Overcoming Resistance and Backlash
A Guide for Primary Prevention Practitioners
This resource brings together and adds to existing resources by providing tips on effective strategies and ways of overcoming resistance, and other more extreme forms of backlash.
Anyone working to prevent or respond to family and gender-based violence through social change will experience resistance. This resource brings together and adds to existing work in supporting practitioners to understand and respond to resistance and backlash.
Working together and sharing lessons is essential in doing this effectively, and maintaining practitioner wellbeing.
This resource is informed by a panel discussion at the Safe and Equal Members’ Forum on responding to backlash and resistance across the continuum, held in July, 2023. Access more resources and information about our resistance training here.
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Looking Back, Moving Forward reflects upon the prevention sector’s transition to online working during COVID-19, and supports practitioners to embed these learnings into future work.
This interactive panel discussion, recorded during the Safe and Equal Annual Member Forum 2023, explores how resistance is experienced across the continuum from prevention to response.