The CRLT Players' three-part curricular series Moving the Needle on Sexual Harassment challenges participants to expand their understanding of what sexual harassment is, how it impacts individuals and communities, and what they might do to alter the permissive status quo of institutional spaces. See descriptions for each of the three sessions below.

Moving the Needle: Shifting the Conversation around Sexual Harassment

Part research presentation, part embodied case study, and part community conversation, Moving the Needle: Shifting the Conversation around Sexual Harassment challenges participants to expand their understanding of what sexual harassment is, how it impacts individuals and communities, and what makes an environment ripe for its presence. Using the NASEM consensus study report as both grounding and springboard, this session eschews a "tips and tricks" workshop model, instead pointing attendees toward the ongoing reflective practices that individuals and communities will need to commit to in order to address the culturally embedded problem of sexual harassment. This session is best suited to full-unit conversations including faculty, staff, and graduate students.

The typical session length is 120 minutes. Moving the Needle: Shifting the Conversation around Sexual Harassment can be offered as a synchronous, virtual session or an in-person session.

**The embodied case studies in this session contain strong language and detailed descriptions of sexual harassment.

Moving the Needle: Enacting Your Personal Responsibility

Building on introductory conversations about the prevalence and consequences of sexual harassment in higher education, Moving the Needle: Enacting Your Personal Responsibility focuses on an individual's role in contributing to a climate that resists sexual harassment. By interacting with theatrical case studies, participants receive practice in identifying sexually harassing behaviors and assuming responsibility for the harmful impact of those behaviors on the community. They are introduced to a toolkit of strategies for disrupting harassing acts, and brainstorm ways to support targets and proactively contribute to an environment that resists sexual harassment. This session is available for groups who have participated in Moving the Needle: Shifting the Conversation around Sexual Harassment and is best suited to full-unit conversations including faculty, staff, and graduate students. 

The typical session length is 120 minutes. Moving the Needle: Enacting Your Personal Responsibility is only offered as an in-person session.

**The embodied case studies in the session depict scenarios related to gender harassment, sexual coercion, and unwanted sexual attention.

Moving the Needle: Creating a Climate Resistant to Sexual Harassment

Building on introductory conversations about the prevalence and consequences of sexual harassment on individuals and communities in higher education, Moving the Needle: Creating a Climate Resistant to Sexual Harassment gives units an opportunity to envision a different, more equitable future. Available for departments who have participated in Moving the Needle: Shifting the Conversation around Sexual Harassment, session attendees engage in communal responsibility-taking by brainstorming concrete strategies their units can implement. Attendees jumpstart their conversations by analyzing an embodied case study that explores a junior faculty member's experience of gender harassment. They then participate in facilitated design-thinking exercises targeted at research-based pivot points to effect change. By the end of the session, academic units will generate prototypes of promising ideas they can use to begin creating a climate that actively resists sexual harassment.  This session is best suited to full-unit conversations including faculty, staff, and graduate students.

Given the communal and iterative nature of the work, the suggested session length is 4 hours. Moving the Needle: Creating a Climate Resistant to Sexual Harassment is only offered as an in-person session.

The CRLT Players also annually host Creating Climates Resistant to Sexual Harassment: Defining the Problem, an asynchronous online course with a synchronous follow-up discussion for academic leadership teams who are recalibrating their responsibilities to sexual harassment.