GBSV Prevention Education Training

All incoming students are encouraged to complete the compete GBSV Education Training 1: Part A and Part B. Completing Part A: GBSV Response and Prevention is necessary for receiving your Western ONECard. Completing Part B: Undressing Consent: A Pleasurable Approach to Learning About Consent, Rejection, and Sexual Violence is required as part of a student’s residence contract.

To build on the education gained from GBSV Training 1, additional trainings will be developed and offered to upper year students. If you would like to be added to the GBSV Education email list to be updated about relevant events and trainings, email gbsv.edu@uwo.ca.

No, your completion of the GBSV training will not be included in your transcript.

If you are concerned with your ability to complete this training due to your own personal experience of GBSV, please reach out to support@uwo.ca or visit the GBSV Survivor Support website for support.

You will need to complete the GBSV training for the year you plan to attend.

If you are unable to meet the deadline, please send an email to gbsv.edu@uwo.ca for further instructions.

All exchange students need to complete Part A of training to recieve their Western ONECard. Completing Part B of the training is strongly encouraged.

All incoming students must complete Part A of the training. Completing Part B is strongly encouraged.

Students in the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program need to complete Part A of the training. You will gain access to OWL during the week of August, 21 2023 after you have been activated as a Western student. You will recieve an email when you are eligible to complete your training.

You can access the training here.

The password for OWL is the same password for your other Western accounts. If you forget your password, you can reach out to Western Technology Services here.

The training must be completed before arriving at campus to ensure all students start their academic year prepared to contribute to a safer campus community with this important foundational knowledge of GBSV response and prevention.

Upper year students are not required to complete the GBSV training; however, we encourage all students to complete the training to learn more about how every one of us can contribute to a safer and respectful community at Western.

If you are having any issues accessing the OWL site, please reach out to Western Technology Services here.

You will need to activate your account before accessing OWL. You can learn more on how to activate your account, here.

A passing grade is at least 12/15.

If you fail the quiz, you can easily go back through the content to see what you may have missed and retake the quiz. There are no limits to how many times you can take the quiz.

No, once you have received your certificate it is automatically uploaded onto your OWL account.

No, you are not required to complete Part B; however, we strongly encourage all students to complete this additional training to increase your skills and knowledge related to GBSV education and prevention.

You can sign up for a virtual session, here. You will need to complete Part A: GBSV Response and Prevention Training beforehand.

You can also sign up for Community Connections during which the Part B: Undressing Consent training will be delivered. If you attend Community Connections, you do not need to sign up seperately for Part B: Undressing Consent.

The password for Zoom is the same password for your other Western accounts. If you forget your password, you can reach out to Western Technology Services here.

On your OWL, enter the 2023 GBSV Response & Prevention Training course and under ‘Workshop Sign Up’ you can select “View Meetings I am Signed Up For’ from the drop-down menu.

If you arrive late, you may not be able to enter the training. You will need to sign up for a new session. Please ensure you arrive on time.

If you lose wifi connection, please try to rejoin the Zoom session as quickly as possible. If you miss too much content, the facilitators will not be able to let you back into the session and you will need to sign up for a new session.

Participants can be removed from the Zoom session for not compiling with the requirements of being alone, being in a private space and having your camera on, disruptive behaviour, or harassing the facilitators or other participants. If you are removed, you will need to sign up for a new session.

At the end of the training, the facilitators will share a link for you to access your certificate on OWL.

Cameras are required to be turned on for the training to ensure students are actively paying attention, to increase feelings of safety, and to create better and more meaningful engagement amongst participants.

We require students to be alone and in a private space during the training to ensure participants can focus on the content, to increase privacy because of the subject matter and to reduce distractions during interactive components of the training.

The first two sections of the training have the same content. In the last section, the men’s session looks at rejection and the women’s and non-binary session looks at sexual desire.

Sessions are divided into gender-specific sessions because of the slightly different content addressing the different lived experiences that come from living in a gendered culture. Women and non-binary students are at increased risk of experiencing GBSV, and men are at increased risk of perpetrating violence; therefore, different skills are needed to be discussed with the different groups. Students can select the group that feels most comfortable based off their gender identity.

We recognize that while non-binary students do not have the same lived experience as cisgender or transgender women, they are at an increased risk of experiencing GBSV and therefore receive the same content. A select number of sessions will be included that will focus exclusively on non-binary, trans and gender-queer students. If you would like to attend one of these sessions, please keep an eye out on the OWL sign up page.

In a training on GBSV, it is important to discuss sex and sexuality because talking openly about sex and sexuality can reduce stigma, help normalize the diversity of sexual experiences amongst our student population and can be a protective factor for reducing experiences of GBSV.

If you attend an in-person Part B: Undressing Consent session during Community Connections, you do not need to attend an additional virtual training session.

Future training dates will become available to students for registration gradually throughout the summer. We encourage you to check back frequently for additional dates that will become available and sign up for the earliest that works for your schedule to ensure you complete all your requirements before arriving at Western. The last available session will be on August 25th 2023.