Teaching with Nuance, Confidence, and Care
Consent Beyond Binaries
Join us!
Teaching consent can be challenging, with traditional approaches often emphasizing legal definitions while inadequately addressing the gray areas that students inevitably ask about. Creating space for these deeper conversations isn’t easy, but educators Anne Hodder-Shipp and Sarah Casper are here to help you learn how.
True consent literacy starts internally, with awareness of and familiarity with our body sensations, emotions, and instincts. Rather than centering external behaviors, intellectualization, and yes/no, give/get binaries, Consent Beyond Binaries’ mind/body approach will help you move beyond insufficient explanations and rigid scripts, and toward consent education that truly connects.
Date: Friday, August 22 & Saturday, August 23
Time: 9am–1pm PT / 12pm – 4pm ET
Tiered Pricing: $175-$395
7 AASECT CEs + 7 EDSE CEs
Examine the many meanings and associations of consent beyond legal and political
Build confidence around teaching consent beyond yes vs. no, give vs. get, and innocent vs. guilty binaries
Unpack our personal and professional baggage about consent so that we can more easily talk about it
Challenge common understandings and teachings of consent using a thoughtfully critical lens
Practice navigating real-life classroom scenarios to build comfort, skill, and consistency
Unlearn unhelpful, unrealistic representations of consent and how to recognize them in curricula
Identify solutions for challenges, conflicts, and misunderstandings that commonly come up in classrooms
Make space for nuance, discomfort, and ambiguity
Together, we will:
This workshop will not:
Review legal definitions of consent, age of consent laws, “capacity to consent,” and similar models (we’re not lawyers)
Provide a pre-made, one-size-fits-all way to teach consent (that doesn’t exist)
Show you how to teach consent “the right way” (that’s not a thing)
Use reductive clichés like “consent is sexy,” “no means no,” “yes means yes,” or “if it’s not a hell yes, it’s a hell no” (not as helpful as they seem)
Assume consent is simple, easy, fun, enthusiastic, or exclusively verbal (inadequate and ableist)
Center statistics or use them as teaching tools (unhelpful and unreliable)
Uphold the carceral system and punitive models of “justice” (racist, classist, and ineffective)
Teach you how to help survivors and advocate for restorative justice (that’s a different workshop!)
Tiered Pricing
Full Price: $395
This is the cost and value of the workshop. Select this if the cost will not prevent you from meeting your housing, food, transportation, childcare, and other basic needs, even though it might mean you have to temporarily cut back on some non-essential spending.
Equity Price: $295
Select this if paying the Full Price would mean your basic monthly needs, like housing, food, transportation, or childcare, would not be met or that your financial stability would be put at risk. If you choose this option but can genuinely afford the Full Price, you are taking this option away from someone who genuinely needs it.
Accessibility Price: $175
Select this rate if you are unemployed or underemployed, on disability or government assistance, or struggle to make ends meet, and paying the Community Price would prevent you from meeting your housing, food, transportation, childcare, and other basic needs month to month. This is available only to people experiencing financial hardship who, without it, would not have the means to attend.
