Tickets:
£15 in person/ £10 on Zoom/ Free for Hearth Members
Programme:
6:30 pm Doors open for refreshments
7pm - 8:30 pm Talk and Q&A
8:30-9 pm Mingling
9 pm Doors closed
About This Event
During this session we’ll be exploring how to begin talking to our children about periods, and why we should be starting these conversations early. With so much stigma surrounding periods, it will take time and effort to ensure that when the time comes, this very intentional, healthy, normal and natural bodily function isn’t connected to shame and secrecy, but rather is an invitation to celebrate our bodies for doing what they are designed to do…and even perhaps...a cause for celebration?!
About The Series
Our children are growing up in a challenging world and environment. Poor education, poor communication and the lack of support are leading to misconceptions and escalating mental health and wellbeing issues. Children may be taught academic subjects at school, but often, they are not guided properly, or at all, through some of the big life questions they may have - what's happening to my body? how do I process these new or difficult feelings? Who can I talk to and trust to guide me? Children are not the only ones who need help.
As parents, we would like to develop a positive bond with our children, to be able to help guide and support them through these questions and changes. But how do we go about talking about these sensitive and difficult subjects? We need guidance too, on how to talk to our childen about difficult topics, such as sex and relationships, death and grieving, changing bodies and stages. This series aims to help parents educate and support their children through difficult topics.
Saskia Boujo
Relationship & Sex Educator
Saskia is a relationship and sex educator who has been teaching young people for almost 20 years. Saskia works closely with primary and secondary school children to reclaim the positivity around their bodies, their understanding of sex and relationships, menstrual cycles and physical stages. In her first book, This Period in My Life, Saskia was inspired by the many misconceptions around periods that she battled with in the classroom, that seemed to reinforce a negative narrative around menstruation.
She believes that better education around menstruation is a right, but frustratingly it is squeezed into just a few theoretical lessons that are lacking in practical advice that young people are desperate for, and entitled to. Saskia has 3 children all born through IVF. She campaigns to remove stigma around fertility related issues, and believes that with better education around periods she could potentially have avoided her infertility, caused by endometriosis.
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