Preventing Sexual Harassment: Foundations + Deeper Dive

Compliance + Foundational Anti-Sexual Harassment Training:

ReadySet’s anti-harassment training engages an intersectional lens to understand sexual and gender-based harassment in a global context and is available in formats that are compliant with legislation in both California and New York. This workshop addresses the nuances of sexual harassment and the ways in which it can manifest in the workplace, especially in grey areas around interpersonal communications and relationships. Participants will explore techniques to recognize harassing behaviors in the workplace, bystander intervention tactics, and best practices for building a respectful and consent-based culture.

Deeper Dive Anti-Harassment Training:

Our advanced workshop provides a deeper dive into physiological responses to trauma and explores tactics for developing a trauma-informed approach to respond to and report incidents of sexual and gender-based harassment and interpersonal boundary violations in the workplace. Participants will also explore boundary-setting issues that may arise in the context of social and behavioral work with third parties (e.g. cross-cultural studies, global research, and/or fieldwork settings). Finally, we will explore useful resources and tactics for trauma recovery to support those who have experienced sexual harassment.

Trainings typically take place virtually in two parts:

  • two 90-minute sessions for individual contributors, to be held on two days during the same week

  • two 90-minute sessions for managers, to be held on two days during the same week

We recommend this format for virtual training, as workshops longer than 90 minutes over video see declining participation and engagement rates. Interactivity requirements are met for California and NY compliance.

Learning Outcomes

  • Evaluate how gender and the gender binary are socially constructed, using an intersectional lens to ask how these interact with other social identities to impact experiences of sexual and gender-based harassment and discrimination including covering and policing

  • Consider how bias, including beauty bias, may compound experiences of harassment

  • Assess personal, organizational, and structural barriers to reporting incidents of sexual harassment

  • Identify risk factors (e.g. harassing behaviors, organizational power dynamics, and biases) that may increase the likelihood of sexual harassment in the workplace

  • Develop tools to prevent, interrupt, and respond to incidents of sexual harassment in the workplace

Content May Include

  • Legal definitions and types of sexual harassment to recognize how it may manifest in the workplace, including in experiences of emotional labor, deadnaming, beauty bias, pregnancy discrimination, office housework and the gendered division of labor

  • An exploration of dynamics of power and consent in interpersonal communications and relationships at work

  • A discussion of the role of sexual harassment within the context of the global #MeToo movement and in relation to contemporary popular cultural debates about gender identity

  • Unique factors that may contribute to sexual harassment in the remote workplace, including unsupervised communications on digital platforms

Methodology

Learning sessions are highly interactive and participatory to encourage active learning and engagement with the material. Workshops will likely include lecture presentation, large group discussion and scenario discussion facilitated through virtual tools.