Grooming Prevention
Both adults and children can become victims of grooming behaviours that can lead to manipulation, exploitation, abuse, and coercive control. Understanding how this behaviour occurs is crucial if we want to prevent it. This training aims to raise awareness of grooming behaviours using examples of behaviours regularly employed by those who seek to take advantage of others and gain from their misery.
Grooming Prevention is a CPD-certified workshop designed for parents and caregivers, described as ‘Excellent, and as ‘Contributing to the prevention’ by Na leading child protection charity. Originally called STAND against Grooming, created in 2015 with lived experience input from survivors, this three-hour workshop focuses on raising awareness about grooming behaviours to contribute to abuse prevention.
We welcome instructors and organisations interested in continuing professional development and enhancing their expertise in safeguarding practices. Delivered using easily relatable scenarios that have become so commonplace in our society, they are frequently overlooked.
Grooming Prevention is suitable for individuals, instructors, training providers, coaches, and organisations.
One of the biggest mistakes we make is assuming others think the same way we do
S.T.A.N.D
STOP THINK ACT NEVER DOUBT
Being groomed, coerced, or manipulated is a devastating traumatic experience that may the victim feeling embarrassed, ashamed, and guilt-ridden in the aftermath.
Being deceived by someone we know, love, trust, and/or respect can have an adverse and far-reaching effect on mental well-being confidence, and self-esteem.
Gaslighting a behaviour often used in – it includes twisting of truths, withholding of relevant information, and lying. Gaslighting can cause to question their reality leading to feelings of self-doubt, self-criticism, confusion, and anxiety.
The impact grooming often victims feeling complicit in the act. Helped along by the perpetrator’s gaslighting of the victim, with hindsight victims tend to believe they should seen the signs, known what was coming, and should have known better. This can to feelings of embarrassment, shame, guilt, and regret. The perpetrator is fully aware of this and will allow the victim to carry blame.
Understanding that we are not responsible the of others makes sense to most of us but understanding it and being able to accept it circumstances are two separate things entirely and being able to reason always enough prevent the emotional impact that follows.
“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.” Terry Pratchett
This workshop has been developed from lived experience insight.
Victims regularly blame despite being able to reason that they could not possibly have known and are not to blame for trusting someone who transpires to be unworthy of their trust.
To learn more about to respond to grooming such as gaslighting, coercive, and manipulative – request workshop information