“In a community, individuals, groups, organizations, and institutions form an interconnected system – an ecosystem. Everyone is important and everyone has a different role to play in preventing sexual violence and creating safe communities.”

What is the project?

In a community, individuals, groups, organizations, and institutions form an interconnected system – an ecosystem.  Each one interacting with the others, forming relationships and partnerships, creating policies and practices, and shaping culture and environment.  Everyone is important to the community ecosystem; everyone has a different role.  And every decision – whether an individual choice or a broad-reaching policy – can impact the entire ecosystem.

Building off Deepa Iyer’s Social Change Ecosystem Work, this video series invites viewers to understand communities as ecosystems of which they, too, are a part.Within the community ecosystem, everyone has a role to play in the prevention of all forms of sexual violence.

 

HOW TO USE THE VIDEOS + DISCUSSION GUIDES

While the “We Are All Connected” Ecosystem Video Series can be used as a standalone professional training, Men As Peacemakers has created three (3) accompanying Discussion Guides to facilitate a process of learning and discussion that will result in increased understanding of both community and community-connectedness.  Viewers will also have the opportunity to locate themselves within the community-ecosystem, as well as explore four specific indicators of a healthy, thriving community ecosystem: inherent dignity and belonging, collective care, responsibility to others, and wholeness.


Use the Community Ecosystem Videos and Discussion Guides for:

  • Onboarding and training of new and existing staff and volunteers;

  • To supplement statutorily mandated Sexual Assault or Domestic Violence training hours;

  • Multidisciplinary team cross-training or team-building;

  • Staff meetings or retreats;

  • To help with strategic planning (use with the Community Connections Inventory tool );

  • In preparation for developing or revising interagency protocols or organizational policies and practices;

  • To facilitate the implementation of a community-level prevention program (ie: BEST Party Model, Don’t Buy It Project, IMPACT, or Coaching for Change); etc.


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