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EDSE Sex Educator Certification

Title of Event: EDSE Sex Educator Certification
 
Description of Event:
EDSE’s Sex Educator Certification is a comprehensive professional development training that provides an expansive understanding of human sexuality using an intersectional lens that is informed by social, disability, and racial justice frameworks. It takes place 100% live online and can be attended from anywhere with an internet connection.
 
Our Sex Educator Certification is made for service professionals looking to add essential knowledge, facilitation skills, and justice-centered perspective on human sexuality. This is an opportunity to start or jump-start an existing sexuality education career, complete important professional development, or become an even more valuable resource to your community.
 
There is no minimum education requirement to attend, and attendees do not need a college degree to qualify. We welcome attendees of all experience levels and from any service-centered field, including established sex educators, clinicians, and pleasure professionals seeking to brush up on their skills and knowledge with up-to-date language, information, and perspectives.
 
This 13-day training provides a minimum of 60 training hours of foundational information about human sexuality and enables attendees to develop a more expansive, accurate, and culturally aware perspective of fundamental topics. The new, expanded format enables attendees to have a more flexible schedule with shorter training days.
 
The coursework centers empathy, justice, intentional language, and expansiveness while offering tools to help identify the ways power, privilege, and socially constructed belief systems influence the way we think and teach about sex. This means attendees not only receive knowledge, skills, and information, but also essential perspective on human identity and development that will last a lifetime. Ultimately, much of the learning process during this program is also an unlearning process.
 
The topics that EDSE’s Sex Educator Certification covers includes:
  • Heteronormativity, cisnormativity, & binary myths
  • Gender expansiveness & sexual identity development
  • Expansive pleasure anatomy
  • Body image, disability, & ableism
  • Gender stereotypes & expectations
  • Pregnancy & birth control
  • Sex toys & pornography literacy
  • Sexual difficulties & disappointments
  • Kink, BDSM & sexual expression
  • Client communication skills & blocks
  • Intersectionality & anti-racism in sex education
  • Affirmative consent & sexual communication
  • Trauma-informed sex education
  • Identity-affirming sex education
  • Critical thinking in human sexuality research
  • Teaching exercises, tools, & tips
  • Safer sex, harm reduction, & risk awareness
  • & more!
Attendees are introduced to multiple models for addressing and responding to sex-related questions and concerns in a concise, compassionate, and nonjudgmental manner with opportunities to practice one-on-one and as a group. This program also leaves attendees with new insight into their own sexuality — a valuable side effect of trainings like this.
 
Date of Event: March 1-2, 14-16, 28-30; April 11-13, 26-27
 
Time of Event: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
 
Location: Online Synchronous
 
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).
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: Anne Hodder-Shipp (and 11 guest educators)
 
Contact Name: Anne Hodder-Shipp
 
Contact Telephone Number: (310) 721-4810
 
 
 
AASECT Approved CEs: 60 CEs for 60 total training hours

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