Learning Community

January 15, 2020

Learning Community Meeting

Topic: Unearthing the Roots: The Institutional and Systemic Causes of Intimate Partner Violence

Meeting Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Presenter: Jess Harman
Meeting Time: 8:30 – 10:30 AM
Meeting Location:  Metropolitan Community College – Penn Valley, Education Center, Room EC19

After defining intimate partner violence and exploring society’s guiding fictions related to batterers and victim-survivors, this training deep dives into a socio-cultural and historical review of the connection between systemic oppression and intimate partner violence. This training highlights what has created the societal conditions for intimate partner violence to persist and what we can do to change the status quo.

Please be advised that this training includes sensitive topics including descriptions of the different forms of domestic violence and a historical timeline of advertising images depicting objectification and sexualization.

Learning Community Session Objectives: 

1. Recognize different forms of intimate partner violence 

2. Gain a critical lens to deconstruct society’s guiding fictions about batterers and victim-survivors 

3. Understand and analyze the connection between systemic oppression and intimate partner violence 

4. Identify strategies for individual involvement in ending intimate partner violence 

Agenda:
8:30 a.m. Light breakfast and informal networking
8:45 a.m. Introduction of each Learning Community participant
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Presentation and discussion