August is back-to-school month in America 🇺🇸 — Why not use this as an excuse to join me in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 for a very special teacher training?!
- If you teach seggs-positive workshops (sex ed, kink, tantra, erotic massage, intimacy workshops, etc.)…
- If you are looking for an excuse to travel to Berlin and use upgrading your facilitation skills as a tax write-off in 2025…
- If you want to meet, network, and dive deeeeep with other amazing, like-minded teachers and facilitators…
Then this email’s for YOU, Sex Geek!
Join me and The Field‘s Rachel Richards in Berlin for a 6-day deep dive into designing, holding space for, and facilitating excellent, seggs-positive workshop & retreat space… From Rated PG-13 events to explicit Show ‘N Tell demonstrations to Show ‘N Tell Then Try practicums… Let Rachel and I share with you our combined 30+ years of experience helping adults transform their sex lives and emotional & intimate landscapes.
Talking about intimacy and sexuality on YouTube or TikTok is different from teaching it in real life, up in front of the room, to real humans face-to-face… And showing it — demonstrating actual hands-on/hands-in techniques with real pleasure on real bodies — such that you give your attendees time to absorb and integrate what they’re witnessing without shame and judgement AND with space to feel their feelings… And then creating (and holding!) spaces where your attendees can learn & watch THEN TRY techniques on each other… These are not your usual workshop experiences and perhaps YOU are not your usual teacher?
And Rachel and I get that. And we wish we had workshop space to nerd out on the unique ins and outs of running seggs-positive events.
All of these things I just mentioned, we will cover, explore, and more in our upcoming training! (Scroll down for all the info & details + the link to apply!)
Will you join us for this small, intimate, very special training retreat? We certaily hope so!
The What: The Field S/x Positive Facilitator Training — Integrating Leadership, Embodied Intimacy & S/x-Positive Ethics
When: September 23–28, 2025 | 10:00–18:00 Daily (with optional evenings)
Where: Penthouse Loft in Berlin-Mitte, Germany
The Details: This is a non-residential training that includes LUNCH. Participants arrange their own food (Breakfast + Dinner) and accommodations.
Are you called to lead transformational group spaces where sex, intimacy, embodiment, and healing meet? Join internationally acclaimed facilitators Rachel Rickards and Reid Mihalko for a weeklong deep dive into the art and integrity of s/x-positive, trauma-informed group facilitation.
Blending Rachel’s expertise in somatic group fieldwork and relational depth with Reid’s 20+ years of s/x-positive education and practical ethics, this advanced training is designed to support both emerging and seasoned facilitators in creating powerful, ethical, and resilient containers for intimate work. We’re not just teaching what to do… we’re training you in how to be the facilitator who can navigate the complexities of desire, projection, power, trauma, consent, and emergence with clarity, presence, and care.
💡 WHAT MAKES THIS TRAINING UNIQUE:
This 6-day experiential immersion draws from two potent streams:
➤ The Field Facilitator Training: a groundbreaking methodology in relational, somatic, trauma-informed facilitation
➤ S/x-Positive Facilitator Wisdom: decades of boots-on-the-ground experience from the front lines of s/xual healing, consent culture, and accountability
Whether you’re leading intimacy workshops, tantra retreats, de-armoring sessions, k!nk events, or er0tic embodiment journeys, this training will give you the tools, clarity, and somatic grounding to do so with greater forethought, safety, skill, and impact.
🧭 WHAT YOU’LL LEARN & EMBODY
S/x-Positive Group Leadership:
໑ How to facilitate experiences from chaste to explicit without burning out
໑ The “minimum effective dose” approach to avoid overwhelm and post-retreat chaos
໑ Managing pedestal dynamics and helping participants humanize their leaders
໑ Addressing er0tic transference, student-teacher attraction, and post-workshop fallout
໑ Tools for naming, repairing, and integrating rupture inside the field
໑ Holding boundaries with compassion and modeling repair without martyrdom
໑ Creating safe-enough spaces where risk and healing can happen with integrity
The Field Approach to Group Soul:
໑ Reading the group field and listening to the emergent collective intelligence
໑ Facilitating from wholeness: bringing both structure and surrender
໑ Leading from your body: using somatic cues to guide group timing, depth, and transitions
໑ Cultivating presence, resonance, and embodied intimacy as the foundation of trust
໑ Fundamentals of Belly2Belly: a core practice for group nervous system co-regulation
໑ Designing containers that titrate intensity and support integration
🧘♀️ WHO THIS IS FOR:
This training is for facilitators (aspiring or seasoned) who are:
໑ Working with intimacy, touch, s/x, or embodiment
໑ Committed to trauma-informed, consent-literate, and ethical leadership
໑ Ready to refine their craft with nuance, accountability, and embodied wisdom
໑ Curious to explore the intersection of group soul, s/xuality, and somatic presence
໑ Willing to do their own work as part of leading others through theirs
໑ Want to upgrade your spaces to support depth and integration
⛔ THIS IS NOT FOR YOU IF:
໑ You’re looking for quick-fix marketing strategies
໑ You dismiss the importance of trauma-awareness
໑ You aren’t ready to examine your impact or grow through feedback
໑ You deny the validity of trans and queer experiences
໑ You are looking for a space to do your own personal healing
໑ You find it hard to self-regulate
໑ You have trouble knowing and expressing your needs
໑ You usually find it hard to be in spaces that do not tailor to your needs
📅 DETAILS:
Dates: Tuesday – Sunday; September 23–28, 2025
Daily Sessions: 10:00–18:00 (with optional evening explorations)
Location: Penthouse Loft in Berlin-Mitte, Germany
Investment:
Tier 1: €1050 ($1227)
Tier 2: €1250 ($1460)
Tier 3: €1450 ($1694)
Self-select your pricing tier based on financial capacity.
This is a non-residential training. Lunch is included in the price. Breakfast, Dinner and accommodation are not included.
📣 RSVP and Share the Facebook Event HERE.
🎟 Apply and Register Blow or Click Here:
Questions? Email Rachel at: Rachel@the-field.com
REFUND POLICY
We know things happen. To balance commitment and flexibility:
Full refund (minus €250 deposit): If canceled by August 15
50% refund: If canceled August 16 – September 10
No refund: After September 10, unless your spot is filled from the waitlist
You may transfer your ticket to someone else with prior written notice.
Please note: We do not offer refunds for no-shows or partial attendance.
YOUR FACILITATORS
Rachel Rickards is an international leader in the field of personal transformation, intimacy, embodiment, and relational intelligence. She is a masterful group facilitator, event producer, and new mother, who has made a lasting impact through her visionary work.
In 2014, she co-founded Embodied Intimacy, which has since become one of the most respected global organizations offering trainings and events focused on intimacy, trauma healing, relational intelligence, somatic education, and community building. Embodied Intimacy supports hundreds of individuals each year in reconnecting with their bodies, regulating their nervous systems, and stepping into their truest selves.
Since 2019, Rachel has been the lead facilitator of the Belly2Belly Facilitator Training after her mentor, David Cates, passed on the torch and the role of CEO. Belly2Belly offers profoundly healing embodied and relational practices that help participants regulate their nervous systems, fostering deepl, lasting transformation in their relationships. With her extraordinary event planning skills and depth in embodied leadership, Rachel has single-handedly produced and facilitated the majority of these events.
In 2022, Rachel launched her newest passion project, The Field Facilitator Training. This revolutionary experiential learning environment is designed for group facilitators passionate about cultivating deep group-heart coherence and facilitating the emergence of collective group soul. The training equips participants with radically new skills, such as deep listening to the group field, surrendering to the collective moment, and embracing dynamic, fluid leadership to support the unfolding of the group soul.
Most recently, Rachel has become the creator and host of the podcast “In Presence We Trust: The Facilitation Podcast”. Released weekly, the podcast dives into her cutting-edge work in group facilitation and beyond. Tune in to follow her binge-worthy journey and discover the latest insights into her ever-evolving work in group transformation.
www.The-Field.com
www.RachelRickards.com
Reid Mihalko:
As seen on NETFLIX’ “Chelsea Does…” alongside Chelsea Handler and HBO’s “Sex Diaries”, Reid Mihalko (he/him) of ReidAboutSex.com has thrown or attended over 1000 play parties. Reid is an internationally known sex and relationship geek helping adults create more self-esteem, self-confidence, and greater health and accountability in their relationships and sex lives. He does this using an inspiring mixture of humor, personal stories, keen insight, and comprehensive sexual health information gained from 20+ years of being a professional educator.
In early 2018, some very brave people came forward during #MeToo sharing harms that Reid had caused them. Reid stepped down from teaching and initiated a restorative justice-based accountability process to address his misconduct and make amends if and where possible. The formal, year-long process along with Reid’s apology and resources were shared publicly and links and resources can be found at ReidAboutSex.com/reidaccountability. Going forward, Reid’s projects and appearances will include pointing people towards resources and experts on restorative and transformative justice-based accountability processes.
Reid’s workshops and college lectures have been attended by over 60,000 people from all over the globe. He has appeared in media such as Oprah’s Our America With Lisa Ling on OWN, NETFLIX, Montel, Dr. Phil’s The Doctors on CBS, Bravo’s Miss Advised, Fox News, in Newsweek, Seventeen, GQ, The Washington Post, and in thirteen countries and at least seven languages.
Reid is also founder of Sex Geek Summer Camp, Sex Geek Conservatory, and Sex Geek School for Gifted Sex Geeks, which help sex educators learn valuable business skills that allow them to reach more people with greater ease, transform more lives, and make a better living as sexperts.
Follow @ReidAboutSex on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube