GMCA Hate Crime Week - Training with Odd Arts & Salford City Council

As part of GMCA Hate Crime Week, Salford City Council and Odd Arts are providing free training for VCSE organisations. The training will help attendees understand radicalisation, learn new communication techniques, and practise using these skills in the community to increase cohesion and reduce risk.

The training includes:

• Delivery of the Odd Arts play Here & Now exploring hateful extremism, and the process of radicalisation (https://oddarts.co.uk/here-and-now-radicalisation/)
• Hearing about the foundational theories underpinning creative work - restorative approaches, NVC / nonviolent communication and Trauma-informed practise
• Interaction in accompanying discussions and exploring opportunities to prevent risk and offer support - this covers both Far Right Wing Extremism and also International Extremism
• Space to explore current barriers communities face relating to cohesion, tensions, vulnerabilities and causes that can lead to people becoming radicalised  

The discussions will be well-managed, creative, interactive, and nonjudgmental. They will use an exploratory and open space (including restorative communications of support and boundaries) to allow people to share grievances, feel heard, build trust, and explore possibilities.

The training will use foundational models to explore how to hold challenging conversations. It will investigate real-life challenges and scenarios to explore how to discuss complex and contentious issues relating to conflict, extremism, community tensions, anti-semitism, Islamophobia etc. It will also avoid telling participants 'what to say' but provide them with skills that enable respectful, authentic, brave, accountable, non-judgemental and trauma-informed conversations, as well as practising authentic listening, and emotional literacy. Attendees will not be asked to roleplay.

If you’d like to attend, please register your place below.

For more information please email denee.cassidy@salford.gov.uk