JAC Patrissi
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Retreats:

  • Growing A New Heart: A Path to Healing From Destructive Relationships. A 2-day week-end retreat with Lundy Bancroft and JAC, for women who have left destructive relationships. To register, go to www.lundybancroft.com
  • The Healing Alliance For Transformation Retreat. For information click here. To register, go to www.lundybancroft.com

Victim Centered Series:

  • “Behind the Curtain of the Great Oz,” an Advanced Train the Trainers Institute
  • Victim-Centered: The development of victim/survivor of crime councils (as presented at the National Organization for Victim Assistance)
  • Victim-Centered: Restorative Justice Practice (as presented at the National Coalition for Juvenile Justice)
  • Victim-centered: Parallel Justice
  • “Victim-centered: the Victim Impact Panel” Speaker preparation and speaker design

Communication and Collaboration:

  • Exploring Barriers To Collaboration in Victim Services (as presented at the National Crime Victims Compensation Board National Conference)
  • Style and Method of Effective Supervision
  • Transforming Communication
  • Facilitation and Small Group decision-making
  • Growth in Groups: Embracing the Conflict

For Survivors:

  • Moving In, Moving Through: Exploring Movement in the healing journey
  • Laying Down The Stones: Speaking in Public about your experience
  • CoalWalkers: Becoming an activist and group member
  • DOC and other Acronyms

Domestic and sexual Violence:

  • “Building Healthy Relationships,” K-12 program
  • “The Question of Consent”
  • The Child Witness of Domestic Violence
  • Gulliver in Lilliput: Understanding Domestic Violence
  • Anti-sexual violence advocates and Sex Offender Management
  • HIV and anti-sexual violence advocates
  • Battering and Substance Abuse

Prosecution and Correctional based advocacy:

  • Co-Victims of Homicide
  • Cross-training: Community based advocates and Correctional workers
  • the structure and functioning of the VT DOC for grassroots and state-based advocates and victim/survivors.
  • Reparative Board trainings for Reparative Board volunteers, state and community based advocates and DOC personnel
  • DOC and Other Acronyms the structure and functioning of the VT DOC for grassroots and state-based advocates and victim/survivors.

"JAC's approach to working with a group has transformed my own style of training and speaking. She knows how to create experiences for participants so that their learning can occur on several different levels simultaneously, moving far beyond the lecture approach. I enjoy my work so much more now, and I can feel the difference in the responses of the people who come to my workshops. JAC's work is simply outstanding in its clarity, its energy, and its humane message. I advise any organization that is looking to change, grow, or overcome difficult challenges to bring her in."

Lundy Bancroft, nationally recognized author and trainer on domestic violence

JAC Patrissi is in the elite category of trainers. She receives stellar evaluations from other trainers, who are one of the hardest groups to train. Trainers are always watching content and presentation and JAC delivers on both. She is able to achieve what every trainer wants to achieve which is to entertain and educate at the same time.

Marie Brodie
North Carolina Coaltion Against Domestic Violence

JAC has worked on numerous Violence Against Women Act training projects under a wide range of grants including, Grants to Encourage Arrest, STOP, Legal Assitance to Victims, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention, Rural Domestic Violence, Elders and and Persons Disabilities, Center for Sex Offender Management. She has designed and delivered training nationally, statewide and community and systems-based to criminal justice, social service and advocates providing services to victims of crime.

JAC is herself an unforgettable trainer. Her designs can bring participants into an experience of learning that respectfully invites their experience and insight into struggle with the complexities at hand. Expert in her field, she is above all a facilitator of other’s learning in the tradition of popular education. Through dialogue and well sequenced learning tasks, participants are safely and respectfully engaged in a struggle of ideas and practice that produces measurable change.

But even better, JAC is gifted at bringing out the very best in other professional speakers and trainers. She has worked with numerous content experts from the advocacy, medical, mental health, legal and criminal justice professions. With great clarity, and concise facilitation, she has supported these professionals in creating training designs that are accountable to the learner. Employing Dr. Jane Vella’s principles of Dialogue Education, JAC can help the most seasoned trainer energize the presentation at hand with the most effective sequence, depth of focus and creative learning tasks.