Like a Pro: for professionals who touch - assessment protocols, boundaries, communication, clarity, safety.

Like a Pro ~ 3-day Training

How do you know what your client is ready for – and more importantly, what they are not? What is it, exactly, that makes you a professional, no matter the activity you offer?

Receiving or giving? What are they really and why does it matter? Who wants what and why? Can’t really tell the difference? Trying to do both? Understanding the dynamic makes all your work – and your love life – easier, richer, more fun and feeds your heart.

Like a Pro ~ THE workshop on how to keep your sessions safe, effective and satisfying – for both of you.

Like a Pro is a weekend course for all hands-on professionals in the sensual, sexual or erotic realm. You can learn great massage or tantric skills in many places, but what is it that makes your work, well, professional? Your own personal clarity, accurate protocols for assessment, skills to teach consent and empowerment to your clients/students. The difference between giving and receiving, and how – exactly – to make sure you do not overstep what your client is ready for.

Who is it for?

Anyone doing hands-on erotic or sensual work – therapeutically-based or pleasure-based, or both: Sex work, Sexological Bodywork, Tantra, pleasure-based massage, courtesan experiences, teaching sex technique. Sacred Intimates, courtesans, escorts, dommes, massage artists, sexual healers, dakas and dakinis, sex coaches. Beginners through seasoned professionals.

If you get paid to put your hands on people, you need the clarity this course gives you. Others who have found the class helpful include talk therapists, massage therapists, sexuality coaches and experienced non-professionals who wish to clarify their own erotic path.

How is the class unique?

There are many wonderful places to learn bodywork and tantra skills, but these two critical pieces make your work as a professional, well, professional.

• Assessment – finding out what your client is ready for and – more importantly – what they are not. This must be done with guided body experience, not just with conversation.

• Empowerment and informed consent – teaching your client how to become exquisitely aware of their own desires and limits and how to communicate them. Reminding them it’s OK to say ‘No’ is not enough.

What will I learn?

• The single most important skill for a practitioner and how to develop it

• Giving and receiving – what they really are, how to tell the difference and why it matters

• What you are responsible for in your sessions and what you are not

• Assessment – what you need to notice before you start

• The power of safety and how to create it

• When to bring your own pleasure into session and when not to

• The real nature of healing and how to tap into it whatever you are doing

• How to bring both clarity and heart into your hands so that all your touch is rich, juicy and satisfying

How is it structured?

All Like a Pro classes begin with a 1-day workshop on Saturday that is also open to the public. This is where we learn the 4 Quadrants of Receiving and Giving, what they are and are not and how they apply to touch. This is still a small (under 28) group with experiential learning and coaching from me. You also get a chance to see the work in process with students and clients.

Then on Sunday and Monday, we meet as professionals to take it deeper, see how it applies to your work, and add skills of assessment, boundaries and containment.

What is not covered?

I don’t teach bodywork techniques, but instead the skills to clarify, enhance and empower all your touch. There are many opportunities for exchanging touch as part of the learning, but there is no genital touch in the workshop.

Business and marketing skills are mentioned briefly but not focused on.

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Cost includes all 3 days. So you now get more time at the same cost. Yay!

May 26-28 ~ Seattle
June 16-18 ~ New York

September pending ~ Denver, San Francisco
October pending ~ New York
November pending ~ Atlanta

All classes:
Saturday, 10am-6pm
Sunday and Monday, 9am-6pm

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$480 ~ Reduced Rate ~ Recession discount!

$200 for returning students – always!

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~ Required for admission: a phone conversation with me.

~ Call or email for the next step: Contact me!