Not so great news:

Digital Natives (iGen - kids born after 1994) are more at risk for anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicidal ideation than any generation that has come before. Social connection is happening in two worlds online and in real time with face to face connection taking a nosedive in terms of time and quality. The average teenager spends between 6 to 9 hours a day in front of a screen and are experiencing challenges to their mental health that no other generation has experienced.

This requires parenting skills that are having to adjust to the changing landscape that our kids are facing, but we have no guide but our own experiences being raised and half of us are trying to make sure our kids don't have childhoods marked by the challenges that we faced.

Sometimes we need a bit of help and guidance. This course is that.

Film Director and Women's Health Nurse Mandi Lynn spent the last year traveling the country interviewing parents and girls for her documentary Finding Venus, trying to find the answers to one primary question. "How do we keep our daughters self-compassion and creative magic alive through the gauntlet of the digital adolescence. "

This course will shed light on what she found and what became the foundation for the HeArtivist program.

Parents Workshop: 6-9pm

Tool box Session: How to support your daughter to be

• Body Confident
• Emotionally Literate
• Creatively Resilient

This is a workshop for you if you are concerned about at least one of the following:

• The influence of social media on your daughters
• Your daughter is already making negative comments about her body or her weight.
• Your daughter struggles to identify and handle her emotions.
• She is perfectionistic and prone to quitting or getting frustrated easily
• Bullying or victimhood

What you will receive

• Tool box of new activities and ideas you can use to help develop a girl who stand strong and compassionately in her own personal power
• Tool Box for yourself to help you do the same :)

All ticket sales go to fund the pilot project of the HeArtivists.