47 teachers attend self-esteem masterclass

Forty-sev­en teach­ers from 20 pri­vate schools across Trinidad and To­ba­go have par­tic­i­pat­ed in a mas­ter­class aimed at help­ing ed­u­ca­tors ad­dress body im­age con­cerns and self-es­teem among young peo­ple.

The vir­tu­al Dove Self-Es­teem Project Con­fi­dent Me Ed­u­ca­tor Mas­ter­class, host­ed by Unilever Caribbean on Oc­to­ber 16, pro­vid­ed re­search-based in­for­ma­tion and prac­ti­cal re­sources to help teach­ers dis­cuss ap­pear­ance pres­sures, body con­fi­dence and self-worth with stu­dents.

The ses­sion was host­ed by in­te­gra­tive psy­chother­a­pist Si­mone Da Cos­ta, who guid­ed ed­u­ca­tors through is­sues in­clud­ing so­cial me­dia fil­ters, ap­pear­ance-based com­par­isons, celebri­ty in­flu­ence, ad­ver­tis­ing and the ef­fects of every­day lan­guage on how young peo­ple per­ceive them­selves.