Vanessa Hamilton

Sexuality Educator and author

Vanessa Hamilton is an experienced Sexuality Educator and a parent, based in Melbourne, Australia. She is the founder of Talking The Talk (TTT) Healthy Sexuality Education and is a highly respected and sought after speaker, writer and educator, as well as a mother of three children. Vanessa has spoken to literally tens of thousands of people about sex and sexuality during her <25 years’ experience as a Registered Sexual Health Nurse and has also spent 18 years educating children and adults. She has now immersed herself in helping parents, teachers and health professionals understand Human Sexuality, consent and respectful relationships with a specific focus on how to have conversations with children. Her business tagline is 'Let's get started - it’s easier than you think'.

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Expert Q&A: Teaching consent and respectful relationships

May 26,2022

In the second part of our Q&A, author-educator Vanessa Hamilton discusses what consent education is (and some of the misconceptions), examples of what it looks like for students in primary and secondary, best practice for schools, and some of the challenges faced by teachers and leaders.

student welfare, Health and PE, expertise, education resources, curriculum design, curriculum planning, curriculum implementation, long reads

Teacher resources: Consent education in the primary years

May 23,2022

Age-appropriate consent education will be mandatory in all Australian schools from 2023. Kit and Arlo Find a Way: Teaching consent to 8-12 year olds is a fictional chapter book created for use in primary classrooms. In the first instalment of a two-part Q&A with author-educators Ingrid Laguna and Vanessa Hamilton, we find out more about the resource and research about the impact of consent education in schools.

student welfare, Health and PE, expertise, education resources, early years, long reads

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