How To: Build Literacy around Pornography
How To Online Taster Trainings - Summer Term 2026
This summer, our How To online taster training sessions are responding directly to the challenges that teachers have shared with us: how to talk about porn and how to respond to misogyny.
They are designed to move from crisis management to proactive education, aligning with the latest Violence Against Women and Girls strategy and new 2026 RSE statutory requirements.
Our How To training sessions are for anyone working with young people: teachers, youth practitioners, healthcare professionals, social workers.
They work well as a duo, so we are offering 1 for £35 or 2 for £50. Get in touch if you want to book both.
Session #1: How To: Build Literacy around Pornography
This training is designed to help you navigate a topic that has had a lot of noise in schools, media and research recently: porn.
We want to break through fear-based messaging and offer a skills-based approach to shifting the conversation from silencing to safe exploration. We’ll move beyond the anti-porn argument to look at media literacy, sexual ethics and the reality of how young people experience porn in 2026.
After the session, you will have…
A broadened understanding of the pornography landscape - you will have an expanded view of what porn means today: from video content, imagery, text, social media, messaging and the influence of AI on this.
A skills-based toolkit for dialogue - you will leave with practical ways to move away from didactic teaching towards a critical, media literacy approach which helps young people understand how porn is influenced by many things including money and power.
Strategies for embedding safety and ethics - you will learn how to lead with a rights and responsibilities framework rather than a prohibitive, anti-porn approach which can shut down conversations and leave young people vulnerable.
Nice things that people have said about our previous trainings:
"The interactive elements were really thought provoking." (Understanding RSE and Religious Diversity training)
"Great opportunity to reflect on cultural narratives and how to start to challenge these with young people." (Understanding a Culture of Consent training)
"Very inspiring and definitely helped me how to approach students with these matters." (How To: Talk about Sexual Harassment training).
Check out session #2: How To: Deconstruct Misogyny