Power and Control Wheel Sample Clauses

Power and Control Wheel. What's Inside the

Power and Control Wheel. The Power and Control Wheel (PCW), developed by the Duluth Model, an IPV advocacy and intervention organization out of Duluth, MN, centers conversations around IPV within both the public and private spheres, and is an powerful tool to help people experiencing violence name and better understand their experience with violence. Appropriate application of this tool ensures that violence is contextualized as being intimately tied to both public and private lives, which advocates say helps politicize instances of violence, and can help mobilize women to take action against IPV. Unfortunately, the radical power of the PCW has been sanitized by many institutions, researchers, and advocates who work in the field of violence prevention. The PCW is often framed as a static, explanatory device, and removed from its context of origin, in which it was generated by a small community of IPV survivors, using Xxxxx Xxxxxx’x methodology of community engagement. The wheel has also been severed from its paired activity, which is included in Appendix C of the manual. This activity, in which the learner situates tactics of power and control inside institutional and community mechanisms and cultural values and beliefs, serves a critical function in contextualizing IPV inside systems of oppression, outside the control of an individual. Thus, the PCW was never meant to explain the nature of violence and abuse for all women. Rather, it is a code, or a conversation starter, to help individuals think about their own personal experiences with violence and the institutional and cultural factors influencing them. In order to ensure the resource is relevant to the specific, local conditions of the lives of the patients seeking care at this clinic, a new code would need to be invented using processes similar to those that generated PCW (Price, 2012). As such, the PCW is to be used in this clinic setting not as a tool to help explain abuse to patients, but rather as a code to generate discussion and allow patients to name and describe their own unique abuse dynamic, and the way it is situated within various contexts. To achieve its intended results, the PCW shall be used, either in its published form or as a blank version, alongside its corresponding activity, in a private, protected space, with a facilitator who has been versed in Xxxxx Xxxxxx’x critical pedagogy. These exercises may meaningfully take place in a group setting, such as in the proposed in-clinic patient support groups, or, ...