NDA Informed

Topic(s):

Anti-Oppressive Practice

Domestic Violence

Professional Practice

Trauma

Violence

Webinar event date:

Dec 5, 2024 1:00 am EST

Webinar link

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Webinar Presenters:

Kristina Fifield MSW, RSW

Kristina is an intersectional feminist EMDR trauma therapist whose practice is grounded in a commitment to creating intentional space for healing, building on connectedness, trust, and safety. Relational values and ethics are at the heart of her practice rooted in intersectional, equity-centred, trauma-informed, justice-doing, and community approaches to healing. Kristina integrates gender-based violence justice-doing work in her practice and was involved as a participant in the Nova Scotia Public Inquiry of April 2020, mass casualty events and co-authored a report. She was appointed and now sits in the gender-based violence and advocacy seat for the Progress and Monitoring Committee. She is involved in working alongside survivors and the Can't Buy My Silence team to eliminate the misuse of NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) in sexual violence, harassment, racism, bullying, and other human rights violation cases and is involved on the advisory committee for the LEAF’s Accountability Project.

Description

Join Kristina Fifield with the Can't Buy My Silence campaign for an online webinar about the misuse of non-disclosure agreements. NDAs (or confidentiality agreements) were invented to protect intellectual property but have become the default solution for organizations, corporations and public entities to settle cases of sexual violence, racism, pregnancy discrimination, disability discrimination and other human rights violations.

The training will look at the abusive use of NDAs through an Intersectional GBV Trauma Lens and will discuss the ethical implications, trauma impacts and far-reaching consequences of NDAs when used to silence survivors/victims, conceal wrongdoing and perpetuate a culture of secrecy. The training will provide ideas for justice initiatives and ways to support survivors/victims in your work who are being asked to sign or who have signed an NDA.

Learning Objectives:

To provide up-to-date information to Social Workers about the abusive use of NDAs exploring the traumatic impacts of silencing, systemic injustices that give rise to NDAs, and the legislative changes happening in Canada and abroad around this issue.
To educate Social Workers about how NDAs are used to protect perpetrators of abuse from consequences and how this permits a cycle of violence to continue unchecked inside workplaces and institutions.
To share ways to get involved in the movement to ban the abusive use of NDAs, and provide tools and knowledge to help individuals in these situations to navigate the system and ensure they have opportunities to receive the care and support they need.
To ensure Social Workers have the knowledge and skills to effectively inform and counsel any survivor who may be asked to sign an NDA regarding their experiences of violence, racism, harassment or other human rights violation(s).
To support Social Workers in recognizing the intersectional nature of the issue of the misuse of NDAs, including the disproportionate impact on women, gender diverse and racialized individuals, and in responding accordingly.