NEWS RELEASE
NORTHEASTERN CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
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Body Image, Media, and Mental Health
There will be a board-wide multi-media event for grade 7-12 girls on body image, looks-based bullying, and kindness, on Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at O’Gorman High at 10 a.m.
In our connected age, adolescent girls are confronted daily with media idealizations about what it is to be a woman that are limiting and frequently hazardous to their health.
Studies show that many young women would rather be called "sexy" than “smart.”
This leaves them at a disadvantage in the journey to becoming leaders of a better world, a loss that affects all of us.
Love the Skin You’re In is a transformative presentation that invites youth to question the socioeconomic underpinnings of how they are falsely represented.
It inspires them to reinvent inclusive notions around beauty and strength, reconsider their involvement in sexting and looks-based spectator bullying, and reclaim the value of self worth, healthy living, and empathy.
Audiences are challenged to connect with their own positive personal power, and to authentically contribute to the larger school community.
Presenter
Brie Mathers has spoken to 60,000 teen youth worldwide with her multi-media event Love the Skin You’re In.
Inspiring young women to find compassion within themselves and for one another, and to lead a new conversation about their bodies and beings, the Canadian- born McGill University graduate conducts connective school-wide body image events about media literacy and mindfulness.
Author of Freedom to Blossom, yogini, and motivational speaker, Brie lives in Muskoka, Ontario Canada.
Youth walk away with:
- a reality check on cultural body image, sexuality stereotypes, and sexting
- the value and practice of positive self talk
- the strategy to choose connection over competition with one another
- a vision for their role as leaders in the world
- making the connection between kindness and mental health
- a sense of their role in preventing bullying, most of which is looks-based
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