Common Ground Project: Future Fit Masculinities

Common Ground: Future Fit Masculinities

There is a change in the air.

"The Common Ground Project: Future Fit Masculinities is a consortium of providers including Foundation for Positive Masculinity (+M Foundation), Tomorrow Man & Tomorrow Woman and SNA Toolbox. We believe in a whole community approach, working together with parents/guardians, students (of all genders), and educators. Focused on year levels 7 to 11 across 4 nationally representative schools, our plan over the next two years, is to establish evidence-based activities and programs that encourage healthy expressions of what it means to be a man today and tackle social attitudes and behaviors that drive violence against women and children, stopping gender-based violence before it starts." - Common Ground Consortium

SNA Toolbox is extremely proud to be involved in this Australian Federal Government trial, 2024 - 2026. Common Ground is one of three funded projects to encourage healthy masculinities and stop gender-based violence. Read the Minister's Press Release here.

A unifying principle of the Common Ground consortium is a shared belief in the importance of social connection. A focus solely on changes in individuals that does not seek to address the social dynamics of boys and young men is unlikely to deliver the significant change required to end violence. To be clear, individual attitudes and actions are incredibly important and must be changed, but such attitudes occur in the context of social interaction with others and are open to peer influence. SNA Toolbox brings the necessary skills to uncover, map and understand peer-to-peer social influence in schools, and will utilise this understanding to help +M Foundation and Tomorrow Man | Tomorrow Woman in their education programs and workshops.