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Helping you champion the prevention of workplace sexual harassment

You care about the prevention of workplace sexual harassment.

Perhaps you've been advocating for this work for years. Perhaps you've become the person colleagues turn to when difficult situations arise. Or perhaps you're looking for practical ways to play a more active role in creating safer workplaces.

Whatever brought you here, you want to make a meaningful difference.

You want to understand what effective prevention looks like. You want to feel confident having important conversations, know you're responding well when challenges arise, and have practical ways to encourage others to engage with this work. Most of all, you want to know that your efforts are contributing to real, lasting change.

The Safe Workplace Champion Programme has been created for people like you.

Whether you want to help keep prevention on the agenda, become someone colleagues know they can approach for an informed first conversation, join or lead a preventing sexual harassment working group, influence change within your profession or industry, or simply deepen your understanding of this topic, this programme will give you the knowledge, practical tools and support to make your contribution count.

Whatever your role, and whatever type of organisation you work in, Safe Workplace Champions share one thing in common: they care deeply about creating safer workplaces and are willing to give this important issue extra attention, energy and commitment.

Know that you have everything you need to make a difference

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Learn alongside people who want to make a difference

You'll become part of a cohort of people who share your commitment to this work.

Learn alongside others who understand both the opportunities and the challenges of creating meaningful change. You'll gain expert insight, hear different perspectives, explore real situations, share ideas and develop practical approaches that you can adapt to your own organisation, profession or industry.

Throughout the programme you'll:

Get a solid grounding in the topic area so that you can talk about it with confidence.
Learn how to hear disclosures in ways that are supportive, boundaried and genuinely helpful.
Explore the risks and prevention opportunities that are unique to your own sector or industry.
Learn what effective organisational practice looks like and how to advocate constructively for continual improvement.
Build your confidence as a visible champion for creating safer workplaces.
Develop a practical plan for putting your learning into action.

By the end of the programme you'll have shaped the kind of Safe Workplace Champion you want to be and developed a realistic plan for turning that into meaningful impact.

A valuable investment for any organisation

Every organisation benefits from having people who are equipped to champion safer workplace cultures.

Safe Workplace Champions bring valuable capabilities back to their organisation:

A visible point of contact - someone colleagues know they can approach for an informed first conversation.
A role-model for prevention - someone who helps keep prevention and respectful workplace culture visible through everyday conversations and practical initiatives.
An informed advocate - someone who understands what good practice looks like and can contribute thoughtfully to continual improvement.

Alongside these capabilities, every Champion is invited to develop a practical action plan that translates learning into meaningful action, helping organisations strengthen prevention in ways that are realistic, sustainable and relevant to their own context.

Designed to support the people doing the work

Championing safer workplaces is important, but it can also be challenging, emotionally demanding and it can feel like lonely work.

Organisations often rely on a few committed individuals to drive prevention, encourage conversations and help create positive change. Sustaining that commitment means investing in the people who carry it. This programme provides the time and space to deepen your knowledge, build your confidence, reflect on your own boundaries and wellbeing, and learn alongside a community of people who are on a similar journey in their workplace.

Whether this work is already part of your professional role or something you've chosen to champion because it matters to you, you'll leave feeling more confident, better supported, and equipped with the knowledge, network and practical tools to make an even greater contribution.

Keep doing the work - but make sure it works for you too

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The content

Our Champions Programme takes place online over a 7 week period. During that time you'll attend:

Week 1

Welcome session: Connections and Intentions
Seminar 1. Understanding workplace sexual harassment. Prevalence, risk, organisational culture and the psychology behind workplace sexual harassment.
Drop in Q&A

Week 2

Seminar 2. Working with change: understanding influence. Myths and misconceptions, the legal landscape, advocacy skills and working constructively with resistance.
Group reflection session: Leadership
Drop in Q&A

Week 3

Seminar 3. Working with change: putting ideas into practice. Finding allies, mapping your organisation, building influence and developing your personal action plan.
Drop in Q&A

Week 4

No sessions (A week to rest or catch up)

Week 5

Seminar 4. Hearing disclosures with confidence. The impact of sexual harassment and responding to disclosures with confidence, compassion and trauma-informed practice.
Drop in Q&A

Week 6

Seminar 5. Looking after yourself while doing this work. Wellbeing, professional boundaries, and sustaining yourself in this work.
Group reflection session: Boundaries
Drop in Q&A

Week 7

Seminar 6. Role modelling change. Giving feedback, responding to inappropriate behaviour and modelling safer workplace culture through everyday leadership.
Group reflection session: Conflict
Closing session: Reflections and Action Plans

Drop in Q&A sessions are 60 minutes. All other sessions are 90 minutes. The time commitment for this programme is approximately 4 - 6 hours a week for 6 weeks.

CPD Accreditation: To gain your CPD accreditation you must attend/catch up with all of the sessions in bold and contribute to the closing session.

At the end of the programme will have access to all of the recordings for 12 months and will be invited to join our Champions Alumni group to keep the connections and conversations going.