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Abby and her collaborator, Liv Hockenberry, led a virtual workshop: Starting at the Beginning: Healthy Sexuality in Preschool Classrooms
This 1-hour workshop provided participants with the knowledge and skills to create a comprehensive, age-appropriate, sex positive preschool classroom or home environment for preschool aged children. This workshop focused on creating an environment for children that fosters 3 key components:
Building healthy relationships with yourself and others
Developing bodily awareness and autonomy
Recognizing and respecting your unique likes and dislikes
Research shows that early comprehensive and age-appropriate sex education can help reduce shame, delay the onset of first sexual encounters, protect children from harm and abuse, and open them up to pleasure and their own preferences. Through breakout rooms, lecture components, and interactive polls, participants learned the skills needed to approach parenting or teaching in a way that will reduce shame and set children up to eventually become sexually and confident healthy adults.
By the end of the workshop, participants:
Understood why sexuality education belongs in preschool classrooms
Left with examples of language they can use with their preschool students to begin helping them develop healthy relationships with their sexualities, and keep them safe.
Understood the principles of sex-positivity and how to make a comprehensive, age-appropriate, shame-free, and sex-positive classroom