Catherine Hale is a pioneer in creating workshop and event spaces with care and safety at the core. She calls this ‘a culture of care’.   

The sexuality workshop scene is evolving with ongoing revelations of unethical, unprofessional and often dangerous practice. Shining a light on bad practice is essential, and so is defining and promoting best practice.

We had this conversation to explore how the sexuality workshop scene has changed over the years, the risks of intense, cathartic processes, why safety in the nervous system allows you to go deeper, the importance of integration and how to choose the right facilitator for you and much more. 

Catherine shares:

• How the sexuality workshop scene has changed
• The difference between the gentle and the intense, cathartic approaches to sexual healing in sexuality workshops 
• The importance of safety within sexuality workshops
• How workshop spaces can re traumatise people 
• The difference between hyper and hypo sexuality and how this plays out in workshop settings 
• Why the most sparkly shiny looking workshops may not offer the deepest healing and transformation 
• How high intensity workshops match our societal conditioning around sexuality
• What a culture of care is and what that looks like in a workshop setting 
• The importance of integration
• How creating safety in the nervous system creates a base for deeper erotic exploration and lasting transformation
• How to establish if a facilitator or a training is right for you
• How a regulated nervous system supports you to be with uncertainty 

Catherine is a qualified trauma coach, sexological bodyworker, and postmenopausal woman who understands what it takes to heal and grow from the inside out. Her trauma-informed perspective focuses on reducing the harm of internalised capitalism in our bodies and businesses, recognising the need for radical rest in business, and unlocking the power of post-traumatic growth.

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Anchored in Regulation  

Field Facilitation where Catherine will be teaching Culture of Care trauma informed certified Training 

Emergent Eros 

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Red Flags in Workshops is an additional resource developed by Wilrieke Sophia. Their website contains free materials to understand power dynamics that may be at play, and how to reach out for support if you experience harm. 

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ABOUT YOUR HOST

Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex and Intimacy Coach, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat® and a Gene Keys Guide. She helps women and couples to reset their sex and intimate lives away from goal-based sex and to discover deep intimacy, expansive pleasure and profound love making so that they can feel good about who they are and have relationships that are happy, loving, passionate and sustainable.