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Do you teach workshops or seminars on sexuality and relationships for adults? Have you ever wondered what makes some classes so much more engaging? If you want to discover how to create dynamic presentations that people respond to, come to my workshop at Good Vibrations on July 24!
I’ve taken the research on adult learning and created an easy-to-use structure that will give you a foundation for your classes while also creating enough flexibility to allow for spontaneity. I’ve used it for 45 minute presentations, two-hour long seminars, day-long trainings, and semester-long university courses. It’s easy to learn, simple to apply, and will help you make sure you don’t leave any of the essential ingredients to successful teaching out.
Here’s the workshop description, along with …
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There are a few seats left in my workshop tonight. If you teach workshops or seminars on sexuality or relationships, come get the key tools you need to create motivation, design effective lesson plans, and make sure your presentations hit the target!
How to Be a Top Presenter
Tuesday, October 19, 6-8 pm
$20 in advance, $25 at the door
Good Vibrations, 1620 Polk St., San Francisco
Being a great sex educator doesn’t happen by accident, so where do you go to learn the information and skills you need to be the best teacher you can be? In this interactive and engaging workshop, you’ll learn how to improve your teaching, enhance learning, and create dynamic exercises. Using a simple and flexible model of adult learning, …
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I love being a sex educator- there’s nothing quite as satisfying as knowing that right now, someone somewhere is having a better orgasm because of something I said to them. I want to help other sex educators develop their skills and discover how much fun it can be!
One of the biggest hurdles, though, is that most people who offer workshops get little or no training on how to teach. There’s more to it than standing in front of a room and talking for a couple of hours and there’s more to it than copying what you’ve seen in someone else’s classes. So I’m going to be teaching a workshop on how to teach, with a focus on the issues, concerns, challenges, and joys of …
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The fabulous Andrea Zanin is developing a workshop on cunnilingus and wants to gather as many perspectives on the topic as possible. Here’s her call for participants. Feel free to pass it along to anyone who might be interested.
Hi!
My name is Andrea Zanin, and I blog at SexGeek.wordpress.com. I teach sexuality workshops on a regular basis. Right now I’m preparing a workshop about cunnilingus – you know, going down, eating out, whatever you like to call it – and I’m really interested in getting a diverse range of perspectives on the topic. So I want to hear your juicy (ha!) stories! This is a totally unscientific, informal and qualitative survey designed to give you plenty of room to share how you feel and …
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Want to learn about the prostate gland? Are you curious about anal play? Come on down to Good Vibrations on Valencia St. this Wednesday, June 9 for a free workshop. See you there!
Prostate Play & Pleasure
Wednesday, June 9th
6-7 pm
FREE!
Good Vibrations Valencia St.
603 Valencia Street (at 17th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 522-5460
Map and Directions
The prostate is one of the most overlooked sexual organs, but it can bring you amazing pleasure. With a little know-how, you can have lots of prostate fun, on your own or with a partner. Dr. Charlie Glickman, Ph.D will tell you everything you need to know to get started, what toys work best for prostate play, tips for making it easier, and …
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I teach a quite a few different workshops, from sex & shame to sex-positivity to polyamory to BDSM and other sexual practices. And there’s one in particular that often gets some interesting reactions.
How to Be a Top Presenter is my workshop on how to teach workshops and classes. I developed it because I saw a lot of teachers and presenters who knew their subject, but simply didn’t know how to teach well. Often, they would use exercises and tools that didn’t suit their topic or the audience. Sometimes, the workshops were badly planned or simply didn’t flow. What I’ve noticed, though, is that whenever I announce that I’m offering this workshop, I often get a response along the lines of “Wow. That’s so …
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One of the things that I’ve noticed in many of the classes, seminars and workshops that I’ve taken is that a lot of teachers don’t seem to understand how to create and use objectives. It’s easy to dismiss them as unnecessary or as buzzwords, but I’ve found that they have a lot to offer.
When I’m talking about objectives in a teaching context, I’m talking about the goals that I hope and plan to meet. In a sense, they’re the minimum that I’m willing to aim for: if my learners meet the objectives, I consider that a success. Of course, I hope that they do more than that but that’s not always possible. So one of the reasons I use objectives is that they help …
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After posting Motivation in Adult Education yesterday, I got an email from a reader who pointed out that it’s important to provide information that the learners need, and that’s not always easy when they’re sent to a required class by a supervisor. And I have to say that I fully agree. This is part of what I mean when I talk about relevance.
I think it’s safe to say that everyone has had the experience of being in a class of some sort and wondering what the use of being there is. Sometimes, especially in high school or colleges, the answer is that the course is a requirement or that you need to take it in order to understand the next course. But those are …
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One of the most important topics for educators to understand is learner motivation. While it’s certainly a concern for any teacher, it’s especially important for those of us who teach adults, for a few different reasons.
First, in many situations, adults have chosen to be in our classes. Even when someone is taking a required course (for example, a class on business software that they need for their job), they often are in a position to choose from among several options. As a result, if they find a particular teacher unappealing they will “vote with their feet.” Negative reviews on a website or in a community can have a lasting impact on our success as teachers.
Second, when learners are motivated, they become more engaged …
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