Facilitating Groups with Men Who Batter – Webinar
March 21, 2017
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Content: Often when the police are called for domestic violence, men who batter are arrested, convicted, and then likely sent to a batterers intervention program. What community support, programming, facilitation, and skills are needed to address men’s violence against women in a batterers intervention program? When men who batter are court ordered to group process, there needs to an analysis of key elements of abusive behavior and then a process to identify alternative beliefs and behaviors. The group process needs to be reflective and encourage critical thinking.
This webinar will address the following:
- Who should facilitate BIPs and who maybe should not;
- Co-facilitation;
- Dialogue without judgment;
- Exposing contradictions;
- Facilitate men ‘reading their world’;
- Looking at beliefs, “skill” building, and use of role plays;
- How to facilitate accountability with men who batter;
- Collusion.
Presenter: Melissa Scaia, MPA, Director of International Training at Global Rights for Women, Co-Founder of Domestic Violence Turning Points, and former executive director of Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs “the Duluth Model.”