Somatic Sex Educator Training Core Course Two
2020-10-17 - 2020-10-23 | OR

Join The Conversation About Doing Death Better
2020-10-31 - 2020-11-01
A two-day online community conference that brings together people and services to share resources, learn, and connect about death and dying.
Deathly Matters showcases emerging voices and perspectives not readily found within the mainstream dialogue. We welcome you to this opportunity to learn from others, ask questions, and share experiences in a comfortable and welcoming atmosphere with a community of people who are also committed to doing death better.
In response to the recent pandemic
and in an effort to host the event in a safe, comfortable, and more accessible environment, we have decided to offer the 2020 event online.
While we won’t gather in person, we will still gather in community
in a warm and welcome environment, with authentic and heart felt voices
and offerings of rich content and learnings.

Together We Fly! Facilitation Skills for Somatic Sex Educators
2021-02-13 - 2021-04-24
In this three month training you will learn and practice skills and tools for leading and co-leading workshops, rituals, retreats, ongoing groups, professional development seminars and ceremonies, both online and in-person. You will leave with more confidence in bringing somatic sex education to groups of people in joyful, engaging and life changing ways. You will gain skills for regulating your nervous system while facilitating, get one-on-one facilitation coaching on your personal goals/intentions, deepen your anti-oppression and liberation facilitation lens, and more. The training consists of six, four-hour-long online workshops two Saturdays per month, February 13 – April 24th 2021, and six rich modules of generative curriculum.

TRANSPOETIC IMAGININGS
2021-03-08 - 2021-03-21
Writers: Liam “Captain” Snowdon and Julian Gunn
Host: Medwyn McConachy
Length: 22 mins
Liam “Captain” Snowdon is a Somatic Sex Educator, Anti-Violence Worker, and poet. Captain is a former Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco and current faculty with The Institute for Sexual Education and Enlightenment.
“I write in order to exist”. Julian Gunn is an English Instructor at Camosun College in Victoria, British Columbia. His personal essays on transgender issues have been published in the anthologies Nobody’s Father and In the Flesh, and his essays on Doctor Who and Star Trek are included in Outside In 2 and Outside in: TOS.
Medwyn McConachy: I am a process artist/researcher/writer interested in problem solving for powerful connectivity. My creative practice arises from my relationship with the natural world and to the seen and unseen worlds among which I am privileged to dwell.

Somatic Sex Educator Training Core Course Two
2021-04-19 - 2021-04-25, 2021-06-21 - 2021-06-27, 2021-09-13 - 2021-09-19, 2021-11-15 - 2021-11-21
In-person option: 7 days in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. $1710 USD
First day: 11am to 6pm, subsequent days 10 am to 6 pm (with an afternoon of repose mid-week)
Online option: 7 days study and practice online $1510 USD
9 am to 5 pm (with an afternoon of repose mid-week)

This is the first of two intensives in a professional training for somatic sex educators. Whether you are attending online or in-person, you will be working with a cohort of students, two main faculty, plus guest teachers. Prepare for an intensive learning experience.

Our own erotic well-being is foundational for developing a professional practice as a somatic sex educator. During this week together we have a chance to unfold and share the personal and cultural journey to sexual wholeness. The intensive takes us through an arc of exercises and experiences in a way that mirrors the journey of a client working with a somatic sex educator, while resourcing us for professional practice.

We will begin with creating a “safe enough” container. This involves setting community agreements and honing and sharing our intentions. Study and embodied exercises help with understanding barriers to pleasure. We will learn and use actual practices, tools and competencies for empowering our own and others’ choice and voice.

Students will expand their embodied understanding of social locationality and sexual rights and freedoms. They will learn about how we somatize oppression and privilege, and practice technologies for unwinding some of these bonds.

We will work to create intentional, professional, erotic learning space. We practice using procedures that demonstrate professionalism, including intake and assessment. We discuss and offer diverse frameworks for ethical somatic sex education.

We cultivate capacity to feel and communicate body sensations as we increase our somatic literacy, developing a repertoire of embodiment practices we can use and share with clients.

The course includes a deeper dive into the science of somatic sex education and interpersonal neurobiology. The science of sexual happiness helps give language to the learning process, so we understand challenges and opportunities for expanded wellness. Knowing and sharing the science can help take shame away as we work with clients, and support each person in working and playing in their personal learning zone.

The intensive includes teaching in the somatic sex education core tool of Masturbation Coaching. We have an opportunity to explore the possibility of communal Mindful Erotic Practice, always within our personal learning zones.

We will have a chance to further explore genital anatomy and practice Genital Mapping. We will introduce the core tools of Affirmative Ritual Touch and Erotic Massage, while demonstrating how these tools can be integrated into somatic sex education sessions, whether offered in-person or online. All activities are done through the lens of empowering choice and voice.

This 7-day intensive will focus on building core competencies of somatic sex education.

Somatic Sex Educator Training Core Course Four
2021-05-17 - 2021-05-23, 2021-11-16 - 2021-11-22
This course includes:
In-person option: 7 days in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. $1710 USD. First day: 11am to 6pm, subsequent days 10 am to 6 pm (with an afternoon of repose mid-week)
Online option: 7 days study and practice online, working with an approved practice partner on 4 afternoons (Day 2 and 3; Day 5 and 6) $1510 USD. 9am to 5pm (with an afternoon of repose mid-week)

At this week-long intensive you will step 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 learnings from Core Course Three with more demonstrations and hands-on practice. You will learn more about scar tissue and genital de-armouring, 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 sex education in groups. We support each other in finding and articulating what somatic sex education means to each one of us, and building marketing materials for our unique practices.
