At the core of the Respectful Relationships Programme at Sydney Grammar School is Learning Consent. Sydney Grammar School share in their newsletter how they support and equipping boys with awareness and understanding about forming healthy relationships is a vital component of a well-rounded education. The Respectful Relationships Programme is one practical way that Sydney Grammar are implementing this among the students.

Sarah Casper and Dr Joy Townsend take to Instagram Live and answer some of those tricky hard questions around consent.

Dr Joy Townsend joins the Caddyshack Project as a guest on their On The Couch podcast to discuss Learning Consent’s communicative approaches to consent and sex education.

A workshop run, hosted and presented by Dr Joy Townsend from consent education group, Learning Consent, was held in February 2023. The workshop was devised by Learning Consent in conjunction with pupils from SCEGGS Darlinghurst and Sydney Grammar School.

Founder and CEO of Learning Consent Dr Joy Townsend, answers the Mamamia communities questions about teens and sex, from female pleasure to healthy relationships to even anal sex.

Dr Joy Townsend shares with Frankie Magazine how her company Learning Consent help teach and empower young people on the complicated topic of consent.

The Latch asked Dr Townsend why this is such a common feeling among parents. She said, “Australians aren’t great at having conversations that might require us to be vulnerable.” She explained that the nature of these conversations can be confronting for some people “and so we tend to avoid the subject.”

Lindsay McDougall speaks to Dr Joy Townsend from Learning Consent, a sexual consent training organisation for young people, about the results of the Joint Standing Committee report on coercive control.

Privilege. Porn. Parent-free parties. An alcohol-fuelled climate in which being nice to girls is considered uncool. A wave of sexual assault allegations involving students from some of our top private schools underlines the need to foster a healthier brand of manhood.

Dr Joy Townsend writes a powerful piece on for The Saturday Paper on Australia’s reality of failing sex education, “by not providing young people adequate sex and consent education, we risk putting them in harm’s way and jeopardising their ability to live ethical sexual lives. We owe it to our young people to do better by them, to not underestimate them.”

Through her work as a researcher and educator Dr Joy Townsend has learned that sexual assault is an ordinary fixture of life. On Vogue Australia she explains why the issue of consent is complicated and how she hopes to shape education with her new training organisation Learning Consent. 

Dr Joy Townsend shares an incredible story during one of Australia’s more terrifying bushfires.