Culture of Respect Webinar: Reclaiming Authenticity, Professionalism, and Community While Working in the Sexual Violence Field
Includes a Live Web Event on 02/20/2025 at 3:00 PM (EST)
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- Non-member - $179
- Member - $79
Alisa Zipursky
Author and Speaker
Alisa Zipursky (she/her) is a writer, speaker, and childhood sexual abuse survivor advocate. She is the author of the groundbreaking Healing Honestly: The Messy and Magnificent Path to Overcoming Self-Blame and Self-Shame from Berrett-Koehler Publishers, a survivor-to-survivor book to support people healing from childhood sexual abuse. Healing Honestly has been praised for it's candid, funny, and compassionate approach to healing from sexual violence.
Alisa is the founder of HealingHonestly.com where she writes about her experiences as a millennial woman trying to live a full life while healing from her abuse with a community of over 500,000 others survivors from around the world. Along with offering coaching programs, Alisa travels the country speaking at college campuses and conferences to support survivors and the people who love them.
Alisa has given keynotes at universities such as Johns Hopkins University, The University of Michigan, The University of Pittsburgh, George Washington University, and many more. Her writing has appeared in Teen Vogue, Allure, and Hey Alma. Some of her previous workshops include the National Sexual Assault Conference (NSAC, 2023) and the National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence (NCHDV, 2021). Alisa was the opening keynote speaker at the 2024 Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence and will be a keynote speaker at the 2024Nevada Coalition to End Sexual Violence
When it comes to working in the sexual violence field, we are inundated with conflicting messages about how we should act in order to make political change, build community, and support survivors. These conflicting pressures contribute feelings of burnout and generally make doing this work so damn hard. During this workshop, we will explore how the myth of the perfect victim makes us feel like there is a “right way” to show up in this work, how we navigate pressures to perform our trauma in order to build survivor community, and how we can support one another finding our own paths forward. Alisa will draw upon her own experiences being a public survivor and writing Healing Honestly to illustrate how to celebrate each of us finding our own way to show up in this field. Together, we will reframe what authenticity can mean to each of us as we find ways to do our work as sustainably and effectively as possible.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify and contextualize the pressures we experience around professionalism and trauma
- Analyze how the myth of the perfect victim impacts people working in the sexual trauma field
- Gain a creative and expansive understanding of what authenticity in our work can mean to each of us
- Cultivate community and shared wisdom amongst fellow professionals who are navigating how to show up in an effective and sustainable way.
Continuing Education Credits
Participants who complete the course will be eligible for Continuing Education (CE) credits in the Core Student Affairs Educator Certification (CSAEd™) continuing education.
NASPA has been approved by the Higher Education Consortium for Student Affairs Certification to provide CE credit for Certified Student Affairs Educators (CSAEd). NASPA is solely responsible for all aspects of this program.
Guidelines for earning CE credit
1 CE is awarded for attending this live session only for ONE category of Continuing Education. You cannot receive more than 1 credit hour total.
No partial credit will be rewarded.
To receive CSAEd credit, attendees must complete the Feedback Survey in the online event offering the credit. Once the survey is completed, your Certificate will be available in the event modules. The Credit Certificate, which will show the event, date and credit earnings, is available for download and/or print from the event or your Dashboard on the Online Learning Community.
