Supportive Space Reflection

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As a group we met with Isobel early on to discuss our ideas for our project after the play sessions the week prior. The concept for our project is to create a safe and supportive space for survivors of sexual assault. Isobel provided us with some very useful feedback and sugges- tions. She mentioned that there is a Sexual Assault Resource Centre for peer support at Concordia University and gave us the contact information of JD Drummond for more information. We plan on going to visit this resource centre to help us with our own project, to create our own safe space for survi- vors of trauma.
The idea for our project is to redesign and reinvent this existing space. We want to implement innovative tools and coping areas into a space, to make it safe. We hope to raise more
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The plan is do develope a website and application promoting this new safe space within Concordia, as well as list any questions or facts about the issue at hand.
We developed our concept further during this meeting by choosing to cre- ate a non gender specific space and to overlap male and female as well as trans- gendered roles, so that everyone feels welcomed. In todays society gender fluidity has become an important prog- ress in our culture.
We want to create an informative and supportive space by playing with the idea of public versus private space. The biggest issue we must further explore is how to create a space that is infor- mative and supportive, all while while not offending those who have experi- enced sexual violence or other forms of trauma.
We asked Isobel some questions based on her involvement with sexual assault survivors and she explained to us that the two sentences a survivor of sexual violence needs to hear is “I believe you” and “it is not your fault”. She also told us that ninety eight percent of perpe- trators are male, and that they perform sexual crimes as an expression of power. Many have no concept of con- sent, and think that they didn’t do anything