In 2016, I wrote and published my book entitled "1000 voices". The book consists of 42 stories (told in Spanish, English and French) of teenagers who suffered different types of abuse and how they managed to build their resilience and overcome their challenges. Not only were the teenagers able to overcome their ordeals but most of them found ways to help others along the way. This book and research made it possible for me to get contacted by different institutions, academic and non academic, such as universities, high schools, media, in order to lecture and train about the topic.

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The main focus of these lectures and training is bringing awareness on the topic of abuse and violence in teenagers as well as how to develop and promote resilience in our lives.

As it is a difficult and maybe even triggering issue, I use various pedagogical skills in order to talk about the subject in a way that the audience is receptive and calm. 

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This training/lecture is divided into three sections:

-The fist part of the training/lecture is focused on demystifying certain stigmas surrounding abuse.

-A second part is devoted to resilience and its role in overcoming hardship. 

-Finally, we read, analyse and debate on two stories with two different situations of abuse and how the teenagers involved managed to develop resilience and what can be considered as post-traumatic growth.