106 Protecting a survivor when she reports what happened to her( continued)
TO THE TRAINER
PART II: THE TRAINING
ROLE PLAY EXERCISE
Aim. To practise how to accompany a survivor who decides to tell her story.
Role Play 6. How to support a survivor when she tells her story.
This exercise teaches the participants how to speak to a survivor who decides to report what happened to her. It also teaches the helper how to include the human rights-based approach. They practise how to deal with a survivor’ s trauma story in a careful and respectful way, give her control over her story, and avoid waking her trauma.
KEY POINT
The story shows that
• Retelling her story may cause a survivor to have trauma symptoms, such as nightmares.
TEACHING INSTRUCTION.
On bad dreams, see Section 1 of Part III, pages 125-126 on intrusion and bad dreams.