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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Violence Against Women. 2019 Feb 21;26(1):66–88. doi: 10.1177/1077801219828533

Table 6.

Final Building Blocks of Relationship Tidbits

Building Blocks Title Main Activities
1 Create a safe and welcoming space Participants identify ideas to create a safe space during the training (i.e., confidentiality, no judgment)
2 Thinking about our values Participants identify values important to them using a worksheet & then discuss why it is important to think about our values
3 Decision-making from our own value system Participants think about their values and how they uphold them or what happens when people do not act in accordance with their values
4 Developing relationship skills Four quadrants exercise – participants use a worksheet to identify Essential, Tolerable, Deal-Breaker, and Bonus characteristics in a relationship
5 Communication Telephone game to illustrate the need for open and honest communication
6 Gender equality Read a handout on gender equality and share a story in groups about how they have personally noticed their gender impact their life
7 Consent Consent as Tea video, case studies where students determine whether or not consent has been garnered, practice giving and receiving consent
8 Making choices about sex Discussion about the health consequences of being in a sexual relationship (i.e., pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections)
9 Sexual harassment Review the definitions of sexual harassment (terminology used at the Ghanaian university) as well as coercion. Students were asked to create a case to discuss where sexual harassment has occurred.
10 Campus resources Discuss resources available on campus