PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Body Safety Australia has developed targeted professional learning seminars for early learning, primary and secondary education, staff and their leadership teams.

Our workshops are interactive and geared towards helping staff make a positive culture change that reflects your community and unique learning environment.

Programs are offered as either one full day or two evening sessions

Body Safety Superstars! - Body Safety Education

The principles of body safety play an essential role in developing safe and respectful spaces in and outside of the classroom. Our protective behaviours professional development covers the following topics:

• Creating strategies for the participation and empowerment of children

• Supporting community solutions and creating partnerships in prevention

• Understanding the complexity of childhood sexual abuse: myths, facts, indicators and risk factors

• Embedding the 10 key learning areas of abuse prevention

• Modelling child safe practices (Victorian Child Safe Standards & National Child Safe Standards)

• Planning age-appropriate child safe lessons and activities

• Understanding age-appropriate behaviour including understanding the signs of possible sexual abuse

• Understanding the role of technology in childhood sexual abuse; grooming and abusers

• Hearing and handling disclosures including self-care

• Ensuring culturally sensitive and inclusive solutions for your community

* A stripped back 2-hour introductory session is also available

As part of the body safety suite we also offer an advanced professional development program that builds on existing knowledge and provides a deep-dive into areas such as child safe standards/principles and supporting staff, parents, carers, children and young people in respectful online communication. Contact us here for more information.

Unique You - Relationships and Sexuality Education

Teaching sex ed can be fun. It can also be a minefield for the unprepared teacher. This interactive workshop helps you provide accurate, age-appropriate information at any year level.

Our relationships and sexuality education professional development covers the following areas:

• Creating a classroom that is safe and inclusive of: Cultural diversity, LGBTIQA+ students, students of LGBTIQA+ parents, children with a disability, children with a religion, children of all genders

• Families: what makes a family, what is their role

• Bodies: naming private and reproductive body parts

• Babies: conception, foetal development and birth

• Puberty: physical and emotional changes

• Respectful relationships: the foundations

• Power inequity in relationships: gender and other imbalances

• Consent: exploring the continuum

• Cybersafety: how young people explore and express sexuality online

• Media literacy: how to talk about porn without watching porn

• Sex: sexuality and gender

* A stripped back 2-hour introductory session is also available

Naked Truths - Respectful Relationships and Consent (On and Offline)

• Online respectful relationships

• Friends, followers and predator grooming; spotting red flags

• Consent: taking, altering and sharing photos

• Nudes, porn and sexting

• Teens' legal rights and responsibilities

• Online bystanders: the risks and rewards of speaking up

• Sexual digital media literacy; examining gendered messages and the portrayal of minority groups

Gender Glorious - Gender Identity and Expression

• What is gender? Gender expression and identity explained

• Language and gender: how it shapes society

• Childhood development: how and when gender sterotypes creep in

• Barriers and roadblocks: how gender norms can hinder a child's development

• An anti-bias approach: strategies to increase understanding of differences and their value to a respectful and civil society