EMBODIED INTIMACY & RELATIONSHIP COACHING CERTIFICATE
“Intimacy is not something that just happens between two people; it is a way of being alive.”
— GENEEN ROTH
PROGRAM AT-A-GLANCE
Are you ready to guide individuals and couples into deeper and more satisfying connection, sex, and sustained relationships?
Are you committed to holistically transforming intimacy challenges and supporting clients in mindful dating, break-up processes, grieving, relationship skills (strategies and tools), resolving sexual concerns, and facilitating embodied awareness and better sex?
Then, we invite you to join us for the first-of-its-kind 80-hour Embodied Intimacy & Relationship Coaching Certificate.
This unique four-month online certificate is designed for individuals, practitioners, and educators who want to explore the power of somatic (body-based) intimacy coaching in a compressive and integrative process that fosters, awakens, and deepens wholeness through the science, strategies, and tools of embodied intimacy.
This incredible program brings together world-renowned relationship and attachment experts, somatic sex therapists, and intimacy coaches to guide you in embodying and facilitating this holistic methodology to physical, mental, emotional, developmental, and spiritual intimacy.
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INFORMATION AND MEET THE FACULTY SESSIONS
KAI CHENG THOM
ONIKA HENRY
DR. SCOTT LYONS
CYNDI DARNELL
VANESSA BENNETT
AMY CHAN
DENÉ LOGAN
BARBARA CARRELLAS
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MEET YOUR 2024 INSTRUCTORS
Internationally recognized leaders bring to life a holistic and unified curriculum.
JILLIAN TURECKI
DR. SUE JOHNSON (pre-recorded sessions)
KAI CHENG THOM
DR. EMILY MORSE
DENÉ LOGAN
DR. LAURA BERMAN
DR. SCOTT LYONS
CYNDI DARNELL
DR. STAN TATKIN
BARBARA CARRELLAS
KATHERINE WOODWARD THOMAS
AMY CHAN
ONIKA HENRY
VANESSA BENNETT
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
EXPLORE THE SCIENCE, STRATEGIES & TOOLS OF EMBODIED INTIMACY
This unique four-month online certificate is designed for individuals, practitioners, and educators who want to explore the power of somatic (body-based) intimacy coaching in a compressive and integrative process that fosters, awakens, and deepens wholeness through the science, strategies, and tools of embodied intimacy.
This incredible program brings together world-renowned relationship and attachment experts, somatic sex therapists, and intimacy coaches to guide you in embodying and facilitating this holistic methodology to physical, mental, emotional, developmental, and spiritual intimacy.
What is intimacy?
Intimacy is the felt sense of closeness and connection; it is the bridge to a foundational sense of relationship with ourselves, other people, and the world around us. Through intimacy, we experience a direct sense of being supported and belonging. Intimacy plays an essential role in our identity and sense of wholeness.
While intimacy can take many forms, at a primal level, it occurs through subtle and powerful exchanges experienced in the body. Transformative intimacy coaching requires a body-based (somatic) approach to enhancing one's capacity and/or healing ruptures and wounds that have interrupted the individual's full potential for physical, emotional, psychological, developmental, sensual, and spiritual aspects of intimacy.
Embodied Intimacy & Relationship Coaching
Embodied Intimacy & Relationship Coaching is trauma-informed, client-centered (humanistic), experiential (exercises, practices, or guided experiences), science-based, discovery and growth-oriented, and holistic in its approach to working with supporting individuals and couples through the full spectrum of intimacy.
Embodied intimacy and relationship coaches help clients explore and address intimacy wounds (and the subsequent behavioral patterns and impact on sex and embodiment) to enable deeper and more satisfying relationships. Embodied Intimacy & Relationship Coaches enhance emotional intelligence, conflict resolution capacities, and communication skills; they also facilitate somatic awareness, support resolving sexual concerns, and guide clients through the processes of dating, break-ups, and grief.
Through this program, participants will be able to help clients with the following:
IMPROVED COMMUNICATION AND EMOTIONAL CONNECTION
Enhance Communication Skills + Deeper Understanding: By learning effective communication skills, individuals and couples can better articulate their needs, desires, and boundaries.
Empathy and compassion: better understanding and responses to their own emotional states, as well as other people's, leads to a greater understanding of different perspectives and experiences.
Conflict Resolution: Improved communication skills help resolve conflicts more constructively and enable active work on cycles of rupture and repair, leading to healthier and more resilient relationships.
ENHANCED SEXUAL SATISFACTION AND EXPLORATION
Increased Awareness: Greater body awareness can lead to more fulfilling sexual experiences. This approach focuses on helping clients understand what brings them pleasure and how to communicate that to their partner(s).
Exploration of Desires: Along with enhancing communication, clients will learn skills to have safe and open discussions about sexual needs and fantasies.
Overcoming Sexual Issues: Addressing physical and emotional blocks related to sex can help in overcoming challenges like low libido, erectile dysfunction, or discomfort during sex.
Reensate Agency and Liberation: Addressing interpersonal and cultural power dynamics, colonization of the body, and internalized shame will help clients be more pleasure-centered and experience greater power and freedom.
GREATER SELF-AWARENESS AND BODY CONFIDENCE
Body Acceptance: Helping clients embrace the uniqueness of their bodies can lead to increased confidence, both in and out of intimate settings.
Self-Discovery: Through various exercises and reflections, individuals often discover more about their emotional and physical needs, leading to a better understanding of themselves.
Empowerment: Learning to express and fulfill one's needs can empower and enhance overall self-esteem.
HEALING FROM PAST TRAUMAS RELATED TO INTIMACY
Processing Wounding: Addressing and healing from past experiences, traumas, or negative conditioning around intimacy can lead to healthier relationships.
Breaking Patterns: Often, individuals unknowingly repeat unhealthy patterns in relationships. Coaching can help identify and change these patterns.
Restoring Trust: For those who have experienced betrayal or harm in past relationships, coaching can be a path to rebuilding trust in themselves and others.
IMPROVED RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS
Rekindling Connection: For couples who feel disconnected, this coaching can help reignite emotional and physical intimacy.
Balancing Dynamics: Coaching can help understand and balance power dynamics within a relationship, ensuring a healthier, more equal partnership.
PERSONAL AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH
Deepening Spiritual Connection: For those who see intimacy as a spiritual journey, coaching can deepen this aspect, aligning intimate experiences with personal beliefs and values.
Holistic Well-being: By addressing intimacy, individuals often find improvements in other areas of life, such as reduced stress, better mental health, and a sense of overall well-being.
RELATIONSHIP LONGEVITY AND SATISFACTION
Sustainable Relationships: Learning and practicing skills for intimacy can contribute to longer-lasting, more satisfying relationships.
Adaptability: As individuals and relationships grow and change, the skills learned in coaching can help them adapt to these changes and maintain intimacy over time.
Join the revolution of coming home to the body and rediscovering how it can truly transform our lives and the world!
CURRICULUM
This 80-hour certificate program included 7 weekends, each with 10 hours of live training. There were 10 additional hours of bonus material, talks & Community Connections throughout the course of the program.
THE SEVEN SECTIONS OF THE PROGRAM WERE:
MODULE 1: Embodied Self Intimacy & Self Work
• Healing & Whole-Ing: Foundations in Self-Work for Intimacy Coaches
• Befriending Our Bodies: Somatic Self Awareness For Intimacy Coaches
• Mapping the Intimate Body 1: Meeting Our Erotic Self
• Mapping the Intimate Body 2: Developing Personal Practices for Intimacy Coaches
MODULE 2: Coaching Skills & Trauma Informed Coaching
• Holding the Intimacy Coaching Frame - Holding the Coach/Client Relationship
• Core Skills For Intimacy & Sex Coaches
• Intimacy Is For Every Body: Diversity & Intimacy Coaching 1
• Intimacy Is For Every Body: Diversity & Intimacy Coaching 2
MODULE 3: Adult Attachment & Intimacy Repatterning
• Personal Attachment Mapping
• Attachment in Relationships - Cycle Tracking and Forming Your Secure Anchor
• Development of Bonding and Intimacy
• Intimacy and Eroticism
MODULE 4: Somatic Sexology, Sex Therapy & Intimacy Coaching
• Somatic Sexology
• Somatic Sex Therapy
• Sacred Sexuality
• Coaching Sexual Concerns and Having Better Sex
MODULE 5: Coaching Relational Dynamics
• Relationship Coaching 1: Mapping & Assessing the Relational Dynamic
• Relationship Coaching 2: The Relationship Coaching Toolbox
• Relational Shadow Work 1: Illuminating Conflict Dynamics
• Relational Shadow Work 2: Transforming Conflict Dynamics
MODULE 6: Coaching for Dating, Break-ups & Grief
• Coaching for Dating
• Coaching for Break Ups
• Generating Self Worth and Coaching Demo
• Coaching for Grief, Dying, and Death
MODULE 7: Putting it all together- Embodied Intimacy Coaching Integration
• Weaving The Threads of Intimacy - Part 1
• Weaving The Threads of Intimacy - Part 2
• Weaving The Threads of Intimacy - Part 3
• Weaving The Threads of Intimacy - Part 4
WHO IS THIS PROGRAM FOR?
• Social Workers
• Mental Health & Pastoral Counselors
• Yoga Therapists / Yoga Teachers
• Movement Therapists
• Coaches
• Physicians & Physician Assistants
• Nurses & Nurse Practitioners
• Psychologists
• Emergency Medical Personnel
• Meditation Teachers
• Educators
• Massage Therapists & Body Workers
• Acupuncturists
• Hypnotherapists
• Kinesiologists
• Complementary & Alternative Medicine Professionals
• Clergy & Religious Leaders
• Other Wellness Professionals
This is an education program and not a licenser program.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Help clients embrace the uniqueness of their bodies to lead to increased confidence, both in and out of intimate settings.
Various exercises and reflections to discover more about your emotional and physical needs.
How to express and fulfill one's needs to empower and enhance overall self-esteem.
Address and heal from past experiences, traumas, or negative conditioning around intimacy.
Identify and change unhealthy patterns in relationships.
Rebuild trust after experiencing betrayal or harm in past relationships.
How to reignite emotional and physical intimacy.
Understand and balance power dynamics within a relationship, ensuring a healthier, more equal partnership.
By addressing intimacy, individuals often find improvements in other areas of life, such as reduced stress, better mental health, and a sense of overall well-being.
Effective communication skills to better articulate your and your clients’ needs, desires, and boundaries.
Better understand and respond to your own and other people's emotional states.
Improved communication skills help resolve conflicts more constructively and enable active work on cycles of rupture and repair.
Greater body awareness that can lead to more fulfilling sexual experiences.
Skills to have safe and open discussions about sexual needs and fantasies.
How to overcome challenges like low libido, erectile dysfunction, or discomfort during sex.
Address interpersonal and cultural power dynamics, colonization of the body, and internalized shame to help clients be more pleasure-centered and experience greater power and freedom.
Deepen spiritual connection by aligning intimate experiences with personal beliefs and values.
How to maintain intimacy as relationships grow and change over time.
PROGRAM INTENTIONS
To inspire and prepare participants for practice of relationship and intimacy coaching through the application of embodied frameworks and techniques.
To prepare students for ethical practice of somatic sex and intimacy coaching by providing a foundational understanding of human relationships, sexuality, and the ways that a coaching container can support intimate and erotic flourishing.
To provide students with a breadth of tools from relationship coaching, sex therapy, dating and break-up coaching, and grief support.
To offer opportunities for students to expand their perspectives on intimacy and relationships and embrace the diverse complexity of human erotic embodiment.
To build a community of practice that celebrates and fosters a body-centered and body-based, wholistic approach to intimacy and sexuality.
To integrate an understanding that intimacy and sexuality are developmental processes that impact the entire range of human experiences across the lifespan.
To center the embodied experience of pleasure, aliveness, and interconnectedness as the goal of intimacy coaching, rather than focusing on pathology, function, and dysfunction.
Create opportunities for participants to connect as a community via shared interest.
Sessions will always include multiple skills that can be applied to integrate the educational material.
PROGRAM DETAILS
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
This 80-hour certificate program ran live online from June 14th to October 13th, 2024. The program included 7 Modules over 7 weekends, all available to watch online and on-demand at your own pace. Each day consisted of 5 hours of training from 11am-1:30pm and 2:30-5pm ET (with a 1 hour break in between from 1:30-2:30pm ET). There was also 10 hours of bonus material, talks and optional Community Connection sessions.
All sessions were available to be completed live online and via your online Content Library which access was granted to upon registration.
STUDENT ORIENTATION: June 14th, 2024 from 5 - 6:30pm ET
MODULE 1 - Embodied Self Intimacy & Self Work
Saturday, June 15th & Sunday, June 16th, 2024
from 11am-1:30pm and 2:30-5pm ET
MODULE 2 - Coaching Skills & Trauma Informed Coaching
Saturday, June 29th & Sunday, June 30th, 2024
from 11am-1:30pm and 2:30-5pm ET
MODULE 3 - Adult Attachment & Intimacy Repatterning
Saturday, July 27th & Sunday, July 28th, 2024
from 11am-1:30pm and 2:30-5pm ET
SPECIAL CLASS - Interview with Dr. Stan Tatkin, Dr. Scott Lyons and Kai Cheng Thom
Thursday, August 1st, 2024 from 12-1:15pm ET
MODULE 4 - Somatic Sexology, Sex Therapy & Intimacy Coaching
Saturday, August 24th & Sunday, August 25th, 2024
from 11am-1:30pm and 2:30-5pm ET
SPECIAL CLASS - with Dr. Emily Morse
Tuesday, September 10th, 2024 from 3-4:30pm ET
INTEGRATION SESSION - with Cyndi Darnell, Kai Cheng Thom and Dr. Scott Lyons
Wednesday, September 11th, 2024 from 6-8pm ET
MODULE 5 - Coaching Relational Dynamics
Saturday, September 14th & Sunday, September 15th, 2024
from 11am-1:30pm and 2:30-5pm ET
MODULE 6 - Coaching for Dating, Break-ups & Grief
Saturday, September 28th & Sunday, September 29th, 2024
from 11am-1:30pm and 2:30-5pm ET
SPECIAL CLASS - Conscious Uncoupling with Katherine Woodward Thomas
Wednesday, October 9th, 2024 from 5:30-7pm ET
MODULE 7 - Putting It All Together - Embodied Intimacy Coaching Integration
Saturday, October 12th & Sunday, October 13th, 2024
from 11am-1:30pm and 2:30-5pm ET
See how this translates into your timezone.
HOMEWORK
There was not any homework for this program.
LEARNING PLATFORM FORMAT
ZOOM: The live portion of the certificate program was offered online using the video conferencing platform Zoom, in meeting format, to allow instructors and students to interact, ask questions and participate in breakout sessions.
ONLINE LEARNING PLATFORM: The online learning platform hosted all the information about the course including:
Detailed schedule and reminder emails of upcoming sessions
How to access the live sessions via Zoom
Supporting materials such as PDFs of the reading material and presentations
ACCESSIBILITY
VIDEO / AUDIO: Within the online learning platform, students were able to watch the video within their online library or download the video or audio to their computer. They enjoy lifetime access to the content.
LIVE CAPTIONING / TRANSCRIPTS: Captioning during live sessions and transcripts were offered in English.
READING LISTS: Each instructor provided required or recommended readings.
Required readings were available freely online or in PDF format.
Recommended readings were optional and for futher exploration. They may have included books, online articles etc.
PDFs of the instructor’s presentation were also be provided.
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
Below are the requirements to receive the Certificate of Completion within 3 months of the last live session:
Attend the live sessions or watch the recordings.
Complete the Self Evaluation & Reflection forms for each module.
Complete 10 hours of Practice Coaching Sessions outside of class times and reach out to another student in the program and have a meaningful conversation about the program.
Submit full payment.
REGISTRATION / ENROLLMENT / TUITION
Students enrolled for the certificate program by choosing one of two registration options— payment in full, a two-month payment plan, or a three-month payment plan. Once registered, students receives a welcome email with how to access all the details for the certificate program. REGISTER YOUR INTEREST FOR THE NEXT PROGRAM →
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
+ Who is this program designed for?
This program is a certification process that distills an educational methodology to integrate into a variety of modalities such as:
Social Workers, Mental Health & Pastoral Counselors, Yoga Therapists / Yoga Teachers, Movement Therapists, Coaches, Physicians (MD, DO, ND, DC & others) & Physician Assistants, Nurses & Nurse Practitioners, Psychologists, Emergency Medical Personnel, Meditation Teachers, Educators, Massage Therapists, Acupuncturists & Body Workers, Hypnotherapists, Kinesiologists, Complementary & Alternative Medicine Professionals, Clergy & Religious Leaders, other Wellness Professionals.
This is an education program and not a licenser program.
+ What are the dates, schedule and time commitment?
This 80-hour certificate program ran live online from June 14th to October 13th, 2024. The program included 7 Modules over 7 weekends, all available to watch online and on-demand at your own pace. Each day consisted of 5 hours of training from 11am-1:30pm and 2:30-5pm ET (with a 1 hour break in between from 1:30-2:30pm ET). There was also 10 hours of bonus material, talks and optional Community Connection sessions.
All sessions were available to be completed live online and via your online Content Library which access was granted to upon registration.
STUDENT ORIENTATION: June 14th, 2024 from 5 - 6:30pm ET
MODULE 1 - Embodied Self Intimacy & Self Work
Saturday, June 15th & Sunday, June 16th, 2024
from 11am-1:30pm and 2:30-5pm ET
MODULE 2 - Coaching Skills & Trauma Informed Coaching
Saturday, June 29th & Sunday, June 30th, 2024
from 11am-1:30pm and 2:30-5pm ET
MODULE 3 - Adult Attachment & Intimacy Repatterning
Saturday, July 27th & Sunday, July 28th, 2024
from 11am-1:30pm and 2:30-5pm ET
SPECIAL CLASS - Interview with Dr. Stan Tatkin, Dr. Scott Lyons and Kai Cheng Thom
Thursday, August 1st, 2024 from 12-1:15pm ET
MODULE 4 - Somatic Sexology, Sex Therapy & Intimacy Coaching
Saturday, August 24th & Sunday, August 25th, 2024
from 11am-1:30pm and 2:30-5pm ET
SPECIAL CLASS - with Dr. Emily Morse
Tuesday, September 10th, 2024 from 3-4:30pm ET
INTEGRATION SESSION - with Cyndi Darnell, Kai Cheng Thom and Dr. Scott Lyons
Wednesday, September 11th, 2024 from 6-8pm ET
MODULE 5 - Coaching Relational Dynamics
Saturday, September 14th & Sunday, September 15th, 2024
from 11am-1:30pm and 2:30-5pm ET
MODULE 6 - Coaching for Dating, Break-ups & Grief
Saturday, September 28th & Sunday, September 29th, 2024
from 11am-1:30pm and 2:30-5pm ET
SPECIAL CLASS - Conscious Uncoupling with Katherine Woodward Thomas
Wednesday, October 9th, 2024 from 5:30-7pm ET
MODULE 7 - Putting It All Together - Embodied Intimacy Coaching Integration
Saturday, October 12th & Sunday, October 13th, 2024
from 11am-1:30pm and 2:30-5pm ET
See how this translates into your timezone.
+ Is there an orientation session?
Yes, there was an orientation session on Sunday, June 14th, 2024 from 5 - 6:30pm ET.
+ Do I need to attend live or am I able to watch recordings?
All live sessions were also recorded so students could watch in their own time (more information below). Please note, captioning was only available during live sessions.
+ How can I interact with the instructors? Will I receive guidance?
During each of the live sessions, the instructors had a Q&A period where students could ask questions. Community Connection sessions were also be offered. A private online community forum was provided for the certificate.
+ What are the homework requirements?
There were no homework assignments during the program.
+ Do you offer scholarships?
For every 200 enrolled students, we were able to offer:
- 10 Full Scholarships (100%)
- 10 Partial Scholarships (50%)
How to Apply:
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED
+ Is there a deadline for registration?
Registration was open until the day before the student orientation, June 13th, 2024.
+ Do you offer refunds?
We offer a Registration Guarantee which means that if you register but decide the course isn’t right for you, we’ll refund your course fee - no questions asked - up to 48 hours before the course start date.
+ How can I access the online course and recordings?
ZOOM FOR LIVE SESSIONS: The live portion of the certificate program was offered online using the video conferencing platform Zoom, in meeting format, to allow instructors and students to interact, ask questions and participate in breakout sessions.
ONLINE LEARNING PLATFORM: Once registered, students received access to our online learning platform which included all the information about the certificate, including:
- Detailed schedules
- How to access the live sessions via Zoom
- Recordings of all live sessions uploaded within 48 hours of the end of the live session
- Supporting materials provided by your instructors
ACCESSIBILITY | Video / Audio: Within our online learning platform, students can watch the video within their online library or download the video or audio to their computer. Students enjoy lifetime access to the content.
ACCESSIBILITY | Live Captioning / Transcripts: Captioning during live sessions and transcripts were offered in English.
ACCESSIBILITY | Reading Lists: The reading list included items available at the public library or provided as a PDF wherever possible. PDFs of the instructor’s presentation were also provided.
+ Is this a summit?
No, this is an integrated curriculum co-created by the faculty. The faculty are colleagues in this program. They are working together to make sure each individual module is cohesive with the entire curriculum. Every teacher is informed about what is coming before and what is coming after and integrating their curriculum based on that information.
+ Is this a theoretical or practical (experiential) program?
While some theory will be presented to support the learning, the primary focus of the practice is experiential, giving practical tools for the participants.
+ Will I receive a certificate?
Students receive a certificate of completion once they have
- Attended the live sessions or watch the recordings.
- Completed the Self Evaluation & Reflection forms for each module.
- Completed 10 hours of Practice Coaching Sessions outside of class times and reach out to another student in the program and have a meaningful conversation about the program.
- Submitted full payment.
+ Will Continuing Education Units (CEUs) be offered?
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Up to 40 hours of Continuing Education for Health Professionals were available for this program. Please note: *Live* attendance was required.
Below is more information on the health professionals which may be eligible for CEs through the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program.
CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain this document for 4 years after the course concludes.
FROM A DIFFERENT STATE OR COUNTRY?
Health professionals from a state or country outside of California need to check with their licensing boards as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of Continuing Education by the American Psychological Association (APA).
DIFFERENT CREDENTIAL?
If your credential is not listed, please check with your licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of Continuing Education by the American Psychological Association (APA).
The SCA and The Embody Lab are not able to determine your eligibility.
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SOMATIC PRACTITIONER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
Our Somatic Practitioner Mentorship program is designed to offer you a container of support as you develop your skills as a Somatic Practitioner or Therapist. It will also help guide and enhance your personal process and practice of the tools you have gained in either your Certificate program with The Embody Lab, or other somatic-based programs.
If you want to deepen your understanding of the practice of somatic therapies, refine your skills as a practitioner, and enhance your capacity to offer this life-changing work to others… this program is for you!
