In each of Modules 1, 3 & 5 there are 6 online community meetings attended by first and second-year students and the core teacher team 3.00 pm – 8 pm Wednesday. Here, we come together as a whole community for online teaching sessions and practice. Included in this time will be “pod meetings”, where students meet together in small groups with their coach for focused supervision and reflective practice. During each of these modules, visiting teachers contribute their specialisms to the curriculum alongside core teacher team facilitated webinars.

Module 1: 5 June – 6 August 2023

The curriculum includes self-practice, working with volunteers, assignments, study, and reflective practice with our first Wednesday community gathering creating our course container and relationship agreements that support inclusivity for everyone’s ability to participate. This part of the curriculum facilitates students inhabiting ethics on the inside with the foundational relational embodiment practitioner micro-skills that will be practiced throughout the training. These practices support developing practitioner core competencies  in emotional and erotic fluency and response flexibility. 

The areas of exploration include somatic and semantic communications of self-expression using “Body Focusing”, “Clean Language” and “Body Poem” coaching models, We also study and practice “The Wheel of Consent”, and learn about “The Right use of Power”. Affective relational neuroscience and ecosystem perspectives are woven in with all of the teachings and practices. Throughout this module you will engage in your self- assessment of the core competencies that are being practiced, writing a reflection piece of 300 words and posting this on our online learning management platform. You coach will respond and you are required to respond to two other students’ reflection pieces of your choice.

Module 2: 5 – 10 September 2023

We meet together as a community for 6 days in-person to practice the curriculum from Module 1 with education and practices that prepare for working with volunteers as part of the Module 3 curriculum. Students practice in groups of 3 in the Client, Witness and Practitioner roles, enhancing practitioner understandings in each role.

Students learn the Engage, Study, Activate and Integrate model of facilitating group work for learning and inhabiting new ways of being in community.

The days begin with morning practice at 8.30am and end each day at 6.30pm with one evening session on day 4.

Module 3: 2 October – 5 November 2023

The curriculum includes self-practice, working with volunteers, assignments, study, and reflective practice with the continuation of the online community Wednesday gatherings in the same format as Module 1. This part of the curriculum focuses on understanding the differences between the treatment and coaching models in relation to genital and anal mapping, sensation and pleasure mapping and “Scar Tissue Remediation”. We are visited by Ellen Heed who guides our understanding of genital and anal anatomy, the nervous systems, the enteric nervous system and working with scars. Alongside the biological, anatomical and chemical models of understanding, genital identity, gender identity, sexual expression, emotional and physical repair processes are explored. Ethical enquiries are continued with understanding visible and invisible disability and the ability to belong and participate. 

During these explorations, aspects of the self are touched and awakened into awareness and this self- reflective practice begins the illumination of core erotic themes that may be emerging that can prepare the ground for understanding your unique purpose as a practitioner in service.

Module 4: 28 November – 3 December 2023

We meet together as a community for 6 days in-person to practice the curriculum from Modules 1,2 & 3 with education and practices that prepare for working with Clients as part of the Module 5 curriculum. 

Students continue learning the Engage, Study, Activate and Integrate model of facilitating group work for learning and inhabiting new ways of being in community.

The days begin with morning practice at 8.30am and end each day at 6.30pm with one evening session on day 4.

During these 6 days the focus is on continuing to develop the relational embodiment and sexological bodywork core competencies. The curriculum includes session structure, creating relationship agreements, somatic assessment practices, genital mapping, anal mapping, active receiving and arousal, the ethics and care when working with limerence and hostility and working outside of attraction and dis-attraction. We will explore common presenting concerns that a client might bring and review core competencies and learning edges.  We will practice full authentic sessions using the full session structure, in groups of 3 in the Client, Witness and Practitioner roles, enhancing practitioner understandings in each role.

Module 5: 8 January – 24 March 2024

The curriculum includes self-practice, working with clients and engaging in reflective practice with the continuation of the online community Wednesday gatherings in the same format as Modules 1 & 3.

During this module, as part of the online Wednesday community gatherings, students facilitate a 75 min online class of your choice from a list of suggested topics in groups of 3.

During this module, students practice 30 full sessions “Learning Credits “ translating learning edges into learning objectives and relationship agreements that support the learning of the client inhabiting new ways of being. The first 5 “Learning Credits” are self -directed sessions that address practitioner learning edges in preparation for working with supporting clients with their learning edges. 

Alongside the pod group meetings, students meet 1-1 with their coach every five learning credits to review and self-assess core competencies and learning edges with these.

After 15 learning credits, students submit 5 videos of sessions alongside the session report forms. After the final coaching session, after 30 learning credits have been approved, certification to practice is submitted to the School.