Professional Development
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Educator Professional Development
Consent Labs’ current Educator PD is designed to align teachers with the information students receive in their sessions. Over the next year, we’ll be expanding this offering to include additional training, frameworks, classroom activities, and practical resources for teachers. We’ll share updates as soon as they are available!
Consent Foundations
- Affirmative Consent: Explore the affirmative consent model, which moves beyond the traditional “No means No” approach, and understand the factors that influence giving an enthusiastic “yes.”
- Boundaries: Discuss the importance of setting boundaries and how they affect everyday life, relationships, and consent.
- Teaching Frameworks: Learn practical frameworks for teaching the affirmative consent model and boundary-setting effectively.
Duration: 45 mins
Consent in the Digital World
- Media Literacy Framework: Learn a practical framework to guide students in critically analysing sexualised media and unpacking its influence on consent and respectful relationships.
- Pornography: Discuss the messages pornography conveys about consent and explore ways to encourage students to critically evaluate these messages.
- Consent Online: Explore how consent works online, including differences from in-person interactions and the impact of missing tone, body language, and context.
- Sexting & the Law: Understand the laws around sexting and image-based abuse, including students’ rights and responsibilities.
- Support & Reporting: Learn about reporting pathways like eSafety and key resources to support young people when things go wrong, then practice applying them through role-play scenarios.
Duration: 45 mins
Consent & Intoxication
- How Intoxication Affects Consent: This session explores how alcohol and other drugs impact a person’s capacity to consent, and the importance of taking a harm minimisation approach when discussing with students.
- Legal Framework: Understand what the law says about consent and intoxication, including situations where consent cannot be given legally.
- Harm Minimisation & Safety: Discuss practical strategies for students to keep themselves and others safe, including how to spot and prevent risks like drink spiking, over-supplying, and peer pressure.
Duration: 45 mins
Sexual Harassment and Assault
- Recognising Harassment & Assault: Learn about the range of behaviours that legally constitute sexual harassment and assault, and the legal circumstances in which consent cannot be given.
- Active Bystanders: Explore strategies for encouraging young people to safely challenge normalised behaviours and intervene where possible.
- Disclosure & Support: Learn how to respond to a student disclosure, validate their experience, and connect them with appropriate reporting and support options. This session focuses on supporting the young person in the moment, rather than on mandatory reporting.
- Victim Blaming: Unpack common victim-blaming myths and understand their harmful impact on survivors.
Duration: 75 mins
Using Inclusive Language
- Why Use Inclusive Language: Understand the importance of inclusive language and how it helps students feel safe and comfortable engaging in conversations about gender, sexuality, and identity.
- Roles & Stereotypes: Explore how to recognise and challenge stereotypes and assumptions that are perpetuated through language.
- Practical Strategies: Gain easy-to-implement strategies for using inclusive language in the classroom, including pronouns, gender-neutral terms, and scenario-based examples.
- Supporting Students: Learn how to respond and support students if they are confused, questioning, or exploring their identity, while modelling respect and inclusivity.
Duration: 75 mins
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Teacher
"I have been a PDHPE teacher in the past for many years, so this topic is especially interesting to me. The rapid changes in our society, with regards to these issues, is immensely important for us as educators to keep up-to-date. I teach the senior classes Society and Culture, of which gender is a topic, so great PD for me."
Teacher
Principal
“Consent Labs program provided our students with a strong foundation in consent education, tailored to their understanding and needs. Despite being a small school, the sessions were engaging and impactful, helping our students grasp the importance of respectful relationships. Their approach made the content relatable, ensuring every student felt heard and valued in these important discussions. The facilitators created a safe and supportive environment, encouraging our students to ask questions and explore complex topics to build their confidence. We are excited to have them back next year!”
Principal
Director of Wellbeing
"Consent Labs has been an incredible partner, working closely with us to tailor their content to our needs. We're excited to have them back as we continue building a culture of informed, confident, and empowered young people."
Director of Wellbeing
Teacher
"Both presenters, being male and female, gave a couple of different perspectives and it was wonderful how inclusive they were in also making reference to LGBTQ, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and other minority and ethnic groups, considering Australia is very much a multicultural and diverse society."
Teacher
Head of Respectful Relationships
"The facilitators were highly relatable and were able to hold the space really well despite the large audience. They struck the right mix of fun and seriousness with their short activities, discussion and scenarios. The students were very positive about the presentation and we will be sure to invite Consent Labs back for more sessions."
Head of Respectful Relationships
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