Webinars

At Woman’s Trust, we aim to support survivors of domestic abuse through a variety of means. Our webinar series has been funded by the Coronavirus Mental Health Response Fund and City Bridge Trust and aims to be a valuable resource for women through this difficult time. We hope that you find these webinars helpful and ask you to share it with a friend who you think may benefit from it.

Bear in mind; however, that these videos may include distressing content for some viewers. If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed by the content, we suggest taking a break, going for a walk, or doing something else that relaxes you before coming back to the webinar.

Please note that this is our first attempt as an organization to record and publish webinars. While every effort was made to make sure this content is created up to the highest standards, please be patient with us while we fine tune our skills for future webinars.

Domestic Abuse and its Impacts

Sometimes it’s difficult to realise that you’re in a relationship where domestic abuse is happening. Domestic abuse is more than physical violence, and today we’ll be looking at what that means.

Domestic Abuse and its Impacts handout

Surviving Financial Abuse

This webinar covers the definitions of economic abuse and financial abuse, its prevalence, perpetrator tactics, signs to look out for and how survivors can be supported/support themselves.

This webinar was presented by Surviving Economic Abuse (https://survivingeconomicabuse.org/).

Surviving Financial Abuse – Handout

Assertiveness

As women, we are often encouraged to nurture and please at the expense of ignoring our own needs. It can be difficult to be assertive if we have had little modelling and minimal practice at it.

Women traditionally have not been taught that assertiveness is a good thing. Instead, they may have been encouraged to ignore what they want and need or hope that someone else will guess what they want and need.

Within this session women will gain an understanding of assertiveness.

Assertiveness Handout

Coping with Depression

Many women affected by domestic abuse suffer from feelings of depression and can sometimes feel their only escape is through suicide. We will explore how to be more compassionate and caring to ourselves when we might be living with depression or suicidal feelings, and how to find appropriate support.

Coping with Depression handout

Domestic Abuse and its Effects on Children

This 2-hour webinar aims to help attendees understand how children can be affected by domestic abuse. During the webinar we will be looking at not only how children may be affected in different ways but what signs to look out for and practical ways to help children express and manage their feeling safely. There will be links available for further support

Domestic Abuse and Children