Safer Talk Webinars

Safer Talk is a series of webinars devoted to preventive and restorative responses to sexual and social violence. Hosted by David Prescott, the webinars feature some of the leading experts in a variety of related fields, discussing in an informal setting new ideas and methods of addressing  unique professional challenges.

Below you will find our upcoming live events as well as the listing of the recordings of all the previous live webinars.

Anyone registering for a live webinar will receive a link to the recording of that webinar
(usually available online within a week of the live event).

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Upcoming Live Webinars

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Recorded Webinars

Springtime Self-Care! Strategies and Discussion with Colleagues

Counseling Clients with Neopaganistic Worldviews 

Working with Christian Beliefs in Treatment

Building Prevention Teams to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse

Supporting Survivors Through Restorative Justice

The Important Role of Social Workers in Preventing Sexual Abuse: A Panel Discussion for Social Work Month

Addressing Animal Abuse and Its Relationship to Interpersonal Violence

School Shootings: What We Know About Attacks on Campuses

Applying a Neuroscience and Psychosocial Development Framework to Testifying in Juvenile Cases

An Existential Understanding of Male Sexuality and Men’s Problematic Sexual Behaviors

Intimate Partner Violence: Identifying and Monitoring Coercive Controlling Behaviors

Being a Pro: Promoting Prosocial Development in Youths

What Works in Treating Substance Use Disorders

Sexual Wellbeing: Why It Matters for Individuals Who Cause Harm

Achieve Better Clinical Results with Deliberate Practice

Traumatic Brain Injuries in Correctional Settings

Using Motivational Interviewing Skills with Parents and Families

What We Can Do About Abuse in the Psychedelic Therapy Community 

Improving Your Group Therapy Skills 

Addressing Microaggressions in Clinical Practice and the Workplace

What We Know and What We Need to Know About Incels

How to Work with Survivors of Sexual Abuse: A Conversation with Donna Jenson

The Good Lives Model: Your Questions Answered

From “Perv” to “Suicidal”: A Conversation with Jesse Bering

Sexual Behaviors in the Current Era: A Conversation with Debby Herbenick 

The Influence of Attachment on Adolescents Who Have Sexually Abused: A Conversation with Michael Miner

Tackle Your Challenge – Uncovering Solutions for Making Significant Life Changes

WhatsOK? A New Resource for Preventing Sexual Harm by Young People

Using Multiple Actuarial Instruments to Assess Sexual Recidivism Risk

How Therapeutic Humor Can Work for You

What We Need To Know About Sexual Fantasies and Sexual Offending

Strategies for Overcoming Gender Differences When Working with Male Clients

Why So Many Young People Commit Crimes in Groups

Stopping Sexual Abuse Before It Happens: A Conversation with Christine Friestad and Ingeborg Jenssen Sandbukt

Empathy, Motivation, and Love in Action: A Conversation with Stephen Andrew

The Role Of Protective Factors In Best Practices For Preventing Sexual Re-Offense: A Conversation With Sharon Kelley, David Thornton, and Gwenda Willis

Straight Talk About Diagnosis, Its Limitations, and Alternatives: A Conversation with Lucy Johnstone

How Do Well-Intentioned Implementations of Treatment Programs Succeed or Fail?

“What Did I Miss?” When a Client Re-Offends

Ancient Ways and Modern Times: A Conversation with Geral Blanchard

Sex, Tech, and Teens: A Conversation with Alex Rodrigues

The Criminal Justice System’s Need for Better Understanding of Clients with Autism Spectrum Disorders

How Can We Reform the Criminal Justice System?

Psychotherapy and Sexuality – Where Do Addiction, Pornography, and Moral Incongruity Begin and End? A Conversation with David Ley

The Evolution of Treating Adolescents Who Have Sexually Abused: A Conversation with Timothy Kahn, M.S.W.

Campus Dilemma: Unique Challenges of Addressing Problematic Sexual Behavior in Students

A Look Inside Adolescent Drug Courts: Motivation and Beyond

The Compassion Prison Project: A Conversation with Fritzi Horstman

Manhood, Masculinity, and Treatment for Sexual Offending

Webinar – Raising Resilient Kids: A Conversation with Aliza Pressman

“Whatever Happened to the Smoke Break?” Strategies for Secondary Trauma

The Gifts of Compassion: Understanding and Overcoming Suffering

Webinar – The Right Relationship in Corrections Can Reduce Risk: Here’s How

Webinar – The Feminist War on Crime

Webinar – What You Should Know About Ending Violence in the Deaf Community

Webinar: What Are the Skills That Help People Change? A Conversation with Theresa Moyers

Why We Must Embrace Therapeutic Jurisprudence in the Criminal Justice System

Acceptance, Understanding, Compassion, and Personal Responsibility – A Path to Healing: A Conversation with Stephan Jones

On Being Female: How We Can Use Our Gender to Help Our Clients and Take Care of Ourselves at the Same Time

Attachment, Development, and How We Become the Persons We Are: A Conversation with Alan Sroufe

Through the Glass: One Woman’s Pursuit of Justice, Healing, and Forgiveness

Good Lives, Self-Regulation, and Explanatory Depth: A Conversation with Tony Ward

The Lucifer Effect – How Good People Become Bad: Implications in the Mental Health/Forensic Setting

Native American Youth and Cultural Adversity: A Conversation with Tatewin Means and Christopher Lobanov-Rostovsky

The Ethics of Labeling: A conversation with Gwenda Willis, PhD, PGDipClinPsyc

Surviving Sexual Violence in the Current Era

Ending Racialized Violence: A Webinar Conversation with Dr. Apryl Alexander

Webinar: Trauma-Sensitive Yoga and Embodied Therapy

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Using Workbooks In Work with Young People in Treatment Webinar

Solution-Focused Strategies: Police Work, Suicide Prevention, and Beyond – Webinar

Trauma-Informed Resilience Skills in the COVID Crisis – Webinar

An Evolution of Practice: From the Dodo Bird to Deliberate Practice – A Conversation with Scott Miller – Webinar

Preventing Child Sexual Abuse in the COVID Era – Webinar

Reintegrating People Who Have Sexually Abused Into the Community – Webinar

Considering Culture in the Time of COVID-19

Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era: Reports from the Front Lines – Webinar

A Conversation About How Helping Professionals are Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic: Webinar