I have fifteen years of education facilitation and learning design experience in frontline sexual and domestic violence services, delivering violence response and prevention education workshops and training for workers, academics, students, children and young people.
My specialism is training on understanding, responding and preventing gendered harm and violence in both workplaces and communities. My work activates and embeds dynamic and transparent practices of care prevention and response that are rooted in dignity, compassion and justice.
I’m always happy to help you explore the problem you’re facing and see how I might be able to support your work.
What I can do
- Design, development and delivery of training for your organisation
- Scalable Train The Trainer programmes
- Consultancy on wording and communicating culture change
- Evaluation, measurement and outcomes
My approach
- 100% Shame-free: meeting participants where they are at
- Systemic, rigorous, generous
- Anticipating with every learning style in the room
- Trauma-informed knowledge to an accessible format
- Creating a safe container to have the harder conversations
- Interactive non-lecture style activities based on learning together
- Naming difference to build power and capacity together
- Robust approach to sexual violence myth-challenging using a method I developed and train on: The VERA Method
A selection of training I’ve developed and delivered
- Vicarious Trauma for Community Organisers: Bespoke – Act Build Change
- Break the Silence: Responding to Domestic Abuse in your Community Women’s Aid
- Facilitating Sensitive Topics and Managing Participant Responses – Rail Delivery Group
- Introduction to Trauma-Informed Facilitation – Delivered to Many Clients
- Understanding and Responding to Sexual Violence in Nightlife – Good Night Out Campaign
- Sexual Harassment Training for Agencies and Active Workplace Bystander – National Advertising Benevolent Society #TimeTo
- Ethically responding to disclosures for campaigners – Level Up
- Safer Stations: Equality and Diversity for Community Radio Stations – Community Media Training Organisation
- Sexual harassment: Safety, Care and Ethical Leadership – IPGMedia Brands
- Let’s Band Together: Unwanted Sexual Behaviour in Live Music Premises – Creative Victoria and Victorian Department of Justice
My work at frontline organisations
Women’s Aid (2020-21)
- Delivered ‘Ask Me’ Community Ambassador Training (3 week programme)
- Developed and delivered ‘Break the Silence: Responding to Domestic Abuse in your Community‘ Series – see above for webinar sample
For Rape Crisis South London (2015-2020)
- One Day Training: What is Sexual Violence? (for Social workers and other professionals)
- One Day Training: Sexual Violence and Young People (for Teachers and Youth Workers)
- Understanding Consent (for University Students)
- Respectful Relationships (Years 8-12)
- Pornography (Years 9-12)
- 6 Week Sex and Gender Programme for year 8-12 (Consent, Body Image, Pornography, and Empowerment)
For Good Night Out Campaign (2014-Now)
- Understanding and Responding to Sexual Harassment and Assault in Licensed Premises
- Responding with Compassion to disclosures of Sexual Violence
- Introduction to Community Accountability
- Safer Nightlife Spaces for Event Organisers
- Safer Kink Spaces
- Train the Trainer Day for Frontline Delivery Partner Trainers
- Management-level Open Access Awareness training
- Bespoke policy-generation workshops for businesses and agencies
- Specialist training for Security Agencies on responding to sexual violence and harassment
For Rape and Domestic Violence Services Australia (2017)
- Moira Carmody’s Sex, Ethics and Young People (Trained for delivery by Professor Carmody)
- Vicarious Trauma Stages 1-4 (Award-winning workplace programme for frontline workers)
- Responding with Compassion (for Professionals)
- Responding with Compassion (for Educators)
- Understanding Domestic Violence
Case Study: #TimeTo
Client: National Advertising Benevolent Society
#Timeto is a joint project of the Advertising Association, in collaboration with NABS and WACL, embedding its anti-sexual harassment campaign within organisations
Appointed as the Lead Trainer and consultant on this project, I developed a workshop programme and ecosystem suitable for staff teams and HR professionals across the British advertising and marketing industries. I collaborate closely with the #Timeto team, including workers on their specialist support helpline, to create relevant, engaging and interactive content and have trained a team of freelance trainers to deliver this content.
Get in touch via info@bryonybeynon.com if you are interested in working together. Please include as much information as possible about your organisation.