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Home: K to 12: Respect Protect Connect Program: Gender and violence issues

This is an extract from the Respect Protect Connect workshop manual, by Timothy O'Leary and Russell Pratt.

Successful outcomes from the work you are about to undertake depend on a person's ability to change. Specifically, change for young men in masculinity workshops involves three areas:

1. Changing what it means to be a man, so that behaving violently is not seen as a way of proving one's manly identity. Changing what it means to be an unemployed man, an abused man, a gay man, a disabled man, a sad man, so that status and competition no longer define the value of men.
2. Changing how to be a man in a relationship so that forms of abuse and control are no longer tolerated and instead are replaced with healthy ways of relating.
3. Changing relations between men and women in society so that women and men are equally respected and thus equally represented in the spheres of power and influence.

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