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Past Audiences Include:
The Improv Your Hook-up workshop is amazing. Please go do it, if you get the chance.
Jeeve Mahadeo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keynote
for Campus Professionals, Students, and University Leadership
Campus Consent 2.0: Integrating Mental Health for Safer, Stronger Communities
Keynote Description:
Emerging trauma recovery research is showing us how to make campus consent programs even more effective.
Students with trauma histories are up to six times more likely to experience campus assault, and new findings reveal that nervous system dysregulation, unresolved identity wounds, and substance use as social anxiety management are deeply connected to assault risk.
Integrating these insights — along with practical, ready-to-use prevention tools — is the natural next step in keeping campuses safe.
In this keynote, Laura Zam — a Certified Trauma Professional, Certified Sexuality Educator, and bestselling author of a seminal book on healing from sexual violation — draws on two decades of campus engagement and her Campus Consent 2.0 model to show how pairing consent education with mental health awareness creates something neither can achieve alone.
Drawing from trauma neurobiology and the latest trauma research, using an engaging style filled with stories and interactive delight, Laura gives attendees a clear, practical framework for building on what's already working — and expanding it to reach students who need more than information to stay safe.
Campuses that adopt this integrated model don't only reduce harm. They build the kind of culture where every student can show up whole.
Campus Consent 2.0 Workshops
Healthy Sexual Dialogue & Female Empowerment
Pleasure & Power 101
Women and Queer-Specific Keynote
Finally, the pleasure education you’ve been waiting for! In this interactive keynote–for sororities, women’s groups, and select LGBTQ+ groups–we’ll debunk myths related to desire, arousal, and orgasm, myths that keep you disempowered. Armed with this essential sex ed, you’ll learn concrete ways to read your body, voice your truth during encounters, firmly set boundaries, and cultivate confidence. Because of societal expectations and norms, women and queer students are often at a disadvantage in recognizing and championing their own agenda. This session addresses this inequity, as well as intersectional complexity. Participants walk away with the tools and knowledge to ensure that everyone is on the same page—not just in the beginning, but throughout a romantic encounter.
Learning Objectives:
Identify 4 Parts of the Sexual Response Cycle, pertaining to different biological genders.
Quantify their current ability to express needs and boundaries, related to different erotic phases.
Create and practice 1 verbal phrase they can use to redirect a partner, toward more pleasure.
Create and practice 1 verbal phrase they can use to set sexual boundaries
The Improv Your Hook-up workshop is amazing. Please go do it, if you get the chance.
Jeeve Mahadeo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Healthy Sexual Dialogue
Improv Your Hook-Up: Using Theater to Master Healthy Sexual Dialogue
Workshop Experience or Keynote
How’s your hook-up game? Are you getting the pleasure you want? How about your partner(s)? Despite mandatory consent education, most students lack the sex communication skills needed to navigate safe, equitable, ecstatic intimacy. Research shows campus assault is often associated with miscommunication. This fun, interactive program uses theater improvisation to teach skillful-yet-sexy ways to ask for consent, request specific activities, read non-verbal cues, check-in throughout, and confidently set boundaries. The outcome? In a dorm room at 2 am, you’re prepared.
Learning Objectives:
Identify the 3 stages of sexual communication
Create a “Sexicon” of Words/Phrases for Each Communication Phase
Name 3 Ways to Use Similar Theater Brainstorming for Their Own Peer Education
Sexual assault is a larger issue on our campus than we thought it was going to be. Learning in this workshop about how to set boundaries was eye-opening.
Student Participant
Healing For Survivors
Reclaiming Body and Self after Sexual Trauma: Three Pillars of Healing
Keynote or Workshop
Did you know more than half the students assaulted on campus came to school having already experienced unhealthy relationships and/or abuse? This workshop, offering practical tools for thriving in recovery, is tailored to students (all genders) who’ve experienced sexual trauma of any kind, before college or during. It’s also appropriate for concerned allies. In a safe, gentle space—where participants will not be asked to share details of their experience—they’ll learn a 3-pillar model that will help them build trust, navigate relationships, rediscover a connection to healthy sexuality, and avoid revictimization. The 3-pillar model can be used on its own, or in combination with other trauma support. Discover how to reclaim your miraculous body, or help a friend who is suffering—so everyone can achieve the love life and education they deserve.
Learning Objectives:
Learn 3 ways trauma can linger, leading to suffering and possible revictimization.
Identify personal ways that trauma has a affected your sense of presence, power, and purpose.
Create 1 daily habit to build/repair your three pillars: presence, power, and purpose.
Looking for programs for Campus Professionals?
I also offer workshops tailored to this audience.
A Final Note:
Please know that I customize all my programs, so I can create any combination of programs that work for your organization and campus.
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