Life lessons from fearless women: A judgment-free celebration of International Women's Day with Afua Hirsch

To kick-off celebrations for International Women's Day 2020, we're opening up The Guardian for a day of impactful workshops, insightful talks and inclusive conversation as we invite inspirational women to share their expertise, skills and experience with you

Plus, bring a friend to make use of our two-ticket offer and save 20%!

Course content

• Guardian columnist, author and broadcaster Afua Hirsch will draw on her experiences building a successful media career to share her personal perspective on how to find your voice, navigating intersectional feminism and building collective progress, as well as exploring whether we're getting better at telling all women's stories.
• Historian and lecturer at King's College London Dr Hannah Dawson will take you on a whistle-stop tour of the four waves of feminism, exploring key topics such as the construction of gender, white privilege, the difference between flirting and harassing and how we can shake free of the stereotypes that shackle us all.
• How do you combat workplace or public speaking nerves? Comedian and actress Maddy Anholt believes that you have the creativity within you to change your lives – and she will show you the importance of trusting your instinct, tricking your body into thinking you’re more confident than you feel, and how to combat your inner critical voice.
• Writer and illustrator Flo Perry will be leading a sex and intimacy workshop, discussing how we can have a healthier relationship with our bodies and sexual happiness, start more open and productive conversations about sex with our partners, and tackle some of the complexities around issues such consent in a post-#metoo world.
• With Bola Sol, you will be taken through a personal finance workshop which will cover how we can manage our finances more successfully (including having difficult conversations about money), how to budget, and how to make more considered financial choices.
• Psychologist and lecturer Kimberley Wilson will take you through the connections between mental health and nutrition, such as how disordered eating habits can develop when coping with trauma and psychological difficulties. She will also supply you with important advice on practicing body neutrality in the face of perfectionism, and how to build emotional resilience and a healthier relationship with food.
• We will soon be announcing the rest of our incredible lineup.

Tutor profiles

Afua Hirsch is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. She is a columnist for the Guardian, and appears regularly on the BBC, Sky News and CNN. Brit(ish) is her first book and was awarded a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize for Non-Fiction.

Hannah Dawson is a historian of ideas and a lecturer in the history of political thought at King’s College London. She received her PhD in history from the University of Cambridge and is the author of Life Lessons from Hobbes. Hannah contributes frequently to live and broadcast media, including BBC4, BBC Radio 4, TEDx and Guardian Live, and writes for publications such as the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) and Prospect. She tweets @DrHannahDawson.

Maddy Anholt is a comedian, actress and writer. She has appeared in sitcoms for BBC Three and BBC One, on ITV and Channel 4. She’s had four sell-out solo comedies at Underbelly, Gilded Balloon, Latitude Festival Main Stage and the Soho Theatre. Maddy also wrote and starred in her own comedy for BBC Radio 4 and has amassed over seven million views online for her sketches. Her new solo comedy hour How to Train Your Psychopath is touring the UK in 2020 and will be playing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2020. She tweets @maddy_anholt.

Flo Perry is the illustrator and writer of How to have Feminist Sex – A Fairly Graphic Guide, and has illustrated books The Girl’s Guide to Growing Up Great and Remember This When You’re Sad. She previously worked at Buzzfeed, writing and illustrating content for their channels, cracking what it takes to create a viral post, and has illustrated for Giff Gaff. She tweets @FloPerry.

Bola Sol is a Mathematics and Finance BSc graduate who found passion in women coming together to discuss money matters. She created the platform Refined Currency in 2015, and has interviewed the likes of Leomie Anderson and Kate Thornton. Bola has weekly chats on social media about money and has been featured on the BBC, and in the Telegraph, BET, Stylist Magazine and Refinery29. Through one conversation at a time, she wants to help build more financial confidence in everyone. She tweets @Bola_Sol.

Kimberley Wilson is a chartered psychologist and visiting lecturer working in private practice in central London. She is a governor of the Tavistock & Portman NHS Mental Health Trust and the former chair of the British Psychological Society's Training Committee in Counselling Psychology - the group responsible for monitoring and assessing the standards of Counselling Psychology training across the UK. She formerly led the therapy service at HMP & YOI Holloway, which at the time was Europe’s largest women’s prison (closed summer 2016). Kimberley believes the way we think about mental health – as separate from physical health – is flawed. Her philosophy of Whole Body Mental Health is a comprehensive approach to mental health care; integrating evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle factors with psychological therapy.

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