What is Truthtellers?
Truthtellers is a transformative journey designed to empower parents like you, to take the reins as the
primary educators on your children's journey through sexuality.
Being a parent myself, I understand that navigating the realm of sex education can be daunting.
It's a delicate balance of providing accurate information, fostering healthy attitudes, and instilling values -
all while ensuring our children feel supported and empowered to make informed decisions in their lives. In this course, we'll get into the intricacies of sexuality education, embracing the beauty of these conversations and acknowledging the sometimes awkward but always crucial moments they entail.
Through engaging discussions, interactive activities, and heartfelt reflections,
you will be equipped with the tools and confidence to become the ultimate Truthteller for your family.
Why should you attend this course?
Trust and Comfort:
By initiating and engaging in conversations about sex and relationships, parents create an open and supportive environment where children feel safe to ask questions, seek guidance, and express their concerns.Emotional Support:
Discussing sex and relationships can be emotionally charged for children. Parents who are actively involved in these conversations can offer emotional support, reassurance, and guidance. They can address any fears, anxieties, or misconceptions their children may have and provide a safe space for open dialogue.Accurate Information:
By being the first resource, parents can ensure that their children receive accurate and age-appropriate information about human anatomy, reproduction, consent, contraception, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and the emotional aspects of relationships. This knowledge empowers children to make informed choices and protect their well-being.
Contextual Understanding:
Parents can provide children with a contextual understanding of sex and relationships within the framework of their family's values, culture, and societal norms. This contextual knowledge helps children make sense of the broader world and equips them to critically analyze media, peer influences, and societal messages related to sexuality.Values and Beliefs:
Parents learn how to share their values, beliefs, and cultural perspectives on sexuality, helping children develop a strong foundation for understanding and navigating sexual relationships in a healthy and responsible manner.Lifelong Communication:
By being the go-to resource for sex talks, parents establish a foundation for ongoing communication about sexuality throughout their children's lives. This lays the groundwork for future discussions about consent, healthy relationships, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other important topics as children grow and develop.
Which topics are included?
Knowing our own values helps us speak to our kids with confidence and clarity. Values don’t just tell us what to do, they tell us why we do it.
Setting this foundation makes all future communication infinitely easier.
The bodily changes of puberty gradually become apparent, but knowing how to talk to our children and guiding them through the behavioral/emotional changes, helps set the stage for them to keep coming to you as they encounter different situations through their adolescent years.
A true understanding of and respect for consent and body autonomy begins at home. We all know of consent, but do we know how to practice consent in our families?
In this session, we will understand consent experientially in a way that will be impactful for you and your child.
Stumped as to how to talk about LGBTQIA+ topics with your kids?
In this session, we will tackle everything from gender stereotypes, to sexual orientations, and gender identities.
We teach inclusivity by
modeling it.
Current research states that 1 in 10 children will have watched porn by age 10. With porn, it is not a question of if, it is when.
In this session, we will understand how to have the porn conversation with our kids, as well as discuss media literacy.
And finally, in the last session, we reach the Grand Poobah - sex!
In this session, we will discuss how to talk about sex with our kids, as well as healthy ways of being in relationships.
What do you receive?
6 sessions x 2 hours each
A 1:1 guided trauma-informed space with a certified sex educator and life coach
Guided somatic practices to maintain grounding and calm during difficult conversations
Practical tools and ready-to-use scripts for a variety of scenarios, and a variety of ages
Ongoing community support for 6 weeks
Resources on each topic
FAQs
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Truthtellers is a comprehensive sexuality education programme for parents who want to become more confident having conversations with their children about bodies, puberty, boundaries, consent, gender, pornography, relationships and sex.
It gives you the knowledge, language and practical tools to start these conversations yourself, rather than waiting for your child to ask.
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Truthtellers is designed for parents of children and young people approaching or moving through puberty and adolescence.
Since the sex talks are easier the younger you start, this course is applicable for parents who have children between the ages of 6 to 18.
The conversations can be adapted depending on your child's age and stage of development. The programme also includes age-appropriate ways to talk about topics such as pornography and masturbation. -
Sexuality is much broader than sex.
Truthtellers looks at bodies, puberty, emotions, relationships, boundaries, consent, body autonomy, gender, sexual orientation, pornography, media literacy and eventually sex and relationships.
The goal is to help you build the foundations for healthy, respectful and open conversations throughout your child's life.
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School can provide important information, but parents have a unique role.
Your child is learning about bodies, relationships, gender, sexuality and boundaries from the world around them all the time. Truthtellers helps you become a trusted and safe adult your child can come to with questions, concerns and difficult experiences.
It also helps you clarify your own values and learn how to communicate them.
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That is completely okay.
You do not need to be the parent who has all the answers or delivers perfectly polished conversations. Truthtellers gives you scripts, examples and opportunities to practise so that you can find language that feels natural to you.
There is even space to say, "I'm uncomfortable talking about this too, but I love you and I want us to be able to talk about it."
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You don't have to wait for them to ask.
Many of the most important conversations around sexuality need to be initiated by parents. Truthtellers helps you recognise everyday opportunities to start conversations and gives you practical language for doing so.
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No.
Truthtellers gives you information, frameworks and opportunities to examine your own values. You will be encouraged to think about what you believe and how you want to communicate those values to your child.
The aim is not to tell you what kind of parent to be. It is to help you become a more informed, intentional and approachable one.
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You don't need to wait until puberty to begin building the foundations.
Conversations about body autonomy, boundaries, privacy, emotions and respect begin much earlier. Truthtellers helps you understand how these foundations connect to later conversations about sexuality.
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Yes.
Scripts are an important part of Truthtellers. You will work through practical language for conversations that can feel particularly awkward, including puberty, masturbation, consent, pornography and sex.
The intention is not for you to memorise a script. It is to give you somewhere to start.
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Some conversations may feel uncomfortable or bring up memories from your own childhood. Truthtellers includes reflection and journaling alongside the educational material, so there is space to notice your own responses and consider what you want to carry forward into your parenting.
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You will leave with more than information.
You will have a clearer understanding of your own values, practical scripts for difficult conversations, frameworks for responding to questions, and a better sense of how to create an open channel of communication with your child.
Most importantly, you will have somewhere to begin.
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No.
The programme is about giving children accurate information, helping them understand their bodies and boundaries, and building a relationship in which they can talk to a trusted adult about difficult or confusing topics.
It also helps parents communicate their own values around sexuality, relationships and safety.
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Yes! You can access Truthtellers from anywhere in the world.
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