Community Workshops

Skillful Sexual Communication: How to Talk about Your Sex Life with Your Lover

It’s normal and common for couples to have sexual issues that need to be addressed. And all too often, women are left with the short end of the stick when it comes to pleasure. Many people fear bringing up sensitive issues and worry about hurting their partner’s feelings if they want to make requests for change or improvement. Sometimes it’s hard to identify what requests even need to be made. In this workshop we’ll discuss how to bring up the subject and strategies for talking about sensitive sexual issues with lovers. We’ll do some self-assessment and practice communication techniques that will make sex talk easier and sex lives better! This is a great workshop for anyone to improve skills, and couples are encouraged to attend together.

The Fine Art of Dirty Talk

Feeling shy about talking dirty? Have a lover who wishes you would, but you sometimes clam up or struggle with obstacles to saying those sweet nasty things? Wish you could open the door to dirty words without shame? This workshop will be a fun exploration of dirty talk, why we like it, what we want from it and how to incorporate it with partners. There is no one size fits all, so you’ll explore and practice what feels good for you, how to find common ground with your partners, and walk away with a bigger dirty vocabulary. Attendees can decide how much to participate but it will be guaranteed fun! Comon’ say it like you mean it!

Stepping into Authentic Sexual Power

Many people are super empowered in the world, very successful and able to freely assert themselves—but they are unable to carry this power into their sexual lives, leaving them feeling insecure, or deprived of a core power they question whether they can really have. Many cultural factors, including a lack of know-how and role models, contribute to this gap. Amy Jo will help participants assess where they currently are in their own sexuality and lead them in a guided meditation and interactive discussion. In this workshop, we’ll explore core reasons why people become sexually disempowered, how your own creativity can nurture your sexuality and help 
you come closer to your core sexual self,
 and steps you can take to connect to the authentic sexual power you long for. Amy Jo will provide concrete ways to access your most authentically powerful sexual self. People of all sexual orientations and identities are welcome to be a be part of this dynamic class, to begin to dialogue about feeling more confident in their own sexuality and with their sexual and intimate partners.

Relation Transformation: How to Break Up With Grace

Why do so many of us do break-ups so badly? Ending relationships is an essential part of having them, and yet, breaking-up is a skill that most of us never learn. How we approach our break-up determines whether the relationship can transform itself, and it has a great impact on our emotional and spiritual well-being. Will the break-up cause a break-down or a break-through? Break-ups are one of life’s greatest opportunities to grow, so learning how to do it well and to honor the relationship we had is the key to mining the gold that will push us to the next level in our own lives and ability to have sustainable and pleasurable relationships. Break-ups present huge opportunities for growth–don’t miss it!

Lesbian Sex Secrets for Men

What does a lesbian know that I don’t about loving women well? That question prompted the book Lesbian Sex Secrets for Men, and now, the opportunity to learn from co-author Amy Jo Goddard in person how to love women better. As a female-bodied woman who loves women, she’s got insider knowledge and tips to share so you can provide the deepest, most passionate pleasure for your female partners. Many women get into ruts and have a difficult time getting the pleasure they really crave in their sexual relationships. You can be the lover she wants. This workshop is appropriate for any lover of women—all genders welcome. In this fun, informative, no-holds-barred evening, Amy Jo Goddard will answer all your questions, help you explore how to get what you want and tell you everything you’ve always wanted to know about pleasuring a woman.

Unstuck Your Sensual Self: Tools to Ignite Pleasure and Desire

Sometimes we feel disconnected from the experience of pleasure. Sometimes life gets in the way of us experiencing the deepest forms of pleasure. What is holding you back from experiencing pleasure and desire in your daily life? How can you rekindle flames of desire that might be smothered right now? What are the things that make you feel most alive? How can you work to bring those aspects of your life into greater alignment with how you live on a day-to-day basis? Water, and therefore, flow, lives in the second chakra, the home of our sexuality, our sensual selves, our desire. When we get stuck in our attachments, we dam the flow of pleasure in our lives. In this workshop we will use movement, meditation, reflection and group exercises to “unstuck” ourselves, create clarity about how to churn the butters of deliciousness in our lives, and open the second chakra to embrace pleasure and desire in a new way.

The Ritual of Sex

Sex, at its best, is a ritual. Sometimes when people’s sex lives become tedious, monotonous, or boring, they disengage or think something is wrong with their relationship or with their own sexuality. In actuality, identifying this pattern can indicate that one’s sex life needs a jolt of creativity! In this workshop, we’ll identify some red flags and explore ways to get creative about sex, honor it as a ritual and make it something that excites and/or reinvigorates us! In this fun workshop, participants will develop a sexy ritual they can try alone or with a partner!

She Comes Hard! Exploring Female Desire, Pleasure & Orgasms

In this fun, interactive workshop we’ll take a revolutionary look at women’s sexual pleasure and orgasms and talk about how to get what we want sexually. What is a G-Spot and how do I find it? Is the clitoris more complex than the “pea-sized nub” we often hear about? How do I learn to ejaculate? Have more satisfying orgasms? We’ll answer these questions and many others about female bodies and pleasure, demystify women’s sexual anatomy and learn how to have the most pleasure, the most fun, and the biggest orgasms—or provide them for our partners. We’ll view fantastic little-known illustrations from revolutionary works on women’s bodies. We will discuss techniques and share information about sexual pleasure and do some self-exploration about what we want. This is an interactive exchange of information about women’s bodies, pleasure and sexuality. Attendees can decide how much to participate but it will be guaranteed fun! For women and their partners, there’s no reason not to come!

The Ins and Outs of Hand Sex

In today’s “Insert Tab A into Slot B”-centric culture, Hand Sex is one of the most overlooked and untapped sources of pleasure. And unlike your standard “go-to” sex equipment, the Creator gave most of us two hands with five digits each, which, when you do the math, equals way more than just doubling your pleasure! This is an entertaining, low pressure and informative workshop on how to make love to men and women using your hands.

In this workshop, learn techniques for pleasuring both men and women, how to get data on what works for your partners, best practices for both stimulation and penetration, how to utilize the millions of nerves in your fingers to “listen” to and track your partner’s sexual response so you can access better information and make him or her squeal. We’ll talk about the G-spot, the P-spot, hand sex ergonomics and much more!  Hand sex is an essential skill, and whether you are a man or a woman, and no matter your age, gender or sexual orientation, masterfully making love to another with your hands can be a huge turn-on and self-esteem boost. Not to mention that Hand Sex is one of the best fall-back plans, or savvy, lead-with tactics to have at the ready when the rest of you is worn out or incapacitated, or you’re just looking to roll up your sleeves and spice things up!

Healing Sexual Shame

Shame damages our sexuality, capacity for pleasure and sexual identity more than anything else. Many of us have tremendous unspoken and unacknowledged shame that harms our sexual expression and experience on a recurring basis, affecting our relationships, our self-esteem, our social lives, and our sexual health. The problem with shame is that it isolates people and separates them from others, and it gets in the way of its own healing because of this. In this workshop, we will take an honest look at sexual shame, where it comes from, and where we are holding it about our own sexuality. We’ll engage in activities and a ritual that helps us to release some of the sexual shame we are carrying so that we can experience more of the pleasure, joy, empathy and connection most of us truly want. Free what holds you back and move forward with tools to help you identify when shame is coming up for you and how to address it so that it does not eat away at you and hinder your magnificent sexuality from coming forth

Viva la Vulvalution

This workshop helps women take an honest look at what keeps women “apart” or in competition and how we can support one another in a bigger way. It engages women in discussion and in honoring the womentors who have helped us become who we are. We will create community within the workshop and really look at how to create greater women’s community in our lives, and break the patterns and belief systems that encourage us to tear one another down. This workshop will create a frank discussion about how as we build each other up, we create a more powerful world for all women.

Sexuality Educator’s Skills Training , 1-3 days

Many people want to teach sexuality and often do so without any training in HOW to effectively teach this sensitive topic. Sexual knowledge and experience are important for any sexuality educator, AND actual skills are critical. The ability to skillfully teach will make or break your reputation as a dynamic sexuality educator. This full-day workshop will introduce basic foundations for understanding group dynamics, the needs of your participants, how adults learn, and how to present in a dynamic, interactive way that engages participants and keeps them coming back. People want strong content, AND it has to be presented in an engaging and effective way or that great content gets lost on your willing attendees.

Topics Covered Include:

• Theories of sexuality and sexual desire
• The language of sex
• Facilitation vs. Teaching: Assessing your Role
• Getting the vibe you want: icebreakers, warm-ups, energizers and room tone
• The “Use of Self”: voice, body, and disclosure
• Group Dynamics: Managing your group
• Multiple Intelligences: Principles of adult learning styles
• The Experiential Learning Cycle: How to effectively process activities and create dynamic group discussion
• Tricks of the Trade
• Co-facilitation: Playing well with others and maximizing strengths
• Challenging Group Participants: How to manage difficult situations
• Adolescent Development
• Sexuality Over the Life-Span
• Principles of Workshop Design: How to write a great workshop
• Teaching modalities and how to make great interactive exercises out of your material
• Presentation Skills Practice with feedback!