Facilitating Groups with Men Who Batter
Published by: Melissa Scaia
Often when the police are called to respond to domestic violence, men who batter are arrested, convicted, and then likely sent to a batterers intervention program. What community support, programming, facilitation, and skills are needed to address men’s violence against women in a batterers intervention program? When men who batter are court ordered to group process, it must include an analysis of key elements of abusive behavior and then a process to identify alternative beliefs and behaviors.
The group process needs to be reflective and encourage critical thinking. This webinar will address the following:
- Who should facilitate BIPs and who maybe should not
- Co-facilitation
- Dialogue without judgment
- Exposing contradictions
- Facilitate men ‘reading their world’
- Looking at beliefs, “skill” building, and use of role plays
- How to facilitate accountability with men who batter
- Collusion