From: Sana Contractor <[email protected]> Date: 10 March 2011 10:55 Subject: Course on responding to VAW through Feminist Counselling
Hey Chandni! CEHAT is conducting a course on Feminist Counselling in responding to VAW in the end of April. It is a 4 day course and the first of its kind! Lots of great faculty and its in collaboration with TISS. Do circulate and apply if you're interested! Deadline for applications is 31st March. More details pasted below and available on the cehat website here<http://www.cehat.org/go/Courses/FemCounselling> . Love, Sana. National Course on Responding to Violence against women through Feminist Counselling CEHAT and TISS are pleased to announce the *1st National course on Responding to Violence against women: Feminist Counselling*. The course is aimed at building a critical feminist perspective on the issue of violence against women and enhancing skills of the participants in responding to survivors of violence. Course Details - Background <http://www.cehat.org/go/Courses/FemCounselling#namea> - Aim <http://www.cehat.org/go/Courses/FemCounselling#nameb> - Participants <http://www.cehat.org/go/Courses/FemCounselling#namec> - Course dates & Fees<http://www.cehat.org/go/Courses/FemCounselling#named> - Application Form <http://www.cehat.org/go/Courses/FemCounselling#namee> Background Feminist counselling as a method of responding to violence against women has been considered the most effective method as it equips women to question oppression and builds their capacity to deal with their distress. It goes beyond the individual and helps women connect to the outside world and negotiate their space within it. It was the women’s movement in India that brought forth not just the issue of Violence against women in India but also the feminist perspective in responding to this issue. CEHAT has addressed the issue of Violence and health for more than a decade. One of its endeavors has been the joint initiative of CEHAT and MCGM, namely Dilaasa a hospital based department to respond to women reporting Domestic violence. Dilaasa provides women with psycho social support, temporary shelter facilities, and free legal as well as medical aid. While setting a feminist counselling model at Dilaasa, we drew heavily from the values and principles used by the women’s movement, but realised that there was a dearth of Indian literature pertaining to feminist counselling skills adopted to respond to individual women. It took us an entire year to design a feminist counselling model. It has been 10 years since then. The Tata Institute of Social Sciences was established in 1936, as the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work. Since then, it has strived to continually respond to changing social realities through the development and application of knowledge, towards creating a people-centered ecologically sustainable and just society that promotes and protects dignity, equality, social justice and human rights for all. TISS has been engaging with the issue of violence against women for over 25 years now. Several of the current courses address women’s issues and issues of counselling women from a feminist perspective. The faculty in the School of Social work engages with the field realities concerning women through the ‘field action projects’. We realize that there are several professionals responding to women facing violence but are not aware of “Feminist counselling” as a methodology / discipline of counselling. The PWDVA (Protection of women from Domestic violence Act 2005) too has paved way for several counsellors / Protection officers under this law to provide counselling to survivors of Domestic violence. Thus, seeing the vision and aim of academic rigor and field engagement with the issue of violence against women by CEHAT and TISS, it was decided to jointly launch the course on feminist counselling. Aim - Understand the feminist critique of main stream concepts of mental health. - Identify the social and cultural determinants of women’s mental health - Learn the principles and values of feminist counselling and how they can be applied in relation to Violence against women in particular. Participants - Participants may be teachers, researchers, or post graduate students from the disciplines of psychology and social work and allied disciplines - Practicing counselors with some experience of dealing with issues related to violence against women - Protection Officers under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 Course dates & Fees - 27th April to 1st May 2011 - Deadline to send in application forms *31st March 2011.* - *Rs. 2000* for a five day residential course. Venue - *Sarvodaya, St. Pius College, Goregaon (East), Mumbai.* Medium of instruction - English Application Form - Online application form<https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFlCcVNNcEpUdUxDd1FSZXRDZmdPMFE6MQ> RSVP 1. Jasmine Kalha - +91-9819091002 Email [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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