Prevention should not depend on luck.
It should be reproducible, accessible, and rigorous.
The story, the method, and the values behind the Sexual Violence Prevention Workshop.
Why this project exists.
Sexual violence persists, at scale, despite decades of public awareness campaigns. The reason is not ignorance of the problem — most people know it is wrong. The reason is the gap between knowing and acting.
Most prevention efforts focus on informing: campaigns, posters, slogans. These have value, but they rarely change behaviour. What changes behaviour is understanding: knowing what risk factors look like, what consent actually requires, what works and what only sounds like it works.
The SVPW was designed to fill that gap. Not by replacing existing prevention efforts, but by giving them a shared cognitive frame that adults can walk through in two hours, anywhere in the world.
The origin
The Sexual Violence Prevention Workshop was created by Sébastien Brochot, a specialist in violence prevention strategy who has designed multiple prevention programmes over the years. The workshop was first launched in French in 2023 as La Fresque des Violences Sexistes et Sexuelles®. The international SVPW® edition was rebuilt in 2026 — designed from the start for worldwide reproducibility, in any language and any culture.
The project is published under the SVPW® label by Association Une Vie, a French non-profit organization founded over ten years ago and dedicated to the prevention of sexual violence — particularly against children and adolescents.
The workshop draws on psychology, criminology, public health, and the social sciences, in alignment with the prevention recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF:
. Act early in the life course
. Build psychosocial skills
. Work at multiple levels — individual, relational, community, societal
. Use tools adapted to local realities
. Reproduce the intervention at scale
A word from the founder.
“I designed this workshop because I had seen too many awareness campaigns that informed without transforming. We don’t lack good intentions on this subject. We lack frames that allow people — ordinary adults, in their lives, their workplaces, their communities — to think together about something we usually avoid thinking about together. Two hours. A small group. A few cards. That’s all it takes to begin.”
— Sébastien Brochot, founder
Mission.
Make rigorous prevention accessible to everyone
The workshop is free to read, free to download, and available in 15 languages. The book documents the full method for anyone willing to host a session.
Build a worldwide network of facilitators
The strength of the project lies in the people who choose to run the workshop in their language, their context, their community.
Stay anchored in evidence
Every card, every claim, every recommendation is rooted in published research. We update content as the science evolves.
Vision.
We do not believe that any single workshop will end sexual violence. We do believe that the gap between awareness and understanding is a leverage point — one that, when filled, makes every other prevention effort more effective: policies, education, professional training, public conversation.
Our long-term vision is:
- More languages of full coverage, with native facilitators in every major linguistic region
- A regional representative in every country where the project has reached critical mass
- Free access to all educational materials, supported by donations and by sales of the book and ancillary products
- Continuous research collaboration with universities and prevention researchers to keep the content sharp
We complement public policy. We don’t replace it. We don’t compete with other prevention organisations. We try to be a useful piece in a much larger puzzle.
Our values.
Rigour
Evidence over rhetoric. We don’t simplify to the point of distortion, and we don’t use emotional manipulation to engage people.
Non-militancy
We are not neutral on violence — we want it to end. But we work with thought, not slogans. The workshop favours reflection over confrontation.
Reproducibility
The project is designed to be carried by ordinary people in ordinary settings. No exclusivity, no licensing, no expert gatekeeping.
Transparency
The Association’s financial and operational reports are public. Our content is open. Our partners are listed.
Ready to take part?
The workshop only exists when people meet and run it.
You can run a workshop yourself
The full method is in the book. Read it, gather a few people, and host your first workshop in your city, your company, or your school.
Become a regional representative
Lead the project in your country or region. Build the local community.