Cleo Stiller is a multiple award-winning journalist who is a self-identified “relationship non-expert.” She is obsessed with exploring stories about health, gender, and technology among millenials. She recently authored the book “Modern Manhood: Complications Conversations on Being a Good Man Today.”
What She Shares:
- Writing a book on manhood as a woman
- Untangling socialized gender
- The process of interviewing men anonymously post #metoo on how they really feel
What You’ll Hear:
- Bringing conversations around sexuality and consent out into the open
- Making room for nuance in complicated topics
- Understanding that we all are learning about sex and boundaries together due to a lack of foundational education
- Finding true learning within the grey areas
- The societal reasons why men feel isolated
- Undoing the toxic binary that holds both men and women back
- Creating authentic space for men to get in touch with their emotions
- How vocabulary changes can allow men to participate in emotional work
- Examining the cultural and physiological differences between genders
- The Appeal to Nature Fallacy
- Expanding our interactions beyond gender expectations
- Learning how to be really clear with your expectations and desires
- Why gender equality does not exist
- Being ok with your own needs and dynamics
- Valuing men for their own capacities
- Mindfully raising boys
- Getting more of what we want in relationship through explicit communication
