Bystander Intervention and Making Safer Workplaces
Join us for an interactive workshop focused on creating safer, more welcoming environments in your workplace. Learn essential skills in bystander intervention, discover how to use harm reduction principles and strategies for building protective spaces.
In this session, we’ll cover:
- What Bystander Intervention is: Understanding its role in promoting safety.
- Why It’s Important: Recognizing the impact of active intervention in creating inclusive and supportive spaces.
- How to Do It: Practical steps and real-life scenarios for intervening effectively and safely.
- Other Supportive Practices: Additional tools to foster respectful environments in any setting.
Whether you’re working with colleagues, clients, or community members, this workshop will empower you to take action and help ensure that everyone feels respected and safe.
About the Instructor: Norah Paton has worked in the arts in various roles over the last 15 years. She has been working with organizations who support individuals experiencing gender based and intimate partner violence, and in supporting safer artistic spaces for just as long.
Recent highlights of her professional experience that blend both of these streams include planning and delivery of harm reduction services onsite at Bass Coast 2023 and 2024, delivering safer spaces training to organizations across the Yukon, and helping organizations develop safer space policies and procedures.