On today's podcast I am interviewing Joanna Brittan who is one of the leading voices against the boarding school system and a leading campaigner for the rights of people who have been sexually abused at boarding school. 

Today we talk about her own journey at boarding school and what it was like for her. 

Often we hear about what boarding was like for boys but often there is no corresponding response for girls. 

Joanna talks about what it was like for her and some of the struggles she went through. 

Some of the topics that we talk about are: 

• How the punishment for girls at boarding school was through shame rather than physical abuse
• How boarding schools has affected her as a mother - literally not knowing how to bring her children up. 
• How she has warned the Royal family not to send their children to boarding school and why 
• What she thinks of the IICSA enquiry and why she feels that it has not lived up to its purpose 
• About her brothers' sexual abuse at Sherborne Prep School and how she has campaigned against the school. 
• The neglect of boarding school 
• How peer on peer sexual abuse is the biggest taboo in boarding school child abuse and why no one speaks up. 
• Detached mothering - why mothers allow their children to be sent to boarding school. 
• The link between the Qatar Royal Family and Sherborne schools and how her father introduced the Qatar Royal family to the school and how she feels the school have betrayed them.

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Joanna Brittan is a leading critic of the boarding school system and has spent many years exposing child sexual abuse especially at Sherborne Prep School and Robin Lindsay, as listed at the IICSA inquiry. She also attended boarding school from the age of 8 until 18. 

For more information please visit Joanna on Twitter https://twitter.com/jebrittan2 or @jebrittan2 For the Boarding School Facebook Campaigning Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardingschoolaction/ 

And for the Boarding School Survivors FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143749179546597 (it is private for ex-boarders only so you will need to ask to join). 

“Returning SHAME of CSA to abusive institutions where it rightfully belongs and always did.”

Trusted Sexual Violence Resources - helpingsurvivors.org/resources/

Helping Survivors - helpingsurvivors.org

#NeverOurShame

#SherborneShame

#CSA #boardingschoolabuse #childsexualabuse

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An Evolving Man (AEM) Podcast is for men (and women) who want to grow, evolve and want support in learning how to do this.

On a regular basis there will be an interview around men's (and women's) topics ranging from self-development, relationships, spirituality, archetypes, trauma, boarding school and men's work featuring authors and leaders in this field.

The sense with these interviews is to support people during these times of change. What are the teachings, tools and practices that you can use to help you through these turbulent times?