Education & Training

Principal Intimacy Professionals offers bespoke training through workshops and courses for anyone interested in learning about consent-based practises and intimacy choreography. All workshops are tailored to suit the needs of individuals or organizations hosting; they can be of any length of time and explore a variety of topics and theory.

We teach every level of student and work within K-12 schools, universities and colleges, acting studios, martial arts and related hubs, theatre collectives and production companies, and performing arts organizations.

If you or your organization/institution would like to host a PIPs workshop, please contact us.

Performers at UBC’s Oil; intimacy direction by PIPs IDs Sam Jeffery and Phay Moores

These workshops are for anyone:

  • Acting coaches and agents

  • Dance choreographers, movement coordinators, stunt coordinators, etc

  • Professors, teachers, instructors

  • 1st ADs and stage managers 

  • Child wranglers and parents/guardians of performers

  • Artistic directors, EPs, producers

Workshops we have offered in the past include, but are not limited to:

  • Masterclasses in Intimacy Choreography, Direction, and Coordination for Prospective IPs

  • Intro to Intimacy (for actors, for intimacy professionals, and for educators respectively)

  • A History of Intimacy Coordination/Direction

  • Intimacy Scenes and COVID-19

  • Consent and Boundaries with Students

  • Intimacy Placeholders and Markers for Students

  • Intimacy Foundations for university students

  • Intro to Consent, Boundaries, and Closure Practises 

  • Consent-Based Company Culture and Policy Support 

  • Psychology and Emotional Fitness for Tweens

Our topics can cover anything: 

  • Performer rights, audition guidelines, on-set protocols, and consent-based practises for actors.

  • Understanding and implementing consent-based practises in the classroom. 

  • Supporting youth in scenes where they need to be physically and/or emotionally close to an adult (ie hugging, parental kiss, depicting scenes of trauma/distress, etc).

  • Consent-based practices for the classroom (K-12, post secondary, etc).

  • Exploring creative alternatives and/or placeholders for intimacy.

  • Assertiveness skills (for IPs, for underaged performers, for emerging artists, etc.)

  • Emotional fitness for triggering content; mental health and closure practices.

  • Consent-based training for physical activities (ie: martial arts, dance, wrestling, stage combat, etc).

Depending on the content and goals of each individual host, workshops can be offered in-person and in online formats, can be participatory or lecture based, and can be of any length and class size.