What about the boys?
🏷️ From £90
🎧 Pastoral leads, safeguarding leads, boarding staff
📍 Online
🎥 Watch live or on catch up
✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass
Course Outline
This session will look at masculinity and the current issues affecting young men including mental health, dating and relationships, pornography, status and physical appearance. We will then move on to look at performance enhancing drugs and how these are currently used.
Training topics will include:
- The role of positive/negative role models and how they influence perspectives
- Changes in perspective and norms due to social media and entertainment
- Performance enhancing drugs – categories, legality, availability, outcomes and side effects
Learning outcomes:
- Finding evidence-based solutions to issues around promoting communication and vulnerability, positive masculinity, self-esteem and general wellbeing
- An understanding of the symptoms and characteristics of body dysmorphia vs a healthy and sustainable approach to fitness
- Realistic guidelines on training, nutrition, supplements and recovery
Speaker:
Iain Mahony
Since 2018, I have researched, designed and delivered talks on addiction, body image and masculinity to pupils, parents and staff at more than 100 leading UK independent schools. My approach is to educate and inform without lecturing, creating open, honest and non-judgemental conversations around the challenges young people face. My sessions explore the pressures and expectations that can influence mental health, self-esteem, relationships and decision-making, while encouraging greater self-awareness, resilience and empathy.
Having attended Uppingham School myself, I understand that an independent school education brings significant opportunities and advantages, but can also come with its own pressures and expectations. I aim to help audiences navigate these complexities with greater confidence, make informed choices and feel better equipped to look after their own wellbeing and support those around them.
