For my final blog, I decided to attend a workshop that discusses sexual harassment and what to do when witnessing sexual harassment. Although I already learned much of the information from Haven, this workshop was much more interesting and went into more detail about dealing with sexual harassment. For example, Jean (the leader of this workshop) presented a New Zealand advertisement that follows the night of an adult woman at a bar and shows her being abused by another man that is trying to get her drunk and take advantage of her. The video then rewinds and shows all the moments that night that somebody could have stepped in and prevented any of the future events from happening. This was a very hard video to watch as it directly addressed the issue of sexual assault but it was effective at teaching me the ways I can intervene in that kind of situation. The workshop also discussed gender norms and stereotypes which also contribute to the problem of sexual assault and was not really mentioned in the Haven training. Overall, the workshop turned out to be more interesting than I had anticipated and I learned a lot from it.
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