Express yourself in short sentences and use “I”. proven techniques for responding to everyday aggressions;

“Why didn’t I say that?” “I shouldn’t have phrased it that way”… You’ve probably already pondered and replayed in your head the scene of a verbal assault you’ve experienced, either as a victim or a witness. Violence is so surprising and destabilizing that we rarely respond as we would like. It is in this sense that Isabelle Côté wants to help. A social worker in Canada for 35 years, she received death threats about twenty years ago, which affected her physically and psychologically until she was on sick leave for a year. In order to understand and treat the mechanisms of violence, Isabelle Côté conducts research by meeting prison abusers as well as prosecutors. After creating a work for social professionals, he published The art of easing everyday violence (1), to inform the general public and help in the fight against everyday violence. An interview