Centre for Enquiry Into Health and Allied Themes
Proceedings of the “2nd National Course on Violence against Women: Feminist Counseling”, 25th – 29th November 2011, Mumbai
Course Coordinators: Sangeeta Rege (CEHAT), U. Vindhya (Tata Institute of Social Sciences).
CEHAT in collaboration with Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) had organized “2nd National Course on Violence against Women: Feminist Counseling”. This 2nd course was purely based on the overwhelming responses of the first course organised in the month of May 2011. This course was also a 5- days residential course and held in Mumbai from 25th to 29th November 2011. The course was aimed at building a critical feminist perspective on the issue of Violence against women and enhancing the skills of the participants in responding to the survivors of the violence.
From a large number of applications (N=51), 18 were selected for the course and these participants were from Mumbai and other parts of India i.e New Delhi, West Bengal, Gujrat, Bangalore, Vishakhapattnam etc. Participants included lecturers from Nursing psychiatric, psychologists, research scholars, advocate and community workers who are dealing with the issues of Domestic violence.
Core Faculty
U. Vindhya, Professor of Psychology at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
Padma Deosthali, Coordinator of CEHAT. Working on women’s issues since more than one decade.
Aruna Burte, MA in English, Founder member of Women's Centre, Mumbai and Forum Against Oppression of Women.
Manisha Gupte, Masters in microbiology, an activist for a women’s movement since mid seventies, a leading spokesperson at national level Women's rights and health issues. A founder trustee of MASUM.
Renu Khanna, MBA, is a Feminist Health Activist and Founder Trustee of SAHAJ - Society for Health Alternatives.
Dr. Rajni Jagtap, MBBS. MHA, CMO at Rajawadi Hospital, Mumbai and actively participated in women’s related activity and involved in capacity building of Health care providers at her own hospital.
Prabha Nagaraja, a director of Talking about reproductive and Sexual Health Issues (TARSHI).
The pedagogy
The pedagogy of the course was participatory with a combination of lectures, group work, group discussions, case studies, role plays, individual exercises and sharing and a study visit to Dilaasa.
At the culmination of the course, participants shared that this course was a great use for their self reflection and self awareness. They were feeling more equipped with techniques in counseling to a women in crisis situation and also understanding legal aspects related to the issue of violence against women. Similar type of course should be organised with health care providers and other stake holders such as lawyers and police and it should cover heterogeneous group without any barrier of language are few of the suggestions from the participants.
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