Exposure to pornography is a matter of WHEN not IF for today’s youth, and pornography and sexualised images can have a negative impact on young peoples’ understanding and expectations of sexual relationships, consent, and their experiences of sexual violence.

In this workshop, participants will:

develop a greater understanding of the impacts of pornography on young people examine developmentally appropriate and problematic sexual behaviours with regard to pornography and sexually explicit material
Learn why conversations about the role of pornography in the young person’s relationships is an important step in understanding their experiences as a victim/survivor
Explore relevant resources that are age-appropriate, inclusive, and trauma informed

Sexual violence workers/people doing sexual violence work will gain confidence, knowledge, skills and capacity to talk about pornography with young people in the context of their own therapeutic and educational work.

Date: Thursday, 18 November 2021

Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm

Learning Objectives

Understand more about the ways young people access pornography
Improve confidence and strategies to respond to and talk to young people about the topic of pornography
Enhance capacity in responding to image based abuse
Develop knowledge of resources and possible referral sources

Who should attend

This workshop is targeted at people undertaking sexual violence work.

About the facilitators

This training will be delivered by Di Macleod and Kerrin Bradfield from the Gold Coast Centre Against Sexual Violence.

Di Macleod (MCommMgt (candidate), BA[SocSci], Dip Counsel)

Di Macleod is the Director of the Gold Coast Centre Against Sexual Violence. Di is a longstanding advocate with thirty years of education and training in the area of of violence against women.

Kerrin Bradfield (MSexol. PGradDipPublicHlth, BA[Psych], DipCounsel)

Kerrin Bradfield is the Education & Engagement Co-ordinator at the Gold Coast Centre Against Sexual Violence. Kerrin is an accredited Sexuality Educator and passionate consent activist. She has fifteen years of education and training in the area of women's sexual health and well being.