Videos from Conference
A presentation beginning with the lived experience of Marty and Kane, two survivors of historical sexual abuse. Their stories portray two perspectives on how sexual abuse of males differs from that of females as does the recovery journey.
Prehabilitation initiatives such as Stand Strong, Walk Tall may offer a fundamental missing component of child sexual abuse prevention efforts, given people in need of help to prevent harm are often unable to access effective interventions until they are in the justice system after acting having acted on their attractions and harmed a child. This presentation will overview the Stand Strong, Walk Tall philosophy, intervention framework, and theoretical underpinnings, and share early experiences of clinicians delivering the pilot service.
In this panel we will share brief findings from our respective collaborative research projects and work-in-progress related to ‘rough sex’. This includes examinations of rough sex and/or choking on Tik Tok, popular pornography websites, as well as views and experiences from young people, and from adults who have experienced rough sex, as well as stakeholders’ observations. We will share our thoughts about the implications – in relation to sexual violence – of an apparent trend towards the normalization of aggressive sexual practices where lines around consent and harm can be dangerously blurred. We aim to help facilitate wider discussion on these challenging issues.
Organisations are wanting to respond to the nation-wide call for our workplaces and communities to be free from sexual harassment, but can be left not knowing how to undertake this mahi in a meaningful and sustainable way. With sexual harassment and bullying affecting as many as 1 in 3 workers each year, the prevention of sexual harm in the workplace is a key facet of creating an Aotearoa free from sexual harm. During this presentation, we outline the three cornerstones of building a positive workplace culture. Firstly, tackling this issue requires an intersectional lens: the understanding of sexual harassment as a broad spectrum of behaviour that intersects with racism, ageism, ableism, heteronormativity, weight stigma, and other forms of harm. Secondly, this work requires role modelling from leaders and transparent communication about the issue and the haerenga ahead. Finally, companies must engage with a cohort of experts, including specialists from the sexual harm prevention sector, to sustain the holistic approach that this process requires. RespectEd Aotearoa has worked with a range of corporate and community organisations using this framework, and we will call on specific examples to demonstrate what works and why.
Shama is an organisation that endeavours to provide service to Ethnic Migrant and Refugee communities. We have celebrated our journey and would like to share the same, especially that lead us to pioneer and innovate the service for Sexual Violence Response. Through this presentation we want to highlight the strength behind community consultation and community engagement.
This presentation presents the key findings from a recent Ministry of Social Development (MSD) funded research project on the Pacific sexual violence (SV) workforce of Aotearoa New Zealand. Very little detailed information exists on Aotearoa’s Pacific SV workforce.
This presentation will discuss the findings from my PhD thesis research. The research used a mixed method approach, including a survey of 1000 bisexual+ women and interviews with 20 bisexual+ women in Aotearoa. I will discuss the high rates of sexual violence among my sample and how the sexualisation of bisexual+ women in Aotearoa and abroad may contribute to the high rates of sexual violence for bisexual+ women. Further, this presentation will also include discussion of how we can better include bisexual+ people in efforts to end mahi tūkino in Aotearoa.
Gender Minorities Aotearoa, a peer-led transgender organisation, operating within the kaupapa Māori public health framework Te Pae Māhutonga, and The Ottawa Charter (1986). With 1,300+ one-to-one transgender peer support engagements each year, GMA has unique and intimate institutional understandings of the issues and barriers that transgender people experience with regards to relationships, sex, and sexual violence. We will present on eight sexual violence prevention resources which we released in 2020 and 2021; on safer sex and healthier relationships for transgender people and their partners. Our resources were developed over 6 years of intensive work with transgender communities, and had substantial input from many members of our team as well as service users. We ran open submissions, gathering feedback from transgender people on early drafts; which also underwent peer review from our contemporaries at other organisations. The resources include: “Consent: sex and relationships for trans people,” “Triggers: past trauma memories and how to discuss them,” “Signs of an unhealthy relationship dynamic,” “Ending an abusive relationship,” “Active listening: a communication resource,” “Dating a trans person 101: respect,” “It’s your choice: personal autonomy in a relationship,” and “A good argument: fighting without fighting.” They cover many different aspects of healthy relationships and safer sex, with an interlinked structure, providing accessible learning for marginalised people. In many cases, resources did not exist that both covered these issues and were inclusive of transgender people. Where those resources did include transgender content, that content was usually minimal, and contained very little information specific or relevant to transgender people and their relationships. Many existing healthy relationships and safer sex resources use cissexist language, rely on biological essentialism, and trans-exclusionary binary models of gendered violence. Other existing “Rainbow” frameworks within Aotearoa have continued to replicate stereotypes, and are not aimed at, or produced by, transgender people, who are one of the highest at-risk populations for interpersonal abuse. The aim of this project was to create comprehensive, culturally safe, accessible resources, without relying on damaging Western frameworks of gender, binary or otherwise. The resources include basic advice and information on respect, autonomy, trauma, and available options for people in abusive situations, and people who wish to avoid abusive situations.
Shifting the Line is a model for working with boys and young men that offers some new ideas for sexual violence prevention. It moves further upstream than consent-based approaches and aims to undo some of the often-invisible gendered underpinnings of men’s sexual violence against women and girls. We will describe our workshops and discuss preliminary findings from trialing the approach.
This presentation will address the key themes and views expressed by East and South-East Asian students on what inclusive prevention poster designs and strategies may work for their communities. This information will be useful for the development of future social marketing campaigns which intend to speak to East and South-East Asian students in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Our presentation intends to capture our journey developing the prevention of sexual violence program and supporting the groups we have worked with so far. We will discuss the methodology of our work, and we will share our experience working with people from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds, ages, community groups, and living in different areas of Aotearoa New Zealand. Through the presentation, we hope to highlight ideas that might help the audience reflect on their prevention practice and gain insights developing prevention responses that meet the needs of the communities that we serve.
In this presentation TMA offers an opportunity to discuss the power of family-led healing through their experience making the documentary film ‘Loimata-the sweetest tears’ (Marbrook Productions Ltd, 2020). Through this film TMA offers a glimpse into a family/aiga indigenous way of healing from sexual violence and the inter-generational hurt caused.
Adeline Greig presents about the mahi, both achieved and planned, by the RVPN Rainbow Violence Prevention Network, a new and unique collaborative organisational structure involving Rainbow, Transgender and Intersex organisations, Rainbow members of SV and FV organisations, and more.
She will discuss the difficulties and achievements involved in the work by the RVPN on the Joint Venture Business Unit’s Te Aorerekura, the National Strategy on Sexual Violence and Family Violence, with special focus on transgender inclusion. This new document sets a new national standard for gender analysis, and a working basis for creating change in violence sectors and communities.
Other members of the RVPN will also discuss further upcoming work toward establishing sector standards for SV/FV in terms of transgender, intersex and broader rainbow inclusion, which is a collaborative project involving many RVPN members.
Eleanor Parkes is the Director of ECPAT Child Alert and works to end child trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of children in New Zealand. She has experience in community development, a passion for working with children and young people, and has committed her professional life to defending human rights through advocacy, campaigning and activism.
This presentation will give an overview of the changing porn landscape for the young people in Aotearoa including content trends, usage patterns and potential impacts. It will also discuss the implications for the sexual violence prevention sector as online sexual content shifts and shapes youth expectations, understandings and experiences of sexual relationships and sexual violence.
The presentation will begin by providing an overview of existing consent education programmes, with a focus on the underlying assumptions and frameworks used in those programmes. We will then move to describe Chasin’s Cone of Consent and how we’ve adapted it as our theoretical framework.
To present the concept of identity and the importance of knowing oneself as part of your own Ethnic group i.e. being rooted in our own ethnicity and cultural values. Migrants, usually ethnic minorities, and displaced Maori alike in my experience face a similar problem with lack of identity either due to colonisation and/or having to fit in into a Western world of life.
In this presentation, we will discuss reproductive coercion and its intersection with sexual violence and intimate partner violence. What is known and what is not known, and barriers to women from migrant and refugee backgrounds seeking help.
The content of this presentation will explore the very central role that the significant adults in a child or young person’s life play in supporting them to heal from trauma. It will explore the why, the how and what gets in the way when we think about how to engage the child/young person, their parent and at times the therapist in this important work.
In this presentation, Elisabeth and Paulette will begin a discussion about the multi-layered cultural and well-being issues that emerge from observing rape trials in which the complainant is forced to be a witness, including steps for reform.
The presentation will address the types of sexual offending that we work with, and the method of treatment provided. It will also explore some of the difficulties those seeking treatment face, and the delicate balance between working in a non-judgemental focused way whilst also encouraging acknowledgement of the harm caused.
This presentation will include a focus on how the AIM 3 domains can come together with Kaupapa Maori models of treatment to ensure we are delivering effective treatment for Maori.
This presentation will introduce my doctoral research exploring gender performance in the Aotearoa music community. Musical spaces have provided opportunities for normative representations of gender to be both resisted and reinscribed, contested and conformed to.
The Dear Em team will be presenting on how we as a sector can better engage with and work alongside young people, using insights based on our experience and reflections from the Dear Em Youth Leadership Programme. We hope to inspire organisations to engage more openly with the young people in their communities and provide youth informed support in their practices.
Māori have a unique way of understanding the world based on Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) which has been marginalised through colonisation. The study aimed to glean insight into a Mātauranga Māori conceptualisation of the phenomenon of harmful sexual behaviour. Additionally, consideration is given to how Mātauranga Māori could assist in the healing process for Māori who have engaged in harmful sexual behaviour. A thematic analysis was used to analyse interviews with five tohunga from this area of work. The main themes that were identified were; Mātauranga Māori from Te Ao Tawhito/ Traditional Māori World; impacts of colonisation on Māori sexuality and how Mātauranga Māori can be used in healing.
Sexual violence from a Te Ao Māori is an absolute violation of the mana of a person and the collective mana of whanau, hapū and iwi. Similarly, for all people, rangahau (research) consistently reports that experiencing sexual violence can have detrimental effects on wāhine, within this, the research recognises there is room for growth in Whānaungatanga, tinana, hinengaro and wairua. Embracing a trauma-focused cognitive-behavioural (CBT) framework, psychoeducation enables wāhine to ‘make-sense’ of their painful memories. Building on this increased sense of self we incorporate Mason Durie’s, Te Whare Tapa Wha model (1984) which provides a framework for growth of their holistic wellbeing. To achieve this growth, we facilitate a 2 hour, 8-weekly programme; dedicating shared time between education and crafts. The topics covered include: whakatau (to welcome) & kawa (protocol), sleep hygiene, boundaries, nutrition, exercise and emotions; particularly anxiety and anger. During this programme we use Te Whare Tapa Wha to assist wāhine to further develop their strengths as they develop their own individual wellness whare. Evidence-based research indicates artistry, craft and creativity also helps ameliorate the impact of tūkino (sexual violence). In this place of healing by engaging in crafts, wāhine communicate with each other while they explore a complex variety of experiences, differing values and emotions. Our aupapa is to provide nurturing, compassion, Whānaungatanga and māramatanga (enlightenment) with our wāhine to enhance their mana.
Jade Le Grice, The University of Auckland. Sexual violence is a fundamental violation of mana and tapu, searing through orero relationships, often with intergenerational effects. Speaking with urgency to halt sexual violence, three Māori PhD candidates explore themes of orero protection and safety across orero Māori studies relevant to rangatahi, survivors, and people who may experience sexual attraction to children. Here, we discuss the tensions between preserving safety, managing accountability, and nurturing orero and community relationships (o whakapapa me o orero), where preventing sexual violence is an active concern. We also propose tikanga, manaakitanga, orero pono, utu and tiakitanga as te kete o hohou rongo that can promote healing,
Our objective is to display our course content effectiveness, Kaupapa Māori implementation into our courses using a TeAoMāori lens, share our Kaupapa, renew relationships with other agencies/organisationsand invite partnership with others.
Violence prevention and violence within young people’s intimate partner relationships does not receive the same attention within research, policy, or practice as does violence in adults’ relationships. Even less attention is paid to Indigenous youth and their intimate partner relationship well-being, including taitamariki Māori. This presentation reports on a study carried out with taitamariki Māori and Kuia and Kaumatua in Te Tai Tokerau. This presentation shares taitamariki Māori kōrero about their intimate partner relationship well-being framed in te ao Māori. Highlighting their beliefs on consent, sexual coercion and the role of gender in preventing both sexual and physical violence within their relationships - providing te ao Māori principles which could assist in the development of a taitamariki Māori violence prevention framework developed from a kaupapa taitamariki worldview. Kaupapa Māori methods were used to gather knowledge from taitamariki Māori that supported their cultural agency and will be discussed. Separately, learnings from Kuia and Kaumātua were also gathered and will be discussed, about cultural (pre-colonial and contemporary) concepts that could guide current-day (re) constructions of gender and sex. These findings were brought together to investigate whether the relevance of te ao Māori understandings, for present-day taitamariki and their whānau, has the potential to inform violence prevention initiatives, and enhance taitamariki Māori relationship decision-making and well-being.
Sexual violence is a worldwide problem with millions of people having experienced it at least once during their lifetime. Despite prevention efforts, sexual violence rates are increasing. One promising area of prevention is educating the public about the damaging effects sexual violence has on the survivor and their relationships both personally and socially. Despite this, an accurate reflection of this socially driven disease is unknown in New Zealand. The aim of this research project is to gain an insight into the various healing paths chosen by Māori who suffer from sexual violence and an understanding into how they gain wellbeing, wholeness and healing
Minister for the prevention of Family Violence and Sexual Violence
Senior Disability Rights Advisor and Esther Woodbury – Lead Advisor Disability Rights Commission for the NZ Human Rights Commission
Childrens Commissioner
Being Raised by Mokopuna