Video. Supporting helpers in their work with sexual violence survivors

The launch of these manuals was accompanied by an wontherfull discussion panel, featuring perspectives, initiatives, and highlighting urgent points about the topic.

Moderator: Nora Sveaass: is a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo (UiO).

Helen Christie: is a clinical psychologist, special adviser and former director at RBUP East and South – Regional Center for Children and Young People’s Mental Health.

Cliff A. Mustache: is a Norwegian playwright, theater director, and artistic director at the Nordic Black Theater in Oslo.

Maria Carolina Aissa de Figueredo: is a regional Adviser for Addressing Sexual Violence in the Americas, Central and South America.

Charu Lata Hogg: is the founder and Director of All Survivors Project, an international NGO headquartered in the U.K. and Liechtenstein which works to address conflict-related sexual violence against men and boys globally.

Kelly Fisher: is an advisor at Reform (Men’s Resource Center), he has a master’s degree in gender studies and wrote a master’s thesis on how gender affects Polish men’s migration process in Norway.

All manuals can be downloaded from the MHHRI website

There are three different manuals, which respectively address working with women, with boys and men, and with children who have experienced sexual violence.

The page numbers in each manual remain the same across languages. This allows survivors and helpers to work from copies in their preferred language and read the same content on the same pages. It also makes it easier to teach participants when participants and trainers work in more than one language. The manuals include a toolbox. Survivors can use it individually to regulate their own emotions through grounding exercises or in collaboration with a helper. Helpers can also use grounding exercises to take care of themselves as helpers.