Fostering Relationality when Implementing and Evaluating a Collective-Drama Approach to Preventing Violence Against Women

The authors, the Community Education Team, implemented an intervention in schools in southwestern Ontario to prevent violence against women. Using collective drama as the medium to effect social change, we engaged students in high school and grades 7 and 8 in critical dialogue about issues of violence in their lives. We discuss how we fostered the feminist principle of relationality in our relationships with the students, their educators, and ourselves as a team when we practiced collective drama and evaluated its impact. We illustrate our reflections on doing feminist work with selected portions of our evaluation findings and excerpts from a formal dialogue among the authors.