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Certified Sexuality Educator
AASECT Certified | BA² | ANTE UP! Certified
Professional Sexuality Educator since 2003
Spotlight Workshops
This page includes both currently scheduled workshops and offerings available for private booking.
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Workshops with registration links are open to the public.
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Workshops without links are available by request for organizations, events, or community groups.
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You can review my Grievance Policy for AASECT CE events here.
Host one of these workshops for your private organization:
$150-$300 flat rate - pay what you can (up to 30 attendees, no recording) or 50% of ticket sales.
If hosted through my Zoom space or in person I can also offer AASECT CEs for live synchronous attendance.
Host me as a Guest Lecturer, Panel Participant, or for a casual Q & A session:
Pay what you can - Suggested $35-$150
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Asexual Pleasure:
Beyond the 5 Senses
90 min - 1.5 AASECT CEs
What is pleasure when it isn’t centered on sex?
This training expands conventional understandings of pleasure by exploring sensory experience beyond the “basic five senses,” offering a framework that is inclusive of Asexuality, Neurodiversity, Disability, and diverse relationships to embodiment.
Participants will explore a broader language of sensory experience, including pathways such as pressure, temperature, movement, and internal body signals, and examine how differences in sensory processing shape access to pleasure. Using a sensory framework that includes variations in sensitivity, registration, and patterns of sensory seeking and avoidance, this training invites a more individualized and embodied approach to understanding satisfaction.
Together, we will build a personalized “Pleasure Menu” that moves away from prescriptive ideas of what people should enjoy and instead centers lived experience, capacity, and context.
This space is designed for Asexual individuals, as well as clinicians, educators, and helping professionals seeking to expand how they understand and support pleasure in their work and lives.
While sexual pleasure may be included, it will not be privileged as the default or primary pathway.
Participants will also be invited to reflect on their own sensory patterns and assumptions about pleasure, creating space for more flexible, affirming, and context-aware approaches.
Non-sexual pleasure is expansive and can be a central focus our lives and relationships. Let's see what that can look like.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
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Describe at least four sensory pathways beyond the “basic five senses”
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Apply at least two strategies for building individualized “Pleasure Menus” based on sensory seeking and sensory avoidant patterns
This event is approved for 1.5 Live Synchronous AASECT CEs! (No CEs with the recording.)
AASECT CKA - B, C, D, & M
Queerplatonic:
Constructing Intentional Kinship
90 min - 1.5 AASECT CEs
Join us to explore how people build meaningful, committed relationships outside of romantic and sexual scripts. Grounded in asexual and aromantic community language, this session introduces queerplatonic relationships, platonic life partners, and related terms as tools for naming significant, life-shaping bonds without centering romance.
The presentation examines how amatonormativity shapes whose relationships are recognized, and offers multiple frameworks for intentionally constructing kinship through elements such as intimacy, commitment, platonic love, and shared care. This training is suited for clinicians, educators, and anyone interested in non-romantic partnership and platonic life planning.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe at least two ways platonic life partnerships function on par with romantic partnerships in terms of commitment, care, or life planning.
2. Identify at least four relational components that can be intentionally negotiated and supported across diverse partnership structures.
Applicable AASECT CKA - C, D, E, F
Affirming Asexuality
1 hr - 1 AASECT CE
This one-hour session offers a foundational overview of asexuality as a sexual orientation and cultural identity. Participants will explore definitions, orientation models, common clinical missteps, and affirming practices, with attention to how compulsory sexuality impacts care. Resources and inclusive strategies will be shared to support clients across the ace spectrum.
Learning Objective 1 - Define Asexuality as both an orientation and cultural identity.
Learning Objective 2 - Identify at least two common clinical missteps or microaggressions related to Asexual clients and describe more affirming alternatives.
Applicable AASECT CKA - C, D
Redefining Intimacy:
How Do We Connect Outside the Script?
2 hrs - 2 AASECT CEs
Intimacy has regularly been conflated with sex and romance, but this association can also obscure the deep and valuable ways that platonic intimacy can enhance our lives.
In this workshop we will re-define intimacy as Closeness and Connection and examine a differentiated look at Emotional Intimacy, Intellectual Intimacy, Aesthetic Intimacy, Social Intimacy, Sensual/Affectionate Intimacy, and Spiritual/Cultural Intimacy. We will discuss how Gender and Racialization has influenced how we access various forms of intimacy and how Asexuality, Aromanticism, and Non-Monogamy are challenging social "rules" around how we connect to those around us.
Polyaffectionate:
Navigating Platonic Inclusive Non-Monogamy
2 hrs - 2 AASECT CEs
Where do Platonic relationships fit in non-monogamous dynamics? How can we create relationship structures that affirm Asexuality, Aromanticism, and the Single at Heart? What systemic barriers may make these relationships harder to envision or embody?
Join us for a workshop that reimagines relationship models, exploring how people are crafting connections and living arrangements that honor all partners without diminishing Platonic ties. You'll gain insights into non-monogamy and a number of resources to process the emotional impact, understand the nuances of boundaries/agreements/rules, and engage in interactive discussion to get your questions answered. This workshop is designed for individuals, partners, and clinicians alike! Let’s stop saying ‘just friends’ and start valuing Platonic bonds as deeply meaningful connections!
Aesthetic Attraction:
How Ace and Aro Folx Shatter the Mold
90 min - 1.5 AASECT CEs
This workshop explores Aesthetic Attraction, Aesthetic Intimacy, and embodied Aesthetic Pleasure, moving beyond a narrow focus on visual beauty or sexualization. We will examine how aesthetics can include appearance, style, movement, voice, scent, texture, and atmosphere, and how these elements function as meaningful experiences without requiring sexual or romantic intent.
Drawing from Ace and Aro community scholarship and activism, we will look at how people within these communities shatter expectations through examples like the archetype of the Dandy, asexual kink such as pup play and rope play, and the #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike viral movement.
Finally we will discuss ways to support individuals in identifying and expressing their own aesthetic “flavor” once disentangled from social expectations around desirability, sex, and romance.
This workshop is especially relevant for Asexual and Aromantic people, clinicians, educators, and anyone interested in more expansive ways of understanding attraction, intimacy, and embodied experience.
Learning Objectives:
1. Define Aesthetic Attraction, Aesthetic Intimacy, and Aesthetic Pleasure using Aspec-informed frameworks, and distinguish these concepts from sexual and romantic attraction.
2. Identify ways Ace and Aro communities challenge normative assumptions about aesthetics, desirability, and legitimacy, using specific examples discussed in the workshop.
