When we create a culture of consent, we provide a safe space for children and empower them to have a voice. Consent includes empathizing, recognizing emotions, and listening to signals from our bodies. By teaching consent in tangible ways we not only support children's social-emotional learning, but also offer abuse prevention. Using hands-on activities that can be adapted for school and home, you'll learn how to support children's understanding of consent. You'll learn considerations for your own modeling and teaching consent in a classroom setting, and discuss the gray areas when an adult needs to be in charge
Facilitator Biography: Lydia Bowers is a speaker, consultant, and trainer who happily exists in the Venn diagram overlap between early childhood and sex education. After spending almost two decades working directly with children as a classroom teacher and a parent, she is passionate about reframing sexuality conversations. Lydia now teaches families and educators how to talk to children about subjects like gender, reproduction, and abuse. When she’s not traveling around the country for conferences and speaking engagements, she lives in Cincinnati with her husband and two children and adds to her growing collection of children’s book character tattoos as often as she can.
Participants will be given the link to the video and are required to participate in one of two ways-- with a microphone/built in speaker or through chat. In addition there will be a log tracking which members contribute and which do not, and those that do not contribute will not receive PD hours. We ask that you leave your camera on for the session.