EDSE Sex Educator Certification - Fall 2026

Title of Event: EDSE Sex Educator Certification - Fall 2026

Description of Event:

FALL 2026 Cohort:

EDSE’s Sex Educator Certification is packed with the expansive sexuality, health, and pleasure information you need to level-up your career, elevate your knowledge, and become a true change-maker. 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.

There is no minimum education requirement and you do not need a college degree to attend.

This one-of-a-kind comprehensive professional development training provides a foundational understanding of human sexuality using an intersectional lens that is informed by social, disability, gender, and racial justice frameworks. Our 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 you will not only receive knowledge, skills, and information, but also essential perspective on human identity and development that will last a lifetime. Ultimately, much of your learning process with EDSE will also be an unlearning process. And that’s what makes this work so powerful.

EDSE’s Sex Educator Certification is made for service professionals looking to add essential knowledge, facilitation skills, and a justice-centered perspective on human sexuality. It takes place live online and can be attended from anywhere with an internet connection. Complete your Sex Educator Certification from the comfort of your home, dorm, or office!

The topics that EDSE’s Sex Educator Certification covers includes:

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 skills

Teaching exercises, tools, & tips

Safer sex, harm reduction, & risk awareness

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  & more!

Date of Event: FALL 2026: Oct. 10-11, Oct. 23-25, Nov. 6-8, Nov. 20-22, Dec. 5-6

Time of Event: 10 AM - 4 PM PST (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).
SE5. Theory and methods of different approaches to sexuality education delivery (e.g., small group work, one-on-one education, large group lectures or interaction, online delivery or use of other electronic means).

Presenter/Speaker: Anne Hodder-Shipp, Bethany Stevens, Bianca Palmisano, Chels Morgan, Luna Matatas, Goody Howard, Dr. Grace Abruzzo, Jasmine Johnson, Ignacio Rivera, Dr. Joy Cox, Sarah Tomchesson, and more!

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

Contact Name: Anne Hodder-Shipp

Contact Telephone Number: (310) 721-4810

Contact Email: hello@everyonedeservessexed.com

Event Website: https://everyonedeservessexed.com/sex-educator-certification

AASECT Approved CEs: 60