As part of International Women’s Week, SVPRS has partnered with the Ban Righ Centre to host a lunchtime discussion featuring local speakers and experts exploring the often-unseen labour of care in academic life.

The Weight of Care: Beyond Balance in Academic Life opens a conversation about caregiving, boundaries, healthy relationships, and safety within the university community. Together, we’ll reflect on how care work is distributed, valued, and experienced and what it means to move beyond the idea of “balance” toward more sustainable and supportive approaches.

More details, including speakers, will be shared shortly.

Join Health Promotion and Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Services for a panel discussion focused on navigating relationships online. From dating and sex to friendships and boundaries, digital spaces can make relationships complicated.

This panel discussion will bring together experts to talk about what healthy relationships look like in a world of direct messages (DMs), dating apps, group chats and constant connection.

Location and Time to be confirmed closer to the event!

In this workshop, learn how to respond empathetically to disclosures of sexual violence. We’ll cover how to build approachability, receiving a disclosure, resources, and caring for yourself. 
 
*Note: This workshop is facilitated by a student facilitator and a SVPR representative.

Learning Outcomes

1. Recognize the importance of being approachable and open to receiving a disclosure from those who have experienced sexual violence.
2. Respond to a disclosure with an emphasis on listening, believing, and support.
3. Identify resources available on campus for those who have been impacted by sexual violence.

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In this workshop, learn how to respond empathetically to disclosures of sexual violence. We’ll cover how to build approachability, receiving a disclosure, resources, and caring for yourself. 
 
*Note: This workshop is facilitated by a student facilitator and a SVPR representative.

Learning Outcomes

1. Recognize the importance of being approachable and open to receiving a disclosure from those who have experienced sexual violence.
2. Respond to a disclosure with an emphasis on listening, believing, and support.
3. Identify resources available on campus for those who have been impacted by sexual violence.

Register Now

Please join us for a drop-in open house to mark the launch of Black Histories and Futures Month. This informal gathering offers an opportunity to connect, reflect, and celebrate the contributions and ongoing impact of Black communities at Queen’s and beyond.

Light refreshments will be available.

Registration Information

Hosted by: Office of the VPCEI and the Human Rights and Equity Office

This session is designed to give all employees an overview of how to effectively respond to student disclosures of sexual violence. Some policy considerations will be discussed.

Audience: Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above.

Length: 1.5 hours

Register at: https://www.queensu.ca/hreo/education/responding-student-disclosures

Positive Space is a sticker program, founded at Queen’s in 1999, based on a logo that originated at York University.

It is open to all members of the Queen’s community—students, staff, faculty—to anyone who wants to support the celebration of sexual and gender diversity at Queen’s, regardless of how they themselves identify in terms of gender identity or sexual orientation. The goal of the Positive Space Program is to make campus a safer and more affirming place for 2SLGBTQIA+ students, staff, faculty, and guests. 

To become a participant and post a sticker, you need to complete a self-paced course and attend an in-person or virtual session. You can arrange to have an in-person or virtual session presented especially for your group by completing the Training Request Form.

Audience: Staff/Faculty

Register at: https://www.queensu.ca/hreo/education/positive-space

In this session, participants will explore the concepts of identity, power, privilege and their relationship to oppression. Through the use of practical examples and strategies, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of anti-oppression.

Audience: Faculty, Staff Students.

Length: 2 hours

Register at: https://www.queensu.ca/hreo/education/anti-oppression

Positive Space is a sticker program, founded at Queen’s in 1999, based on a logo that originated at York University.

It is open to all members of the Queen’s community—students, staff, faculty—to anyone who wants to support the celebration of sexual and gender diversity at Queen’s, regardless of how they themselves identify in terms of gender identity or sexual orientation. The goal of the Positive Space Program is to make campus a safer and more affirming place for 2SLGBTQIA+ students, staff, faculty, and guests. 

To become a participant and post a sticker, you need to complete a self-paced course and attend an in-person or virtual session. You can arrange to have an in-person or virtual session presented especially for your group by completing the Training Request Form.

Audience: Students

Register at: https://www.queensu.ca/hreo/education/positive-space