Consent Beyond Binaries: Teaching with Compassion, Confidence, and Care

Title of Event: Consent Beyond Binaries: Teaching with Compassion, Confidence, and Care

Description of Event:

Sarah Casper of Comprehensive Consent and EDSE Lead Educator Anne Hodder-Shipp have teamed up to offer an interactive professional development experience for clinicians, educators, and anyone who teaches or talks about consent!

Teaching consent can be challenging, with traditional approaches often emphasizing legal definitions while inadequately addressing the gray areas that students inevitably ask about. Creating space for these deeper conversations isn’t easy, but educators Anne and Sarah are here to help you learn how.

True consent literacy starts internally, with awareness of and familiarity with our body sensations, emotions, and instincts. Rather than centering external behaviors, intellectualization, and yes/no, give/get binaries, Consent Beyond Binaries’ mind/body approach will help you move beyond insufficient explanations and rigid scripts, and toward consent education that truly connects.

Together, we will:

Examine the many meanings and associations of consent beyond legal and political

Build confidence around teaching consent beyond yes vs. no, give vs. get, and innocent vs. guilty binaries

Unpack our personal and professional baggage about consent so that we can more easily talk about it

Challenge common understandings and teachings of consent using a thoughtfully critical lens

Practice navigating real-life classroom scenarios to build comfort, skill, and consistency

Unlearn unhelpful, unrealistic representations of consent and how to recognize them in curricula

Identify solutions for challenges, conflicts, and misunderstandings that commonly come up in classrooms

Make space for nuance, discomfort, and ambiguity

This workshop will not:

Review legal definitions of consent, age of consent laws, “capacity to consent,” and similar models (we’re not lawyers)

Provide a pre-made, one-size-fits-all way to teach consent (that doesn’t exist)

Show you how to teach consent “the right way” (that’s not a thing)

Use reductive clichés like “consent is sexy,” “no means no,” “yes means yes,” or “if it’s not a hell yes, it’s a hell no” (not as helpful as they seem)

Assume consent is simple, easy, fun, enthusiastic, or exclusively verbal (inadequate and ableist)

Center statistics or use them as teaching tools (unhelpful and unreliable)

Uphold the carceral system and punitive models of “justice” (racist, classist, and ineffective)

Teach you how to help survivors and advocate for restorative justice (that’s a different workshop!)

Date of Event: May 1-2, 2026

Time of Event: 10 AM - 3 PM PT (each day)

Location: Online Synchronous via Zoom

Sexuality Education (SE) Training:

SE1. Sexuality education training will include, but is not limited to: theory and methods of general education (including curriculum development, delivery and evaluation).
SE2. Theory and methods of sexuality education (including curriculum development, delivery and evaluation).
SE3. Ethical issues in sexuality education.
SE4. Theory and methods of approaches to sexuality education with specific populations (e.g., youth, older adults, couples, ethnic/ cultural/ faith-based populations, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities).

Presenter/Speaker: Sarah Casper & Anne Hodder-Shipp

Company/Organization Sponsor: Everyone Deserves Sex Ed (EDSE)

Contact Name: Anne Hodder-Shipp

Contact Telephone Number: (310) 721-4810

Contact Email: hello@everyonedeservessexed.com

Event Website: https://everyonedeservessexed.com/workshops-professional-development-tra...

AASECT Approved CEs: 9