Beyond Online Safety: Understanding the Digital Lives of Young People
Equipping parents and teachers to provide informed, confident support

These sessions go beyond online safety, focusing on lifelong digital literacy. Young people navigate a tech-driven world shaped by algorithms and AI, with platforms competing for their attention and making disengagement challenging. As their decision-making abilities are still developing, support and education are essential.

This series of workshops is designed to equip participants with essential information for guiding children in evaluating online risks. Additionally, attendees will gain practical tips, effective skills, and proven coping strategies to support children while fostering lasting, healthy digital habits.

It is essential that young individuals acquire the skills and assurance necessary to engage safely and responsibly in the digital environment, with continual attention to preserving a positive online reputation.

Online Gaming

• Online Safety – Exposure and Connection
• Changes in Behaviour and Way of being in the world
• Dopamine/Addiction
• Sleep Depravation
• Adult (18rated) rated games

Exposure to Harmful Online Content

• Attitudes towards, Gender, Relationships and Self-Worth
• Influence of Pornography
• Exposure to Masculinity, Misogyny, Incel Ideologies Mansophere

Internet and Social Media

• Interaction on Social Media
• Social Media and Well-Being and Mental Health
• Online Abuse and Cyberbullying
• Coco’s Law

Image Based Abuse (IBA)

• What are Intimate Images
• When does it become IBA
• Nudifying Apps and Deepfake Porn
• Where does it fall within Irish Law – Coco’s Law, The Child and Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998
• Digital Footprint