Two upcoming online training workshops free for community groups.
Crisis Fundamentals with Horizon Resilience - ONLINE delivery
We're running another session in collaboration with Horizon Resilience. We're really keen to tailor this one for those VCFS groups and target the limited spaces available to those supporting disproportionately impacted groups. We won't preclude others from attending, but priority will be given to those outside of, or less familiar with, formal resilience structures.
Drawing on their experience at the heart of UK government crisis management, the training will provide participants with a strong practical foundation in crisis management principles, supported by a scenario-based discussion and applied learning. Attendees will go away with an improved awareness of crisis and resilience in the UK context, including how the voluntary and community sector fits within the wider resilience system and a practical understanding of the crisis lifecycle, from anticipation and response through to stabilisation and recovery.
Tuesday 15th September 10:00-11:30 - Register by emailing marcusbowen@vcsep.org.uk
Active Bystander Training with Protection Approaches - ONLINE delivery
Division in communities, rising tensions and civil unrest continue to be high on the risk register for organisations. A lot of research points to pre-bunking - intervening early to dispel myths rather than challenging misinformation after it appears, so how can community organisations feel better equipped to intervene? We’re collaborating with Protection Approaches to run a special session on helping participants safely address identity‑based harms in their community, school or workplace, using real-world scenarios to build confidence in implementing Active Bystandership in everyday life.
You'll learn what it means to be an active bystander, through group discussion we'll explore what being an active bystander means. How to stand up for those being targeted safely: working through a series of scenarios to consider and learn what you can do when you encounter identity-based harms and proactive prevention: returning to the scenarios we'll reflect on the root causes of prejudice and discrimination before discussing ways to contribute to dismantling those root causes and to building safer, more inclusive, and just communities.
Thursday 17th September 11:00-13:00 - Register by emailing marcusbowen@vcsep.org.uk