Embodied Consent
As an intimacy coordinator, your role is essential in ensuring that everyone on set feels safe, respected, and empowered.
But true consent goes beyond verbal agreements—it’s a deeply embodied process.
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Whether you’re working with actors in sensitive scenes or navigating complex dynamics with directors and producers, having the tools to support embodied consent is critical.
Introducing
"Embodied Consent:
A Comprehensive Approach for Intimacy Coordinators"
This course has been designed to give you advanced skills, tools, and frameworks to foster a deeper, embodied understanding of consent. Originally delivered as a live workshop, this digital course is now available for you to access at your own pace, fully edited and organized into easy-to-follow modules.
Here's what you'll learn
Inside of Embodied Consent
Module 1
Foundations of Embodied Consent
- Explore the core principles of embodied consent and how it goes beyond a simple yes or no.
- Understand the role of physical, emotional, and nervous system responses in maintaining safe and clear boundaries.
Module 2
Practical Tools for Identifying Stress Responses
- Learn to recognize when actors or crew members are entering a stress response (fight, flight, freeze, or fawn).
- Discover strategies for co-regulating and guiding them back into a state of safety and choice.
Module 3
The Role of the Nervous System in Consent
- Deep dive into Polyvagal Theory and its applications for intimacy coordination.
- Learn how our nervous systems react to safety and danger and how you can facilitate a sense of calm and control on set.
Module 4
Understaning 'Yes' vs. 'No' vs. 'Maybe'
- Help actors distinguish between genuine willingness and pressured compliance by tuning into their embodied reactions.
- Practical exercises to guide actors back into their boundaries, even in high-pressure situations.
Module 5
Navigating the Shadows of the Wheel of Consent
- Identify the “shadow” behaviors that can emerge around consent and how to manage them.
- Understand how over-serving, rescuing, and people-pleasing can lead to burnout for both ICs and actors
Module 6
Tools for Regaining Safety and Control on Set
- From breathwork to grounding techniques, learn a variety of tools to help actors stay connected to their sense of agency.
- Use clean language techniques to maintain clarity, collaboration, and calmness during stressful or vulnerable moments.
Why This Course is a Game-Changer for Intimacy Coordinators
Embodied Consent is not just about intellectually understanding consent—it’s about developing the skills to observe, support, and guide actors in maintaining their agency in every scene through a nervous system-informed and body based practice. Many courses around consent for IC’s just focus on the theoretical knowledge at the expense of the practical, and this program is here to fill in that gap. Whether you’re working on complex intimacy scenes or navigating stress on set, this course gives you the tools to create a safer and more connected environment.
In this course, you will:
- Develop a deeper understanding of the embodied experience of consent.
- Learn real-world strategies to support actors during intense or vulnerable moments.
- Gain tools to maintain your own boundaries and prevent burnout as an IC.
- Understand how to identify when an actor is no longer in a state of choice, and what to do about it.
- Use practical exercises and frameworks to elevate the safety and professionalism of your work.
Meet your instructor
Julian Marcus
A passionate and vibrant refiner and integrator with 20+ years professional practice both behind the camera and in the consulting room, Julian (he/him) weaves, creates, and serves from his
rich experience of visual storytelling, embodiment practices, and bodywork.
Julian is an internationally acclaimed practitioner supervisor, mentor, consultant, bodyworker and educator with a supervision clinic in Porto, Portugal where he bases much of his trainings and programs now. Practitioners visit him there from all over the world to immerse themselves in the work of relational bodywork and his professional “feel and follow” toolkits for coaching and professional practice.
His work specializes in the meeting point of talk and touch and the
communication needed to create embodied consent and intimacy both on set and in people’s felt sense with deep co-regulated connection to self and their partner.
Julian is an experienced Sexological bodyworker and certified somatic sex educator. He combines this knowledge along with a life of Taoist and Tantric practices and his parallel two-decade career in the audiovisual field and photography (working frequently as a producer and director on intimate scenes) to create consent-forward sets. He uses this wealth of knowledge in these worlds to create somatic sex education, massage, Tantra and other courses and productions that are both artistic and educational.
His ability to utilize embodied consent and body poem somatic coaching with actors, the team, or the public taking part in the production brings ease, authenticity, and clarity to all those who
work with him on set.
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Ready to Take Your Practice to the Next Level?
This course offers a unique combination of deep theoretical knowledge and practical application. By the end of it, you'll have the confidence to handle even the most sensitive scenes with professionalism and care.
Sign up today and transform the way you approach consent on set. Your actors, directors, and colleagues will thank you for it.
