Workshop Details

From Hookup Culture to Consent Culture: How to Make The Difficult Transition

This approximately 90-minute workshop addresses the nightlife and sexual experiences of students and young adults today, and offers them tools to shift from a default hookup culture to an intentional consent culture.

Examine the social pressures and rules of hookup culture. Go through the common stages of a “hookup:” pregame, initiate physical contact with a potential hookup, participate in the casual sexual experience, and establish “meaninglessness” afterwards.
Participate in breakout discussions to think about ways that these hookup culture stages inhibits successful consent practices.
Learn how successful consent is freely given, informed, specific, affirmative, enthusiastic, ongoing, and reversible. Explore specific and realistic phrases and behaviors that young adults can utilize to enact successful consent practices.
Address power dynamics based on identity that impact consent.
Explore these topics in a workshop tailored to the specific culture, nightlife traditions, and geography of your community.
Learn self-advocacy skills and how one can comfortably communicate interest or disinterest in a sexual situation, as well as what appropriate responses might be to either answer.

This workshop has already found great success in communities of young adults. It would be a joy to bring it to your community next.

Additional Component Workshops

Developing Self-Advocacy Skills

Many teenagers and young adults are never taught tools for boundary-setting or self-advocacy; why are self-advocacy skills so important? What makes it easy or hard to use them?
Understanding and utilizing self-advocacy in daily life
Applying self-advocacy to sexual situations
Develop a personal plan to exercise your self-advocacy muscles

A Parent's Guide to Healthy Consent Practices

Understanding the reality of hookup culture amongst teenagers and young adults today
How to talk about sex with your child in a way that is safety- and consent-oriented, but also sex-positive
How to model healthy consent practices with your child
How to help your child build self advocacy skills

Question Box: Everything You Need to Know and Don’t Want to Ask About Gender, Sex, and Consent

Empowering participants to take the reins, this workshop focuses on establishing a safe learning environment and allowing teenagers and young adults to ask all of their anonymous questions about gender, sexuality, sex, and consent

Supporting Survivors of Sexual Assault

Understanding how trauma functions in the body and stages of the healing process when it comes to sexual assault
How to respond when someone discloses sexual harassment or assault
Trauma informed strategies for supporting a survivor
How to care for yourself when supporting a survivor

Exploring Body Positivity and Neutrality

Understand the history and subjectivity of body image in the U.S.
Understand mental and physical health impacts of positive and negative relationships to our bodies
Participate in a guided self-exploration of your relationship with your body and social pressures related to your body
Learn about body positivity and how to practice it in daily life
Learn about body neutrality and how to practice it in daily life

Exploring Gender Identity

Learn about various gender identities and the history of gender in the U.S.
How does our conception of gender affect us? Consider gender stereotypes and interrogate the gendered pressures associated with behavior, language, appearance, personal interests, etc.
Participate in a guided self-exploration activity to think about your own identities, both gender and otherwise

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