Empowerment Author Meg Stone
Empowerment Author Meg Stone
Nationally renowned violence prevention expert Meg Stone helps you question authority, challenge fear-based safety advice, and embrace a more just and realistic approach to stopping violence.
Meg exposes how sexist safety advice keeps us small - and offers a bold, evidence-based path to true personal and collective safety. Meg is the Executive Director of IMPACT Boston, an organization that works to prevent violence and abuse by giving people the skills to advocate for healthy relationships, sexual respect, and personal and community safety.
Meg Stone: Empowerment self-defense Organization's Writing
Meg Stone is an experienced and engaging speaker for conferences, universities, high schools, workplaces, faith communities, and nonprofit organizations. She brings warmth, clarity, humor and solid evidence to each engagement and will work with you to customize her message for your group.
- Sample topics:
- · How Personal Safety Tips Can Make Women Feel More Afraid
- · You Don’t Have to Live in Fear—A bold, evidence-based path to true personal and collective safety.
- · 5 Things Every Parent Should Know About Kids’ Safety
- · What the Catholic Church, Olympic Sports, and Other Institutions with Sexual Abuse Crises Have in Common
- · Why Being Bold and Assertive Makes Women Safer
- · What So Many Men Get Wrong About Women's Safety.
The Cost of Fear: Author Meg Stone
- When it comes to avoiding violence, most women have gotten a lot of questionable advice, like “don’t wear a ponytail, an attacker could grab it” or “or “don’t go shopping alone.” The Cost of Fear exposes how sexist safety advice keeps us small - and offers a bold, evidence-based path to true personal and collective safety.
- At the intersection of feminism, public safety, and social change, The Cost of Fear empowers us with evidence-based tools to resist coercive control, reclaim our power, and join the fight for social justice - not by shrinking our lives, but by expanding our agency.
- For readers of Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez and Know My Name by Chanel Miller, this book is for anyone ready to question authority, dismantle fear-based advice, and demand a more just and realistic approach to safety.
The Cost of Fear Book Blurbs
- Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body
“Meg Stone has written a powerful, accessible, and devastatingly acute analysis of the pervasiveness of gender-based violence and why our efforts to prevent it have failed, packed with expert insight drawn from her decades-long career and practical tips to empower women and others who are targeted. The Cost of Fear moved me, enraged me, and educated me. I don’t think I’ll ever stop thinking about it. I wish this book weren’t necessary. But until we live in a better world, get this book.”
- Lauren R. Taylor, author of Get Empowered and founder-director of Defend Yourself documents...
“In The Cost of Fear, Meg Stone weaves together stories—from the individual to the organizational—and extensive research to offer a comprehensive understanding of the problem of gender-based violence. She makes a clear, compelling case for safety through resistance to both protect individuals and change society. Valuable for everyone from policy-makers to individuals wanting to increase their safety, this book can change the world.”
- Wendy Rouse, author of Her Own Hero
“The Cost of Fear delivers a compelling critique of the shortcomings of conventional safety practices. Through meticulous evidence-based research and personal stories, Stone suggests more effective strategies for eliminating gender-based violence.”
– Rev. Irene Monroe, co-host of All Rev’d Up on Boston Public Radio
“Meg Stone offers her incredible knowledge with love and compassion, an essential guide for resistance-based self-defense training. Drawing from her decades-long experience, Stone empowers you to build mental resilience and vital techniques for developing situational awareness to defuse gender-based violence quickly for your safety. The Cost of Fear is a must-read for people of all genders and ages, regardless of their fitness and experience levels.”
Empowerment Videos with Author Meg Stone
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In The Cost of Fear, nationally recognized violence prevention expert Meg Stone helps readers separate fact from fiction. It’s full of practical, research-based strategies that women and others who are targeted for gender-based violence can use to keep themselves and their communities safer. Increased safety comes not from complying with rigid rules or avoiding of white vans, but from developing the skills to resist coercive control, especially from people we know or people in authority.
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