F A C U L T Y

Joseph Kramer, PhD, is the foremost teacher of erotic bodywork in the world. In 1984, he founded the Body Electric School in Oakland, California, where he trained thousands of professional massage therapists, erotic bodyworkers and somatic educators. In 1992, he started the Erospirit Research Institute, a think tank exploring the connection between spirituality and sexuality. He has also created two online schools offering training in erotic bodywork and erotic yoga - eroticmassage.com and yogaofsex.com

Kian and Katie co-founded the Sea School of Embodiment which has presented leading-edge international training in somatic sexology for the public as well as for other sexuality professionals, including Betty Martin, Deej Juventin, Ellen Heed, Kimberley Johnson and Caffyn Jesse.

Kian is the Director of the School of Somatic Sexology and is passionate about sharing the joys and trials of a greater embodiment with the world. https://somaticsexology.school

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Katie and Kian co-founded the Sea School of Embodiment which has presented leading-edge international training in somatic sexology for the public as well as for other sexuality professionals, including Betty Martin, Deej Juventin, Ellen Heed, Kimberley Johnson and Caffyn Jesse.

Katie is the Director of the Institute for Relational Harmony Studies.

https://www.relationalharmony.institute/

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Deej CSB, M.A. is a leader in the fields of somatic education and embodied counselling. His work supports clients to mobilize their capacities for growth, learning and change.

He supports the development of somatic work in Australia and internationally through professional trainings for embodied counsellors and somatic sex educators, and professional supervision for people who work, or want to work, somatically.

Deej has over 20 years experience in adult education, teacher training, embodied counselling and various forms of bodywork. He was the founding president of the Somatic Sex Educators’ Association of Australasia, and is a co-director of the Institute of Somatic Sexology. He was awarded Somatic Sex Educator of the Year for 2016 at the Sexual Freedom Awards in London.
https://instituteofsomaticsexology.com/faculty

Dr. Betty Martin has had her hands on people professionally for over 40 years, first as a Chiropractor and upon retiring from that practice, as a certified Surrogate Partner, Sacred Intimate, and Somatic Sex Educator. Her explorations in somatic-based therapy and practices informed her creation of the framework, The Wheel of Consent®.

As part of her work with the School of Consent, Betty travels around the world teaching practitioners how to create empowered agreements in their client sessions, in her highly sought-after training “Like A Pro: The Wheel of Consent for Practitioners.” Originally developed as an offering to teach much-needed consent skills to sex workers and touch providers, this training is now attended by somatic therapists, massage therapists, sexuality educators, medical and health care workers, activists, human resources folks and the spectrum of touch-based professional providers – all of whom complete the training with a clear understanding of how consent starts with our own bodies, and then expands outwards into all forms of human relating, with or without touch.

https://www.bettymartin.org

Ellen Heed Ph.D.

Ellen Heed offers Sexological Bodywork students lessons in postpartum sexuality, smooth muscle massage, functional anatomy, erectile tissue discoveries in women, and scar tissue remediation. She has spent over 10,000 hours as a bodyworker and nutritional consultant, and holds certifications as a Sexological Bodyworker, Shiatsu Specialist, Craniosacral Therapist, and Facia Manipulation Specialist. She is also an international teacher of human anatomy and a yoga teacher

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Caffyn Jesse is a world-renowned sex and intimacy educator whose programs and books offer a unique blend of science, sex and soul. Encouraging neuroplastic change to support healing and expanded pleasure, unwinding sexual trauma, exploring the intersection of sex and spirit, honouring the gender galaxy, creating erotic community….

https://ecstaticbelonging.com/

Sue Newsome is an experienced sex and relationship therapist who has been working in the field of sexual intimacy since 2001. Her approach combines her training as a counsellor, educator and sex therapist with her knowledge and experience of tantra and bio-energetics. She has extensive experience of providing somatic bodywork sessions and understands many of the rewards and challenges of working with the erotic. Sue has built a thriving private practice, continues to passionately believe in her work and welcomes opportunities to support people who are starting out in this field.

Sue has received 2 awards for her work with Outsiders and SHADA (Sexual Health & Disability Alliance) and is a recognised authority for her work with sexual surrogates & assisting people with disability to find sexual fulfilment.

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Reference list for Exploring Ethics and Boundaries.

Darnell, Cyndi (2021). Sexuality, sex therapy & somatics. In bed with the most likely bedfellows. So why aren’t they? Sexual and Relationship Therapy, DOI: 10.1080/14681994.2021.1882672

Pelmas, Christiane (2017). Trauma: A practical guide to working with body and soul. The Re-wilding Press.

Schon, Donald A. (1993). The reflective practitioner: how professionals think in action. New York: Basic Books.

Somatic Sexual Educators Association of Australasia (2022). Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct for Certified Sexological Bodyworkers, [online]. http://www.sseaa.org/code-of-ethics

The Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (2022). Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics, [online]. http://www.sexologicalbodyworkers.org/ethics

The Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists (2022). Code of ethics and ethical codes of practice, [online]. http://www.the-asis.org/ethics

Thouin-Savard, Marie I. (2019). Erotic Mindfulness: A Core Educational and Therapeutic Practice in Somatic Sexology Practices. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 38(1), Advance publication

Dr Paul Field

Trainer, Coach and Coach Supervisor

Paul Field is a certified Clean Facilitator, Clean Trainer and Clean Assessor. He speaks at international conferences and innovates new techniques in Clean Language, including Modeller’s Mind, Embodied Clean, The Binds Process and Persona Modelling.

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Paul has over 20 years of experience in business, leading teams and applying Agile and Product Development approaches. He has led transformation in top investment banks, including on £200m+ project portfolios and one programme responsible for $1 billion in financial transactions/day. He created a global community of practice for Agile consisting of over 900 people in 50 locations around the world. He now coaches and mentors leaders in startups and in large organisations. You can find out more about his corporate background on LinkedIn.

In addition, Paul has coached private clients one-to-one for many years. As part of his spiritual path, he spent two years pursuing his purpose and finding the most meaningful work and, to his surprise, found himself working with sexual assault victims. He now has a specialist one-to-one practice using Clean, embodiment, bodywork and trauma-informed approaches to help women recovering from sexual and emotional trauma. You can find out more about this work at his website:

https://awakenthewoman.co.uk/

Wendy Sullivan is an international trainer of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling who has worked extensively with the founders of that field. Judy Rees is a certified Clean Facilitator and expert in Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling and runs a London-based Clean Language Company.
Her book “Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds” teaches a new way to communicate which gets to the heart of things! By asking Clean Language questions to explore the metaphors which underpin a person's thinking, you can help people to change their lives in a way that intrinsically respects diversity and supports empowerment. Both you and they will gain profound new insights into what makes them tick. The approach was originally used to help clients to resolve deep trauma. It is now being used to get to the truth and to solve complex problems by some of the sharpest and most innovative people in the world - coaches, business people, educators, health professionals and many others.

cleanchange.co.uk

Kat Byles is the founder of the True Business School, introducing a pioneering way of being in business that leads with the wisdom and creativity of your Heart. For creators, leaders, change-makers, therapists, artists, teachers and healers who want to do business differently, your True Business is so natural to you it doesn’t feel like work.

In 2000 she founded Authentic PR, as featured in The Guardian, The Times and Director, championing businesses with a positive purpose and pioneering the Purpose Economy now worth over £100 million in the UK. As the Global Communications Director for the Homeless World Cup, Kat was instrumental in growing the organisation from 20 to 70 nations, positively impacting 250,000 people who were homeless worldwide, generating over $25 million in media coverage. She was the Executive Producer for Kicking It, narrated by Colin Farrell, selected for Sundance and sold to US sport channel ESPN; and signed a feature film with Blue Print Pictures (Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) in production with Netflix.

Whilst building a business with purpose made a difference, Kat experienced burnout at 42. Her intuition led her to a life in Antigua where being in nature restored her wellness and inspiration for True Business flowed. Trialled by over 300 creatives in 14 countries True Business allows a business to emerge that brings wellness, fulfilment and prosperity in harmony with the Creative flow.

Kat lives in the UK and Antigua where you can join her for The Antigua Retreat, an immersion in nature to discover and grow the business you were born for.

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