OBOM

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Our Bodies, Our Minds
California State University, East Bay
November 18, 2019
@artwithimpact
#OurBodiesOurMinds

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About Your Facilitator
Carly Weckstein
Theatre Director
Sex Educator
Intimacy Director
Community Facilitator
Consent Champion
Thespomancer
Feminist-in-Progress
IG: @thespomancer

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Brought to you by…
● Campus workshops
● Monthly film competition
● Short film production grants
● Global community
● Mental Health Services Act (2004)
● 1% tax on people earning >$1m/year
● 20% to prevention and early intervention

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Here’s the Plan
• Introductory conversation
• Monologues and activities
• Panel of speakers

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Heads Up
• Mental health is personal – YOU are the expert on
your own experience
• Public space – no confidentiality
• It’s okay to feel, and it’s okay to be uncomfortable
• Conversations and activities might be triggering
• Please take care of yourself however you need,
including asking for help
• If you don’t want your photo shared, please let us know

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Group Agreements - What do you
need to feel safe here?

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Sexual Violence Survivor
• Personal definition

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Sexual Violence Survivor
• Personal definition
• Has been through a potentially traumatic sexual/intimate
experience, or set of experiences

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Sexual Violence Survivor
• Personal definition
• Has been through a potentially traumatic sexual/intimate
experience, or set of experiences
• Experience was against their wishes
and/or crossed a boundary that they had set
and/or left them feeling violated, used, scared, unsafe or hurt

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Sexual Violence Survivor
• Personal definition
• Has been through a potentially traumatic sexual/intimate
experience, or set of experiences
• Experience was against their wishes
and/or crossed a boundary that they had set
and/or left them feeling violated, used, scared, unsafe or hurt
• Mental health and mental wellness - impacts of traumatic
event and ability to be full self

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What are ways that sexual violence might
impact survivors?

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Monologue
Stacy, 20, she/her

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In small groups…
• Read the monologue out loud
• Discuss initial reactions

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How does Stacy seem to feel?

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What thoughts might Stacy have?

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Activity

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Monologues
Alex, 22, he/him
Quiana, 20, she/her

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In small groups…
• Read both monologues out loud
• Discuss initial reactions

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Stacy
QuianaAlex
Feelings: Feelings:
Feelings:
Message: Message:

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Changing the Message
How can Alex change the message they’re
giving Stacy so it’s in line with their feelings,
and has a positive impact?

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Scene Exploration

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What can we do?

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Panel

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Meet the Panel
bit.ly/OBOM-CS2
Jizelle Rae Curameng
Cal State East Bay Student
Assistant Coordinator, Wellness, Student Health & Counseling Services
csueastbay.edu/healthed, BAWAR bawar.org
Colleen Arnold, Ph.D, LMFT
Lead Counselor, Student Health and Counseling Services
Cal State East Bay, csueastbay.edu/shcs/counseling
Terri Labeaux
Title IX Coordinator, Cal State East Bay, csueastbay.edu/titleix
Gagan Gill-Bhadare
BAWAR, bawar.org, Confidential Advocate, Cal State East Bay
csueastbay.edu/advocacy-services/confidential-campus-advocate

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