Electives

Electives

Your electives are decided in consultation with the ISSSE faculty and can include online and in-person courses on sex, sexuality and business development. Electives support each of our students in developing their competencies and following their passions while creating their own professional practice. The following courses are pre-approved electives. Up to two of these courses can be taken for credit before acceptance into Core Course Two: Erotic Practice for Somatic Sex Education. Your electives can also include other relevant online and in-person trainings that are approved by the faculty. If you have already taken trainings that you think may be eligible as electives, you can make application for their approval after completing Core Course 1.

Wheel of Consent: Like a Pro with Dr. Betty Martin or a certified teacher

“The wheel of Consent” is an experiential workshop for touch professionals that teaches about the 4 quadrants of touch found in the wheel of consent; Accepting, Serving, Taking and Allowing. Learn the difference between willing and wanting, and ask yourself great questions like “who is this for?” and “is this a gift I’m willing to give”?.

Cascadia Holistic Peer Counselling with Helena De Felice, Sarabell Eisenfeld, and Mischa Gilraen

Cascadia Holistic Peer Counseling is an emotional resilience practice, giving you the ability to know when your internal state needs loving attention and training you in communication skills that help you “BE with” emotions and dis-spell trance traumas from the past.
Engaging in this practice gives access to:

  • a sense of belonging that is secure and stable,
  • a network of regular, reliable, and loving support for your feelings,
  • distinguishing internal distress patterns, and
  • developing new habits and expressions.

We focus on consent, deconstructing oppression, developing resonance through oxytocin generating exercises, practicing open and honest communication, and developing skillful loving techniques for conflict resolution that we bring into our existing communities.

Holistic Peer Counselling with Nekole Shapiro and HPC Mentors Group

HPC is “Do It Yourself (DIY)” technology. This means every person who takes the course learns both counseling and clienting skills and practices both roles. In this way, the person being counseled is always in control. They know the techniques, and decide to utilize their triggers as catalysts for healing or not. HPC breaks the dynamic of, “I am healer” and “you heal me”. It recognizes that we all have the ability to give and receive loving attention that provides an opportunity for healing.

Intimacy Educator Training with Caffyn Jesse

This online program in the art and science of sacred intimacy is a journey of reweaving sex and soul. Erotic massage, practiced with friends or professionally, can support sexual healing and community well-being. You will learn the neurobiology of empowering choice and voice, plus sensual massage, genital anatomy, genital dearmouring, and the integration of science, sex and spirit.

Yoga Therapy for Sexual Wellness with Corinne Diachuk SSE

YTSW is the adaptation of yoga practices for people with a specific focus on increasing sexual well being. In my private practice, I offer what I refer to as “client empowered movement”. I am excited to welcome yoga teachers, somatic sex educators, and all health care practitioners to this 20-hour workshop in person or online to explore a series of yoga forms, breathwork practices, and visualizations from a place of embodied consent

Somatic Sex Educators Supervision with Christiane Pelmas MSW, CSB

Eight week closed supervision groups supporting our work to learn the skills necessary to creatively, professionally and ethically guide our clients.  Christiane says “As an SSE you’ve stepped into wild, often misunderstood and even feared terrain. You’ve also stepped into a field that will likely, within a short 10 years, be considered one of the most efficacious healing and empowerment modalities.”

Expressive Erotic Play : The Class with River Frey Drosera

The Erotic Arts Project will be hosting a month long online class dedicated to the Expressive Erotic Play practice. Complete with videos, a workbook, 2 group class calls, and two 30 min private coaching calls with River, you can explore your creativity and erotic body with individual and communal support.

The “Sexcessible” Practice: Sex and Disability for Somatic Sex Educators with Shauna Farabaugh

A five week online course to prepare somatic sex educators—skillfully, emotionally, and culturally—to support the learning goals of clients with disabilities or chronic conditions with confidence, professionalism, and respect.

Together We Fly - Facilitation skills for Somatic Sex Educators with Captain Snowdon and Seneca Beth Miller

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.

2023 Dates: The following Saturdays 10 am-2pm pst:

October 14, 21, 28, November 4, 11, December 2.

Email captain for more information or to register: liam@captainsnowdon.ca

Foundations of Sexology:

Sex Coach U’s Foundations of Sexology special course package is designed to give you everything you need to know about the field of sexology and what to expect as a clinical sexologist. Courses address common sexual concerns and the ethical issues of a sexology practice. Online learning, 40+ hours, $699.

TRAUMA-FOCUSED PRACTICE WITH MEHDI DARVISH YAHYA
  1. Trauma One: Attachment and Trauma
  2. Trauma Two: Trauma, Pleasure, and Healing
  3. Supervision
Racialized Trauma Online course by Resmaa Menekam
Body Poem with Katie Sarra

Created by Katie Sarra, who teaches the Certified Sexological Bodywork Program in the UK, “Body Poem” is a therapeutic tool designed to illuminate unknown and unspoken parts of the self via spontaneously emerging poetry.

Sexual Attitude Reassessment

Sexual Attitude Reassessment is a process-oriented exploration of one’s own feelings, attitudes, values, and beliefs regarding human sexuality and sexual behavior. Participants engage in personal exploration designed to support their understanding of how these attitudes and values affect them personally and professionally. A SAR encourages a non-judgmental and respectful mindset toward others, promoting acceptance and tolerance of human sexuality in all of its possible dimensions.

If you are interested in SAR as a pre-approved elective, please email the faculty to confirm that the workshop you wish to attend is facilitated by an approved provider: info@somaticsexeducator.com

Bodywork and Myofascial Release Training

Especially for Somatic Sex Educators and Professionals in the Field of Sexology

In this Introductory 15 hour course you will:

– learn how to incorporate more hands on work into your sessions with clients
– feel more confident with your bodywork skills and learn new techniques
– experience the power of myofascial release
– learn to hold space for emotions and trauma that has been held in the body

Taught by Ailsa Keppie BSc, RMT, SSE
Contact: ailsakeppie@gmail.com
www.pleasureforhealth.com

The Fascial Feel

an introductory course in trauma-informed myofascial release for Hands on practitioners – 16 hours
Myofascial release is a way of connecting to the body in a profound way. Taking this course as a therapist you will learn and experience ways to engage with the fascial tissue at the restriction or barrier, and learn to allow change, softening and releasing to happen. This physical and energetic communication between practitioner and client, and between the cells of the client’s own body, facilitate transformation and release of old patterns, toxins and beliefs that have held the body prisoner to pain and restrictive forces, sometimes for years.

Taught by Ailsa Keppie BSc, RMT, SSE
Contact ailsakeppie@gmail.com
www.pleasureforhealth.com

The Apollo Project: Personal Growth & Development Retreats for Men

Facilitated by Cosmo Meens and Mehdi Dervish Yahya, The Apollo Project offers deep immersion experiences for men; in meditation, movement, somatic sex education sessions from female practitioners, art therapy practices, workshops, and nightly men’s group. With pleasure as a guiding principle, the invitation at Apollo is to explore what it means to be a man in the world today and connect with our innocence, to reveal all of ourselves to our community rather than only the socially acceptable traits attributed to ‘being a man’. Come and join the adventure!

Located in Victoria, BC and Austin, TX, we invite you to schedule a consultation call or email info@the-apollo-project.com

Apollo Website

Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism with Resmaa Menakem co-facilitated by Carlin Quinn

Choose: APR, JUNE, JULY, SEPT, OCT 2022
Somatic Abolitionism is an embodied anti-racist practice and process of culture building. This event offers a foundational base for developing the skills to cultivate somatic abolitionism personally and communally. This course is available to the general public.

Somatic Abolitionism is an emergent process, and a form of maturation into a more integrated human experience. It is an embodied anti-racist practice of cultural building. It is a way of being in the world.  It is a return to the age-old wisdom of human bodies respecting, honoring, and resonating with other human bodies.

Somatic Abolitionism is not a human invention. It is the process of resourcing energies that are always present within one’s body, the collective body, and the world.

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