EVENTS CALENDAR
SEPTEMBER
DV Awareness Training
Thursday, September 17
Medical staff at Maine General in Augusta for a Ground Rounds presentation. Private event.
Epic Estate Sale Fundraiser
Saturday September 19
8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Estate Sale fundraiser for Finding Our Voices hosted by Stephen and Helene Huyler at 10 Sea Street in Camden, Maine with all proceeds going to our nonprofit!
Healing Together Retreat with Nature Journaling
Monday, September 21
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Healing Retreat through Nature at Wells Preserve at Laudholm, Wells, Maine
More info and register here.
Online Author Talk
Tuesday, September 22
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Hope by Rosie Batty
Rosie Batty is joining us from Australia!
When Rosie's son Luke was beaten to death by his father in 2014 at a public sports match, this national hero turned unimaginable personal pain into a stunning movement for change all across Australia. We will contrast and compare the domestic violence landscape in Australia to what I see in Maine, and the chief hurdles and pathways to change as well as personal healing, I recommend you read her first book Rosie: A Mother's Story and then her 2024 memoir Hope.
Info and sign up here
OCTOBER
Documentary Film Tour with Post-Screening Panel Discussion
Directed by Livi Kessel. 55 minutes. In Hebrew with English subtitles.
Screenings will be followed by a Finding Our Voices survivor-led community conversation.
When teenage Livi is the first in her friend group to move in with a man, her girl friends are excited for her. But her world slowly gets smaller and more dangerous as he increasingly isolates and psychologically terrorizes her.
The powerful documentary chronicles Livi’s journey against Prof. Jane Monkton Smith's chilling and seminal timeline of the eight stages that precede intimate partner murder. Through Livi's conversations with those who knew her while she was trapped in the domestic abuse, the film illuminates the dangerous gray zone of psychological abuse AKA coercive control that often hides in plain sight.
Topics of the post-screening discussion will include psychological abuse, how to best help someone you worry is trapped in an unhealthy intimate partner relationship, and the role the community can play in safeguarding our neighbors from dangerous family members.
Thursday, October 1
5:30 p.m., The Strand in Rockland
Friday, October 2
6 p.m., Portland Museum of Art
Saturday, October 3
2 p.m., Maine Film Center, Waterville
Survivor-Led Panel Discussion
Thursday, October 15
6 p.m.
Ellsworth Public Library
Book Discussion
Thursday, October 29
6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Hartstone Inn, Camden
Book discussion hosted by The Tiny Bookshop around Big Little Lies and the sequel Big Little Truths
MAHPERD Conference
Monday, November 2
Tabling for our Healthy Dating school project at the MAHPERD conference at the Samoset in Rockport.