Let's Talk ABout X's
Consent culture Training
for workplaces
Prevent sexual harassment in the workplace with training in everyday affirmative consent skills - our tailored workshops provide targeted education for cultural change. Let us help you meet your positive duty to eliminate psychosocial hazards and cultivate an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where your staff love coming to work every day.
Workplace Consent Culture Training
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Ever had someone lean over your desk in a way that made you uncomfortable? Have you received an inappropriate email or text message from a colleague? Perhaps been faced with a power dynamic that made it feel unsafe to say no?
Sometimes we can make people uncomfortable without even realising it. In this workplace consent workshop, we provide your staff with a better understanding of what types of behaviours constitute sexual harassment, and empower them with the affirmative consent skills to prevent this from happening in the workplace.
Learn to apply explicit communication tools and check for congruent body language to ensure everyone feels comfortable, or step in as a bystander when you notice someone doesn’t.
Training Format: Tailored Interactive Workshop
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Duration: 90-120 minutes
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Delivery Mode: Online
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Suitable For: All Staff (the workshop will be tailored to suit your industry and the specific context of your workplace)
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Take a Look
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Here's a sneak peak from one of our workshops. Keep in mind we tailor examples and scenarios to suit the context of each specific workplace we support.
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Online our workshops are usually team delivered, setting an engaging, conversational tone.
Tailored Consent Culture Workshops
Which ACHR Standards CAN OUR training help you meet?
Our online Consent Culture training aligns with the Guiding Principles and the Standards laid out by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) to help workplaces comply with their Positive Duty under the Sex Discrimination Act.
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meet your Positive Duty Obligations
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Standard 1 - Leadership:
Ensure leaders have an up-to-date knowledge about relevant unlawful conduct. Our consent culture training ensures leaders can lead by example. We explore the nuances of workplace interactions and what could be considered unlawful, as well as ensure leaders feel confident to lead by example and model consent in their everyday interactions. Since we tailor our training, we can design a session specifically for your leadership team, focusing more on their obligations and what matters for them.
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Standard 2 - Culture:
Foster a culture that is safe, respectful and inclusive and that values diversity and gender equality. Our consent culture training provides staff with skills and strategies that lead to meaningful cultural change in your workplace. ​
Standard 3 - Knowledge:
Support workers (including leaders and managers) to engage in safe, respectful and inclusive behaviour through education. Let's Talk About X's training not only helps staff develop a deep understanding through examining the nuances of workplace interactions, we teach communication strategies that help to ensure workplace behaviour is always safe, respectful and inclusive.
Standard 4 - Risk Management:
Recognise that relevant unlawful conduct is an equality risk and a health and safety risk. Take a risk-based approach to prevention and response. Choose our hands-on workshop, which takes a consultative approach, working with your staff to examine potential risks and develop tools for their prevention and management.
Standard 5 - Support:
In every training session run by Let's Talk About X, we make sure that workers are informed about available support and how to access it. ​
Standard 6 - Reporting and Response:
With a focus on bystander intervention, Let's Talk About X's Everyday Affirmative Consent workshop covers informal responses to workplace sexual harassment or discrimination. This is designed to complement other internal activities already being undertaken in your workplace to meet this standard.
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Standard 7 - Monitoring, Evaluation and Transparency:
We build data collection into the training session, ensuring you're able to track the impact and outcomes.
WHY CHOOSE US?
We’re experts ​
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With combined educational backgrounds in Psychology, Education and Sexology, as well as years of experience running Let’s Talk About X - a social enterprise with the main goal of preventing gender-based violence - Mel and Eleonora are leading the way in teaching evidence-based, practical strategies to create a safer, more inclusive culture.​​
We focus on primary prevention and creating a cultural shift
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Our training supports employers and PCBUs in meeting your positive duty to eliminate workplace sex discrimination and harassment as well as other psychosocial hazards such as bullying, conflict and poor workplace relationships and interactions.Our training is aligned with the holistic approach the Respect @ Work framework champions for, helping your organisation take a primary prevention approach that goes beyond policies and complaints-handling procedures.
We recognise that gender inequality and power imbalances are a key driver for sexual harassment, and provide your staff and leaders with the understanding and tools to work towards a cultural shift at every level.
Our qualifications and experience in education mean that we know just how to support you in enacting an effective sexual harassment education strategy and framework that creates a cultural shift towards inclusion, respect and gender equality.​​
Training tailored to suit your context
​If we want to create a cultural shift, we need to understand the culture to begin with. At Let’s Talk About X, we know that every workplace is unique, and has its own culture. That’s why we consult with you to gain an understanding of your specific work environment - so that we can maximise impact by delivering training that best meets your staff where they’re at. We also know we can’t speak for everyone, so we take an intersectional approach to our work, having consulted with people from a diverse group of backgrounds and life experiences in developing our training.​
Our training is evidence-based and accessible​
Our training is trauma-informed and based on international best practice as published by UN Women, adapted for Australian workplaces and incorporating findings from Respect @ Work.​ Along with this, we believe that too much jargon can get in the way of meaningful change, so when we talk to your team, we’ll be personable, frank, clear and concise. As you know, in order to build a cultural shift we need to engage everyone, so while all our work is evidence-based, we won’t talk to you like we’re reading out a research paper.​​
We're a social enterprise
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When you book training or keynote speeches with Let’s Talk About X, you’re supporting a business for good. Every hour you engage us directly funds the creation of free resources that prevent gender-based violence. Meet your social procurement goals and maximise your impact by supporting our work!