Program Theme: ​Trauma, culture, belonging, consent, accountability, intervention, and resilience.

In this compelling and thought-provoking workshop, Rashan Legard uses his personal journey from childhood through college, military service, and adulthood to explore a powerful question: Who told you that was normal? Through vulnerable storytelling and guided reflection, Rashan examines how family, peers, athletics, institutions, and culture can shape our understanding of belonging, relationships, masculinity, consent, safety, and acceptable behavior.

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Drawing from his lived experiences with childhood sexual abuse, grooming, peer pressure, harmful locker room culture, military sexual trauma, and institutional failure, Rashan demonstrates how behaviors and beliefs that initially seem normal can have lasting consequences. Participants are challenged to examine how trauma, the desire to belong, social pressure, and silence can influence the choices we make, and how those choices can affect both ourselves and others.

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The workshop moves beyond awareness to accountability, prevention, and action. Participants learn to recognize warning signs, question harmful norms, understand the importance of consent and boundaries, support someone who discloses harm, intervene when something feels wrong, and connect others with appropriate resources. Rashan also shares his journey of resilience to demonstrate that trauma does not have to determine how a person's story ends.

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Who Told You That Was Normal? challenges participants to examine what they have been taught to accept, what they may have normalized, and what they now have the power to change. The program encourages students and campus communities to create cultures where people listen, believe, speak up, respect boundaries, support survivors, and look out for one another.

Learning Outcomes & Objectives:

• Recognize the Impact of Trauma: Understand how trauma can influence relationships, coping behaviors, decision-making, and the need for belonging.

• Examine Culture & Normalization: Identify how family, peers, athletics, college, and institutions can shape what we learn to accept as “normal.”

• Understand Belonging, Pressure & Consent: Explore how the desire to fit in can affect personal boundaries, consent, choices, and responses to harmful behavior.

• Recognize Harm & Take Action: Identify warning signs of grooming, manipulation, coercion, and sexual misconduct while developing practical intervention and ally skills.

• Build Accountability & Resilience: Learn how to challenge harmful norms, support survivors, seek help, make healthier choices, and contribute to safer communities.

Trigger Warning: This workshop may evoke strong emotions and trigger traumatic memories for some participants. It is important to create a safe and supportive environment, including providing appropriate resources and access to mental health support if needed.