Responders Lab

Insight Exchange (DVSM) · Free facilitated virtual session (~2 hrs) · Groups of 10–30

Summary

The Responders Lab is a free, facilitated, peer-learning experience from Insight Exchange designed to deepen how everyday people understand and respond to domestic, family and sexualised violence. Its premise is that every response matters — that each of us is a friend, colleague, neighbour or family member who may be confided in, and that responses are ongoing rather than a single reaction to a disclosure.

Four content modules — “Our Interactions,” “Our Responses,” “My Ecosystem Matters,” and “Follow My Meaning” — emphasise dignity, not operating from assumptions, and keeping the victim-survivor at the centre of their own ecosystem. Sessions run as two-hour virtual workshops for groups, with content developed from local and international lived and learned expertise and offered in English, Spanish and Arabic.

Connections

• Produced byInsight Exchange
• TeachesBystander Intervention
  • Frames everyone as an ongoing “responder,” broader than crisis-moment bystanding.
• Informed byTrauma-Informed Design
• CentresVictim-Survivor
• AddressesDomestic Family and Sexualised Violence

Sources

• https://www.insightexchange.net/responders-lab/

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