Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Workshops

Together, We Can End Sexual Violence in Our Community

Virginia Tech is working to build a sustainable climate and transform university culture by establishing sexual violence prevention as a shared responsibility among all members of the Virginia Tech community.

Our sexual violence prevention (SVP) workshops are designed to provide the best programming around sexual violence prevention and build leadership and confidence for students to talk about these really important issues with their communities.

Sexual Violence Prevention Peer Educators

Do you want to help craft and facilitate an SVP workshop for your community? We want to help you! All of our SVP and active intervention workshops can be customized to your community with our peer educator model.

The SVP peer educators team is a group of undergraduate and graduate students who facilitate our program workshops. The team’s goal is to educate campus members on how to recognize and prevent sexual and interpersonal violence in their communities along with building up the skills and confidence Hokie’s need to do this important work in their communities.

Workshops

Following are available SVP workshops. Complete the request form to book a workshop.

Deconstructing Sexual Violence

It can feel really overwhelming trying to unpack everything that impacts how sexual and interpersonal violence shows up in our communities. Is this your first time learning about sexual and interpersonal violence or are you looking for a refresher training? We've got you covered in this foundational course that will help attendees review the terminology and elements of sexual and interpersonal violence, relevant statistics for college students, affirmative consent, incapacitation, coercion, healthy/unhealthy relationship dynamics, and our “Spectrum of Harm” activity.

One Love Workshops on Unhealthy/Healthy Relationships

The following workshops are from the One Love Foundation and can be requested through the Sexual Violence and Prevention Education team.

Love Labyrinth: A one-hour workshop discussing the short video “Love Labyrinth” from the One Love Foundation. This video depicts the cycle of an unhealthy relationship and the factors that can keep someone stuck in an abusive relationship dynamic. This workshop is discussion based and focuses on the warning signs of an abusive relationship and unhealthy behaviors.

Behind the Post: A one-hour workshop that looks at the ways that social media can be misleading about how relationships are “offline." The series of short videos depict unhealthy/abusive relationship dynamics that happen behind the pretty posts on social media. This workshop is discussion based and focuses on how we can be more mindful that what we see on social media isn’t always what is really happening in someone’s relationship.