2023 Speakers' Presentations
Wednesday 1 March 2023

Contact details: 0800 044334         04 8018975
www.respected.org.nz     www.SafeToTalk.co.nz 

This talk is aimed at empowering parents and others working or living with teens to have conversations about pornography and consent with their teens. These conversations can be tricky to navigate so this presentation will suggest some practical tips for engaging young people in these awkward conversations. This talk will cover how to talk about consent and how to get young people to understand how the sex we see in pornography is very different to sex in the real world.
Our speakers will be Kayla and Zach.

RespectEd runs innovative programmes with a diverse range of groups to support social, behavioural and cultural change to prevent sexual harm. From high schools to corporates, community organisations and social services, young people with disabilities, alternative education, bars and nightclubs, we create workshops tailored to the issues faced by each group that encourage open dialogues about sexual violence and teach strategies and skills to prevent it. Our primary objective is to coordinate and support effective primary prevention initiatives alongside complementary community groups, agencies, and networks on a local and national level. 

Educator- North Wellington Trust Life Education Trust (NZ) M: 021 658 131E: northwellington@lifeed.org.nz 

Life Education is a non-profit organization that runs programmes supporting over 250,000 tamariki and rangatahi across the country with a focus on the health curriculum. 

Today, Marsha is here to talk to us about neuroscience, and how the development of the adolescent brain can impact their behavior and relationships..

A native to Toronto, Canada, Marsha has degrees in both Kinesiology/Phys Ed and Education. She has extensive international experience, having taught in Canada, Australia, the UK and here in NZ.  In addition to over two decades of classroom teaching experience, she has also worked in project management as the Project Leader of the nationally awarded Kiwisport Fundamental Movement Skills Project for primary-aged students 2015-2018 before commencing the role of educator for the Life Education Trust where she annually teaches over 5000 students in the Tawa/Porirua communities every year!

Lecturer: School of Education / Te Puna Akopai

Victoria University of Wellington / Te Herenga Waka

Phone+64-4-463-5175

Email: chris.bowden@vuw.ac.nz

https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/education/about/staff/chris-bowden

Chris will provide some tips on how to help young people struggling with feelings of helplessness, hopelessness and suicidal thoughts, feelings and behaviours. He will talk about: how to reach out, acknowledge distress and express concern, help teens contain crises, develop safety plans and promote hope-based thinking and active change. Dr. Chris Bowden is a lecturer and suicide researcher in the School of Education at Victoria University of Wellington. He teaches in the area of child and adolescent development and mental health. Chris delivers professional development and education on suicide to a range of professionals working in education, health and social services.