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Focus on the Family Africa in partnership with CCFm 107.5 is hosting various live events across Cape Town. There are 2 evening events – called “#wellconnected”: the focus is on Raising safe, wise and kind digital users. Christy Herselman is the speaker and will be in the southern suburbs on Monday 29 May and in the Northern suburbs on Tuesday 30 May 2023.
Topics include understanding screentime, online dangers, tweens and screens, sexting, sexual grooming and online relationships.
There is also a special morning event: “Online Sex and Relationships”: Protecting your child against the allure and dangers of pornography and sex online.
How to protect & prepare your kids against: sexting, sex on social media, online romantic relationships, sending of nudes, sexual grooming and cat fishing
Tickets cost R50 per person but for today only (Thursday 25 May 2023), there is a buy-one-get-one-free promo, via the website: https://www.safamily.co.za/christy-herselman-event/
Venue and times are as follows:
Southern Suburbs Evening event:
Monday 29 May 2023 at 7pm – 9.30pm
Desire of All Nations Christian Church, Ottery Value Centre, Ottery
Northern Suburbs Evening event:
Tuesday 30 May 2023 at 7pm – 9.30pm
Shofar Christian Church, Durbanville, First Floor, 21 Pasita Street, Pasita Park, Rosenpark
Northern Suburbs Morning event:
Tuesday 30 May 2023 at 09:00am till 10:30 (Coffee & Muffins will be served from 8h30am)
Shofar Durbanville, First floor, 21 Pasita street, Pasita Park
For ticket purchases, visit https://www.safamily.co.za/christy-herselman-event/
More About Christy…
Christy is speaker, teacher researcher, author, wife and mother. She has been married for 19 years and has a background in journalism and education. She and her husband, Brad live in Umdloti, South Africa where they have planted a church. They have three children: Emily (15) and Blake and Ryan (twins, 13).
Eight years ago, Christy founded a movement called The Chat. The heart of THE CHAT is to empower parents, organizations and communities to confidently dialogue around big topics like sexuality, gender, pornography, digital health and social media in a natural, open manner which creates safe spaces for on-going conversations.
She also equips tweens and teens to make healthy, future-focused decisions around their sexuality and identity and does workshops at schools, helping children and teens become healthy, wise digital users.
She writes curriculum and video-based courses for high school Life Orientation programs.
She has written two books:
The Chat: Birds, Bees and Destinies
#wellconnected: How to be safe, wise and kind online
Her passion is to help cultivate deep connections, facilitate healthy dialogue and help raise a generation who are secure in who they are and where they are going.
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Date published: 25/05/2023
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