School Workshop | High School
Building Healthy Relationships
Friendship changes during adolescence. Attraction appears, relationships become more complex, and communication moves between face-to-face conversations, messaging, group chats and social media.
Building Healthy Relationships makes important information about relationships, boundaries, consent, privacy and personal safety explicit. Designed with neurodivergent teenagers in mind, the workshop creates a structured and respectful environment where young people can explore these topics without being expected to already know the answers.
Some things are too important to leave as unwritten rules.
Making the Implicit Explicit
Young People Shouldn’t Have to Guess the Rules
Teenagers receive information about relationships from everywhere — friends, social media, gaming, television, online communities and other young people. The messages aren’t always accurate, consistent or easy to interpret.
At the same time, young people are expected to understand increasingly complex ideas about attraction, consent, boundaries, privacy, digital communication and personal safety.
Building Healthy Relationships creates a structured, respectful space to make these important ideas explicit — without assuming students should already know the answers.
What We Explore
Relationships Are More Than Dating
Relationships & Attraction
Different kinds of relationships, attraction, communicating interest, recognising when interest isn't mutual, rejection, and features of respectful relationships.
Boundaries & Consent
Understanding personal boundaries, consent, physical contact, saying and hearing “no”, and recognising pressure or coercion.
Privacy & Digital Relationships
Messaging, social media, online friendships, privacy, image sharing, personal information, blocking and reporting.
Personal Safety & Support
Recognising concerning behaviour, identifying when something feels uncomfortable, unsafe or concerning, communicating boundaries and knowing when and where to seek support.
Learning by Doing
Important Conversations Need More Than a List of Rules
Rather than simply telling students what they should or shouldn’t do, the workshop uses discussion, scenarios, visual resources and practical activities to explore how these ideas can look in everyday situations.
Students can consider different perspectives, practise recognising boundaries, think through possible responses and ask questions in a structured environment.
Participants are not required to disclose their own relationships, experiences or private information. Activities are built around general examples and scenarios rather than students sharing anything personal.
Could This Be a Good Fit?
Clear Information Supports Informed Choices
Neurodivergent teenagers deserve access to clear, respectful and developmentally appropriate information about friendships, relationships, attraction, boundaries and consent.
Important information about relationships is often hidden inside social expectations people are simply assumed to understand. Making that information more explicit gives young people greater access to knowledge they can use when making their own informed choices.
The workshop respects different identities, communication styles, sexual orientations, gender identities, relationship preferences and neurotypes.
Tailored to Your School
Start With What Your Students Need
The same relationship conversation does not look identical for every secondary-school group. Before delivery we work with the school on students’ age, developmental level, learning goals and which topics are appropriate for the group — and that determines the examples, language and level of detail used on the day.
More sensitive topics, including sexual relationships, sexting or image sharing, are included only where developmentally appropriate and within the scope agreed with the school beforehand.
We also discuss accessibility, relevant school policies, how questions will be handled on the day, and the support pathways available to students afterwards, so that anything raised is picked up through the school’s own processes.
This is a psychoeducational workshop rather than group therapy. It provides structured information, discussion and practical learning, and does not require students to talk about personal experiences.
This workshop does not include a mandatory parent component — parent or community education can be arranged separately if requested.
Building Healthy Relationships
Want to Learn More About Building Healthy Relationships?
Tell us about your students, their age group and what you would like the workshop to explore. Our team can discuss appropriate content, emphasis and delivery for your school or community.