Virtual & In-Person Seminars
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Virtual and in-person seminars that are engaging, educational, and fun!
For virtual talks, Dr. Jenn uses online technology to her advantage to create experiences and ways of interacting that facilitate openness, learning, connection, and creativity for your attendees.
All seminars address four underlying components of effective communication and emotional, social, or sexual well-being: vulnerability, authenticity, mindfulness, and compassion for self and others. These concepts and the subsequent skill-building within each area are applied in relevant ways to each group and by specific topic area (whether sexual well-being, cultivating intimacy, sexual consent, emotional health, meaningful connections, or healthy communication).
Click below on the type of group you’re working with to see the virtual & in-person offerings:
FOR COUPLES (3 options)
1. Playing Nice at Home: Effective and Compassionate Communication for Couples in Difficult Topics...and in Difficult Times
Duration: 1-2 hours
Description: Your home life gives you the stability to thrive in the outside world. But what if your home life is fraught with tension or disconnection, and you struggle with how to work through difficult problems?
Specifically, you and your partner may struggle with communicating your needs, feelings, fears, problems, and thoughts in your relationship right now. You may even struggle to identify what you are feeling, and going through a global crisis makes this harder. Communicating about difficult topics is already tough for many couples, because we are never taught how to talk through needs and concerns in a responsible and effective manner.
Drawing on client examples and sociological research, Dr. Jenn will teach techniques for addressing difficult topics, and provide skills for communicating responsibly with mindfulness and compassion.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Individuals will learn how to identify their triggers and the patterns that get in the way of effective communication.
2. Couples will learn how to take responsibility for their reactions and ownership of their reality.
3. Couples will learn skills to talk about difficult topics and be more compassionate to themselves and to their partners.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
This seminar is paced to keep couples both reflective and engaged, by continually shifting from lecture and teaching techniques, to one-on-one exercises for couples, to group discussions. There will be several opportunities throughout for Q&A.
2. Building Intimacy: Mindfulness & Sensuality Exercises for Physical & Emotional Connection
Duration: 2 hours
Description: This playful yet profound seminar gives couples the chance to try new exercises in mindfulness, sensual experiencing, and communication, with the intent of deepening their connection. True intimacy is about taking down one’s armor, and allowing oneself to be seen and known in a raw and uniquely human way…and allowing one’s partner to do the same. This interactive seminar guides couples through various paths to intimacy, with an eye towards integrating this depth of connection into the couples’ future.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Couples will learn the differences and similarities in what intimacy means to themselves and to their partners.
2. Each individual will learn new skills in communicating their sensual needs, and how to listen to their partner’s needs and requests.
3. Couples will experience the power of connecting through emotional vulnerability, and how to cultivate deep connections moving forward.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
This seminar is highly interactive, with couples receiving guidance on various exercises to try during the seminar. (Note: All activities are PG.) This experiential seminar moves among educational lecture, one-on-one exercises for couples, anonymous group “vulnerability shares” facilitated through online technology, and group discussions. There will be opportunities throughout for Q&A.
3. More or Less: When Libidos Don't Match in Your Relationship
Duration: 2 hours
Description: It is very common for couples in long-term relationships to have mismatched desire levels. But it is very uncommon for couples to know how to negotiate this concern with grace and ease. Desire discrepancies can cause many problems in relationships, from feelings of hurt, rejection, guilt, resentment, disconnection, lack of love, and sometimes infidelity.
Dr. Jenn will teach couples about the 10 main factors that interfere with desire and passion, citing client examples and relevant research. For each factor, she’ll instruct couples on the exercises and discussion topics that get to the heart of the issue, and offer examples on how to work as a couple to cultivate greater desire. Couples will grow as a team, and learn how to expand their experiences of intimacy.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Each partner will identify what sex does and doesn’t mean to them, and reflect on how their current sex life impacts their marriage.
2. Couples will learn to identify which factors are interfering with desire and intimacy in their relationship and their role in changing them.
3. Couples will learn how to systematically address mismatched libidos, and build skills and activities to improve their intimate connection.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
This seminar is paced to keep couples both reflective and engaged, by continually shifting from lecture and teaching tools, to one-on-one exercises for couples, learning from the sharing of other couples, as well as several opportunities throughout for Q&A.
FOR ADULT WOMEN (4 options)
1. Rewriting Our Sexual Stories: Moving From Madness to Mindfulness
Duration: 2 ½ hours
Description: If you’ve ever struggled with parts of your intimate connection, this workshop is a powerful way to take a deeper dive into intimacy concerns. With so much sex-negative messaging around us, many of us embody a type of “sexual madness.” Then, unfortunately, these messages and judgments create sexual stories that are not of our conscious choosing. For example:
Do you carry insecurities about expressing yourself in intimacy?
Did you learn messages of shame or embarrassment growing up?
Have you had negative experiences with your body or in sex that have impacted how you view yourself?
Once we realize that we've inherited this negativity and discomfort from society or others, we have a choice in rewriting our sexual stories. We have the power to discover the intimacy stories that really matter, and therefore create a new path to follow moving forward. Dr. Jenn will facilitate this interactive workshop and teach skills in mindfulness, self-compassion, and expression.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to apply a basic understanding of the brain science around storytelling to write and rewrite their sexual stories.
2. Attendees will be able to identify, through the lens of sociology and mindfulness, two messages from childhood/society/personal experiences that have written their sexual story in a detrimental way.
3. Attendees will have prepared a plan for how to move forward with continuing to rewrite their sexual stories.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
This presentation is designed as a highly experiential workshop for the audience to strengthen their own personal growth journey and sexual wellbeing. It combines many teaching styles, including lecture through PowerPoint, experiential mindfulness activities, writing exercises, small-group discussions, and brainstorming for a new future.
2. Intimacy & Well-Being: The Complex & Beautiful Tapestry of Sex, Vulnerability, & Communication
Duration: 1 to 2 hours
Description: Women receive many conflicting messages about how to be happy and build healthy intimacy. Be strong…but also soft and show your emotions. Be beautiful…but not high maintenance or superficial. Be sexy…but focus more on the other person’s pleasure. This can leave women disconnected from their own needs, and doubting their own intuition.
Through reflective and interactive exercises in vulnerability, authenticity, mindfulness, and compassion, women will learn how to create the kind of meaningful connections they most want and how to experience more sexual and sensual pleasure.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Women will be able to identify, through the lens of sociology and mindfulness, how they have internalized conflicting messages from society that undermine their intimate connections.
2. Women will experience new communication techniques to improve their ability to responsibly voice their needs.
3. Women will gain new skills in deepening their connections and cultivating the kind of intimacy they most want.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
With her signature style of honesty, creativity, and humor, Dr. Jenn will help women feel comfortable diving into these taboo and sometimes shameful topics. This seminar combines multiple teaching methods to maintain interest and engagement, including lecture and the teaching of new techniques, personal journaling, private vulnerability sharing polls, guided visualizations, and paired sharing. This seminar honors each woman and her personal journey to sexual empowerment and intimacy well-being.
3. Nourishing Your Spirit
Duration: 1-2 hours
Description: Many women were raised to put the needs of others first. While this can be a positive trait, it can also mean that women’s lives are out of balance or they feel unappreciated, and they are not cultivating the soil that nourishes them in the long run. In this interactive and experiential seminar, women will get to explore the impact that gratitude, sensual mindfulness, giving themselves permission, and vulnerability can have on their inspiration, balance, and self-worth. Focusing on these skills can have a positive long-lasting impact on women’s lives and their ability to focus on what really matters.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Women will learn what small activities to integrate into their days so they feel more fulfilled.
2. Women will learn how to move through the discomfort of past societal programming into a space of self-permission and strength.
3. Women will experience the power of connecting through emotional vulnerability and how to build more authentic connections moving forward.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
This seminar is highly interactive, with women “trying on” a variety of new experiences. This experiential seminar moves between educational lecture, personal journaling time, exercises, and small group discussions. There will be opportunities throughout for Q&A.
4. Ask the Sexpert: Your Sex, Intimacy, Relationship, & Marriage Questions Answered
Duration: 1 -2 hours
Description: Do you have questions about sex, relationships, communication, desire, intimacy, emotional connection, etc.? Dr. Jenn will start with questions that were submitted ahead of time and then answer questions posted on the webinar (publicly or privately). She will integrate research and perspectives from various fields, including sociology, social psychology, positive psychology, mindfulness research, and compassion studies, and will offer practical tips for participants to be able to address current concerns now.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will learn how applied mindfulness skills can assist them in their personal relationships.
2. Participants will practice vulnerability in voicing their concerns, whether to everyone through the platform chat, or privately to the moderator.
3. Participants will learn new ways to approach communication in difficult circumstances.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
With her signature style of honesty, creativity, and humor, Dr. Jenn will address the sexual, emotional, and relationship questions from the participants. Questions can be submitted ahead of time and also will be fielded through a moderator during the webinar. Participants can submit questions privately if wished, to maintain safety and confidentiality when asking personal and vulnerable questions.
FOR ADULT MEN (1 option)
Focusing on What Matters: Building Meaningful Connections Through Vulnerability & Mindfulness
—> This seminar is ideal for small-group bonding or YPO/EO Forums, but can be adapted for couples or other populations.
Duration: 2 ½ hours (or longer)
Description: On their deathbeds, individuals don’t have regrets about making more money or spending more time at work. They regret the state of the relationships in their lives, and that they didn’t cultivate more meaningful connections through vulnerability and authenticity.
To learn the skills of living a more gratifying life, this interactive seminar guides participants through many exercises, including childhood learnings, insecurities, appreciation, mindfulness, and compassion. By the end, participants will gain skills in shifting to a mindset of vulnerability and compassion, and the group will experience greater cohesion and trust.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will learn what is interfering with the depth of connections they ultimately want in life.
2. Participants will gain skills in vulnerable communication to use in their closest relationships.
3. The small group will have new tools to delve deeper into their meetings and discussions.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
This highly interactive seminar will guide small group members through various exercises to cultivate self-knowledge and self-reflection, and learn new ways of authentic sharing. It will shift from lecture and teaching tools, to personal journaling, to online polls, to breakout paired discussions, and also full group discussions. There will be several Q&A opportunities throughout.
FOR SMALL GROUPS AND FORUMS (2 options)
1. Focusing on What Matters: Building Meaningful Connections Through Vulnerability & Mindfulness
Duration: 2 ½ hours (or longer)
Description: On their deathbeds, individuals don’t have regrets about making more money or spending more time at work. They regret the state of the relationships in their lives, and that they didn’t cultivate more meaningful connections through vulnerability and authenticity.
To learn the skills of living a more gratifying life, this interactive seminar guides participants through many exercises, including childhood learnings, insecurities, appreciation, mindfulness, and compassion. By the end, participants will gain skills in shifting to a mindset of vulnerability and compassion, and the group will experience greater cohesion and trust.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will learn what is interfering with the depth of connections they ultimately want in life.
2. Participants will gain skills in vulnerable communication to use in their closest relationships.
3. The small group will have new tools to delve deeper into their meetings and discussions.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
This highly interactive seminar will guide small group members through various exercises to cultivate self-knowledge and self-reflection, and learn new ways of authentic sharing. It will shift from lecture and teaching tools, to personal journaling, to online polls, to breakout paired discussions, and also full group discussions. There will be several Q&A opportunities throughout.
2. Ask the Sexpert: Your Sex, Pleasure, Relationship, & Communication Questions Answered
Duration: 1 -2 hours
Description: Do you have questions about sex, relationships, communication, desire, intimacy, emotional connection, etc.? Dr. Jenn will start with questions that were submitted ahead of time and then answer questions posted on the webinar (publicly or privately). She will integrate research and perspectives from various fields, including sociology, social psychology, positive psychology, mindfulness research, and compassion studies, and will offer practical tips for participants to be able to address current concerns now.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will learn how applied mindfulness skills can assist them in their personal relationships.
2. Participants will practice vulnerability in voicing their concerns, whether to everyone through the platform chat, or privately to the moderator.
3. Participants will learn new ways to approach communication in difficult circumstances.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
With her signature style of honesty, creativity, and humor, Dr. Jenn will address the sexual, emotional, and relationship questions from the participants. Questions can be submitted ahead of time and also will be fielded through a moderator during the webinar. Participants can submit questions privately if wished, to maintain safety and confidentiality when asking personal and vulnerable questions.
FOR TEENS (1 option)
Ask the Sexpert: Your Sex, Relationship, Dating, & Intimacy Questions Answered
Duration: 1 hour
Description: Teenagers have a lot of questions and concerns about their emotions, desires, friendships, and fitting in. And because they don’t know where to go for accurate and honest information – presented in a way that is relevant to what they are currently experiencing -- they struggle with misinformation and anxiety.
They care about topics like:
When can a girl get pregnant? Is it ok for girls to masturbate? How do you know when you’re in love? How do you know when you’re ready to have sex for the first time? What is an orgasm? How do I support my friend who was sexually assaulted? Is porn bad? Why do boys make fun of girls so much?
Through the lens of sociological patterns, mindfulness, and compassion, Dr. Jenn answers any and all questions from your teenagers with humor, kindness, and practicality.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Teens will gain skills in how to know (and stay true to) their needs and values, versus just following along with what others are doing.
2. Teens will learn how applied mindfulness skills can assist them in their personal relationships.
3. Teens will learn new ways to approach communication in difficult circumstances.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
Teens will have the opportunity to anonymously submit questions ahead of time, as well as privately and publicly during the seminar. This is a fast-paced educational session with relevant stories, humor, cited research, and plush toys (e.g., Mulva the Vulva). An email will be sent after the talk with suggested resources mentioned during the talk, as well as other links to assist teens in finding accurate information in the future.
FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS & YOUNG ADULTS - WOMEN or SORORITIES (4 options)
1. Compassionate Consent – Fear, Pleasure, Voice, & Choice
Duration: 1 ½ hours
Description: Sex at its best is a path to connection, pleasure, and personal expression. Yet research shows that many young women are more likely to experience disconnection, disappointment, or coercion instead. And unfortunately, most sexual communication, emotional vulnerability, and consent exists in a vast grey area fraught with avoidance and alcohol.
This interactive seminar offers new skills in awareness and empowerment that are not normally taught in sex education or sexual assault prevention. Both hook-ups and sex within the context of a relationship will be explored, so young women can learn how to support themselves and their sisters in powerful ways.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Young women will learn what is interfering with the depth of connections they ultimately want in life, and how to build comfort with vulnerability.
2. Young women will experience how mindfulness and compassion relate to sexual choices and consent, and how to apply to their own decision-making.
3. Young women will take home new tools in identifying and articulating their sexual needs and a sense of empowerment in making choices that are right for them.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
Multiple teaching modalities will be used in this seminar. It will include a personal narrative of a consent violation experience (21-minute video or shortened version), lecture with PowerPoint, students’ reflections and writing, exercises in communication and sitting with awkwardness (in private break-out rooms), guided mindfulness and compassion activities, and group discussion.
2. Finding Your Authentic Voice: 4 Questions for Personal Power
Duration: 1 ½ hours
Description: Many young women still grow up learning to stifle their voice, and putting the needs of others first. This means that they are at a disadvantage in many life circumstances, such as negotiating a raise, speaking to a professor about a grade, placing healthy boundaries in dating and relationships, or asking to get their needs met in friendships.
In this seminar, young women will learn a 4-step process to identify their needs, own their strengths, and move towards their difficulties, instead of away. Through learning how their fears and insecurities are holding them back, and what that actually feels like in the moment, they will have access to making new choices that weren’t previously available…which is truly the definition of empowerment.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Young women will learn to feel the difference between going along with a situation because it’s easier, and choosing to stand up for their needs and beliefs.
2. Young women will identify the fears and insecurities that they’ve inherited from societal teachings that interfere with their authentic communication.
3. Young women will learn mindfulness and compassion techniques to make new and healthier choices.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
This seminar combines multiple teaching methods to maintain interest and engagement. Moving from lecture and learning new techniques, to personal journaling, to private vulnerability sharing polls, to guided visualizations, and paired sharing, this seminar teaches practical skills for empowerment to handling the complexity of life.
3. Rewriting Our Sexual Stories: Moving From Madness to Mindfulness
Duration: 2 ½ hours
Description: If you’ve ever struggled with parts of your intimate connection, this workshop is a powerful way to take a deeper dive into intimacy concerns. With so much sex-negative messaging around us, many of us embody a type of “sexual madness.” Then, unfortunately, these messages and judgments create sexual stories that are not of our conscious choosing. For example:
Do you carry insecurities about expressing yourself in intimacy?
Did you learn messages of shame or embarrassment growing up?
Have you had negative experiences with your body or in sex that have impacted how you view yourself?
Once we realize that we've inherited this negativity and discomfort from society or others, we have a choice in rewriting our sexual stories. We have the power to discover the intimacy stories that really matter, and therefore create a new path to follow moving forward. Dr. Jenn will facilitate this interactive workshop and teach skills in mindfulness, self-compassion, and expression.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to apply a basic understanding of the brain science around storytelling to write and rewrite their sexual stories.
2. Attendees will be able to identify, through the lens of sociology and mindfulness, two messages from childhood/society/personal experiences that have written their sexual story in a detrimental way.
3. Attendees will have prepared a plan for how to move forward with continuing to rewrite their sexual stories.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
This presentation is designed as a highly experiential workshop for the audience to strengthen their own personal growth journey and sexual wellbeing. It combines many teaching styles, including lecture through PowerPoint, experiential mindfulness activities, writing exercises, small-group discussions, and brainstorming for a new future.
4. “Vulnerability Den” Chat – On Femininity, Fears, & Sisterhood
Duration: 1 to 2 hours
Description: Not pretty enough. Not good enough. Not smart enough. Not likable enough. Many young women carry these insecurities and more during their college years. Social media and interactions with their peers can further amplify these self-defeating and comparison-based beliefs. However, learning how to cultivate compassion and self-compassion, and balancing that with practices in vulnerable and authentic expression, offers young women insights into their patterns and new paths forward.
This seminar is a mix of sociological teachings about the ways that societal and personal messages can undermine women’s well-being, with the safe space for young women to voice their anxieties and insecurities, and gain strength in knowing they are not alone.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Young women will learn what is interfering with the depth of connections they ultimately want in life, and how to change those patterns.
2. Young women will gain skills in vulnerable communication to use in their closest relationships, and learn how to create safe spaces to cultivate vulnerability and authenticity in others.
3. This group of young women will cultivate new tools to hold each other accountable for healthier behavior physically, mentally, and emotionally.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
This session in emotional education, with relevant stories, humor, and research, is highly experiential and based in small-group and larger group sharing. It will be based on the specific needs of each group of young women, and integrate the technology tools of break-out groups, polls, and on-slide annotations by participants. The participants will also have the opportunity to anonymously submit questions ahead of time, as well as privately and publicly during the seminar.
FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS & YOUNG ADULTS - MEN or FRATERNITIES (2 Options)
1. Use your head…no, not that one!
Duration: 1 ½ hours
Description: Most young men want to be good men – kind, fun, a good friend, and good at sex. But with so many conflicting social messages to the contrary, inadequate sex education, and a lack of compassion training, they are left floundering and putting up fronts of confidence.
We often focus on telling young men what NOT to do, without teaching them what TO do, and how to do it in various sociosexual situations. Most college casual sexual encounters are mired in grey areas of sexual communication, miscommunication, and consent. This seminar teaches young men skills in how to actually be good men, especially within the complex pursuit of pleasure.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Young men will learn what is interfering with the depth of connections they ultimately want in life, and how vulnerability is really about strength not weakness.
2. Young men will experience how mindfulness and compassion relate to sexual choices and consent, and learn how to apply this to their own decision-making.
3. This group of young men will develop new tools to use to delve deeper into what really matters in their meetings and discussions…and how to gently hold each other accountable for healthier behavior.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
Multiple teaching modalities will be used in this workshop. It will include a personal narrative of a consent violation experience (21-minute video or shortened version), lecture with PowerPoint, students’ reflections and writing, exercises in communication and sitting with awkwardness (in private break-out rooms), guided mindfulness and compassion activities, and group discussion.
2. “Vulnerability Den” Chat – On Masculinity, Pleasure, & Brotherhood
Duration: 1 to 2 hours
Description: Be strong. Don’t show weakness. Do outrageous things. Be funny. Get what you want sexually. These are the kinds of messages many young men receive growing up that can be amplified within male-based groups. This belief system can lead to a host of problems for young men and on college campuses, including depression, binge drinking, risky behavior, and sexual assault.
This seminar is a mix of sociological teachings about the ways that societal and personal messages can undermine men’s true emotional expression, and will provide a safe space for young men to voice their anxieties and insecurities…and gain strength in knowing they are not alone.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Young men will learn what is interfering with the depth of connections they ultimately want in life, and how to change those patterns.
2. Young men will gain skills in vulnerable communication to use in their closest relationships, and learn how to create safe spaces for others to cultivate vulnerability and authenticity.
3. This group of young women will cultivate new tools to hold each other accountable for healthier behavior physically, mentally, and emotionally.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
This session in emotional education, with relevant stories, humor, and research, is highly experiential and based in small-group and larger group sharing. It will be based on the specific needs of each group of young men, and integrate the technology tools of break-out groups, polls, and on-slide annotations by participants. The participants will also have the opportunity to anonymously submit questions ahead of time, as well as privately and publicly during the seminar.
FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS & YOUNG ADULTS - ALL (3 options)
1. How to Build Emotional Resilience
Duration: 2 hours
Description: Adults overall, but particularly many young adults, don’t know how to cultivate ongoing happiness and life satisfaction. They struggle to know their values, and how to be emotionally resilient through difficult times. Millennials and the iGen are also faced with rapid changes in the economy, dating culture, and the pressures of online life and technology. This interactive seminar will teach skills in value identification, mindfulness, self-compassion, gratitude, purpose, self-care, and vulnerability so that participants can build a strong foundation for a meaningful life.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will identify the values that drive them and what brings them happiness and connection.
2. Participants will determine the patterns that interfere with emotional stability and meaningful connections with others.
3. Participants will learn new skills to handle difficulties in a more effective and responsible manner, and create a plan for handling emotional difficulties in the future.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
This seminar combines multiple teaching methods to maintain interest and engagement. Moving from lecture and learning new techniques, to personal journaling, to private vulnerability sharing polls, to guided visualizations, and paired sharing, this seminar gives both tools and hope.
2. Beyond Yes or No: Communication, Pleasure, & Authentic Connection
Duration: 1-2 hours
Description: We are in a crisis of consent in our country, especially for college students. Learning self-awareness skills and compassion – for self and others – is a missing piece in actually helping students know how to change their behavior. Based on Dr. Jenn’s personal story of a consent violation, this interactive workshop will guide participants through exercises in awkward conversations, identifying social fears, dispelling myths, speaking their needs, feeling compassion, and how to be an “upstander” for self and others.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Students will have experienced how mindfulness and compassion relate to sexual choices and consent and how to apply to their own decision-making.
2. Students will be able to pinpoint their own social fears and the misinformation they were carrying, and know how to intervene for others as an upstander.
3. Students will gain a broad understanding of the problems around consent, personally and societally, and how they can be part of the solution instead of part of the problem.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
Multiple teaching modalities will be used in this workshop. It will include a personal narrative of a consent violation experience (21-minute video or shortened version), lecture with PowerPoint, students’ reflections and writing, exercises in communication and sitting with awkwardness (in private break-out rooms), guided mindfulness and compassion activities, and group discussion.
3. Ask the Sexpert: Your Sex, Relationship, Intimacy, & Emotions Questions Answered
Duration: 1 -2 hours
Description: Do you have questions about sex, relationships, communication, desire, intimacy, emotional connection, etc.? Dr. Jenn will start with questions that were submitted ahead of time and then answer questions posted on the webinar (publicly or privately). She will integrate research and perspectives from various fields, including sociology, social psychology, positive psychology, mindfulness research, and compassion studies, and will offer practical tips for participants to be able to address current concerns now.
Top 3 Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will learn how applied mindfulness skills can assist them in their personal relationships.
2. Participants will practice vulnerability in voicing their concerns, whether to everyone through the platform chat, or privately to the moderator.
3. Participants will learn new ways to approach communication in difficult circumstances.
How will Dr. Jenn maximize virtual engagement of participants?
With her signature style of honesty, creativity, and humor, Dr. Jenn will address the sexual, emotional, and relationship questions from the participants. Questions can be submitted ahead of time and also will be fielded through a moderator during the webinar. Participants can submit questions privately if wished, to maintain safety and confidentiality when asking personal and vulnerable questions.
