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SOLD OUT!!! Dynamo Girl: A Positive Approach to Girls’ Puberty
December 1, 2018 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
$150.00
THIS WORKSHOP IS SOLD OUT. Email vanessa@dynamogirl.com to put yourself on our waitlist.
Dynamo Girl is offering our second puberty workshop for parents and their daughters because we want to demystify girls’ early experiences in puberty. Our goal at Dynamo Girl is to help girls and their parents approach puberty as something positive, empowering and exciting.
The workshop will include sessions for girls and their parents together as well as separate sessions to dive deeper into both the physical and emotional manifestations of puberty.
| For the GIRLS | For the PARENTS |
| Understanding of women’s anatomy, the different stages of female puberty and what to expect emotionally during this time. Overview of boys’ anatomy and stages of boys’ puberty. | Overview of what we are teaching the girls about women’s anatomy, the different stages of female puberty and what to expect emotionally during this time. |
| Consent: how to define your own physical boundaries and respect the boundaries of others. | Consent: how to empower your daughter to define her physical boundaries and respect the boundaries of others. |
| Ways to manage the physical and emotional changes they are experiencing and the impact on their social lives. | Tools for parents to help their daughters’ manage the physical and emotional changes they are experiencing and the impact on their social lives. |
| Role play around relationships, consent, difficult feelings and emotions. | Unpacking parents’ own experience in puberty and practice speaking to daughters, partners, friends about puberty. |
Dynamo Girl Faculty
The workshop will be run by Mary Pat Draddy, LMSW and Dynamo Girl Outreach Director, and Sue Steinberg, MPH and Middle and High School Health Educator at the United Nations International School.
Our core mission at Dynamo Girl is to to build their self-esteem and reverse the downward trend of girls’ participation in physical activity. Research shows that girls’ negative experiences in puberty contributes to their drop in athletic involvement during the pre-teen and teenage years. In that vein, the Dynamo Girl workshop is designed to educate girls and their parents about girls’ changing bodies during puberty and the physical and emotional impact that has on them.
