Resilience in Action: Building Tools for Empowerment
Strengthen your agency with Resilience in Action: Building Tools for Empowerment, a three-part workshop series focused on self-defense, de-escalation, and active bystander intervention. Rooted in healing justice, these workshops are designed to help you build the personal skills and confidence necessary to take action when needed, contribute to the safety of those around you, and dismantle harm at its source.
Open to all Penn State students and faculty/staff and designed to engage the skills and confidence of historically marginalized communities and genders.
Held in-person in HUB 233 for University Park participants and online for those with remote attendance needs and those who are on Commonwealth Campuses.
Virtual option will have closed captioning available but will not be recorded.
Faculty and Staff Series
April 10 at 9-10:30am - Malikah Workshop: Self-Defense 101
Student Series
April 10 at 12-1:30pm - Malikah Workshop: Self-Defense 101 *NOTE time change*
Tip: Learning and creating a campus culture of healing is best with a friend and trusted resources! We invite you to attend with a friend or ally to practice these tools and strategies together between sessions and build muscle memory and confidence.
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Malikah is a grassroots anti-violence and wellness nonprofit organizing against gender and hate based violence through self-defense training, healing justice, financial literacy, and community organizing for safety and power. Read more on Malikah at https://www.malikah.org/
The Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (CSGD) provides a comprehensive range of information and advocacy services to all students, faculty, staff, and alumni. We work to create and maintain an open, safer, and inclusive environment honoring gender and sexual diversity. Read more on CSGD at https://studentaffairs.psu.edu/csgd
Penn State’s Relationship Violence Outreach, Intervention, and Community Education (R-VOICE) Center supports students who have been impacted by sexual violence, relationship violence, stalking, harassment, and other campus climate issues. In addition, the office works to educate the campus community about gender equity issues and to provide workshops and resources for the prevention of sexual violence. Read more on R-VOICE at https://studentaffairs.psu.edu/r-voice
