MATE Cultural Change Workshops
Following these exercises, participants are introduced to MATE’s bystander intervention framework, and provided with a suite of options...
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What is the MATE Program?
MATE is an education and intervention program teaching us all to be leaders in the prevention of violence and problematic behaviour.
The bystander approach focuses not on the perpetrator or victim of violence rather, what we can all do to prevent violence in our homes, workplaces, schools and communities.
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Workshops and training
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MATE Train the Trainer (for Organisations)
A MATE team of two facilitators will come to your workplace and train up to 30 of your...
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MATE Train the Trainer (for Individuals)
This will bring together people from different organisations, from different industries and locations across the country (and the...
Why MATE?
MATE is designed of best practice and has been developed over two decades of delivering training to diverse and varied populations.
MATE focuses on the prevention of violence against women, and additionally (depending on your specific needs), applies a bystander approach to the prevention of racism & discrimination, bullying & harassment, and creating positive workplaces – allowing us to contribute to communities free from all forms of violence.
Ultimately, the aim of the program is the raise awareness of the level of abusive behaviour in our culture as well as the subtler issues that support a harmful and abusive environment. Upon doing do, MATE highlights our capacity to step forward in difficult circumstances and recognise that the change starts with us.
MATE challenges attitudes and beliefs and motivates us to take action.
Lily Tomlin
Latest News
Where is the hope and optimism?
February 24, 2020
When exploring bystander behaviour, we mostly think about “interrupting” challenging behaviour, “intervening” or “intercepting” in violence or abuse – all of which is absolutely
Who is a bystander?
August 27, 2019
So, you’ve heard the term ‘bystander’ and you may have heard that they can play a role in the prevention of violence. But you’re
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