The Project

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.

Our workshop 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 Associazione 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
Lavorare a più livelli: individuale, relazionale, comunitario, sociale.
. 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.

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.