Feel more confident about delivering impactful sessions on consent at your university
Course instructor
Dr Nina Burrowes
Our founder Dr Nina Burrowes is a psychologist and nationally recognised expert on the psychology of sexual harassment, sexual violence and domestic abuse. A regular educator of police officers, prosecutors, barristers, judges, therapists, healthcare and education professionals, Dr Burrowes is the author of two books on sexual abuse and the presenter of the BBC’s ‘Rape on trail. Is the jury out?’
Nina is Patron of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre.
In this course Nina will share what she's learned from her years of talking about consent in colleges, universities, training rooms, music festivals and in the media.
What you'll learn with us
What is consent?
At university it's important to help students move beyond simplified definitions of consent and understand that consent is a skill. It's a complex interpersonal skill that helps ensure everyone is freely agreeing to what is happening with the ultimate aim of creating the most positive interaction possible.
We talk about consent for sex so much because if you get consent wrong in this area of your life the amount of harm you can cause can be substantial. But consent is a skill that is relevant to every personal and professional relationship. Being good at consent means developing a range of skills that can be applied in your friendships, family, professional relationships and sexual encounters.
The skills needed to be good at consent include:
Self reflection - awareness of your own consent and boundaries, awareness of the power you hold in different situations, awareness of contextual factors that can influence your consent skills, an ability to recognise and reflect on moments when you have been poor at consent.
Communication - good listening skills, able to overcome embarrassment or fear of social rejection in order to seek consensual encounters, able to communicate about difference, able communicate about boundary issues, able to communicate about rupture and repair in relationship.
Self development - able to be alive to and respond to rejection healthily, sensitive to difference and able to recognise different perspectives, secure enough to be able to approach situations and people with curiosity rather than a need to control.
Let us help you support your students to understand and practice these skills
Add-ons to support your workshop delivery
Group supervision
Book a one-off or regular group supervision for your teams who are delivering consent workshops on campus with Dr Nina Burrowes. These sessions are a chance for your teams to ask questions, get feedback, bring challenges they are encountering in sessions and progress their learning. Offered online for 60 or 90 minutes.
Video material to support your workshops
Offered as pre-watch, watch in session, or as follow up material our video resources can be made available to your student population as part of the consent education you want to provide them.
Please get in touch for more information about either of these options: [email protected]