Education That Changes How People Respond.
Compass Forward provides survivor-centered domestic violence training, workshops, and educational presentations for workplaces, organizations, community groups, leadership teams, and other audiences seeking a deeper and more practical understanding of abuse.
Knowing domestic violence exists is not the same as knowing how to respond.
Effective education helps people understand what abuse can look like, why survivors may stay or return, how coercive control affects decision-making, why common advice can create additional harm, and what supportive responses actually look like.
Compass Forward training is designed to move participants beyond stereotypes and toward practical understanding they can use in real situations.
Education can be built around the people in the room.
Sessions can be adapted based on audience, setting, available time, and the specific learning goals of the organization or group.
Workplace Training
Domestic violence education designed for employees, managers, supervisors, HR professionals, people leaders, executives, and workplace safety or wellness teams.
Community Workshops
Survivor-centered education for community groups, nonprofits, support networks, professional groups, and organizations seeking practical understanding of domestic violence.
Leadership Education
Focused sessions for decision-makers who need to understand how domestic violence can affect employees, workplace culture, safety, leadership response, and organizational systems.
Customized Presentations
Tailored workshops, presentations, panels, and educational sessions developed around a specific audience, event, campaign, workplace, or community need.
Conversations people often need but rarely receive enough education about.
Training topics can stand alone or be combined into a broader educational program depending on the audience and desired outcomes.
Topics may include:
- Domestic Violence 101
- Understanding coercive control
- Why survivors may stay, leave, and return
- Stop Asking Why She Didn’t Leave
- Supporting someone experiencing abuse
- Responding to workplace disclosures
- Domestic violence and the workplace
- What happens after a survivor leaves
- Life after survival and rebuilding autonomy
- Family and friend support without taking control
One training does not fit every audience.
The responsibilities of an employee, manager, HR professional, executive, or community member are different. Training should reflect that.
Employees
Awareness, recognition, resources, supportive responses, and understanding domestic violence without requiring employees to become advocates or counselors.
Managers & Supervisors
Recognizing concerns, receiving disclosures, responding appropriately, maintaining boundaries, and knowing when and where to refer.
HR & People Teams
Survivor-centered workplace response, internal pathways, organizational consistency, resource navigation, and practical support.
Leadership
Understanding domestic violence as an organizational, workforce, safety, culture, and leadership issue.
Training should make sense in the environment where it will be used.
A refinery, corporate office, nonprofit, community group, healthcare setting, leadership retreat, or public awareness event may each require a different approach.
Compass Forward can work with organizations to identify the audience, learning goals, available time, workplace realities, and appropriate level of content before developing or recommending a session.
Training can meet people where they already are.
Virtual
Live online workshops and educational sessions for teams, organizations, professional groups, and geographically distributed audiences.
In Person
On-site or event-based education for workplaces, organizations, community groups, leadership teams, and awareness programs.
Customized Series
Multi-session education for organizations seeking deeper learning across different employee or leadership groups.
Survivor-centered does not mean survivor-only.
Strong domestic violence education helps survivors feel seen while also teaching coworkers, families, leaders, professionals, and communities how to respond more effectively.
The goal is not to turn participants into domestic violence experts. The goal is to help them recognize what they are seeing, understand what may be happening beneath the surface, respond without judgment, and know what appropriate support can look like.
Let’s build the right training for the people you need to reach.
Contact Compass Forward to discuss workplace training, community workshops, leadership education, speaking engagements, customized sessions, or domestic violence awareness programming.