ReAct offers an array of youth-friendly, youth-created, and youth-led workshops. They provide an empowering space for youth to participate in the process of learning in a way that validates their personal experiences. As well as offering peer-led workshops, ReAct offers Train-the-Trainer sessions for service providers, educators, and community workers, as well as and speakers for panels, presentations, and assemblies. All ReAct youth workshops include:
Workshops can compliment existing school curriculum and youth programming. They are delivered as:
ReAct trainings and speaking engagements are tailored to specific requests. Please contact us for more information about formats and fees. Peer Facilitators can return for follow-up sessions after workshops, if requested.
Please note: workshops are held with a maximum of 30 participants. To stay true to offering interactive and personalized workshops and trainings, we do not facilitate workshops or trainings in large groups or assemblies. Our speaking engagements can be done for large groups.
The following descriptions summarize workshop, training, and speaking engagement topics that ReAct offers:
Ending the Silence: Violence at Home
Explores the impact of violence that occurs at home (e.g. physical, emotional, sexual and financial abuse). Discusses ways youth can resist family violence at home, how they can get help, and strategies to help peers dealing with family violence. Available in versions for junior high youth, secondary school youth, young moms, and newcomer youth.
What's Love Got to do with it? Dating Violence
Examines violence in youth dating relationships, including sexual assault, coercive sexuality, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and stalking. Discusses healthy and unhealthily relationships and how youth can be allies to their peers.
What's Love Got to do with it? Dating Violence for LGBTQ Youth
Examines violence in lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer youth dating relationships, including sexual assault, coercive sexuality, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and stalking. Discusses healthy and unhealthily relationships and how youth can be allies to their peers.
Only Yes Means Yes! Sexual Assault/Date Rape
Addresses violence such as partner rape, pressure to be sexually active, and the use of date rape drugs. Explores the impact of gender stereotypes and peer pressure on relationships.
Words Hurt... Emotional Abuse
Explores how words can be used in relationships to manipulate, harm, and violate. Discusses the impact of gender-role expectations in such abuse.
Our Power, Our Privilege: Intro 2 Anti-Oppression
Introduces principles and practices of anti-oppression and explains multiple forms of oppression. Interactive activities, media, and art are used to demonstrate ways that oppression effects youth uniquely, with respect to diverse identities such as gender, race, class, immigration status, sexuality, ability, and religion. Also includes self-reflective activities to help participants personally recognize oppression, power, and privilege.
Tough Guise: Masculinity
Looks at male stereotypes and links them to gender violence. Includes a media literacy component on how masculinity is portrayed in popular culture and how men can build healthy relationships, become male allies, and support women experiencing violence.
Feeding or Starving the Hype: Youth At-Risk and Violence
Links violence against women with issues many marginalized youth face, such as harassment, racism, bullying, involvement with the law, and gang violence. Focuses on identifying key issues and brainstorming ways of dealing with this social violence.
Going Beyond the Massacre: December 6th Remembrance
Explores connections between sexism, daily occurrences of violence against women, and the December 6th Montreal Massacre. Includes media literacy activities that examines different news perspectives in coverage following the Massacre and encourages critical thinking in all portrayals of violence against women.
Why the Looks? Bullying Between Young Women
Explores verbal, emotional, and physical violence between girls and young women outside of same-sex dating relationships. Identifies how anger and aggression between young women is expressed and explores underlying causes. Emphasis is placed on developing healthy ways of relating and ending bullying between girls.
Speak Your Truth: Empowerment for Young Women
Helps young women learn what empowerment is and helps them deal with social pressures that might hinder their sense of empowerment. Looks at understanding physical, spiritual, financial, sexual, and emotional boundaries.
Speak Your Truth: Empowerment for Young Mothers
Helps young mothers identify and build upon healthy dating relationships. Explores what young mothers need in relationships and looks at physical, spiritual, financial, sexual, and emotional boundaries.
Love or Obsession? Stalking
Explores the difference between romance, courtship, and persistent, unwanted attention. And helps youth identify and work towards healthy relationships.
The Bully Factor
Addresses different types of bullying (e.g. sexual, gender-based, sexual and physical). Brainstorms how youth can resist and challenge this bullying in their lives.
Gender-Based Violence 101
Introduces definitions and issues related to gender-based violence against girls and women in general, all within an anti-oppression framework.
For More Information
For more information about ReAct, contact METRAC at 416-392-4760 or react@metrac.org. To book a workshop, training, or speaking engagement, contact 416-392-3135 or info@metrac.org.
