Understanding Patriarchy, Gender Roles, & Abuse in Indian Sub-continent

This workshop focuses on understanding patriarchy, gender roles, and abuse in Indian Sub-continental households. It will focus on how to eng

This workshop focuses on understanding patriarchy, gender roles, and abuse in Indian Sub-continental households. It will focus on how to engage effectively without creating stereotypes and engaging in a timely manner without hesitation.

The workshop will give you skills to consistently practice and support the population from this diaspora, to help them feel seen, heard and understood. The result? Stronger professional relationships, client centered unique experiences anchored in the concept of equity for clients and their enhanced wellbeing, and increased access to your services.

Selection of Topics Discussed During the Workshop:

The topics covered in the workshop focus on understanding the experiences of individuals from Indian Sub-continental households, how to support them in a resourceful manner without stereotyping them, through a trauma-informed and inclusive lens.

Participants will engage in key concepts, including:

• Identity
• Patriarchy

• Gender roles
• Abuse
• Honor when it becomes negative in nature
• Culture
• Cultural humility
• Inclusive practices in simple relatable language and engagement, using case studies, storytelling, and applicable tools.

What you will learn:

• Understand the concept of culture, its layers, and how it shifts and changes
• Explore the role of honor when it takes a negative form, rigid gender roles, their impact on the individual, relationships and families
• How to exit the role of bias and stereotypes to create an inclusive empowering practice
• Learn ways to engage in trauma informed inclusive service delivery

Date and Time:

Saturday, October 24th, 2026, 9 AM to 4:30 PM MST

Location:

Online via Zoom