2026 Workshops

You can stretch a condom over a watermelon – but did anyone ask how it feels? This interactive, research-based, body-positive workshop provides practical strategies for educators to increase condom use by talking about proper condom fit. When condoms fit right and work as intended, they increase comfort, confidence, and likelihood of use.

Milla Impola is a condom enthusiast and sex ed advocate. She hosts condom fit workshops across the country and leads educational efforts at ONE Condoms.

A well-planned parent information meeting builds trust and prevents disinformation. This one-hour, practical workshop will help you design a remote or in-person 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.

Meg Culkeen is a trauma-informed health teacher committed to cultural humility, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and human rights education. With extensive experience teaching in districts where sexual health education can be divisive, she prioritizes transparency, respectful dialogue, and strong partnerships with families.

FGM/C impacts half a million women and girls in the U.S., yet remains absent from sex-ed curricula. This workshop equips educators with foundational knowledge and tools to address FGM/C in a culturally responsive, trauma-informed manner, using interactive discussions and case studies controversy.

Caitlin LeMay is a Licensed Certified Social Worker and systems change advocate with over 15 years in the gender-based violence movement. A 2023 Global Woman P.E.A.C.E. Foundation Advocacy Award recipient, she brings clinical expertise and a survivor-centered approach to FGM/C prevention and advocacy across Massachusetts and beyond.

Olivia Harris is a learning and development specialist with expertise in training strategy, instructional design, and program management. Drawing on a background in trauma-informed care and culturally responsive pedagogy, she supports Sahiyo's statewide efforts to build coordinated, community-centered systems addressing FGM/C in Massachusetts.

Young men don't always enter the manosphere from a place of hate, rather often through relatable experiences. This workshop explores the current landscape of the manosphere, including subgroups such as red/black pill communities, incels, men’s rights activists, passport bros, groypers, and looksmaxxers, as well as their connections to nihilistic and extremist violence. Participants will learn to identify key linguistic patterns and “red flags” that signal engagement with these ideologies. They will leave with practical, stigma-free strategies to address the underlying needs that draw young people into these spaces.

Tara Michaela Jones is a sex education content creator, social media manager, and chronically online Gen-Z-er. She also founded The Youth Sexpert Program, a sex education program for teens, with online safety and digital culture baked into the curriculum. Though she'll attest that no one understands the manosphere quite like those within it, her lived digital experience and feminist background allow her to track how these communities operate, evolve, and recruit, and allow her to analyze them.

Men & Boys: Patriarchy & Consent will be a combination of presentation, facilitated questions, shared experiences and discussion to address the challenges of patriarchal narratives, behavior and oppressive power in educational, community, organizational and family contexts.

Ukumbwa Sauti, M.Ed. is a Consultant, Educator, Facilitator engaging issues of Anti-Racism, Anti-Patriarchy, Men's Work, Consent, Culture. He taught higher education for 16 years.

Immigrant newcomers and multilingual learners are learning a new language and academic system. How can we as sexuality educators create an inclusive, culturally responsive classroom to talk about sex? This workshop focuses on the relationship between the teacher, the learner, and the knowledge they can produce together. 

Stephanie Orozco is a Mexican-American bilingual sexuality educator.

Youth and Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) are often left out of the conversation about sexuality, almost as if they are incapable of having thoughts, feelings, and needs. In reality, they, too, are sexual beings who need information and skills for making healthy decisions about sexuality. This workshop will help you become more comfortable talking about this sensitive topic by teaching tips and tools for working and teaching with this population.

Katherine McLaughlin, M.Ed., AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator, is the Founder, CEO, and Lead Trainer for Elevatus Training. She has been a sexuality educator and trainer for over 30 years. As a national expert on sexuality and intellectual and developmental disabilities, she trains professionals and parents, as well as people with I/DD, to become sexual self-advocates and peer sexuality educators.

Learn to provide comprehensive sex ed that is inclusive of LGBTQ+ identities. Kim Adamski will guide attendees of this program through LGBTQ+ identities, issues affecting LGBTQ+ youth in educational settings, and strategies for providing LGBTQ+ competent sex education.

Kim’s 15-year career in sexual health education has helped her develop and fine-tune the skills needed to design and facilitate high-quality sexual health programs to a diverse range of audiences. She has presented programming across Connecticut and nationally, including the University of Connecticut, Central Connecticut State University, and the National Harm Reduction Coalition.

Consent education must go beyond definitions and just saying no. This interactive session equips middle school educators with trauma-informed, culturally responsive strategies to teach healthy relationships, boundaries, and interpersonal safety in ways that reduce shame, increase student voice, and address the realities of interpersonal and sexual violence.

Elyzabeth Frontaan is a public health advocate, public educator, behavioral health public strategist, and community activist with over 15 years of experience advancing equity in mental health and healthcare access for underserved communities.
She is an award-winning, published writer, a mother of two, and a dynamic speaker whose work has been featured in national advocacy initiatives and public health forums. Elyzabeth brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her work, centering culturally responsive, trauma-informed approaches that uplift children and families.

This workshop covers why addressing current events in sex education & youth spaces matters and why it might be challenging to do. Participants gain practical tools and adaptable activities through a trauma-informed lens to help youth process difficult topics such as ICE, elections, climate change, and more.

Dana Lipper- Manager of Sexual & Reproductive Health at CHA. Dana has been a sex educator and youth worker for over 10 years. She currently supervises a team of health educators and teaches classes on comprehensive sexuality education, social justice, relationships and public health.

This workshop will empower educators & teachers in K-12 and higher education to create environments welcoming for survivors of childhood sexual abuse and sexual violence. You will learn actionable skills and develop a toolkit needed to set up a trauma-informed space.

Finley works as a childhood sexual abuse prevention specialist & teacher. They bring their professional knowledge and their lived experience as a survivor into the classroom. They focus on grooming awareness and prevention.

Finley produces educational content online through their safety_thru_sexed Instagram page.

Anonymous questions are often considered the heart and soul of really good sex education programs, but they bring questions of all sorts that many sex educators haven't received training on how to answer. In this workshop, we'll talk about questions that cover personal, offensive, insulting, political, theoretical, age inappropriate, and just plain unanticipated topics that students (young and old!) lob at their sex educators. Along with a set of guidelines that helps organize the process and sets facilitators up for success, we'll go over internal tricks and tips to allow you to create your own, personalized style to answering these questions with finesse and within the requirements of your organizations.

Dr. Karen Rayne has worked in education for the past two decades with an expertise in sexuality education. Her PhD is in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin, where she focused on ethics education and the choices that adolescent mothers make. She began working in sexuality education in 2007 by teaching parenting classes, offering comprehensive sexuality education classes for middle school students, and teaching human sexuality classes for college students through Psychology departments.

Dr. Rayne is passionate about providing comprehensive sexuality education to people of all ages and stages with sensitivity and a touch of humor. In addition to providing direct sexuality education, Dr. Rayne writes curriculum and trains sexuality educators in order to expand their skills.

In addition to her work authoring and training on curricula, Dr. Rayne is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Educational Psychology Department at the University of Texas at Austin where she focuses on teaching Human Sexuality and Teaching Sexual Health.

This interactive workshop invites participants to move, reflect, and connect through storytelling, guided experiences and meaningful conversation. Participants learn how showing up, paying attention, and expressing personal, specific appreciation can deepen relationships, strengthen belonging, and help us live with fewer unresolved regrets.

Kathleen Brophy, M.Ed is the host of Little Victories Podcast, a storyteller and experiential facilitator who transforms personal storytelling into interactive experiences that deepen connection, and leave audiences feeling like they were part of something meaningful. She retired in June, 2024 after 31 years in public education as a health & physical educator. Kathy was the 2015 MAHPERD TOY and the 2016 SHAPE district TOY. She is the co-owner of K & A Connecting, LLC, a member of the MAHPERD Speakers Bureau, and enjoys volunteering at senior residence facilities, with her Music in Motion Program. She loves a good practical joke, and appreciates the small unexpected moments that she shares with her family.