The Two year CSSE Certificate in Somatic Sex Education & Professional Supervisor Training Program

Trusting Spontaneity

We are dedicated to creating, maintaining, and updating standards of ethical practice, supporting practitioners in realising their creative potential.

“As a CSSE in my year of Somatic Sex Education, I continue to be astonished by how much integrity, care, ethics, flexibility + holistic approach is tended to within the organisation. This is THE BEST TRAINING COURSE I have EVER done. I’m so so grateful I have found this being IRHS.”

Graduate from the 2023 Cohort

Pathways to train as a Somatic Sex Educator & Supervisor

We are passionate about supervision and creating a bank of trained professional supervisors for our international Sexological Bodywork community and beyond.

The CSSE 3rd and 4th years provide an opportunity for great personal and professional growth as you learn to inhabit greater positions of leadership.

This training is open to CSIBs who have completed the CSI and CSIB 1st and 2nd years.

You may also apply if you were trained in previous years or at other schools, with the understanding that you will need to study the updated 1st and 2nd year curriculum in addition to the CSSE curriculum.

The CSSE training is for those of you who want to train as professional Supervisors and Somatic Sex Educators, as well as to deepen your Practitioner skills by revisiting the CSI and CSIB curricula and coaching 1st- and 2nd-year students.

You will become part of the first waves of Relational Harmony Institute-trained professional Supervisors.

So needed in the field of sexuality, with so many practitioners involved in unresolved ruptures and alone with these.

Your training in the Right Use of Power™, The RHI Session Structure™, Clean Language, The Wheel of Consent™, and Body Poem™ is essential for ethical integrity.

Having the skills to support edge-walkers, when so many practitioners work in isolation, is precious.

You will become a go-to supervisor for supporting power awareness and illuminating blind spots in ethical practice, enhancing practitioners' confidence in their ethical integrity, and giving practitioners a place where they know someone has got their back.

Ethics is a community responsibility, and each time we find our way back to belonging, integrity, and sovereignty, we also serve our collective practitioners in this field.

We are co-creating our profession in service to people seeking support in inhabiting new ways of being with their intimacy, confidence and erotic and creative self-expression.

For those who path it is to become influencers in leadership roles, we have developed the Certificate in Somatic Sex Education into a two-year program leading to certification as a Supervisor.

All our practitioners undergo a rigorous training, assessment, and certification process. We feel confident in recommending all of our Certified Somatic Intimacy Coaches & Bodyworkers to you. Part of certification to practice is participating in supervision. We developed this professional supervision training program to meet the CPD needs of our graduates.

The practitioner you are mentoring has all the answers within them.

Your bottom line is the same as with a client, limiting assumptions and trusting in the self-organising intelligence of another when offered the gift of radical acceptance through using Body Poems to illuminate ‘the unthought knowns’ in the practitioner.

IThe differences between Coaching and Supervision

Throughout the training, you will gain experience and fluency in each of these different placements of attention. Both Coaching and Supervision are required to support reflective practice. You will discover yourself dancing between the two, becoming fluent in your creative decision-making with what is being called for.

Sometimes, this might seem obvious, and other times obscure. You will learn when coaching micro-skills and relational supervision are required to facilitate your supervisee’s growth as a practitioner. You will learn and develop your coaching and supervision skills to support your transition into an up-power role as a coach, supervisor and image maker.

Your Third Year CSSE curriculum

The 3rd-year CSSE program is structured in parallel with the first-year Somatic Intimacy (CSI) program, which you revise through spiral learning while coaching and supervising CSI students.

The 4th-year CSSE program focuses on

  • developing your educational pieces for our profession

  • enhancing your (50 hours) supervision skills alongside the CSIB program

  • being part of the teacher team at the annual in-person Embodiment retreat, facilitating 1-1 coaching with the CSIB students

If you are entering our CSSE training program at the third-year level, having trained as a CSB in another school:

You can expect to dedicate approximately 20 hours per week to bring you up to date with our coaching model, the translation of touch practices for online sessions and our ethical updates of the CSB syllabus. Practitioners who have already completed the RHI CSI curriculum can envisage less time commitment as you will already be familiar with the curriculum, and you have a choice of which Research explorations you revisit for your learning

Your CSSE curriculum includes coaching and supervision skills and the Right Use of Power teachings to support your transition into an up-power role. You will apply these teachings as you coach and supervise your students. (You will receive payment for the student coaching calls during the Supervised practicum at £75 per call)

The monthly CSI & CSIB Wednesday Webinars

  • CSI & CSIB Webinars are on two Wednesdays of each month - attended by 3rd & 4th Year CSSES

  • 5.00 - 7.30 pm

You will participate in spiral learning opportunities and connect with your peer CSSE coaches as part of the space-holding teacher team.

You will be spiral learning with the content and also with a ‘class above the class’ eagle perspectives.

Your roles in these webinars.

  • Guide engage segments with movement and meditations

  • Participate in demos

  • Contribute to the discussions and share your experience

There are also opportunities to facilitate student support.

You will receive monthly 1-1 Coaching & Supervision

  • In the 3rd year CSSE with Phoebe Garland

  • In the 4th year CSSE with Phoebe Garland or Katie Sarra

These sessions are to support your growth as a Coach and Supervisor.

Phoebe and Katie are alongside you throughout your training with your coaching sessions with your allocated students.

Monthly Group Supervision

You will also be part of a monthly supervision group with your CSSE peers

Your professional training in supervision

CSSE Tuesday Supervision Webinars

  • 3rd & 4th year CSSE Year Supervision Training Webinars are held once a month.

The CSSE Supervision program is designed and led by Dr Phoebe Garland, with Katie Sarra in a supporting role.

In these webinars, you will receive instruction and guided practice to help you develop your Coaching and Supervision micro-skills, alongside group supervision, to support the dynamic relationships you are experiencing with your supervisees.

In your third year

CSI student monthly 1-1 coaching calls - one per month

  • April, May, June & July.

  • Holiday August

  • October & November

In your 3rd year, you will accompany CSI students on their training journey through monthly 1:1 coaching calls.

In your fourth year

CSIB student monthly 1-1 coaching calls - one per month

  • September, October, November, & December

  • Holiday from December 20th & January

  • February & March

In your 4th year, you will accompany a combination of CSI & CSB students, supporting your training as a supervisor.

During the three-month supervised practicum

In both years, CSI & CSIB students can choose their supervisor.

Many choose to stay with their supervisor from the training, but there is an opportunity to swap at this point, subject to availability.

You will receive payment for student coaching calls at £75 per call.

Supervision

During the 4th year, you will complete the 50+ hours required for certification as a professional supervisor.

You will enhance your unique creativity as a supervisor, thereby enhancing the unique creativity of your supervisees.

As you become more confident in your coaching skills, your sessions with your Supervisor will also address relational dynamics, including projections and transferences in your working relationships. Your relationship with your supervisor will enhance your unique creativity as a professional Supervisor.

Supervising the recorded sessions

This is where the core of spiral learning in professional development occurs as you support your students inhabiting their practitioner roles. It is the most significant period of growth. You will be assessing the use of session structure as part of the REEF Coaching model, including Clean Language and Body Poem, the Facilitating Wheel of Consent relationship agreements, trauma first aid, and the 5-Step and 7 Step repair process.

You will be supervising and coaching your supervisees in the following areas of session structure:

  1. Facilitating attunement, opening sensory receptivity, resourcing & arrival

  2. Facilitating illuminating learning edges and translating these into somatic practices

  3. Co-creating the learning intentions of each session, structured within the bigger picture that the client is envisioning

  4. Facilitating somatic assessments

  5. Facilitating embodiment practices & guiding the different modalities

  6. Facilitating the client’s integration, harvesting reflections

  7. Facilitating transitions in and out of integration time

  8. Enabling feedback

  9. Facilitating transitioning into endings

  10. Co-creating relevant home practices

The relational aspects of Supervision in your learning journey as a supervisor.

We broadly define this as focusing on the relational aspects where learning edges arise that impact your navigation of emotional affect.

The relational aspects of supervision also involve your creative decision-making when radical acceptance with clean language and body poem is required and when wheel of consent relationship agreements for somatic practices are required in your client sessions.

Through this process, learning edges will be illuminated with insights with your core erotic themes at play as you transform pain points into your gifts of service with the aspects of being human you are in service to.

Your Application and Enrolment Process

Third Year Certificate - Somatic Sex Educator

Course Fees £2,700

  • Stage 1 ~ CSSE Discovery meeting

    Meet with Katie Sarra, director of training, for a discovery call to get a feel for the curriculum's ethos and visionary purpose, and to illuminate ways this training might serve your professional development. This is an opportunity to learn about the course structures.

    This is a meeting for you to ask questions and for us to meet and feel our resonances with each other to inform next steps. (Please set aside 30 - 50 minutes for this call)

    If you are already a certified CSI & CSIB practitioner trained in the first two years with the Relational Harmony Institute. You skip this meeting and go straight to an enrolment meeting with Katie and Phoebe

    Book a Discovery Call / Interview with Katie Sarra

  • Stage 2 - Enrolment meeting - CSSE & Professional Supervision program

    We welcome you to arrange an Enrolment meeting with Katie Sarra and Dr Phoebe Garland to ensure this is the right training for you at the right time. We will explore and reflect on your readiness to join the training, including financial readiness, availability for the study, and practice time commitments. In this meeting, we will explore ways this training might weave into your life and reflect together on your visionary purpose and ethics, enhancing your service as you deliver your gifts to the aspects of humanity you want to serve.

    1. Enrolment for the 3rd Year Certificate in Somatic Sex Education begins in April each year in tandem with the 1st year CSI training program, where you will develop your skills and experience as a coach and create your educational piece.

    2. Enrolment for the 4th year Certificate in Professional Supervision builds on the hours of coaching students you have achieved in the 3rd year. This is part 2 of this larger program, which begins in September in tandem with the 2nd-year CSIB training program, as you develop your professional supervision skills and further inhabit your role as an educator.

    Arrange an Enrolment Meeting

  • Stage 3 - Formal offer of place

    After your Enrolment interview, and we have decided this is a harmonious fit, we will write to you with a formal offer of a place in the upcoming cohort, along with guidance on the next steps towards enrolment. Your enrolment is secured with an enrolment deposit.

    • The enrolment fee of 1/3rd of the course fees is payable 7 days after your formal offer of place

    • £900 (+ 20% VAT)

    • We will send you your invoice to secure your place directly after you have been accepted onto the training

    • If we are not in a position to offer you a place at this time, for example, if we have reached capacity, we will offer you the opportunity to take the first available place in the next intake.

  • Final stage of your enrolment

    • For year 3 CSSE program - April start - The remainder of the course fees is due by February £1,800 (+ 20% VAT)

    • For year 4 Supervision program - September start - The remainder of the course fees is due by July, £1,800 (+ 20% VAT)

    • You will receive your invoice for this remaining amount in one amount, or you can choose to pay in a payment plan.

    • After we have received the remaining course fees, we invite you into our Relational Harmony Institute learning management platform to join the 2027 forum and start meeting each other, viewing the course materials, orienting yourself and preparing for your journey ahead.

    • Any enquiries or questions, please email Katie and Phoebe at home@relationalharmony.institute

Contributing to the Postgraduate Program:

As part of the Third and fourth-year training, students will develop as Somatic Sex Educators and create educational material, either a text or a video webinar.

Certified Somatic Sex Educators will then be able to present their webinar or written material in the monthly postgraduate teaching webinars. Their educational materials will also be added to the school library, contributing to the resources available to CSB graduates free of charge and adding their presence to our growing community of Somatic Sex Educators.

You will be warmly invited, from the beginning of your CSSE training, to join our thriving, multi-year community, where everyone's unique perspectives and experiences are valued. Here, you will have access to a library of resources that support you in staying connected with leading-edge practices in our field in your postgraduate years

As part of your CSSE Training, you will be required to host one of these webinars, accompanied by a CPD educational piece for practitioners in the community.

We meet on the first Thursday of every month from 5 to 6.30 pm UK time, and we look forward to your participation.

The certified Somatic Intimacy Practitioner, and during the supervised practicum phase of their training, participate in the Postgraduate CPD monthly webinars from November onwards. These facilitate continued participation in their supportive cohort’s community beyond the training dates.

They provide a consistent opportunity for continued community learning and growth, support the navigation of learning edges and ethics with kindness, and celebrate your achievements.

Meet our RHI CSSE & professional Supervisors & Faculty

Aisha Paris Smith CSI, CSIB, CSSE & Somatic Sex Educator & Supervisor

Luzi Pods CSI, CSIB, CSSE & Somatic Sex Educator & Supervisor

Emerald May CSI, CSIB, CSSE & Somatic Sex Educator & Supervisor in training

Karen Egan CSI, CSIB, CSSE & Somatic Sex Educator & Supervisor

Marin Marie CSI, CSIB, CSSE & Somatic Sex Educator & Supervisor

Arantxa Joseph CSI, CSIB, CSSE & Somatic Sex Educator & Supervisor