consent & sex ed trainings for educators
Consent has recently become a vital part of our national conversation, and for good reason: not only is consent a mandatory piece of preventing sexual assault & violence, but learning how to practice active consent is an essential part of developing healthy, pleasurable, and rewarding romantic and sexual relationships.
Though European models of lifelong sexuality & consent education have proven to have drastically positive results for students, education that prioritizes these crucial relationship skills is severely lacking in the U.S.. College and high school educators and facilitators are in the perfect position to shift this cycle but oftentimes are at a loss of how to do so.
Consent & Sex Ed Trainings with me consolidate my years of experience in teaching college & high school students how to develop consent skills for healthier relationships and delivers them to your staff in a way that is easy & enjoyable to learn and can be put directly & immediately to use in your everyday work with your students.
In these customizable trainings, your staff can…
- Learn to teach my popular Consent & Cookies workshop to your students
- Gain skills to build an ongoing culture of consent on your campus
- Develop ease with gender-inclusive, anti-sex-shaming language to use in your classrooms & communitities
- Learn how to talk about consent and preventing rape culture with your students while avoiding common blocks of shame & secrecy
- Talk to teen students about sex, sexuality, and consent in a way that’s age-appropriate and relevant
- Brainstorm ways to navigate oft-restrictive policies that make it difficult for educators to integrate consent & sex education into their programming
- Consult with me about programming content & planning to bring ongoing consent & sex education to your students throughout the year
- Leave with handouts, materials, and resources for your continued use & education
Each educational institution is unique in their needs, previous knowledge, and financial ability so please fill out this Training Booking Form and I will send you a few scheduling options and a quote.
Trainings can last anywhere from 2-6 hours, can be taught in installments or in one day, and booking your training in advance is highly recommended. Trainings scheduled for the month of August will receive more generous rates.
why learn with Yana?
Yana Tallon-Hicks, MA is a relationships therapist and a consent, sex & sexuality writer and educator living in Western Massachusetts. She holds a Masters Degree in Marriage & Family Therapy from Antioch University and her undergraduate degree in LGBTQQ+ studies & Sex Education from Hampshire College. Her work centers around the belief that pleasure-positive & consent-based sex education can positively impact our lives and the world.
Yana has been working as an independent sex educator for over a decade. Her workshops about sexual pleasure, communication & consent are taught at colleges, high schools, and sex toy shops all over New England. She has delivered guest lectures, keynote speeches, and even a TEDxTalk in Vienna, Austria about her work.
Her most popular workshop for high school & college students Consent & Cookies has sparked educators across the country to want to learn about how to teach consent & positive sexuality to their students from her.
Via her Consent & Cookies Webinar Training, over a dozen educators nationally & internationally have learned how to teach her Consent & Cookies workshop and have successfully delivered it to their students.
Yana currently practices Couples & Relationship Therapy at the Couples Center of the Pioneer Valley in Northampton, MA and in her private practice in Brattleboro, VT where she focuses on sex & sexuality topics and healthy relationship repair.
Read more about Yana & her work here, where you can also read testimonials about her work, read her sex advice column, follow her on Instagram & Twitter, and watch her TEDxTalk: Is the Porn Brain Our New Sex Educator?.