PRESENTED BY: Mark Walters

In this one hour webinar, experienced domestic violence practitioner and QCDFVR Educator, Mark Walters, discusses the concept of coercive control, a powerful and oppressive form of domestic violence for many in our communities. Mark’s presentation covers:

• How framing their violence as an incident is a strategic intention of men who use violence and contrary to what women who experience their violence say.
• How other men can describe their patterns of control in a righteous or disciplinary sense and suggest that they are “managing” everything for the family’s benefit.
• How, regardless of how it is framed, when we work with men who use coercive violence, we need to understand and respond to violence as the women who experience it describe it.
• What the research is discovering about patterns of coercive control, how to think about it in a practical context for those who work one to one, either briefly or over time, with controlling men and leave you with a deeper understanding of the intention and planning required to control using coercion.