Own My Life
Natalie Collins serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Own My Life (The Women's Liberation Collective), leading efforts to grow the organization and deliver essential training since January 2018. Additionally, Natalie works as a Gender Justice Specialist at SparkEquip, focusing on training and consulting related to male violence against women and broader gender injustices since December 2012. As the creator of The DAY Programme, Natalie trains professionals on youth domestic abuse education, while previously serving as an Independent Consultant with Restored, where involvement included developing resources and training for churches on domestic abuse issues. Natalie's early career included facilitating the Freedom Programme at Be Free. educationally, Natalie holds a Master of Arts in Integrative Theology with a focus on social justice from the London School of Theology, completed in November 2019.
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Own My Life
Offering training, resources and group work to enable women to take back ownership of their lives, after they have been subjected to abuse. TRAINING: We offer live 5-day online training events to those working with women within charities, social work, healthcare, education, social work, counselling/therapy, corporates and others. These intensive CPD-accredited training events enable participants to gain robust literacy about abuse, trauma and wider messages about misogyny. After training, participants can facilitate the amazing Own My Life course with women and/or use our comprehensive, mulitmedia Own My Life resources as a toolkit throughout their work. GROUP WORK: The Own My Life course is our group work programme. A train-the-trainer model, after attending our 5-day live online training, practitioners can deliver 12-week Own My Life Courses with women, with comprehensive support materials for delivering the course both online and in-person. Each woman attending the course recieves a 200-page full colour learning journal, and the course has over 25 whiteboard animations that effectively explain abuse, trauma and wider harmful messages in an easy-to-understand way. RESOURCES: Own My Life Discovery is our online e-Learning platform with full of interactive videos and support materials to build literacy about abuse, trauma and wider harmful messages. Utilising the Own My Life whiteboard animations, Discovery can be used both for professional development and in your educational and/or therapeutic work with clients. We are a CIO and our charity reg. no: 1184411