Safety Together:
a free discussion series on DV/IPV
in the Dyke+/FLINTA community
Pre-registration required.
Email scholl.heather@gmail.com to RSVP.
Space is limited to 10 participants.
*Note this is not therapy and does not replace seeking professional help.
*Dyke+/FLINTA includes cis, trans, nonbinary and lesbian, queer, bi, and asexual community members.
We will come together for a series of 3 discussions on Domestic Violence and Intimate partner violence within the greater dyke+ community. We will be increasing our knowledge of domestic violence as it appears in dyke+ relationships, how we can support each other, increase our sense of safety within our communities, and how to navigate holding harm-doers accountable without slipping into carceral punishment. DV thrives in isolation and ideas of us against the world. Instead we seek to build a thriving community that knows how to show up for each other. Because ultimately… we keep us safe.
This group is for survivors, for folks who know and love survivors, for folks who may have been accused of harm, and anyone who is part of the dyke+ community.
SUNDAYS, MARCH 2, 16, 30, 4-6 PM
Session 1 (3/2) will lay the groundwork in understanding what is abuse and harm and how domestic violence and intimate partner violence can be different in our community.
Session 2 (3/16) dives into how to better support survivors in our communities, tips for hard conversations, and tangible ways to incorporate transformative justice into our relationships.
Session 3 (3/30) will be an opportunity to discuss long term healing and investment in ourselves and each other. This discussion will include an art activity (specifics TBD).
We strongly encourage you to attend all 3 sessions as each builds on the next, and we will be growing trust and safety with each other as we go. Keep in mind your own limits and tend to yourself how you need, and let us know if you need additional support from us.
Workshop will be led by
Heather Marie Scholl and Noel Hopson.
Heather Marie Scholl is an artist, designer, and educator. She uses embroidery, sculpture, mixed-media, and writing to create intimate works that evoke a disquieting vulnerability and unsettle ingrained ideas of race, trauma, and queerness. She co-founded and directed Confront White Womanhood, an anti-racism education initiative for white women (2016-2020). In 2021 she founded Daughters of Medusa, a clothing brand centering survivors and sustainable design. She was recently the Program Instructor for the inaugural program, Fashioning the Future Forward with Grant BLVD, a sewing job training course for women impacted by the criminal justice system. She has been awarded multiple artist fellowships, residencies, and grants. Scholl’s art work has been exhibited at Pen + Brush, Fuller Craft Museum, Rokeby Museum, The Morris Jumel Mansion, and DaVinci Art Alliance, among others. Her work has been written about in Slate, Cosmopolitan, i-D magazine, and BUST.
Noel Hopson, MS is the Clinical Director of Courdea (formerly known as Menergy). Courdea is one of the longest-running treatment programs for abusive partners in the country and follows state and national standards for treatment of people who abuse their intimate partners. The basic premise of intervention work with abusive partners is humble, credible self-examination and demonstrated willingness to be accountable for and willing to work on one's own behavior. Treatment can be a powerful alternative to criminal or civil consequences, if the person participates in a meaningful way.
Noel Hopson earned her Masters in Clinical and Counseling Psychology from Chestnut Hill College in 2018. In her role as the clinical director at Courdea, she provides supervision to the clinicians and oversees the efficacy of the intimate partner violence program for those who harm. Outside of her supervisory role she also conducts general therapy with individuals and couples, specializing in working with individuals from diverse and underserved communities. Although her background is in psychodynamic therapy, she incorporates a holistic approach to her therapeutic practice that emphasizes an awareness of the mind and body connection. As a therapist you can expect her to want to discuss your views, beliefs, and experiences surrounding the social and cultural aspects of our lives since we are all influenced by the context of the world that we live in.
Dyke+ ArtHaus is an intergenerational, community-driven home, and feminist space for Dyke artists of all persuasions, centering those over 40. The Haus is animal-free, has 5 steps to the front door, and is accessible by public transit. Masking strongly encouraged.
Pre-registration required.
Email scholl.heather@gmail.com to RSVP.
Space is limited to 10 participants.
