Solidarity Circles | 8 or 5 week online group for people harmed by sexual abuse
Solidarity Circles are spaces for survivors to get support from others with lived experience and participate in a restorative practice.
Solidarity Circles inquires are always welcome.
call/SMS 0485 938 813
Restorative justice: Our other programs & practices
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Facilitated meetings bring together the person harmed, the person responsible, and sometimes community members. These gatherings allow everyone involved to discuss the harm, its impact, and ways to repair it through open, mutual understanding.
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In cases where direct meetings are challenging, structured and shuttle dialogues provide a private setting to safely share perspectives. This can be in person or remote, allowing individuals to connect in a comfortable environment.
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When direct interaction isn’t possible or preferred, a facilitator acts as an intermediary, relaying messages or written statements to foster communication safely and indirectly.
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Acknowledging harm through a formal apology or written agreement can be meaningful, offering validation to the person harmed while promoting accountability.
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Engaging the person responsible in acts of service, treatment or reparation fosters positive contributions, repairing harm in a broader sense and reinforcing responsibility to the community. This may involve participating in community accountability or engaging in treatment or support services.
Click here to register your interest in our Community Accountability programs and opportunities for people responsible or at risk of causing harm, their families and community members.
“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community.
Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth, of humanity, depends upon a feeling of connection with others.
The solidarity of a group provides the strongest protection against terror and despair, and the strongest antidote to traumatic experience.
Trauma isolates; the group re-creates a sense of belonging. Trauma shames and stigmatizes; the group bears witness and affirms.
Trauma degrades the victim; the group exalts her. Trauma dehumanizes the victim; the group restores her humanity...”
— Judith Lewis Herman
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror