Relationships with AI and the digital world

This new interactive workshop is designed to help young people explore how AI, social media, messaging apps, filters, deepfakes, and digital platforms shape modern relationships.

Using a trauma-informed, youth-centred approach, the session examines how digital tools can affect communication, boundaries, self-worth, consent, privacy, trust, and safety. Young people are supported to recognise healthy and unhealthy online behaviours, understand digital harms, and build confidence in seeking support for themselves or others.

This advanced workshop is designed specifically for young people who have already completed our flagship 10 Signs workshop. It builds on the relationship concepts learnt previously – such as honesty, respect, boundaries, pressure, and trust – by exploring how they apply to digital contexts, helping young people recognise that online harm is still real harm.

Co-designed with young people to reflect their experiences and realities, this workshop supports schools and youth organisations to address emerging digital relationship issues within RHSE, safeguarding, and pastoral care. It complements wider teaching on healthy relationships by helping young people apply those principles to the digital world they actually live in. 

Overview:

This workshop equips young people with the knowledge, language, and confidence to:

• recognise how AI and digital tools shape modern relationships
• identify healthy, unhealthy, and harmful digital behaviours
• seek support, report abuse, and use technology more safely

The session is interactive, discussion-based, and designed to help young people think critically about the digital world without shame or fear. The workshop uses contemporary scenarios, youth language, and real digital dilemmas that feel recognisable to young people. Rather than treating AI as only a tech topic, it places it within conversations about relationships, safety, power, responsibility, and care. This helps young people engage with the material in a way that feels relevant to their lives now.

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Key workshop outcomes:

By the end of the workshop, young people should be better able to:

• understand how AI and digital platforms can shape power in relationships
• recognise healthy and unhealthy digital behaviours, including pressure, manipulation, and control
• identify warning signs linked to privacy, consent, cyberflashing, deepfakes, and image-based abuse
• feel more confident seeking help for themselves or a friend
• reflect on how respect, boundaries, trust, and accountability apply online as well as offline.

 
Topics covered:

The workshop creates a safe, structured space for young people to explore topics including:

• AI and everyday life in relationships
• edited images, filters, and digital self-image
• deepfakes and image-based abuse
• cyberflashing
• pressure to share passwords, live location, or private content
• digital manipulation, fake screenshots, and AI-generated messages
• privacy, consent, and boundaries online
• the emotional impact of online humiliation, exposure, and surveillance
• bystander responses, reporting, and support

 
Key details:

• 2 hours
• Open to young people aged 11-18 (24 in SEND settings)
• Delivered in state and independent schools
• Free for state schools, small charities and community organisations
• Flexible to suit different needs, interests and timetables.

 

Impact of our 10 signs programme*:

• 3 in 4 young people who attended an LMK workshop told us we had changed their understanding of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
• 81% of young people believe today’s workshop will be useful in their relationships, either right now or in the future.
• 86% of young people who attended an LMK workshop knew how to seek help for themselves or a friend in an abusive relationship.
• 85% of staff members reported that observing an LMK workshop had supported their practice when it came to talking about healthy and unhealthy relationships with young people. 
• 90% young people rated their LMK Leader as excellent or good.

 
*LMK Annual Report & Accounts 2024-25

 
The LMK difference: Co-designed by young people

Our content is developed alongside our Youth Advisory Board, ensuring it speaks the language of young people today. Our workshops are led by youth workers who are expert facilitators – many with lived experience – to foster a non-judgmental and safe environment. This creates the trust necessary to handle sensitive topics effectively while maintaining a rigorous safeguarding culture.

 
A whole school approach to RSHE

With the new Relationship, Sex, and Health Education (RSHE) requirements now a national priority, schools must embed specialist education into their curriculum.

LMK acts as your specialist partner to help you achieve a whole school approach. By integrating our youth-co-designed sessions, you ensure that you are meeting the RSHE requirements and, most importantly, are delivering safe, trauma-informed relationship education that is relevant to the lived experiences of your students.