On Wednesday October 5th Luther students and faculty came to Valders room 206 to participate in an Escalation workshop to promote domestic violence awareness. Much in accordance with October, which is domestic violence awareness month, Luther College’s Counseling Services along with Student Life helped hosted the Escalation Workshop from the One Love Foundation. The Escalation workshop was a workshop for students in particular to gain tools in understanding differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships, to recognize warning signs of relationship violence and learn ways to safely intervene to help others in unhealthy relationships. In this effort to spread awareness, although this was an event that was initiated by the staff of Counseling Services and Student …show more content…
1. Relationship abuse is far more common than you might think
2. There are many things we can do to prevent relationship abuse such as looking out for the signs of controlling behavior in our own relationships and in our friends relationships.
3. Luther College cares about relationship abuse and we as a college have many resources available to help us to figure out what to do should we encounter it (Some of the resources being Counseling Services, Student life, Helping Services and student Organizations such as active minds and Norse Against Sexual assault)
4. Everyone deserves to feel safe, respected, and very happy in all of there relationships (Relationships can be great and positive, and many people succeed in having healthy relationships because they adhere to being respectful, mutual, trusting and supportive among other crucial aspects of healthy partners.
5. Be Real (It’s okay to be human, humans are not perfect, so when you encounter problems don’t ignore them. Actively listen, talk openly and it will encourage others to do the