Watch Wakefield Girls Matters with mental health lead Mrs Oldale to learn how to help your daughter free herself from fear and uncertainty.

In this webinar you will learn:

• – the reasons why we fear judgement
• – how to help your daughter to recognise triggers and embrace them as insights to help her move away from unhelpful coping strategies to helpful ones
• – skills or strategies to help your daughter face her fears and worries so she can thrive as an individual

Watch Wakefield Girls’ Matters with Madonna King on Helping Your Daughter Shift From Child to Teenager.

Madonna King is an award-winning journalist, author and social commentator who has worked with successful school teachers, psychologists, CEOs, police and neuroscientists connecting experts, schools and girls themselves to deliver the answers parents need and the communication their children want.

Madonna has written six books, three focused on girls: Being 14, is on teenage girls and an award best-seller in 2017; ‘Fathers and Daughters, Helping Girls and their Dads build unbreakable bonds’, was released in September 2018, and her latest book is Ten-Ager.

This webinar is all about what your daughter needs you to know about her shift from being a child to a teenager – how she feels, what she thinks, what worries her and practical tips and advice for mums and dads on how they can help.

Watch Wakefield Girls’ Matters with therapist, Rowan Imolc, who speaks about The Benefits of Self Care & Mindfulness. After her early career at the British Embassy in Paris, Rowan went on to complete an MSc in Counselling Psychology from Keele University. Now a registered therapist, Rowan is dedicated to supporting students’ emotional wellbeing, resilience and self-awareness. She delivers therapy, counselling and coaching in schools, the community, and in private practice. Rowan is currently the School Counsellor for Wakefield Girls’ and has recently helped develop the Mindfulness and Meditation Program in school. Rowan will be talking about mindfulness, what it is and how it can be used to help your daughter take charge of her mental health and wellbeing.

Watch Wakefield Girls’ Matters with Katie Alpin as we discuss How To help Your Daughter Navigate Social Media.

As a mental health expert and campaigner, Katie Alpin understands both the positives and pitfalls of social media. In this webinar, Katie will share her experiences of growing up on social media, how it has shaped her career, and strategies for managing these tools to protect our mental health. The session will give parents an understanding of the benefits of social media, and ideas for managing the risks.

Katie is an alumna of Wakefield Girls’ (2008) and went on to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford, and to complete a Masters at the London School of Economics. Katie embarked on a career as an economist and worked for a Westminster think tank before transitioning to the charity sector. She was founding Head of Research and Policy at the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, a charity set up by Martin Lewis MBE, the Money Saving Expert. After a spell as Interim CEO at Money and Mental Health, Katie is now Head of Strategic Insight at Which?, the UK’s consumer champion.

Girls Forge Futures 2021 is for families of girls age 11+, designed to inspire and help each girl to become who and what she wants to be.

Featuring 11 remarkable Wakefield Girls’ alumnae as our female guest leaders from boardrooms and businesses, conventional and innovative, who share tips and advice as well as answering questions. This event is designed to share what helps girls to become successful, helping to prepare your daughter now.

Our guest leaders include: Executive Director at J.P.Morgan, Founder and Entreprenneur of Love Drinks Ltd, a Partner and Head of Family Business at Mazars, Chief Operating Officer at one of the fastest growing businesses in Europe: Trouva; Senior Product Manager at Amazon, NHS Consultant Surgeon, Barrister, Editor, Head of Global Events, a Business Manager and Legal Director.

Watch What Girls Need: preparing your daughter for any future she imagines

With Dr Marisa Porges, a leading voice on gender, education, leadership, and national security and the author of What Girls Need: How to Raise Bold, Courageous, and Resilient Women (Viking Press, 2020). Dr Porges is currently Head of The Baldwin School, a 130-year-old all-girls school outside of Philadelphia, also renowned for academic excellence and preparing girls to be leaders and changemakers. She is an alumna of Baldwin and personally understands the power of its approach to educating girls: it provided the foundation for her own military service and work on national security and foreign affairs.

Hear how you can help your daughter succeed as an adult woman. Here’s what you will learn:

• How to help girls thrive personally and professionally
• The important things that will help your daughter succeed as an adult woman – whatever challenge she faces
• Key skills your daughter can develop and how they work together to create powerful outcomes
• Ways you can help your daughter now

Watch Wakefield Girls’ Matters with Kasey Edwards on Raising Girls Who Like Themselves.

Kasey is a columnist, best-selling author and a passionate champion for girls and women. Mixing humour, heart and credible research Kasey will talk about the seven qualities that enable girls to thrive and arm themselves against a world that tells them they are flawed.

This webinar will be packed with practical, evidence-based advice for parents raising daughters who are happy and confident in themselves.

Watch Wakefield Girls’ Matters with Emma Gleadhill for A Crash Course on Conflict, Communication & Connection For Girls & Parents 

Emma is a specialist in social and emotional development of children and teens. She draws on 21 years school experience and postgraduate training in the social and emotional development of young people and psychoanalytic observation study.  Emma has been featured extensively in the media: The Times, in interview with Vanessa Feltz and Eddie Nestor on BBC London and Laura McIver on BBC Scotland. She features as the ‘expert’ interviewee on handling conflict in the online teen magazine Betty.me and also a contributor to Marina Fogle’s Podcasts The Parent Hood. This session is about empowering girls so they thrive through adolescence and beyond, finding ways to approach and solve problems positively as well as managing emotional situations.

Watch Wakefield Girls’ Matters webinar with child psychologist, Professor Abi Gerwitz about helping your daughter to deal with worries

In this webinar you will learn

• – coping methods to help your daughter handle situations that add stress to life
• – ways to talk to your daughter about difficult topics
• – how to help your daughter settle her fears and move beyond them

Watch Wakefield Girls’ Matters  with Clinical Psychologist Holly Bemrose about helping your daughter to develop and improve her emotional intelligence.

In this webinar you will learn about the value of emotional intelligence and ways you can help your daughter:

• – to recognise the characteristics of emotional intelligence understand her own emotional intelligence
• – develop qualities of an emotionally intelligent person
• – manage emotions

Watch Strong Girls, Balanced Friendships with Assistant Head and Director of Pastoral Care and Wellbeing, Louise Ladds, as we explore how girls’ schools can help to raise strong confident and compassionate girls.

In today’s self promoting digital age it is challenging to raise daughters who can confidently separate themselves from society’s view of who they should be.  When girls feel insecure and devalued, their feelings can manifest in ways that put others down rather than lifting them up.

Join Louise for this actionable webinar and discover how we can help empower young girls to be kind and confident leaders who work together and build each other