”What Can I do?” Shaynna Blaze and Sally Nicholes on The film ”the Fort” & education about and disruption of family violence

 

• Film, the Fort. Using the arts as messaging. Education, prevention and disruption.
• Voice of Change.
• Film shows coercive control and different types of violence.
• What can I do to facilitate change?
• What is an active bystander?
• “How can I help? What can I do?”
• Calling out behaviours.
• Shame associated with family violence.
• Ripple effect once we call out behaviour.
• What is family violence?
• Family violence in covid including in cases where English is a second language
• Lack of empathy.
• Comments in the workplace.
• Muscle memory. Tools to call out the behaviour.
• Contact Voice of Change for access to the film “The Fort”.
• Workplaces, changes in sports, education, corporate
• Victim shaming.
• Private vs public sphere. If is all connected, different spheres of influence.
• Hearing a message multiple times over time.
• Statistics on deaths due to family violence.
• Film “India’s daughter” – “if someone finds a diamond on the road of course they are going to pick it up”.
• Think equal curriculum – teaching children empathy (3-4 year olds).
• The education we have on how to pick a partner “you have Disney, fairytales and porn” to guide you from childhood as to how to pick a healthy relationship.
• Respectful relationships, Consent education in school.
• Porn – strangulation in porn. Children have access to porn via devices. “No one wants to talk about porn and no one wants to talk about sexual relationships.” (That’s why we are keeping it in the podcast!). Sex and violence.
• Consent and influence of porn – difficulty as teenagers feeling they have to give the consent to strangulation.
• Having hard conversations.
• Bystander VS active bystander.
• Possible changes to the law re family violence.
• National definition of family violence.
• Consequences for patterns of behaviour.
• We live in a strange age of “Stone age emotions, medieval beliefs, god like technology many people can reach”.
• It’s the simple things.
• There are things we can do. We need the words.

Shaynna Blaze (www.shaynnablaze.com)

Sally Nicholes (www.nicholeslaw.com.au)

Voice of change www.voiceofchangeau.org

You can access the film “The Fort” via Voice of change

At the Pacifica Congress Conference live in Hobart 2023 www.pacificacongress.org

 

The Inside Family Law Podcast is hosted by Zoe Durand at Mediation Answers www.mediationanswers.com.au in partnership with Lawyer Magic and ArtWork.