Book Launch | Coming In From The Cold

Name: Book Launch | Coming In From The Cold
Start: 2025-02-18T17:30:00+13:00
Location: Scorpio Books

Schedule

Tue, 18 Feb, 2025 at 05:30 pm

UTC+13:00

Location

Scorpio Books | Christchurch, CA

Scorpio Books warmly invites you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Coming In From The Cold: Tautoko Tāne enabling the wellbeing of male survivors of sexual violence by Bex De Prospo Carr, Fiona Clapham Howard and Tony Chamberlain. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This anthology features the courageous first-hand accounts of 26 male survivors of sexual abuse and violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. Through their eyes, we are able to see the environments and systems in which the abuses took place, the profound effects of those experiences, and the survivors’ reflections upon them as they navigate their lives. Their generous contributions illustrate the transformational power of connection, support, hope and aroha. As the heart of this work, their stories help to showcase more than two decades of mahi by Tautoko Tāne Aotearoa, detailed through a brief organisational history unfolded in four seasonal essays.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Bex De Prospo Carr is a multi-disciplinarian who uses the power of words, performance stages, and sound to tell impactful stories to create a better world. With a background spanning rock and roll, theatre, and strategic communications, Bex has carved a niche in leveraging storytelling as a tool for social and environmental change. Find out more about Bex De Prospo Carr here: www.authenticstorytelling.co.nz.
Fiona Clapham Howard is an experienced clinical psychologist, who is passionate about providing high quality therapy, supervision and training to help sustain people in their lives and work. Through her experience in acute mental health and addiction services her many years as a senior tutor in the Doctoral Programme of Clinical Psychology at the University of Auckland, she has developed expertise in addictions, motivational interviewing, professional ethics, positive psychology, managing stress and wellbeing, building resilience, and supervision.
Tony Chamberlain works with not-for-profit and social enterprise communities to develop on-purpose strategic agendas and effective governance frameworks. He is proud to be working with his colleagues in Tautoko Tāne Aotearoa to build a capable national organisation, enabling its member organisations to provide an appropriate nationwide support service for the male survivors of sexual abuse.