SOCCS 2025

Pornography is shaping the way children understand and relate to themselves, their peers, and sexuality.

Most mainstream pornography fails to accurately portray consent conversations, boundary setting, risk management, and sexual health protocol.

Join other parents to learn how to start conversations with your kids about pornography so they can develop an understanding of sexuality based on joy, care, and responsibility. Leave class with a list of the best online resources to share with your kids to strengthen the conversations at home.

Best Practices are the basics of consent for the theatre, including tools for developing consent-based lessons, setting boundaries, desexualizing the process of intimacy on stage, and vocabulary.

We will walk through basic trauma informed practices, including a boundary exercise that is the basic foundation of all intimacy training for the stage. You will leave learning fences and gates, and a boundary exercise you can use in real-world practice beyond the stage.

In this workshop, students will learn embodied consent practices and skills and translate those learnings into a one-page mini zine.  This workshop will blend anti-violence teachings rooted in consent, boundaries and bodily autonomy skill building while incorporating visual art through mini zine making.

This workshop teaches sexual anatomy in an interactive, inclusive, and body-positive way! Participants will use playdoh to sculpt a variety of body parts and explore the role of consent and pleasure in sexual exploration. 

Use dance movement and pop music to reconnect with your body, breathe deeply, and celebrate together!

Movement clothes and sneakers are recommended for this workshop.

This workshop will give participants the opportunity to take a break from the week and find some time to meditate. Folks will then learn some basic physical de-escalation skills for themselves. We will wrap with some basic tips on how to be a Bystander/Upstander for others. QTBIPOC folks or anyone who is concerned with combatting hate-based violence may find this particularly useful.

Begining with introducing myself and the field of somatics, embodiment and consent education. Defining the terms somatic and nervous system regulation, I will offer a series of invitational activities to have an embodied experience of these terms. A body scan, to notice the sensations of the body and how those sensations are a language. Moving into interception, proprioception, exteroception and neuroception the next invitations will include exploring these states around the room. Moving into the somatic inquiry of what does a yes, no and maybe feel like? We’ll practice speaking these to each other and thanking each “no”. 

A workshop format to discuss the meaning of masculinity. We will compare "socially constructed" masculinity to a fuller definition of being a man and discuss how do men reach their full potential ("Aspirational Masculinity").