We were delighted to be asked to participate in the “Business Sense” series. This televison series will be aired on Channel 9, 730am Sundays (commencing August 10th), on Foxtel’s Sky Business, and on QANTAS in-flight entertainment.
The series profiles successful small businesses and looks at what they are doing that is working. After each small business is [...]
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I am really enjoying sharing some guest posts written by various members of my amazing Enlighten team with you all! A warm “Butterfly Effect” welcome to New Zealand’s Program Manager Kelly Valder…
Guest post by Kelly Valder - newzealand@enlighteneducation.com
“Barbie Bitches” - what a term huh? For many it brings to mind platinum blonde hair extensions and lots [...]
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Unlike most little girl’s dolls, which are designed to represent older teenagers or women, Mattel’s “My Scene, Growing Up Glam” doll openly set out to depict a tween, a girl aged 8-13 years. She is dressed in lace stockings, short skirt, diamante belt, midriff top and wears a full face of heavy make-up ( complete with false eye lashes). [...]
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Posted in Beauty Industry, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Enlighten Education, Magazines, Media, Parents, Resources, Schools, Sexualisation of children on Jun 23rd, 2008 9 Comments »
Thank you to everyone who has responded so favourably to the feature story 60 Minutes ran on our work and the important issue of the sexualisation of our children. For those who missed it here is their story brief:
Little Women
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Reporter: Peter Overton
Producer: Sandra Cleary
You have to wonder what on earth’s happening [...]
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This week I am inviting you to upload the PDF’s below and learn a little more about me and my heart’s work - Enlighten Education.
Who are we? What to do we do? Why does it matter?
I am very proud of both these articles. The first, “Creating Shiny Girls: moving beyond Bratz, Britney and Bacardi Breezers” was featured [...]
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A number of innovative schools and gifted, intuitive psychologists have crossed my path of late - all seeking out ways in which they can best assist the girls they care for to develop a positive body image and respond intelligently to our toxic “girl hating” culture.
Firstly, I have thoroughly enjoyed Professor Martha Straus’ seminal work “Adolescent Girls [...]
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Guest blog post by Sonia Lyne, Enlighten Education Program Director, Victoria.
I grew up as a teen in the 80’s. It was an era with A LOT of great female role models. When I was a little girl, I looked up to female musicians who expressed their individuality, but rarely got into any real trouble. My [...]
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“Sail away from the safe harbor. Dream. Discover. Explore.”
Mark Twain.
The Enlighten team running The Journey at Ascham School.
The transition to high school for students can be exciting but also challenging as they must learn to traverse a new (and usually much bigger) landscape with different expectations and possibly with less individual nurturing than they [...]
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Don’t steal childhood away this christmas:
Love, light and laughter at Christmas and always…
Danni and the Enlighten Education Executive Team -
Fran, Sonia, Storm, and Jane XXXX
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I don’t usually post up our feedback pages from each event we run as although they are ALWAYS amazing, and quite often bring me tears, I guess I have previously questioned their broad appeal to those who do not know the girls personally. However, as I was reading through the sheets from our last three events this week, [...]
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