Are you REALLY Listening? 12+

Join us for Are You Really Listening?
 A powerful, one-of-a-kind event designed to help parents and teenagers truly understand one another in a disconnected world.

Life moves fast, and it’s easy for family conversations to get lost in the noise of school, work, screens, and stress. Teenagers often feel unheard. Parents often feel shut out. Both sides want connection, but the words don’t always land.

This event creates a safe and welcoming space for families to pause, listen differently, and talk in ways that go beyond the usual day-to-day. Through lived experiences, interactive activities, and practical tools, parents and teenagers will discover how to:

• Understand each other’s perspectives with more openness and empathy
  
  
• Communicate in ways that build trust instead of tension
  
  
• Turn everyday conversations into opportunities for connection
  
  
• Strengthen family bonds 

Come ready to reconnect, to see and hear each other differently, and to begin a new kind of conversation where both voices matter.

Speakers

Jeremy Indika

Jeremy Indika is a speaker, podcast host, and founder of Something to Say. He shares his personal story of childhood abuse and the decades of silence that followed to highlight the importance of open and honest communication between teenagers and parents.

After beginning his career as a design engineer at McLaren, Jeremy chose a very different path — dedicating himself to breaking down the barriers that stop families from talking openly. Today, he works with schools, parents, and communities across the UK and beyond, guiding teenagers and parents to listen with openness, strengthen trust, and create supportive homes where conversations flourish.

Matt Smith

Matt Smith grew up in the UK care system. During that time he was abused in a foster placement alongside his brother both physically and emotionally for nearly a decade. Matt has gone on to work with young people and families for twenty seven years and is now joint director of a company called Smash Life an award winning SEMH service which leads from the heart offering mentoring & group work to young people aswell as inspirational keynotes & training to professionals. Alongside this Matt is a musician and a songwriter. Where words failed him, music spoke to him and through him to help him heal from the trauma he suffered as a child.

What You’ll Take Away:

A fresh understanding of each other’s needs and emotions

Practical tools and habits to strengthen everyday communication

Shared commitments to keep conversations open and alive

Reassurance that honest, meaningful dialogue is possible , at any age

Because when parents and teenagers understand each other, everything changes.