Not The Only One is a unique initiative for students who have experienced sexual violence at any point in their life, including child sexual abuse. Our work is survivor-led and co-developed with students at a range of universities.
Throughout this academic year, we are offering workshops and survivor community spaces in collaboration with Student Advice and Wellbeing. Our events are open to SOAS students of any gender who have experienced any form of sexual violence, including sexual abuse in childhood. They will be run by a team of experienced facilitators and survivor-activists.
Both from our own experience as well as in our work with survivors, we have become aware of how important and helpful it can be for us to have spaces where we can ‘be’ as survivors. In our workshops, we explore different themes and issues that affect survivors at university and provide skills and support to respond. Our survivor community spaces are a place for SOAS students who have experienced sexual violence to come together for mutual support, to share experiences or just to have a chat.
You can sign up to as many events as you like. You can also come back to this form and sign up for more events throughout the year.
You can find more information about each event at the bottom of this page.
You will receive the room number (for in person events) or Zoom link (for online events) on the day of the event so make sure to check your emails!
We will only use the information you provide here to communicate with you about the events we run at SOAS this academic year and we will delete the information from this form at the end of the academic year.
Our events for term 1 are:
- Navigating friendships and relationships (online)
- Study skills (in person)
- Dealing with multiple oppressions (online)
- Trauma-informed movement and relaxation (in person)
Our events for term 2 are (signup will be available here over the winter break):
- 4 survivor community spaces: 2 online and 2 in person
In term 3, we will have one survivor community space.