Date: Wednesday,15 November 2023 17.00 hr
Speaker: Julia Gottfried, Mainz, Germany
Translation: Croatian, Czech, French, German, Italian, Turkish and Ukrainian
Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1216986749417/WN_tiWiE2iESTOwyFuS_fNiSw
In this session, Julia Gottfried provides an insight look into her work with young people in the area of sexual education. For many years she has been successful offering workshops in the areas of identity, friendship, love and sexuality through infobox-liebe.
When working with parents and professionals, she repeatedly emphasizes: “It’s less about genital sexuality than about the path and the education it takes to live and experience love in all its facets in a self-determined way.“
Biography
Julia Gottfried was lucky to be employed by the well-known PEp – Practice for Development Education in Mainz (Germany) right from the beginning of her studies in 2009.
Since 2013 she has been advising, informing and accompanying parents, young people and romantic couples with DS on their very personal path to sexual education.
She regularly writes about her experiences in a column of the German magazine „Living with Down-Syndrome“. She has been the owner of infobox-liebe since 2019 and travels all over Germany to pass on her knowledge, enthusiasm, and thoughts on this topic to schools, parent associations and all other multipliers.
Infobox-Liebe / Infobox Love
Infobox-Liebe / Infobox Love is an offer for sexual education lectures
infobox-liebe offers in-house specialist lectures that remove taboos and at the same time show new, safe and socially acceptable ways for people with an intellectual developmental disorder to appropriately shape friendship, love and sexuality and integrate them into their lives.All lectures are based on current scientific knowledge and aim to provide practical information and concrete approaches. Especially people with an intellectual disability depend on us professionals to lead a fulfilled, social and emotional love life.
