SOCCS 2025: Full Schedule

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8:30am PST

Opening Session: Welcome + Survivors Panel

Saturday March 8, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am PST

Speakers

Amari Davis

Black Led Organizer, Queer the Land

Amari Davis works as Black Led Organizer for Queer The Land, as well as a paid volunteer through WA Therapy Fund Foundation- a Black led foundation creating opportunities for Black folks to get free therapy and peer support- as a Peer Counselor. They run a group called Black, Trans... Read More →

Josephine A. Lauren

Founder & Community Organizer, Incest AWARE

Josephine A. Lauren, MTS, (she/they) is a queer, neurodivergent author, activist, and incest survivor. Jo. earned a Masters in Theological Studies, then advanced their career as a minister, a teacher, then a designer. Through their creative career path, they learned the value of social... Read More →

Ilwad Mohamed

Student, UPrep

Patrick Northcott

Student, UPrep

Patrick Northcott (he/him) is a senior at UPrep. He is a head student organizer of SOCCS, a leader of the school’s consent task force, and has interned at “I Have The Right To” org. in Washington DC. Patrick is the captain of the Varsity baseball team. Spending much of his time... Read More →

Chessy Prout

Co-Founder, I Have the Right To Org Inc.

Chessy is a subject matter expert and Co-Founder of I Have The Right To. Her memoir, I Have The Right To; A High School Survivor’s Story of Sexual Assault, Justice and Hope, documents institutional complicity in sexual assault and provides hope to survivors and parents. Chessy is... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am PST

Audience Educators, Parents/Guardians, Students

10:15am PST

Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:15am - 10:40am PST

L230

We meet in affinity groups to feel the solidarity, soft space and rejuvenation that come from these groups. Affinity groups are open to individuals who identify as members of the group and can speak to the experience of being a member of the group from the "I" perspective. We acknowledge that we all hold multiple and intersecting identities, and that you may need to make a choice to focus on one of your identities during this session. We invite you to bring your wholeness into whichever space you choose for this conversation.

Speakers

Hana Hyde

Student, UPrep

Maddie Takamiya

Student, UPrep

Maddie Takamiya is senior at University Prep. She is a leader of the Consent Task Force and a lead student organizer of SOCCS. Outside of academics, Maddie works as the assistant for the Infection Prevention department at Swedish Hospital, captains the UPrep volleyball team, and works... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:15am - 10:40am PST
L230

Affinity Group

10:15am PST

Educators Professional Affinity Group

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:15am - 10:40am PST

Makerspace

Speakers

Lindsay Metcalfe

Counselor, UPrep

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:15am - 10:40am PST
Makerspace

Affinity Group

10:15am PST

LGBTQIA+ Affinity Group

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:15am - 10:40am PST

L310

Please note we cannot guarantee the confidentiality of this space.

We meet in affinity groups to feel the solidarity, soft space and rejuvenation that come from these groups. Affinity groups are open to individuals who identify as members of the group and can speak to the experience of being a member of the group from the "I" perspective. We acknowledge that we all hold multiple and intersecting identities, and that you may need to make a choice to focus on one of your identities during this session. We invite you to bring your wholeness into whichever space you choose for this conversation.

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:15am - 10:40am PST
L310

Affinity Group

10:15am PST

Mental Health Providers Professional Affinity Group

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:15am - 10:40am PST

L114

Speakers

Andrea Moore

Counselor, UPrep

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:15am - 10:40am PST
L114

Affinity Group

10:15am PST

Mixed Discussion Group

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:15am - 10:40am PST

L320

This group is for students who would prefer not to meet affinity groups.

Speakers

Wynne Johnson

Student, UPrep

Wynne Johnson (she/her) is a senior at UPrep. She is a lead organizer of SOCCS and an executive of UPrep’s Mental Health Advisory Board. She is passionate about educating teens on how to use their voice and had an op-ed published in The Seattle Times encouraging students to advocate for mental health resources in their schools. Wynne loves to sing and is a member of Vocalpoint! Seattle. She also works as a server at a retirement home in Queen Anne. Wynne will be attending Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering in the fall... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:15am - 10:40am PST
L320

Affinity Group

Audience Students

10:15am PST

Parents & Guardians Group

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:15am - 10:40am PST

L321

Speakers

Kristin Leong

Founder & Executive Editor, The Family Court Report

Kristin Leong, M.Ed. is the founder of The Family Court Report, a multimedia hub sharing news and human stories from the front lines of America's Family Court system. She is a 2023 Creative Capital awardee, AIR New Voices Scholar, international TED-Ed Innovative Educator, and Seattle... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:15am - 10:40am PST
L321

Affinity Group

10:15am PST

Young Men's Affinity Group

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:15am - 10:40am PST

L330

This is a space for trans and cis men.

We meet in affinity groups to feel the solidarity, soft space and rejuvenation that come from these groups. Affinity groups are open to individuals who identify as members of the group and can speak to the experience of being a member of the group from the "I" perspective. We acknowledge that we all hold multiple and intersecting identities, and that you may need to make a choice to focus on one of your identities during this session. We invite you to bring your wholeness into whichever space you choose for this conversation.

Speakers

Patrick Northcott

Student, UPrep

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:15am - 10:40am PST
L330

Affinity Group

10:15am PST

Young Women's Affinity Group

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:15am - 10:40am PST

L120

This is a space for trans and cis women.

We meet in affinity groups to feel the solidarity, soft space and rejuvenation that come from these groups. Affinity groups are open to individuals who identify as members of the group and can speak to the experience of being a member of the group from the "I" perspective. We acknowledge that we all hold multiple and intersecting identities, and that you may need to make a choice to focus on one of your identities during this session. We invite you to bring your wholeness into whichever space you choose for this conversation.

Speakers

Paige Johnson

Student, UPrep

Maleha Moradian

Student, UPrep

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:15am - 10:40am PST
L120

Affinity Group

10:50am PST

A Father's Perspective on Sexual Assault

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST

L321

Interactive session on the data / statistics / impact of sexual assault. The reality is we all know a victim of sexual violence, but the loved one, classmate, relative, friend does not feel safe enough to speak out. We discuss the impact of trauma and how to best support someone through it.

Speakers

Alexander Prout

Co-Founder, I Have The Right To

Alexander Prout, Co-founder of I Have The Right To Org is a national advocate against gender-based violence and a victim's rights advocate. Following the assault of his daughter Chessy Prout, author and survivor of St. Paul's School in Concord, NH, Alex's alma mater, Alex has dedicated... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST
L321

Informative

Audience Parents/Guardians, Educators, Students

10:50am PST

A Student Discussion Room on "Hook Up Culture": Risks and Opportunities

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST

L330

This discussion room is a student-only space to foster conversation about the impact of hook-up culture. What are the risks and opportunities, and how do we interface that with ourselves? Hook-up culture can be engaged with and participated in on many levels. As the session leader and a high school student, I hope to hold a meaningful conversation directed by curated questions while leaving room for open discussion.

Speakers

Patrick Northcott

Student, UPrep

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST
L330

Informative

Audience Students

10:50am PST

Activism Through Storytelling

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST

L114

Chessy will lead a workshop on film and media as activism. She will share her short film debut, AFTERMATH, which debuted at the Athena film Festival. "The issues I try to tackle in the short film (sexual assault, consent, mental health, PTSD) are all hot button topics that deserve to be fleshed out beyond the "after school special" or true crime, exploitive genre through which these stories are often told I wanted to do justice to the complex feelings, visual paranoia, and intimate moments survivors can experience in the aftermath of assault; with AFTERMATH, I want to explore the human behind the trauma and the aftermath of a headline."

Speakers

Chessy Prout

Co-Founder, I Have the Right To Org Inc.

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST
L114

Informative

10:50am PST

Campaigning for Consent: How to Make a Difference at Your School

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST

L120

A workshop by students, for students. This workshop will help students create a student-led sexual violence group at their school. This workshop will include information on how to be an educator, create an inclusive space, advertise effectively, make resources, and more.

Speakers

Lilly DuPuis

Student & Co-Founder, The Consent Collective

Lilly DuPuis (She/Her) is a student at West Seattle High School, and a co-founder and facilitator of two student-led groups against sexual violence. Consent Collective and the West Seattle High School Sexual Violence Resource Group both work to promote a culture of consent in and... Read More →

Sam Feit

The Consent Collective

Sam Feit (pronouns he/they) is a sophomore student at West Seattle High School, and a member of two student-led groups dedicated to preventing sexual violence in our community, the WSHS Sexual Violence Resource Group and the Seattle Students Consent Collective. Both groups are geared... Read More →

Remi Grady

The Consent Collective

Remi (they/them) is a senior at Garfield high school and a member of Garfields Sexual Assault Awareness Club as well as Consent Collective. Their senior superlative is 'class activist' and they take it to heart. They are super excited to meet everyone, reach out on instagram @remi.grady... Read More →

Ellen Rikhof

Student & Co-Founder, The Consent Collective

Ellen Rikhof (she/her) is a junior at West Seattle High School, and a co-founder and facilitator of two student-led groups against sexual violence, the West Seattle High School Sexual Violence Resource Group and Seattle Students Consent Collective. Each group works to educate students... Read More →

Jess Rugland

The Consent Collective

Ash Rulifson

The Consent Collective

Ash Rulifson (they/them) is an 11th grade student at Lincoln High School with a passion for social justice and community engagement. They are the president of Lincoln's Social Justice Club, which allows them to dabble in all the areas they are passionate about, including consent... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST
L120

Informative

Audience Students

10:50am PST

Consent Beyond Sex with The Consent Academy

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST

L212

Too often we talk about consent as only a sexual issue. It's way more than that. Join us for a look at all the ways consent can be a part of your daily life. We'll explore and practice how to give and withhold consent and discuss the things that sometimes make that complicated.

Speakers

Sar Surmick

Director Emeritus, The Consent Academy

Sar is a systemic therapist and consent expert. She specializes in Identity, Consensual Non-Monogamy, and Consensual Behavior. Sar is author of, "The Consent Primer," an internationally known Consent educator, an MFT supervisor, an advocate for a non-binary & Trans individuals, and... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST
L212

Informative

Audience Parents/Guardians, Students, Educators

10:50am PST

Creating Safety Together: Using Harm Reduction Strategies to Navigate the Intersections of Substance Use and Sexual Violence Prevention

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST

L210

Here are some things we know to be true. Some young people may engage in the use of alcohol and drugs and some young people may engage in a variety of sexual and intimate touch. We also know that the combination of those two can lead to situations that may feel unsafe, emotionally complicated, and ultimately lead to harm and violence. Harm Reduction, a philosophy, and a range of intentional practices to navigate the social and physical consequences of behaviors deemed risky, allows us a lens to have honest and nuanced conversations about how we build our own safety. In this workshop, we will explore the philosophies of Harm Reduction, the impacts of substance use on consent practices, and finally, learn and apply a harm reduction tool to relevant case studies.

Speakers

Sam Foote

Mental Health Counselor, Eastside Preparatory School

Sam Foote (they/she) joined the Eastside Preparatory School Counseling team with one main question in mind – how do we best support young people in building robust and healthy relationships with themselves, their peers, and their communities? With a Masters in Social Work from the... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST
L210

Informative

Audience Students

10:50am PST

Don't Push Back The Line: It's Our Right to Set the Boundary

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST

Makerspace

We’ve created this workshop to provide students, parents, and professionals with the knowledge and skills for setting personal boundaries, voicing harmful behavior, and bringing awareness to sexual misconduct. When we have the knowledge, awareness, and preventive measures provided in the right place, we leave space for people to ACT. This workshop aims to teach adults and children how to set their own boundaries, intervene for themselves or others safely, and how to bring awareness to sexual violence and prevention at school and at home.

In this presentation, the three main objectives are: • Teach how to recognize sexual misconduct and who are the common violators. • Give specific examples and provide ways to intervene safely. Know who to get involved. • Provide guidance on how to create change in a silent space that does not promote incest prevention strategies.

Speakers

Shirkydra Roberts

Speaker and Advocate, Incest Aware Alliance

Shirkydra Roberts is the founder and CEO of Impact, Aspire, Motivate Enterprises (I.A.M.E.). She was raised in a single-family home with her mother and two siblings in Dallas, Texas. She has a B.A. in psychology and is currently working towards a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST
Makerspace

Informative

Audience Educators, Students, Parents/Guardians

10:50am PST

Hearing & Saying No: How to Process "No" as Information Rather than Rejection

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST

L230

The word “no” in verbal and non-verbal forms can elicit a visceral response in those who hear it, and in those who say it. Join us for an interactive discussion about the ways “no” can be communicated and received in all relationships and areas of our lives.

Speakers

Karen Udall

Facilitator, I Have The Right To

Karen Udall, MS in Forensic Psychology, (she/her) is a consent educator and program facilitator specializing in teen dating violence awareness and sexual assault prevention.As the mother of a survivor of teen sexual assault, she has first-hand knowledge of the impact this epidemic... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST
L230

Informative

Audience Students

10:50am PST

Reporting Sexual Assault and Supporting Survivors

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST

L312

Prevention Services Specialists from KCSARC will be presenting on navigating the reporting process after a sexual assault and supporting a friend/family member after receiving a disclosure of sexual assault or abuse.

Speakers

Jessica Cowles

Prevention Services Specialist, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

Jessica Cowles graduated in 2016 from Eastern Washington University with a BA in Psychology and Criminal Justice. She worked as a street outreach worker and case manager working with at-risk and homeless youth at Nexus Youth and Families for 2 and a half years. Jessica started at... Read More →

Hannah Pepin

Prevention Services Specialist, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST
L312

Informative

Audience Students

10:50am PST

Together We Will Bridge the Incest Gap: A Dreaming & Design Workshop

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST

L304

Listen to author and activist Josephine A. Lauren of Incest AWARE share their story to inform participants about The Incest Gap: The vulnerability of children to sexual abuse by family members, the isolation of survivors and families through healing, as well as the ineffective criminal legal models that allow people who harm to reoffend. Then reimagine and redesign social and systemic solutions to improve methods of incest prevention, intervention, recovery, and justice. Together we will dream about how to protect children, support survivors and families, and transform people who harm to create safer communities.

Speakers

Josephine A. Lauren

Founder & Community Organizer, Incest AWARE

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST
L304

Informative

Audience Educators, Parents/Guardians, Students

10:50am PST

Trauma-Informed Healthcare with a Doula

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST

L310

Trauma and trauma-related health conditions unfortunately are common during pregnancy, labor and birth but most people don’t know how a trained and experienced doula can make a difference to offer parents a better and less traumatic experience.

It is important to understand the impact of trauma on pregnancy, labor and birth, including possible ways to recovery; then recognize signs and symptoms of trauma; on this situations doulas should be ready to respond by integrating evidence and sensitivity into their practice. Trauma-informed doula care center on these principles: safety; trustworthiness and transparency; peer support with other survivors; collaboration and mutuality; resilience, empowerment, voice, and choice; social, cultural, and historical considerations. Ideally universal trauma-informed doula care should be a standard of practice and offered to all clients, including trauma-targeted care that can be offered specifically to clients who are identified as trauma survivors, and connect them to trauma specialist services.

Speakers

Mariana Graciano

Nutere Doula LLC

I’ve been a birth and postpartum doula for the last 3 and a 1/2 years in Seattle and I have a real passion on supporting parents during the perinatal period. I’m trauma trained and a certified perinatal peer group facilitator. Each year I worked with the pregnancy, labor and birth... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST
L310

Informative

Audience Students, Educators, Parents/Guardians

10:50am PST

What are Young Men Taught?

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST

L320

This session is most relevant for male-identifying attendees and adults who support young men. In this session, we will reflect on and discuss the explicit and implicit lessons we are taught as men, and discuss their connection to consent and related themes.

Speakers

Moses Rifkin

Science Teacher, UPrep

Moses Rifkin is a science teacher and a co-editor of the Underrepresentation Curriculum, a free resource for science teachers looking to bring conversations about identity, equity and justice into their classrooms. He also is an organizer and facilitator for the Young Men's Conference... Read More →

Leroy Timblin

Technical Theater Director, UPrep

Leroy Timblin is the Technical Theatre Teacher and Theatre manager of Founders Hall. In his first year at UPrep, he just moved here from Phoenix, Arizona. He love being outdoors, Throwing Axes, and a good Zombie Movie, and is a lead organizer of the Young Mens Conference.

Saturday March 8, 2025 10:50am - 11:50am PST
L320

Informative

Audience Educators, Parents/Guardians, Students

11:55am PST

Lunch

Saturday March 8, 2025 11:55am - 12:40pm PST

12:40pm PST

"Did You Tell Him No?" What I Wish I Knew

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST

L230

The presenter will share her personal story as a secondary survivor and facilitate an interactive discussion about tools, definitions, & warning signs to increase awareness for parents and educators. As the mother of a survivor, the presenter will discuss her experiences from learning about consent to fighting for her daughter's physical, mental, emotional health to learning about Title IX and what the school personnel could have done to her own graduate program in forensic psychology.

Speakers

Karen Udall

Facilitator, I Have The Right To

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST
L230

Case Studies

Audience Students, Educators, Parents/Guardians

12:40pm PST

Building a Comprehensive Sexual Violence Prevention Program

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST

L210

Explore the case study of how Lakeside School in Seattle, Washington is making waves of change through sexual violence prevention workshops for students in grades 10-12. This session will focus on the development of the program, a curriculum overview and approaches for cultivating knowledge and skills that act as protective factors against sexual violence, explorations of the identity and DEIBJ components of the program, critical issues in development, and considerations for future growth. Some time will be allotted for participant discussion around opportunities for and challenges of developing and implementing a primary prevention program in your school community.

Speakers

Abbey Sandusky

Sexual Violence Prevention Teacher, Human Development and Health Teacher, Lakeside (Upper) School

Abbey Sandusky (they/them) is a Human Development 9 and Sexual Violence Prevention 10-12 teacher at Lakeside School in Seattle, Washington. Abbey attended Florida State University for English Education. Their appreciation for literature and its exploration of the human experience... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST
L210

Case Studies

Audience Parents/Guardians, Students, Educators

12:40pm PST

Consent is Elementary: Curriculum for Elementary Students

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST

L310

In this workshop, we'll start by exploring the impact that SHB 1539 (Erin’s Law), passed in the WA legislature in 2018, continues to have on shaping learning standards related to consent in elementary school. Then we'll research and create lessons about consent using videos, picture books and more developmentally relevant resources.

Speakers

Patrick King

DEI Curriculum Specialist, University Child Development School (UCDS)

Patrick King (he/him) is an educator, consultant and lifelong learner. He comes from a background in curriculum development for various non-profits such as The Representation Project and classroom teaching. In the past few years, Patrick has stepped into Diversity, Equity and Inclusion... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST
L310

Case Studies

Audience Students

12:40pm PST

Disrupting Sexism and Designing for Equality: Frameworks for Preventing, Responding and Resolving Harassment, Assault and Abuse in Schools

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST

L330

Using scenarios drawn from the experience of real schools tackling sexism and sexual violence, this dynamic and evidence-based workshop will help equip participants with knowledge and strategies to prevent, respond, and resolve relationship and sexual violence, harassment, and misogyny and to champion gender equality within their schools and communities. 3 Questions that will be Discussed: 1. How can schools holistically and proactively champion safe student relationships and healthy gender identities, values, and behaviors? 2. How might individuals, families, and society transform when schools proactively teach the skills and knowledge to engage in healthy, equitable, and consensual relationships? 3. What happens when schools ignore misogynistic jokes and comments, harassing behavior and language, and worse? What do individuals learn–targets, perpetrators, and bystanders? What happens in our communities? Participant Takeaways: Identify frameworks, strategies, and resources related to 1) responding to and preventing sexual violence, misogyny, and harassment and 2) advancing gender-equitable and healthy relationships, identities, and cultures.

Speakers

Justine Finn

Director and Founder, Relation-Shift

Since founding Relation-Shift at the Harvard Innovation Lab in 2016, Justine has partnered with dozens of schools and over 5,000 educators to build holistic school programs to champion student safety and equity. Justine has worked for the past 16 years with schools and communities... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST
L330

Case Studies

Audience Parents/Guardians, Students, Educators

12:40pm PST

Quit Clicking Kids: An Exploration in "Sharenting" LIMITED

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST

L320

The "Quit Clicking Kids" workshop is designed to raise awareness about the dangers of sharing sensitive information online and is aimed specifically at parents and educators. The workshop will include background information about what it means to be featured on a monetized family social media account, then will segue to actual instances of real-world harm that these accounts bring. From Myka Stauffer to Ruby Franke to countless others, this workshop will explore the question: “What does it mean for children to be online and to lose their privacy— all without their consent?”.

Speakers

Chris McCarty

Founder, Executive Director, Quit Clicking Kids

When influencing becomes an industry, how do we make sure that child stars of the most popular accounts are keeping their children safe and affording them financial compensation for their work?As a high school senior at UPrep, I worked to craft and introduce legislation (HB 2032... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST
L320

Case Studies

Audience Educators, Parents/Guardians

12:40pm PST

Relationship Education in Washington LIMITED

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST

L304

In 2020, Senate Bill 5395 passed, requiring all public schools to provide comprehensive sexual health education to all students by the 2022-2023 school year. In this workshop, we will discuss how One Love teaches relationship health, how this complies with the Comprehensive Sexual Health Education requirements, and the impact of this education on students in the state.

Speakers

Gabi Shutt

Program Manager, One Love Foundation

Gabi Shutt is a Program Manager for One Love in the Pacific Northwest. Gabi has 8 years of experience working in non-profits through arts education, arts administration, and grant writing. She has a B.A. in Dance Education from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and an... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST
L304

Case Studies

Audience Parents/Guardians, Educators, Students

12:40pm PST

The Impact of Using Your Voice LIMITED

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST

L321

A discussion on the superpower our young people possess - their voice. One voice can make an impact, one action can bring change, one conversation can change someone's life. We will highlight experiences of our family and our org to reflect how young people can bribg societal change.

Speakers

Alexander Prout

Co-Founder, I Have The Right To

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST
L321

Case Studies

Audience Educators, Parents/Guardians, Students

12:40pm PST

The Silencing of Youth: Consent, Custody, and Court LIMITED

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST

L212

In Washington, teens are empowered to drive cars, get jobs, and seek confidential healthcare all without the oversight of a parent or guardian. In Family Court however, anyone under 18 is muzzled by a justice system that bans youth from testifying, or even attending court hearings. In this workshop, we will explore the relationship between consent and youth voice; and delve into how youth experiences are not just sidelined but silenced in custody and domestic violence hearings, while the arguments of parents and "experts" are prioritized. Our exploration will be interactive and grounded by case studies of real families who are fighting for safety and justice through our Family Courts. Through lively discussion and activities, we will imagine possibilities for reform and action together.

Speakers

Jinie Chon

The Family Court Report

Kristin Leong

Founder & Executive Editor, The Family Court Report

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST
L212

Case Studies

Audience Students, Educators, Parents/Guardians

12:40pm PST

You Read It Wrong: Misrepresented Women Throughout Time LIMITED

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST

L120

History is written by the winners. During this informative workshop, we will delve back into our history books to reexamine the bias against and misrepresentation toward women in the past that leave a legacy of rape culture today. Students will be asked to reflect on their own education and confront their own bias.

Speakers

Wynne Johnson

Student, UPrep

Maddie Takamiya

Student, UPrep

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST
L120

Case Studies

Audience Educators, Parents/Guardians, Students

12:40pm PST

What is Consent? Why You Should Care LIMITED

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST

L301 (Colab)

In this workshop we will lay foundation, explore examples, and set the precedent for countering non-consenual behavior, ideology, or practices we recognize in our culture that remove autonomy of ones body and place that power into the hands of another without their permission. We will train how to recognize, assess, and interrupt non-consensual situations so that we can act with consent and encourage other to do the same.

Speakers

Aaziah Jordan

Wellbeing Innovation Architect, GIFTED.

Aaziah is a Design Innovation Entrepreneur that is mapping out answers to addressing basic human needs in a holistic way. Through constructive conversations, wellness innovation, and care, concern, and consideration he hopes his contributions to creating human-centered ecosystems... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PST
L301 (Colab)

Informative

Audience Parents/Guardians, Educators, Students

1:50pm PST

Behind the Scenes: Helping Your Kids Make Sense of Porn, Consent, and Sex LIMITED

Saturday March 8, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm PST

L212

Pornography is shaping the way children understand and relate to themselves, their peers, and sexuality.

Most mainstream pornography fails to accurately portray consent conversations, boundary setting, risk management, and sexual health protocol.

Join other parents to learn how to start conversations with your kids about pornography so they can develop an understanding of sexuality based on joy, care, and responsibility. Leave class with a list of the best online resources to share with your kids to strengthen the conversations at home.

Speakers

Claire Appelmans

Founder, Living Earth Sex Ed

Claire Appelmans is a sexuality educator who supports parents in having conversations about sexuality with their children. She teaches and provides private consultation to parents and caregivers in her business, Living Earth Sex Ed.Claire is queer, non-disabled and a non-parent. She... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm PST
L212

Interactive

Audience Parents/Guardians, Educators

1:50pm PST

Consent For the Stage & Beyond LIMITED

Saturday March 8, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm PST

L330

Best Practices are the basics of consent for the theatre, including tools for developing consent-based lessons, setting boundaries, desexualizing the process of intimacy on stage, and vocabulary.

We will walk through basic trauma informed practices, including a boundary exercise that is the basic foundation of all intimacy training for the stage. You will leave learning fences and gates, and a boundary exercise you can use in real-world practice beyond the stage.

Speakers

Abby Nathan

Director/intimacy director, UPrep

Abby Nathan has been working as an actor in and around the Seattle area for 11 years. They have their AA and BFA in acting and are currently preparing their thesis for their MA in theatre education. During their MA process they discovered consent and trauma response training and has... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm PST
L330

Interactive

Audience Students, Parents/Guardians, Educators

1:50pm PST

Consent Via Zine Making LIMITED

Saturday March 8, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm PST

L114

In this workshop, students will learn embodied consent practices and skills and translate those learnings into a one-page mini zine. This workshop will blend anti-violence teachings rooted in consent, boundaries and bodily autonomy skill building while incorporating visual art through mini zine making.

Speakers

Såhi Velasco

Artist, Tender virgo

Såhi Velasco (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, CHamoru parent, multi-disciplinary creator, organizer and facilitator. Såhi grew up in Washington State, living the last 17 years in Seattle, WA. They spent part of their childhood on their ancestral land of Guåhan from the villages... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm PST
L114

Interactive

Audience Students

1:50pm PST

Consenting to Pleasure LIMITED

Saturday March 8, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm PST

L230

This workshop teaches sexual anatomy in an interactive, inclusive, and body-positive way! Participants will use playdoh to sculpt a variety of body parts and explore the role of consent and pleasure in sexual exploration.

Speakers

Naomi Price-Lazarus

Founder & Educator, Papaya Project

Naomi Price-Lazarus (she/her) is a Sexuality Educator based in Seattle. She runs a non-profit called Papaya Project, through which she creates workshops for youth and adults to learn about and celebrate their bodies and sexualities, all the while building a stronger sense of self... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm PST
L230

Interactive

Audience Students

1:50pm PST

Dancing and Movement: Finding Joy in Your Body LIMITED

Saturday March 8, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm PST

Wellness Space

Use dance movement and pop music to reconnect with your body, breathe deeply, and celebrate together!

Movement clothes and sneakers are recommended for this workshop.

Speakers

Mikayla Patella-Buckley

Faculty, UPrep

Mikayla Patella-Buckley is an 18-year teaching veteran at UPrep. She teaches science to high school students and is also chair of the their Science Department. She also teaches dance-based fitness classes at UPrep and other local gyms. For four months in 2022, she visited Finland... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm PST
Wellness Space

Interactive

Audience Students

1:50pm PST

Food for Movement: Basic Meditation, Physical De-escalation, and Bystander Training LIMITED

Saturday March 8, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm PST

L120

This workshop will give participants the opportunity to take a break from the week and find some time to meditate. Folks will then learn some basic physical de-escalation skills for themselves. We will wrap with some basic tips on how to be a Bystander/Upstander for others. QTBIPOC folks or anyone who is concerned with combatting hate-based violence may find this particularly useful.

Speakers

Professor M. Aziz

Founder, Survival Pending TRANSformation: A Community Safety Project

Dr M. Aziz, PhD, (they/he), is a Black, transmasc, Muslim professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies at UW as well as a community safety educator. They are committed to collective safety and their organizing focuses on holistic self-defense for the mind, body, and spirit. A... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm PST
L120

Interactive

Audience Parents/Guardians, Educators, Students

1:50pm PST

Get to Know Your Embodied Yes and No LIMITED

Saturday March 8, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm PST

L320

Begining with introducing myself and the field of somatics, embodiment and consent education. Defining the terms somatic and nervous system regulation, I will offer a series of invitational activities to have an embodied experience of these terms. A body scan, to notice the sensations of the body and how those sensations are a language. Moving into interception, proprioception, exteroception and neuroception the next invitations will include exploring these states around the room. Moving into the somatic inquiry of what does a yes, no and maybe feel like? We’ll practice speaking these to each other and thanking each “no”.

Speakers

Greta Flowers

Greta Flowers aka the Pleasure Guide

I am Greta (g/she/they), I’m a Certified Somatic Intimacy Educator, Consent Educator and performing artist. I help people to live more fully in their bodies. I collaborate with clients to create a safe enough container to expand their capacity to feel. Moving at the speed of trust... Read More →

Katie Spataro

Saturday March 8, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm PST
L320

Interactive

Audience Students

1:50pm PST

What It Means To Be A Man LIMITED

Saturday March 8, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm PST

L321

A workshop format to discuss the meaning of masculinity. We will compare "socially constructed" masculinity to a fuller definition of being a man and discuss how do men reach their full potential ("Aspirational Masculinity").

Speakers

Alexander Prout

Co-Founder, I Have The Right To

Saturday March 8, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm PST
L321

Interactive

Audience Educators, Parents/Guardians, Students

2:55pm PST

Bush School Cohort Group LIMITED

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:20pm PST

L301 (Colab)

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:20pm PST
L301 (Colab)

School Cohort Group

2:55pm PST

Ballard High School Cohort Group

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST

L330

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST
L330

School Cohort Group

2:55pm PST

Blanchet School Cohort Group

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST

L304

What is the first thing we want to do when we get back to school?
In connecting with other schools…
- What is something our school is doing well?
- What is something another school is doing we can learn from?
Who is someone that can hold you accountable?
How can we work towards institutionalizing?
Can you write an email right now to a principal about your experience?

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST
L304

School Cohort Group

2:55pm PST

Consent Collective Cohort Group

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST

Makerspace

What is the first thing we want to do when we get back to school?
In connecting with other schools…
- What is something our school is doing well?
- What is something another school is doing we can learn from?
Who is someone that can hold you accountable?
How can we work towards institutionalizing?
Can you write an email right now to a principal about your experience?

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST
Makerspace

School Cohort Group

2:55pm PST

EPS School Cohort Group

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST

L321

What is the first thing we want to do when we get back to school?
In connecting with other schools…
- What is something our school is doing well?
- What is something another school is doing we can learn from?
Who is someone that can hold you accountable?
How can we work towards institutionalizing?
Can you write an email right now to a principal about your experience?

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST
L321

School Cohort Group

2:55pm PST

Evergreen School Cohort Meeting

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST

L230

What is the first thing we want to do when we get back to school?
In connecting with other schools…
- What is something our school is doing well?
- What is something another school is doing we can learn from?
Who is someone that can hold you accountable?
How can we work towards institutionalizing?
Can you write an email right now to a principal about your experience?

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST
L230

School Cohort Group

2:55pm PST

GDS School Cohort Group

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST

L320

What is the first thing we want to do when we get back to school?
In connecting with other schools…
- What is something our school is doing well?
- What is something another school is doing we can learn from?
Who is someone that can hold you accountable?
How can we work towards institutionalizing?
Can you write an email right now to a principal about your experience?

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST
L320

School Cohort Group

2:55pm PST

Northwest School Cohort Group

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST

L312

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST
L312

School Cohort Group

2:55pm PST

Overlake School Cohort Group

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST

L120

What is the first thing we want to do when we get back to school?
In connecting with other schools…
- What is something our school is doing well?
- What is something another school is doing we can learn from?
Who is someone that can hold you accountable?
How can we work towards institutionalizing?
Can you write an email right now to a principal about your experience?

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST
L120

School Cohort Group

2:55pm PST

SAAS School Cohort Group

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST

L114

What is the first thing we want to do when we get back to school?
In connecting with other schools…
- What is something our school is doing well?
- What is something another school is doing we can learn from?
Who is someone that can hold you accountable?
How can we work towards institutionalizing?
Can you write an email right now to a principal about your experience?

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST
L114

School Cohort Group

2:55pm PST

UPrep School Cohort Group

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST

Wellness Space

What is the first thing we want to do when we get back to school?
In connecting with other schools…
- What is something our school is doing well?
- What is something another school is doing we can learn from?
Who is someone that can hold you accountable?
How can we work towards institutionalizing?
Can you write an email right now to a principal about your experience?

Saturday March 8, 2025 2:55pm - 3:30pm PST
Wellness Space

School Cohort Group

3:30pm PST

Closing Keynote

Saturday March 8, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm PST

Speakers

Wynne Johnson

Student, UPrep

Chanel Miller

Author

Chanel Miller is a writer and artist. Her memoir, Know My Name, was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Ridenhour Book Prize, and the California Book Award... Read More →

Saturday March 8, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm PST