OUR PROGRAMS

FEELING SAFE IN WORKPLACES

Feeling Safe in Workplaces is a professional development program and training workshop designed and run by Dr Marilyn Metta for organisations and workplaces to address issues of sexism, sexual harassment, gender equality and coercive control. The Australian Human Rights Commission’s 2020 report, Respect@Workfound 1 in 3 people experienced sexual harassment at work over a five-year period. Issues such as sexual harassment in the workplace creates unhealthy and harmful work cultures that undermine staff’s wellbeing and their capacity to work effectively and their ability to succeed at work. The workshops are tailored to the needs of individual organisations and are designed to give professionals the tools and strategies to effectively respond to and address these complex issues.

YOU CAN’T BE WHAT YOU CAN’T SEE

WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP MENTORING & COACHING

Marilyn has extensive experience in mentoring and coaching women and young people. As a woman from culturally diverse backgrounds, Marilyn is passionate about and committed to providing mentoring and creating leadership opportunities for women and young people from diverse backgrounds.

“In the last three years of knowing Marilyn, I have gained skills and experiences that have opened a multitude of doors. This can be expected of most good mentors. However, Marilyn has impacted me in far more meaningful ways. Being mentored by her is to be reminded of the reasons I do the work I do. She is an advocate, a thinker, a community-builder, a storyteller, a space-holder, an inspiration, a creative force, and someone who makes the world a better place each day. I am so grateful for having the opportunity to work with her.”

~ Indyana ~

Therapeutic workshops for women & children

Dr Marilyn Metta runs workshops for women and children who have experienced and lived with family violence. She uses creative storytelling, narrative-based and arts-based approaches to work women and children to re-imagine and re-create strength-based outcomes.

international presentations and workshops

Violence against women is one of the most widespread violations of human rights. It affects women of all ages, race, culture and wealth, but disproportionately affects women from indigenous and marginalised communities. Domestic and family violence, in all forms, is a violation of basic human rights.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT and TRAINING workshops

Internationally and nationally renowned for professional development and training programs, Dr Marilyn Metta addresses the a whole of pressing contemporary issues facing our organisations and community, including issues of diversity, inclusion, sexism, institutional racism, intimate abuse and gender inequality. Domestic violence is a gendered issue and it is directly a result of gender inequality and everyday sexism— and it is our collective responsibility to change that. Marilyn’s work is grounded in a human rights and social justice approach and draws from the lived experiences of victims and survivors who have experienced violence and abuse as well as the often-silenced stories of children who survived as victims and witnesses of acts of violence. These stories are vital to how we understand the complexities and the on-going impacts of abuse and violence on survivors, as well as their stories of survival and recovery. Our collective task is to challenge prevailing myths around domestic/family violence, and to develop more nuanced understandings of the issue to help inform the ways we can respond as a society to this national epidemic.

school presentations & workshops

Marilyn runs presentations and workshops in schools across Australia. She is a passionate advocate for all children and their right to feel and be safe in their own homes, in schools and in their community.