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More than 40 speakers from different countries and different specialties, easy access, adaptable and affordable. The congress IFFD Love Talks is being proposed this year, taking advantage of the best of digitalization and with a list of talks of between 10 and 20 minutes in which topics such as infidelity, pornography, sexuality dialogues with teenagers or falling in love are addressed.
A completely adaptable congress. This is how we could define Love Talks on sexuality and affectivity. This is the digital congress promoted by the International Federation for Family Development (IFFD), an independent, non-profit NGO whose primary mission is to support families through training and is present in more than 70 countries.
After the experiences of its face-to-face congresses held in capitals such as New York, Rome, Valencia and London, the arrival of the pandemic and the possibilities of digitalization have led the organization to launch a much broader and more accessible Congress modality. In this way, it facilitates access to high-level training to thousands of people around the world, as the director of IFFD points out to Omnes, Leticia Rodríguez.
At IFFD, we developed our training programs based on the case method," says Leticia Rodriguez, "but we saw that many people were asking for other types of dynamics that would give them clues and show them the beauty of the family.
In fact, the IFFD itself has opened up its training lines, something that is also reflected in this congress, which is aimed at all types of people "from 18 to 98 years of age," jokes Rodríguez.
The fact is that, among the topics the different experts will talk about are interests for young professionals, singles, couples, married couples with few or many years of relationship behind them, parents with children of all ages and also grandparents, educators or trainers... etc...
Why sexuality and affectivity?
"There is a lot of concern about this issue on the part of parents, family members and even among the young people themselves," says Leticia Rodríguez. In addition, "we saw that a lot of training in this field was closely linked to religious areas, which is fine and very necessary, but we must go beyond that. At the congress we wanted the speakers not to base their discourse on a religious theme, so the list is very broad, both in number and in specialties".
Talks to watch in 6 months
The congress is truly "atypical" in its development.
The recorded lectures will be available "two days from June 4 for those who sign up with the model standard and 6 months for those who do it with the model premium"The IFFD director points out.
In this way, if someone is only interested in a few talks, they can watch them in 48 hours while, for a little more, some can spread them out over six months to think about them or listen to them with clamor, between now and December."
Love Talks: Sexuality and Affectivity from IFFD on Vimeo.
Among the speakers we find names such as the North American doctor Meg Meeker, Carolina Sánchez Agostini, director of the Integral Sexual Education Studies of the Austral University, Emerson Eggerich or the Spaniards Carlos Chiclana and Marian Rojas. In fact, as Leticia Rodriguez points out, "three committees were created to select the speakers, one from Spain, one from LATAM and one from the rest of the world, and this is more or less the distribution of speakers and attendees".
