Awareness alone doesn’t change behaviour.
Conversations might.
A 2-hour collaborative workshop on sexual violence prevention — for everyone who wants to be part of the solution.
What is the SVPW?
The Sexual Violence Prevention Workshop is a structured, card-based group experience designed to deepen collective understanding of sexual violence — before taking action.
It is built on a simple observation: awareness campaigns alone do not change behaviour. Between knowing that sexual violence is wrong and knowing what to do about it, a gap remains. The SVPW exists to fill that gap.
In two hours, a small group of adults — ideally fewer than 15 — works through a deck of thematic cards covering risk factors, consent, consequences, and prevention strategies. The pace is collective. The tone is reflective. The aim is not to convince anyone — it is to think together.
Who is it for?
The SVPW is designed for adults, ideally in groups of fewer than 15 people.
Leadership teams, employees, HR, social committees
But also for volunteer organisations and institutional networks — religious, sports, cultural, or professional — anywhere adults work with or around vulnerable people.
It applies to preventing sexual violence against children, teenagers, or adults, with or without disabilities, in family, school, sport, cultural, religious, professional, or institutional contexts.
It is not designed for minors — children and adolescents need formats adapted to their age and developmental stage.
The science behind it.
1 in 3 women worldwide will experience sexual or physical violence in her lifetime. (WHO, 2021)
1 in 4 men will be sexually abused before the age of 18. (CDC)
More than 90 % of sexual violence is committed by someone the victim knows.
The SVPW is built on data, not opinions. Its content 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
Each card has been crafted to surface real evidence and challenge widespread misconceptions.
What participants take away.
By the end of the two hours, participants typically leave with:
- A clearer vocabulary for talking about sexual violence — without taboos, without rhetoric
- A more accurate map of the factors that contribute to it — and the ones that don’t
- A sharper feel for the conditions of consent in concrete situations
- Awareness of which prevention strategies are supported by evidence — and which only sound good
- One concrete commitment to take into their own life, workplace, or community
Free resources.
The complete card deck is available for free download in all our supported languages, under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. Anyone can read the materials. Browse the free card decks →
Hosting an actual workshop requires the full method — script, pedagogical guidance, facilitator notes — which is available in the book.
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.
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