Your Agency Within This Course

Considerations as You Move Through This Course

• You have control over your level of engagement in these sessions. Everything is invitational, you are encouraged to participate as much as you can/feel able to.

• You are responsible for yourself throughout this course in regard to your level of challenge and what feels right for you to do. Take breaks if you need, and try not to take this too seriously, we are here to have fun while we learn!!

• Shortly I will be running through some nervous system education and providing some practical tools to support in moving through discomfort and challenging yourself to learn and strengthen new neural pathways to sex positivity and pleasure, desire and arousal!

• Let’s celebrate where you are on your journey (and your partner too), and acknowledge that most of you are challenging yourselves by signing up to this course! I am so grateful for you!

• Be mindful that not everyone has anatomy that matches their gender identity, or a sexuality that aligns with traditional social constructs. Let’s celebrate diversity! When we get to the modules on genital and pleasure anatomy I will circle back to this, and I try to use genital language when discussing body parts and gendered language when we are talking about identity and social constructs.

• My favourite rule in any course I run is please don’t yuck other peoples yum (and try not to yuck your own)! Remember that our judgements are formed from sex-negative social constructs that are probably not true! Acknowledge what comes up for you, and use it to challenge the narrative that taught us that something is ‘wrong’. Your initial thought/judgement is very likely what you were taught, you then have an opportunity to have second thought that allows for diversity, openness and curiosity. Feeling shame about a sexual interest or desire is not helpful for anyone, and this course will explore how we can move from shame to neutral and sex-positive.

• Be respectful of others cultural beliefs and experiences that have shaped their view of sensuality and sexuality.

• Finally but perhaps most importantly, know that trauma is a component of many folks sexual story, show compassion to yourself, your partner and everyone!