Preventing Intimate Partner Violence
Becoming One
Research + Service Design + Branding
Becoming One aims to share proven methods of violence prevention with communities through a 12 week biblical couples course. It incorporates major teachings from the Bible that champion equality, honesty and respect in relationships coupled with cognitive behavior techniques.
Involvement
Team
Becoming One was created in partnership with the Airbel Center and World Vision.
Status
This intervention is currently undergoing a full-scale randomized control trial in Uganda to rigorously capture the impact of our design on the prevention of violence. The evaluation launched in September of 2018 in which 140 Faith Leaders and 2381 couples were recruited to receive Becoming One.
Cognitive behavior therapy through a religious lens.
The Becoming One program is delivered in partnership with local faith leaders, who guide couples through engaging workbooks and videos that teach communication skills, emotional regulation, shared control over finances and household duties, sexual consent and pleasure. During the sessions the couples participate in group activities and at home they practice what they learned through practical and fun homework.
What do Becoming One participants say?
Read more:
About the project on our new Becoming One portfolio page.
On the prototyping stages
On the feasibility pilot conducted after the first handover
On the Modern Man project, another concept that I worked on for this brief and spun off into its own separate intervention, you can see some of the research and prototypes I created for it.