Unpacking “Bro-Culture” workshop with us. It was a very interactive session that led to great discussion. It started the conversation about what we as student leaders can do on our campus to prevent gender based violence, and allowed us to create realistic goals on how get there.”
— Jacob Chevrier, Georgian College