Unlike RSVP and many (perhaps even most) other batterer intervention programs, Emerge always has one woman who is a co-facilitator. The reasons for this are twofold: first, a male and female team operating as equals can model for group members what that looks like. But also, Adams found that in the early days of Emerge, men participants would rarely exhibit the kinds of behaviors that reflected their general attitudes toward women, things like interrupting women, challenging their ideas or ignoring them altogether, and in group they call attention to such attitudes immediately.
