Developing Consent Culture

Our innovative workshops for among youth organizations, peer leaders in communities and in higher education, explore issues of peer pressure, boundary setting, gender normative expectations, effective communications to build self-awareness and capacities of youth to navigate both consent and rejection. With conversations not limited to law or violation, the exercises within our workshops and training seek to facilitate self-discovery and introspection.

Introduced as preventive intervention, as an offshoot of our Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (PoSH) compliance training, our conversations around consent follow unraveling case studies of transgressions.

To initiate conversations around these issues, PLD has produced a video-series speaking to the themes of ‘consent’ and ‘rejection’. These videos are an attempt to encourage critical, self-aware expressions of intimacy. Based on stories re-constructed from real cases, this series seeks to go beyond crime and punishment to explore and encourage transformatory approaches to popular attitudes and assumptions about sexuality.

For requests for workshops and training on deliberating over and building consent culture, write to us at trainings@pldindia.org .