Consent Training

Everyone’s Invited began as an online movement, ignited by Soma Sara in the summer of 2020. It began as a safe space for survivors to share their stories of sexual assault. After the testimonies exposed the universal prevalence of the problem, the organisation worked to find solutions and tackle rape culture head-on by delivering specialist education in schools. Since offering education in September 2022, they have reached over 60 schools, colleges and universities, working with over 10,000 pupils and 2,000 staff members.

Their mission is to expose and eradicate rape culture with empathy, compassion and understanding through interactive and informative talks and workshops. The EI education programme is designed to empower communities to promote healthy relationships, sexual well-being and to tackle rape culture. Their approach is personal, empathetic, and non-judgmental, presenting the facts and encouraging pupils to think critically about the world around them.

Contact: education@everyonesinvited.uk, visit: https://www.everyonesinvited.uk/

The Art of Consent's workshops for students look at consent in three ways:

1. Consent for Harm Prevention

2. Consent as a Personal Skill, and

3. Consent as a Community Culture.

The Art of Consent acknowledge that consent and personal boundaries are relevant to all areas of our lives: with our friends and families, with acquaintances, and in our professional and educational relationships.

They understand that establishing consent can be challenging for any number of reasons, including peer pressure, our experiences of privilege or marginalisation, personal trauma, social conditioning, group dynamics and professional and social power imbalances.

The good news is that consent and boundaries skills can be improved with practice. We can develop our self-awareness and relationship-building skills by learning to trust and communicate our own needs, boundaries and desires, and honouring those of others. For more information, see https://www.artofconsent.co.uk/consent-workshops-for-students and use the contact form here: https://www.artofconsent.co.uk/rupert-contact

Talk Consent provides specialist consent education to prevent sexual violence.

We deliver engaging and interactive workshops where students are able to discuss the nuances of consent in a safe and non-judgemental environment. The workshops enable students to understand the issue of sexual violence, whilst giving them the skills to navigate relationships and sexual activity at Oxford University in a safe and healthy way.

We have worked with Wolfson College and Girton College at Cambridge University as well as delivering education to over 150 schools in and around London.

Students at Wolfson College, Cambridge said: “10/10 - Excellent, created a safe space, encourages discussion, speakers extremely friendly and open and was suited to audience level adult discussion.” "It’s the most helpful Consent Workshop on consent I’ve been to so far and covered a lot about the grey area between consent and assault."

Ideal group size for workshops is 30 - 40 students but we can be flexible, and they are 1 hour each. It is £125 per workshop.

If you would like to book or if you have any questions, please contact Dan Allchurch at dan@talkconsent.org

Following the success of last year's pilot, the University's Sexual Harassment and Violence Support Service (SHVSS) are running student-led consent workshops in a number of additional colleges, with a view to expanding further in future years. The workshops focus on healthy relationships and consent, including sexual consent. They will be working closely with staff and students in participating colleges to provide ongoing support to the fully-trained student facilitators. After these sessions, 85% of students said they were more likely to seek support if they experienced sexual violence or relationship abuse, 84% said they had a better understanding of healthy relationships, and 81% had a better understanding of sexual consent.

The following colleges are participating and have successfully recruiting this year's student facilitators: Lincoln College, Reuben College, St Peter's College.

The following colleges are signed up, and still looking for student facilitators, so if you're college is listed and you'd like to get involved, please sign up here: Green Templeton College, Christ Church College, Exeter College, New College and St Hugh's College.

Please note, some workshops are being delivered to Undergraduates only, Postgraduates only, or both, so please see the form for further detail. If you have any questions at all please get in touch with Amelia at supportservice@admin.ox.ac.uk.

At the SU, we continue to train Oxford students to run peer-to-peer Consent Workshops in their own Common Rooms. We’ll be running small training sessions *in-person OR online* for these facilitators in the weeks running up to Fresher’s Week 2023. You’ll then be equipped to run a 60-90 minute workshop with your freshers, which includes Oxford-specific, graduate-specific (where applicable), and LGBTQ-specific contexts. After last year's training, all participants rated their confidence in delivering a Consent Workshop as 4/5 or 5/5! Participants particularly liked learning how to deal with 'awkward silences' and difficult questions. You can now up here, or email daisy.oconnor@oxfordsu.ox.ac.uk for more information.