Season 5 Episode 9: Partnering vs. Practicing: The Hidden Bias in Professional Crisis Work
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About this episode
Join us from San Miguel, Azores, Ruth's paternal ancestral home, as we challenge conventional metrics and bias of professionalism and explore how institutional KPIs often reinforce barriers between professionals and survivors of domestic abuse. We examine what true partnership looks like when we step beyond traditional professional boundaries.
📊 Measuring What Matters:
• Evaluating professional success through survivor partnership outcomes
• Identifying KPIs that perpetuate professional bias
• Tracking meaningful engagement and Impact versus procedural compliance
🚫 Confronting Professional Bias:
• Recognizing when "professionalism" becomes a barrier to authentic connection
• Understanding how institutional metrics can reinforce harmful power dynamics
• Examining personal and systemic prejudices in professional practice
⚖️ Institutional Accountability:
• Creating measurements for authentic survivor engagement
• Developing metrics that value survivor voice and choice
• Establishing KPIs that promote genuine Partnering
💡 Shifting Professional Culture:
• Moving from expert-driven top-down practice to Partnering and end user impact-based practice
• Redefining success in professional-survivor relationships
• Building institutional, training and policy support for transformative practice
🎯 Action Steps for Change:
• Implementing survivor-centered performance metrics
• Developing reflection tools for professional bias
• Creating accountability systems for authentic partnership
Join our global network as we work to transform how professionals engage with survivors and measure success in domestic abuse-informed practice.
🔗 Access our professional development resources at https://safeandtogetherinstitute.com/
📱 Connect with our community of practice at https://academy.safeandtogetherinstitute.com/pages/home?preview=true
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