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Workshops on systemic coercive control
My workshops deepen understanding of coercive control and institutional systems abuse, equipping participants to recognise patterns, resist complicity, and respond with clarity and accountability.
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Family violence workshop · Coercive control
Mapping Social Entrapment
How predominant aggressors use system actors – and the system itself – to entrap victim-survivors and how systems cause harm.
Social Entrapment Theory names the harm. This workshop maps the pathways to disrupt it.
Systems abuse is a devastating family violence tactic – perpetrators manipulate responders and institutional systems to harm and entrap victim-survivors. This workshop moves from theory to the specific mechanics of how perpetrators use systems, and how systems let it happen.
19 May 2027
Bookings are managed securely via Humanitix. Free tickets are reserved for those who need them – request via email at hello@jacki.co.nz.
What you'll learn
- Why Social Entrapment Theory is insightful – and why it isn't, on its own, enough to explain how systems abuse operates
- The two pathways of institutional harm: Predominant Aggressor Manipulation (PAM) – how systems are manipulated into becoming complicit in the violence – and violence embedded in systems themselves, through the 4 P's: Policies, Procedures, Processes, and Practice
- How everyday practices can unintentionally contribute to entrapment
- A brief introduction to how children are harmed within Systemic Coercive Control
- How to respond ethically and effectively – resisting complicity and supporting survivor safety
- You'll leave with a set of practical handouts to keep and use directly in your work
Key learnings include
Understanding
Systems Abuse and the various tactics used within these abuse forms.
Informed
Reflects on models of understanding and offers a deconstruction of Social Entrapment Theory, moving beyond the framing of institutional harm as inadvertent or indifferent.
Applied
This section introduces the pathways of harmful responses.
Accountable
Takes a closer look at our ethical responsibilities as responders, to ourselves and to others.
Who should attend
Family violence practitioners, social workers, case managers, legal professionals, health professionals, police, and others working within or alongside institutional systems that respond to intimate partner violence.
Facilitator
Dr Jacki Rowles (PhD Psychology) has two decades of frontline family violence experience as a practitioner, supervisor and educator. Her doctoral research examines Institutional Systems Abuse in Systemic Coercive Control – the foundation of this workshop.
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