Talking Respect Darwin training workshop

Talking Respect is an education resource designed to support teachers, youth workers, health workers and other professionals to have conversations with young people about healthy relationships and the influence of media.

Talking Respect seeks to support communities from around the Northern Territory to develop the capacity of their local young people to: understand the characteristics of respectful relationships, identify and understand the characteristics of unhealthy relationships, critique the messages about gender, sex, relationships, power and aggression that are conveyed through a range of media and in other places in society, and to develop knowledge, attitudes and practical skills that support healthy, respectful relationships.

In doing so, Talking Respect seeks to contribute to broader efforts to prevent violence, particularly violence against women and children, and to promote safety, respect and equality.

Talking Respect was developed through a process of consultation and collaboration with young people and the people who work with them in schools and organisations in Alice Springs and Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, Australia.