Shafia Zaloom
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A Parent’s Guide to Love, Connection & Boundaries - and How to be a Trusted Adult
Join us as we discuss cultivating the capacity in teenagers to initiate and sustain authentic connection with others and make decisions that will keep them and their friends healthy and safe.
In a culture that all too often pushes young people to disconnect, evade vulnerability, and prioritize performance, kids are looking for more connection and guidance.
Shafia Zaloom will share her experience and insights to help parents learn about how to support our teens in developing healthy relationships. Shafia will share current real-life, teen scenarios, provide concrete language and strategies for engaging in meaningful conversation with our kids about healthy sexuality and relationships, as well as insight into how popular culture, social media, and sexually explicit media impacts how young people navigate their relationships. Shafia's presentation will focus on how we can become trusted adults our teens can turn to.
Shafia Zaloom provides insight to help parents understand how to support their teens in understanding that strong, ethical boundaries of consent make the lessons of love safe and more powerful. Young people need the concrete information necessary to build healthy relationships. They also need models for learning how to be in a relationship, grounded in authentic connection, appropriate boundaries, healthy vulnerability and effective communication.
Shafia Zaloom helps parents empower teenagers with the knowledge and skills they need to build healthy relationships, make informed choices, and navigate the complexities of adolescence.
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Shafia Zaloom is a health educator, parent, consultant and author whose work centers on human development, community building, ethics, and social justice. She is one of the country's leading experts on sexual consent education whose curriculum has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, and more. Her approach involves creating opportunities for students and trusted adults to discuss the complexities of teen culture and decision-making with straight-forward, open and honest dialogue. Shafia has worked with thousands of children and their families in her role as teacher, coach, administrator, board member, and outdoor educator. She has contributed articles to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and numerous parenting blogs.
Shafia Zaloom is a health educator, parent, consultant and author whose work centers on human development, community building, ethics, and social justice. She is one of the country's leading experts on sexual consent education whose curriculum has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, and more. Her approach involves creating opportunities for students and trusted adults to discuss the complexities of teen culture and decision-making with straight-forward, open and honest dialogue. Shafia has worked with thousands of children and their families in her role as teacher, coach, administrator, board member, and outdoor educator. She has contributed articles to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and numerous parenting blogs.
Shafia’s book, Sex, Teens and Everything in Between has been reviewed as “the ultimate relationship guide for teens of all orientations and identities.” It is one that “every teen, and every parent and educator - and every other adult who interacts with teens - should read.”
Shafia is currently a health teacher at the Urban School in San Francisco, teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and develops curricula and trainings for schools across the country. She was honored by the San Francisco Giants Foundation in 2018 for her work with Aim High, a program that expands opportunities for students and their teachers through tuition-free summer learning enrichment, and was recently granted CAHPERD’s Health Teacher of the Year Award for 2021. Her work has been featured by many media outlets including: The New York Times, USA Today, NPR, KQED, and PBS.
Our Q&A following the presentation will be moderated by Stacy Cohen, Dean of Students, San Domenico School.
Stacy Cohen, Dean of Students at the San Domenico School in San Anselmo, California, has a diverse background that has shaped her into an exceptional educator. Stacy's love for the outdoors and her passion for building meaningful relationships with students began to take root during her formative years. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Race and Gender Studies at Sonoma State University, and later obtained a Master's degree in Counseling from the University of Southern California. Stacy's extensive experience in counseling, effective communication, and providing unwavering support to adolescents during their triumphs and challenges greatly enriches her role at San Domenico.
Outside of her professional endeavors, Stacy finds joy in working out, knitting, and sharing her life with her partner Michael in Mill Valley and their three grown and flown children.