Faculty: Lauren Goyette

This lecture explores how dating apps, texting culture, stress, boundaries, and communication patterns impact emotional intimacy and connection in modern relationships. We’ll discuss common struggles people experience while dating today and practical ways sexuality educators can support healthier communication, emotional awareness, and relationship skills. (Cost: $35)

Faculty: Kim Adamski

Research suggests that kink and BDSM-related interests and behaviors are more common than many people realize, with studies showing a wide range of prevalence depending on how kink is defined and measured. People who engage in kink deserve judgment-free, risk-reduction education. Learn about different models of consent, risk evaluation, and best practices for discussing kink behaviors in the classroom. (Cost: $35)

Faculty: Rachele Manett

Disabled sex can be tricky when we run into barriers, but disabled sex is also creative, restorative, exploratory, and vast in how it looks from person to person. This creates the perfect opportunity for re-defining what sex means and focus on person-centred hacks and adaptations to make sex more accessible for those with and without disabilities. (Cost: $35)

Faculty: Ashley N. Browning, MRC, CNP
This session explores sexual agency, shame, and liberation among Black women through storytelling and cultural analysis. Centering pleasure, autonomy, and reclamation, it challenges harmful narratives and offers a culturally responsive approach to sexual health, healing, and empowerment. (Cost: $35)

Faculty: Meg Culkeen
A well-planned parent information meeting builds trust and prevents disinformation. This practical workshop will help you design a sex ed curriculum night. You’ll learn how to go beyond notification requirements and clearly communicate curriculum goals, address FAQs with confidence, provide parents with useful resources, and establish a collaborative tone that minimizes controversy. (Cost: $35)

Faculty: Joyce Miles Jacquote
Sex and sexuality remain taboo in American society, fostering misinformation and shame—especially for marginalized communities. The purpose of this presentation is to explore how Black Queer and gender-diverse individuals navigate sexuality and sexuality at intersecting margins and to equip mental health professionals and laypeople with insights for informed and affirming care. (Cost: $35)

This training will cover vocabulary, using gender neutral language and correct pronouns, answering tough questions, and will provide opportunities for skill building utilizing real-life examples plus more. Any and all are welcome to attend, including educators, nurses, school nurses, human resource professionals, medical and health providers, disability service providers, youth-serving professionals, law enforcement officers, etc. (Cost: $295)

This training is appropriate for educators who are looking to enhance their sexual educator skills. The training will take place over the course of three days with a 90 minute session each day. (Cost: $175)

Faculty: Penny Harvey
This training will explore paths to ‘figure out fertility’ and family building in contemporary social, legal, and technological contexts. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and practice, Harvey will outline choices and access across diverse family forms, highlighting how inequality, policy, and cultural norms shape reproductive possibilities and pathways to making family today. (Cost: $35)