Dr. Liam 'Captain' Snowdon

SAR (Sexual Attitude Reassessment)
2020-02-13 - 2020-02-16, 2019-04-11 - 2019-04-14

Somatic Sex Educator Training Core Course Four Refining your Practice
2019-11-16 08:00 - 2019-11-22 17:00 (America/Vancouver)

Somatic Sex Educator Training Core Course Two Erotic Practice For Somatic Sex Education
2019-10-17 - 2019-10-23

ISEE Portland
2019-10-05 - 2019-10-09 | Portland Oregon, Portland, OR, United States

Arouse Festival Seattle
2019-06-21 - 2019-06-23 | Velocity Dance Centre, 1621 12th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States

At Revolution Hall Portland Oregon: Pleasure: Everything You Need to Know (Live, Portland, OR): Everything You Need to Know
2019-05-17 | Portland Oregon, Portland, OR, United States

At Revolution Hall Portland Oregon: Sex & Power: BDSM 101 (Live, Portland, OR)
2019-05-15 | Portland Oregon, Portland, OR, United States

At Revolution Hall Portland Oregon: SAR: Sexual Attitude Reassessment (Live, Portland, OR)
2019-05-10 - 2019-05-12 | Portland Oregon, Portland, OR, United States

Erotic Practice for Somatic Sex Education - Salt Spring Island, Canada
2019-05-04 - 2019-05-11
Students must first complete Foundations of Somatic Sex Education online.
This is the first of two required in-person intensives. We will begin with creating a “safe enough” container for the cohort to develop skills and comfort with facilitating each other in somatic practice, and feeling into intentional, professional, erotic practice space. Business and personal practices that demonstrate professionalism are discussed. We cultivate capacity to feel and communicate body sensations as we increase our somatic literacy. This course includes a deeper dive into the science of somatic sex education, interpersonal neurobiology, and the methodology of communal erotic practices.

Students practice intake and assessment, ethical frameworks for somatic sex education, mindful erotic practice, masturbation witnessing and coaching, genital anatomy and genital mapping, plus sensual and erotic massage. All activities are done through the lens of empowering choice and voice.

Students will expand their embodied understanding of social locationality. They will learn about how we somatize oppression and privilege, and practice somatic technologies for unwinding it all. This course focuses on our own erotic and somatic journey as foundational for developing a professional practice as a somatic sex educator.

Somatic Sex Educator Training Inperson Intensive Core Course Two
2019-05-02 - 2019-05-08 | Salt Spring Island
7 days on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. First day: 11am to 6pm, subsequent days 10 am to 6 pm (with an afternoon of repose mid-week)

This is the first of two required in-person intensives. We will begin with creating a “safe enough” container for the cohort to develop skills and comfort with facilitating each other in somatic practice, and feeling into intentional, professional, erotic practice space. Business and personal practices that demonstrate professionalism are discussed. We cultivate capacity to feel and communicate body sensations as we increase our somatic literacy. This course includes a deeper dive into the science of somatic sex education, interpersonal neurobiology, and the methodology of communal erotic practices.

Students practice intake and assessment, ethical frameworks for somatic sex education, mindful erotic practice, masturbation witnessing and coaching, genital anatomy and genital mapping, plus sensual and erotic massage. All activities are done through the lens of empowering choice and voice.

Students will expand their embodied understanding of social locationality. They will learn about how we somatize oppression and privilege, and practice somatic technologies for unwinding it all. This course focuses on our own erotic and somatic journey as foundational for developing a professional practice as a somatic sex educator.

Ignite Festival Vancouver
2019-04-19 - 2019-04-21

Ignite Fest- Vancouver, Canada
2019-04-19 - 2019-04-21
Ignite! A festival for self-identified men to play with the possibilities of our bodies, to explore new realms within our hearts, and to spark new fires in our souls.
Ignite is a festival of workshops featuring facilitators from all over the Pacific Northwest who have a wealth of experience and knowledge working with queer men.

Each one will take us on a unique journey, inviting us into deeper connections with ourselves and with others.
Each day will offer a selection of many different types of workshops, from dance to yoga, tantra to erotic rituals.
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Options for Sexual Health -Human sexuality training: SAR (Sexual Attitude Reassessment)
2019-04-11 - 2019-04-14 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
SAR (Sexual Attitude Reassessment): Building Competence
3½ days | Cost: $625 for participant or $575 for existing Opt members

This program uses the Sexual Attitudes Reassessment (SAR) process and is based on the program developed by the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.
Applicants to Opt’s Sexual Health Educator Certification must complete or be registered for a SAR before applying. Completion of Opt’s SAR workshop fulfills this requirement.
Topics covered include: fantasy, masturbation, LGBTQ+, non-monogomy, sex work, gender, BDSM, disability, and aging.
Activities involved: using an intensive workshop experience, participants evaluate their own values, beliefs, and attitudes on various sexuality issues.
Outcomes: by becoming increasingly aware of their perceptions, beliefs, values, and feelings, participants become comfortable with the wide variation of existing sexual attitudes, behaviours, and practices. This comfort is necessary for sexual health professionals, and is also beneficial for individuals striving for personal growth and the development of healthy personal relationships.
Full-time attendance to all 3 1/2 days is mandatory!

Weird Embodiment in San Francisco
2019-02-23 | San Francisco, San Francisco, United States

Sexual Attitude Reassessment
2019-01-27 - 2019-01-30 | The Haven Gabriola Island, Canada

Building a Culture of Non-disposablity
2019-01-05 | University of Victoria – Anti- Violence- Project, Victoria, BC, Canada

Refining Your Somatic Sex Education Practice- Salt Spring Island, Canada
2018-11-01 - 2018-11-08
At this week-long Embodiment Intensive students who have completed Core Courses 1-3 will step deeper into the role of facilitator and practitioner while continuing to hold space for your own erotic unfolding. In this course we will continue to layer your personal 16 learnings from Core Course Three with more hands-on practice with real time feedback in the following modalities: scar tissue and genital dearmouring, sensual massage, internal and external anal mapping and massage, erotic massage dancing and Ecstatic Erotic Massage. You will deepen your understanding and skills in working with trauma, develop session arcs and plans for clients presenting with common sexual concerns, and have opportunities to practice facilitating somatic sexeducation in groups.

Boundary Work: Sexual Boundary Skills for Clients and Students, Portland, OR
2018-10-19 08:30 - 17:00 UTC
This 3 hour class will give educators and therapists exercises and tools for working with individuals and populations around issues of limit setting, conversations about needs, and the skills of yes, no and maybe. Exercises and activities will be taught that can be used with clients or students.
Registration: $90. This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 3 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification.
APA credit: AASECT is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists, and AASECT CEs are accepted by APA. AASECT maintains responsibility for this program and its content. For more information see http://approvedsponsors.apa.org/

Joy of Intimacy: Communication & Relationship Skills- Portland, OR
2018-10-16
What is intimacy? How does it affect our lives? Is it inviting or terrifying? In this full day class, we will have open discussions and embodied exercises to clarify what it means to have intimacy with ourselves and others. We will distinguish the differences between sexual expression and intimacy. We will explore the history that we hold in our minds and bodies about who we are and the obstacles of identity that block intimacy in our lives. By facilitating experiences that involve non sexual interaction, we will still get to a deeper understanding of what challenges us and what excites us about feeling connected to ourselves and others.
We will practice presencing skills, and respecting people within their boundaries. This class will be an experience into being seen for the fullness of who we are and how intimacy is essential in moving forward through the complexities of sexual relationship.
This program meets the requirements for the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 6 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT Certification and renewal of certification. Institute for Sexuality Education & Enlightenment, Provider #11-113-C. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT Certification. For further information please contact ce@aasect.org.
APA CE’s: AASECT is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. AASECT maintains responsibility for this program and its content. ISEE offers AASECT CE’s, which can also be applied toward APA certification or recertification. Please check your state licensing board to make sure that your state accepts all APA approved sponsors, in a few cases states do not. For more information see http://approvedsponsors.apa.org/
Core Knowledge Area: Intimacy Skills
Location: Temple Medicine Healing, 1716 NE 42nd Ave, Portland, OR Time: 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM with a lunch break from 12:00-1:30 PM
Registration: $150.

Course Objectives

Participants will identify the purpose of somatic and verbal boundary awareness exercises.

Participants will be able to discuss various meanings of intimacy.

Participants will recognize common blocks in communication.

Participants will discern the differences and overlaps between sexual behavior and intimacy.

Participants will be exposed to a spectrum of human intimacy levels and styles.

Participants will develop skills for communication in various levels of intimacy.

Participants will practice active listening and direct communication.

Participants will be able to identify typology as one tool among many for recognizing differences in intimacy and communication needs.

Participants will practice somatic and verbal boundary awareness.

Participants will examine the impact of psychological projections on intimacy.

Participants will identify their personal areas of competency and areas to work on in communication.

Participants will be able to identify at least 2 communication skills they already have and differentiate ones they could add to their repertoire.

Participants will develop exercises for noticing micro-moments of intimacy.

The Exceptional Educator: Theories and Methods for Holistic Sex Education- Portland, OR
2018-10-13 - 2018-10-15
“Theories and Methods for Holistic Sex Education in 2018”
This is a 3-day class, October 13, 14 & 15, 2018
This course will deeply explore sexual rights as human rights, and what that means for the practitioner as well as the student. We will look at the components of sex education, reasons for sex education, how sex education can or should look different for various audiences, and how a holistic view can be used to create a sex education program, exercise, class or activity. Whether you work with children or adults, the disabled, within the LGBT world, or with a specific ethnic population, you will find useful material for your work, and ideas you will be thinking about for a long time.
This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 18 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification.
Sex ed training area: Theory and methods of sex education
Location: Temple Medicine Healing, 1716 NE 42nd Ave, Portland, OR Time: 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM with a lunch break from 12:00-1:30 PM each day.
Registration: $450
Course Objectives

By the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to describe at least 3 goals of sex education.

By the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to identify the utility of a cultural competency model in sex education and discuss intersectionality

By the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to discuss sex education as a human right.

By the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to recognize 6 key concepts of sex education.

By the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to . Identify at least 3 characteristics of sexually healthy adults from the SIECUS literature.

By the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to identify how individualized visualization can assist the educator in real time.

By the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to create an exercise based on a principle of holistic sex education.

By the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to use multi-dimensional methods to reach audiences on a deeper level for lasting change.

Sexualized Violence Awareness Week @ UVIC
2018-09-17 - 2018-09-20
