McMaster University- M4MH-SV - 12.1.22 - Presentation.pdf

1. @artwithimpact
#Movies4MentalHealth
CREATING SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES
FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE
HOSTED BY:
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2. Amanda Lederle, (they/them)
★ Recovering perfectionist
★ Active Listener, Visual Artist
(drawing,painting/ public art)
★ Love discussions around
creativing & mental health
★ I love films & TV shows!

3. ● Campus workshops
● Monthly short film competition (we
will watch some today!)
● Short film production grants
● Global community

4. ● Setting the scene together
● Watch, share and discuss films, take polls
connect our minds and bodies
● Panel of students and resources/Q&A
● Evaluation (and a chance to enter to
win $25!) & Mingle

5. ● Mental health is personal – YOU are the expert on
your own experience
● This is a public, shared space
● Some photos will be taken during the panel - please
let us know if you are not comfortable with that
● Please take care of yourself and others
however you need, including asking for help
#Movies4MentalHealth

6. #Movies4MentalHealth
In Just a Few Words...
What has self-care been
looking like for you these days?
● Walk outside and walk dog
● Go for a run
● Acknowledge self/checked in
● wine, hot tub, crafting (no particular order)
● Romance books, read by choice
● Cry
● Horticulture/planting
● Journaling
● Cotton candy
● Yoga
● piano

7. MENTAL HEALTH

8. Mental illness
Mental wellness
MENTAL HEALTH

9. What is Stigma?
A judgment or stereotype that is:
● Always negative
● Always untrue
● Can be internalized

10. Sexual Violence Survivor
#Movies4MentalHealth
• Personal definition
• Someone who has been through a sexual/intimate
experience(s) that was against their wishes and/or
crossed a set boundary and/or left them feeling
violated, unsafe, harmed or coerced
• Expansive definition, there’s a spectrum of SV, and it’s
ok to have feelings about it
• Focus on: mental health impacts of sexual violence
(not the event itself) and how community can support
survivors

11. Take a pause
How is this landing?

12. Have you ever seen sexual violence
depicted in the media?
#Movies4MentalHealth
Yes No Can’t Remember
17

13. Do you recall seeing depictions of the
violence itself?
#Movies4MentalHealth
Yes No Can’t Remember
15

14. Do you recall seeing depictions of
the survivor’s healing process after
the violence?
#Movies4MentalHealth
Yes No Can’t Remember
3 8 3

15. Reflecting on Our Answers to
These Questions:
#Movies4MentalHealth
What are your first thoughts?
● Memorable healing?
● Focus on the situation itself, not after
(healing/reaction)
● Media wants to show the worse (sensationalizing)
● Showing to raise awareness but just harmful
● What is healing? “Everything is ok” but not much after
● Why arent ppl getting mental health support and what
is the impact on viewers.
● Focus on perpetrator, how they are sexualized,
sensationalized (Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer)
● Victim is impressionable and impressionable
● Media shows extreme as a plot device
● Like true crime.

16. 1-800-656-4673
By Lauren Plattman
AWI Winner, October 2020
CONTENT HEADS UP
social isolation, mention of sexual assault

17. In small groups…
What did you think?
How did you feel?
#Movies4MentalHealth
SACHA Sexual Assault Centre
24 Hr Support Line 905-525-4162

18. What did you think?
How did you feel?
#Movies4MentalHealth
● Notifications were overwhelming, very real, genuine zoom
interaction with friends
● Right in the moment with character, “I was Mallory”
● Felt like real reaction
● realistic , productive healing journey
● Not having seen ‘what happened’
● Felt helpless as friend
● Let friends set the tone (when asking about relationships)
● Having to still “do life (school and life things) while dealing
with what happened
● Puzzle pieces/context, immersive quality of Mallory’s
experience
● Shows someone with support, may not always be realistic.
● Experience of racialized person and how they have to act vs.
white person and resources that are more available (limit to
resident status and culture appropriate resources)

19. #Movies4MentalHealth
How might stigma impact survivors of
sexual violence?
● Myths of who is perpetrator
● Worsen outcome
● Limiting depictions of sex, based on how someone
looks
● Gender based violence, myths of male presenting folks
● racial/depictions/intersectionality cultural differences

20. #Movies4MentalHealth
What makes it difficult to reach out
for help?
● Rape culture
● patriarchy/colonialism mentalities
● Cultural stigma/social
● Relationships,dependance - power dynamics
● Validation, ‘what counts as…’, minimize one’s own
experience “not that bad”

21. Breathing
Exercise

22. Self Reflection:
How was this breathing exercise
for you?
#Movies4MentalHealth

23. Touch Me Don’t Touch Me
By Lucie Rachel
AWI Winner, October 2018
CONTENT HEADS UP
discussion of sexual violence

24. #Movies4MentalHealth
Pair Share
What is one word to describe how
you’re feeling right now?

25. #Movies4MentalHealth
If the narrator of the film was your friend
and told you he was sexually assaulted,
what might you say to him?
● What has he done so far, feel in the moment what friend
needs
● Thank him for telling me
● Validating “I hear you” I support you, how can I support you
● Create trust
● What support can I be?
● What do you want your next steps to be?

26. Mindful Moment /
Movement Break

27. Little Elizabeth
By Elizabeth Ayiku
AWI Winner, February 2018
CONTENT HEADS UP
discussion of trauma and childhood sexual assault

28. #Movies4MentalHealth
What are your impressions?
● Powerful
● Related to the voice in Elizabeth’s head
● Find new meanings of past
● Resonated with character
● Rekindle old part of you

29. #Movies4MentalHealth
What are some ways we can support
ourselves and others?
● Talk to self like a close friend
● Positive self talk, affirmations
● Show love to oneself/others
● Hug self
● Recognize own capacity and who deserves your time
● Create healthy boundaries

30. Round of applause for our panel!
#Movies4MentalHealth

31. “Sanctuary Space” virtual discussions
exploring Mental Health through art and film
Live Interviews
with mental health advocates
Opportunities to share your mental health story
on our IG live and other platforms
bit.ly/awi-cc
Scan the QR code to learn more!

32. Erica Flaten (she/her)
PhD Candidate, Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
Wil Fujarczuk (he/him)
Manager, Sexual Violence Prevention Education, Sexual Violence
Prevention and Response Office, Equity and Inclusion Office
Maddie Brockbank (she/her)
School of Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, PhD
candidate

33. #Movies4MentalHealth
Ask a question or share a thought!

34. #Movies4MentalHealth
Thank you
&
Let us know what you think!
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35. #Movies4MentalHealth
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● Volunteer to share at a “My Mental Health Story” event
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