Click on the links below to view excerpts from the MVP Curriculum.

In the sessions, conducted in locker rooms and classrooms, MVP staff present a series of real life social scenarios from the MVP Playbook. Participants discuss concrete options for intervention in situations ranging from a potential rape involving alcohol to sexist comments overheard in the locker room.

Illegal Motion is a sample scenario from the male college student-athlete playbook and deals with the issues surrounding alcohol and sexual consent.

Click here to find a "Teaching" page from the MVP Male Student-Athlete Trainers Guide. The Trainers Guide is utilized to guide scenario discussions and to enhance the consistent educational value of the scenarios. In addition to Teaching Pages for each scenario, all MVP Trainer's Guides include relevant statistics and other helpful resources for facilitators of the curriculum.

Slapshot is a sample scenario from the Female College Student-Athlete Playbook and has proven to be an effective scenario for stimulating an interactive dialogue on the dynamics of battering.

Here you will find the Slapshot Teaching page from the Female Student-Athlete MVP Trainer's Guide.

MVP Supplemental Exercises & Curriculum Guide

In addition to the MVP Playbook, the MVP Program utilizes a number of awareness raising exercises to stimulate an interactive dialogue. Many of these exercises use examples from popular culture, such as movies, music videos, and television to illustrate the socio-cultural influences on the societal epidemic of men's violence against women. Typically, the racially-diverse MVP staff provides both mixed-gender and single gender sessions. Both interactive sessions consist of awareness-raising activities and scenarios that utilize the program's key teaching tool, the MVP Playbook.

Objectives:

1. To illustrate how subtle forms of sexism can, if left unchecked, progress into more blatant forms of violence and misogyny.
2. To empower student leaders to understand the importance of confronting misogynistic language, jokes, etc. in their everyday lives.

Examples of the Playbook may not be used without written consent from MVP. © 1994 Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society.

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