AMN Foundational Training Community Report 2020

Building on AMN’s foundational experience in the field and working with community partners, AMN developed a Foundational Training to advance our work with men. The training was in direct response to requests by Network members and community partners for capacity development and support in facilitating men’s groups and community dialogues on topics such as: domestic and sexual violence prevention, men’s wellbeing, healthy masculinities, gender-equity; migration and racism, healing and anticolonial perspectives. The training offered by AMN builds knowledge and capacity in the following areas:

• AMN values, framework & mandate

• Gender-equity, human rights, anticolonialism and antiracism

• Indigenist philosophy around masculinity, personality, and being

• First Nations teachings, cultural knowledge and relevant history

• Violence prevention feminist participatory action research

• Sexual violence and prevention

• Introduction to working with men’s groups, with empathy and safety