Trauma-Sensitive Interview Training Global Women’s Narratives Project

Objectives

  • Gather women's narratives to witness and archive women's stories and help build systems of support.

  • Provide a platform for experiential learning on peace and development with a focus on women's experiences.

  • Position university partnerships to promote gender equity, peace-building, and social cohesion via storytelling and narrative.

  • Use storytelling and narratives to address the gaps in services for women survivors of violence or trauma, challenges that are often intergenerational and long-term.

  • Archive/publish women's narratives when appropriate. (Volunteers only and with the final consent of UN Women Fellows Steering Committee and individuals telling their stories.)

  • Create opportunities that make students more marketable, more confident in their interviewing and editing skills.

  • Support South-to-South and South-to-North pedagogical experiences via other partner universities, institutes, and nonprofits.

  • Editorial training to join the Global Women’s Narratives Project interview and editorial teams.

  • Upon completion of training, delegates receive a certificate for trauma-sensitive interviewing, and can then interview individual women and edit the narratives with their GWNP editorial team.

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Conceptual Outline of Modules

MODULE 1.

Theories and ethics of narrative.

Intergenerational trauma and its impact | Roles of history, culture, religion | Complex vulnerabilities | Moral agency and narrative constructions including oppression and community | Context and situatedness

MODULE 2.

The unique role of women.

The unique role of women | Intergenerational trauma and its impact | Roles of history, culture, religion | Complex vulnerabilities | Moral agency and narrative constructions including oppression and community | Context

MODULE 3.

Trauma-informed GWNP interviewing techniques.

Stabilization and grounding techniques | Identifying and working with the "fight-flight response" | Listening skills (how to listen on multiple levels) | Witnessing—sitting with silence— | 'Generous' interview, crafting questions, techniques, and follow-up

MODULE 4.

Workshop narratives in small groups.

Lana Bridi, medical student and GWNP student leadership member.