Workshop Ideas

Facilitator guide meant to provide tools for communities and organizations in order to address violence prevention among youth, and especially girls.

antidote is an award-winning grassroots network and community-based organization of over 150 multiracial girls and women in Victoria, British Columbia.

MNet is a Canadian non-profit organization that has been pioneering the development of media and digital literacy programs by producing education and awareness programs and resources, working in partnership with Canadian and international organizations, and speaking to audiences across Canada and around the world.

MNet focuses its efforts on equipping adults with information and tools to help young people understand how the media work, how the media may affect their lifestyle choices and the extent to which they, as consumers and citizens, are being well informed.

Keep It Real is a manual for teachers and students who want to bring issues of Hip Hop, commodification and gender into the classroom.

Free of any funding from Big Media, ACME is an emerging global coalition run by and for media educators, a network that champions a three-part mission:

1. Teaching media education knowledge and skills - through keynotes, workshops, trainings, and institutes - to children and adults so that they can become more critical media consumers and more active participants in our democracy;

2. Supporting media reform - No matter what one's cause, media reform is crucial for the success of that cause, and since only those who are media-educated support media reform, media education must be a top priority for all citizens and activists;

3. Democratizing our media system through education and activism.

A non-partisan, not-for-profit organization that provides information and tools, as well as an independent forum, so that families can have a choice and a voice about the media they consume.

RFSU (Riksförbundet För Sexuell Upplysning, a Swedish organization for sexual enlightenment)created this pamphlet becaused they wished to dispel the myths surrounding virginity, the hymen and women's bodies and promote knowledgeof the true facts.

Creative Alternatives is a non-profit Creative Arts Therapies Center who use art, drama, music, and dance, to raise awareness, propose alternatives, inspire healing, and motivate critical engagement in social change.

ROOTS OF EQUALITY is a resources designed to help educators foster students' healthy, equal relationships and raise awareness of violence against women. It includes workshops on family, friends, community, connections and media for grades 1-8.

What or who is a 'real man'? What or who is a 'real woman'? This workshop sure isn't going to answer those questions, but maybe it'll get you thinking about them! Put together by the Union for Gender Empowerment in Montreal, it provides a basic introduction to terminology, privilege & ways of being a trans ally.