Year 3 CSSE Certificate in Somatic Sex Education & Year 4 Professional Supervisor Training Program
Trusting Spontaneity
The RHI provides professional training programs in Somatic Intimacy Coaching (CSI) & Bodywork (CSIB).
For practitioners who wish to continue their professional development we offer year 3 CSSE and Year 4 Supervisor training.
Year 3 CSSE is an opportunity to revisit any aspect of the CSI & CSIB curriculum as you start to explore and develop further in your niche area, gaining experience through teaching and group facilitation as you develop your leadership skills and style in online webinars and during the in-person retreat as well as an introduction to supervision
Year 4 is a professional supervision training where you will be deepening supervision skills in 50 hours of supervised practitioner supervision along with continuing to develop your leadership style and explore your vision for your professional development as an influencer in the profession.
“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 had the vision to provide a training for CSSEs to become 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 with the RHI
The CSSE training is for those of you who want to train as Somatic Sex Educators and Supervisors, as well as to deepen your practitioner skills by revisiting the CSI and CSIB curricula and offering your gifts to the current year 1 & 2 students in online teaching webinars and live coaching during the in-person retreat.
As we teach others, we learn again and this learning through teaching can bring a greater depth to our own understanding and facilitation.
You will meet with your peers in regular peer supervision meetings where you have an opportunity to try out new supervision tools and in peer practice session where you have an opportunity to give and receive sessions.
Supervision is taught in a monthly CSSE webinar every 4th Wednesday of each month.
Year 4 Supervision training - upon certification, you will be listed as a Relational Harmony Institute professional Supervisor.
Trained supervisors are much needed in the field of sexuality, where so many practitioners have experienced unresolved ruptures and are 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.
As an RHI Supervisor you will have the opportunity to support practitioners who may not have received these essential tools in their own training and through offering supervision to practitioners you to contribute to greater ethical practice within the profession.
Developing your own response flexibility and capacity to receive difficult feedback and learning how to support and facilitate repair processes is an essential skill for an RHI supervisor,
Having the skills to support edge-walkers, when so many practitioners work in isolation, is precious.
As a supervisor your ability to support practitioners to develop a greater awareness of power dynamics and to illuminate where a practitioner might have blind spots, enhances practitioners' confidence in their ethical integrity.
The supervision relationship provides practitioners with 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 Year 3 Certificate in Somatic Sex Education and the Year 4 Supervisor training program.
All our practitioners undergo a rigorous training, assessment, and certification process and certification to practice includes an agreement to participate in regular supervision.
In order to provide practitioners with opportunities for regular supervision with skilled supervisors we have developed this professional supervision training program to meet the needs of our graduates and other practitioners in the field.
The practitioners you are mentoring have 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.
The differences between Coaching and Supervision
Throughout the training, you will learn coaching and supervision skills and gain experience and fluency in both.
Coaching and Supervision are both 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 is what is needed and when it is relational supervision that is 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.
Year 3 CSSE curriculum
The 3rd-year CSSE program commences 1st April each year.
You will have access to the CSI and CSIB curriculum and study material and an opportunity to revisit any aspects you wish with your peers.
You will have own study material and peer practice sessions to deepen your understanding of the RUPI power awareness and repair processes and to practice facilitating these.
You will learn coaching tools and supervision tools, study the core texts and then practise with your peers in the monthly CSSE webinars and in peer supervision practice.
You will create and facilitate a monthly webinar to provide additional educational support for the 1st and 2nd year students.
This is an opportunity to explore your leadership style, explore collaborations with your peers, and to develop teaching material in your chosen areas of the CSI and CSIB curriculum.
You will also have an opportunity to create smaller group sessions and to practice small group facilitation and supervision with the CSI and CSIB students.
You will deepen your embodied coaching skills as you participate in the role of coach during the in-person retreat in October in the UK.
You will receive a monthly supervision session with Katie or Phoebe.
Year 4 Supervisor training curriculum
The 4th Year Supervisor training program commence 1st April each year.
You will have access to the CSI and CSIB curriculum and study material and an opportunity to revisit any aspects you wish with your peers.
You will deepen your understanding of the 7 eyed model of supervision through further reading and through practice in the monthly CSSE webinars and in peer supervision as well as in your professional supervision sessions with practitioners.
50 hours of supervised supervision sessions are required for certification.
You can offer supervision to students in the supervised practicum phase of their training paid at £75 per supervision session.
You will continue to create and facilitate webinars to provide additional educational support for the 1st and 2nd year students as you continue to develop your leadership style and develop further in the niche areas you are passionate about.
You will have an opportunity to be part of the teacher team during the in-person embodiment retreat in October in the UK.
You will receive a monthly supervision session with Katie or Phoebe.
The monthly CSSE Wednesday Webinars
CSSE Webinars are on the 4th Wednesdays of each month - attended by 3rd & 4th Year CSSES
5.00 - 7.30 pm
Part 1 - to explore your visionary purpose and passion with Katie.
Here we will explore your niche areas of interest and support you as you develop your leadership style and step into the role of somatic sex educator, creating and facilitating monthly webinars to provide additional educational support to the 1st and 2nd year students.
Part 2 - Coaching and supervision skills with Phoebe.
Here we will study aspects of supervision including: contracts, beginnings, and the supervision relationship, core beliefs, listening, the seven eyed model of supervision, applying our REEF coaching model in supervision, endings and group supervision.
The CSI and CSIB Wednesday webinars
Your presence is warmly welcomed in the CSI webinars on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday each month, and in the CSIB webinars on the 2nd Wednesday each month.
Here your contributions are very valuable and you are welcome to guide the engage segments, participate in demos and contribute to the discussions and share your wisdom and experience.
You will receive monthly 1-1 Coaching & Supervision calls with Katie or Phoebe
In the 3rd year CSSE training -these sessions are to support your growth as a Somatic Sex Educator
Phoebe and Katie are alongside you throughout your training to support you as you step into more leadership roles including facilitating monthly webinars for the CSI and CSIB students.
In the 4th year Supervision training - these sessions are to reflect on your own supervision sessions with practitioner supervisees.
As you step into the role of professional supervisor in training, you will be supported in regular supervision with Phoebe and Katie to reflect on your 50 supervision sessions over the 12 months of the training.
Your professional training in supervision
The RHI supervision is integrative supervision founded on our REEF coaching model (body focusing, clean language and body poem, power informed consent) along with the Seven Eyed Model
The seven eyed model of supervision
Phoebe studied the seven eyed model of supervision with Robin and Joan Shohet at the CSTD London.
We have combined this with our REEF coaching model to create the RHI supervision training.
We have found it provides for a deep reflection on the relational dynamics that are impacting a practitioner in their client sessions and can support significant personal and professional growth for practitioners.
Alongside these supervision skills RHI supervisors are all trained to teach and facilitate repair processes. This can be invaluable when supporting a practitioner who has experienced a rupture with a client.
Dates and Structures 2026
CSI year 1 and CSSE years 3 and 4 commence 1st April
REF online retreat April 17th/18th 3-8pm GMT
Holiday August
CSIB year 2 commences 1st September
In-person CSIB retreat October 5th-19th, UK
CSI supervised practicum November-March
Holiday Dec 22nd - Jan 12th
CSIB supervised practicum April - July
Creating your own educational content as a CSSE
You will have opportunities to create and facilitate a monthly webinar to offer educational support to the CSI ad CSIB students.
You can explore collaborations with your peers as well as individual facilitation.
You can schedule these webinar offerings whenever you like and you will facilitate them on your own zoom link developing online facilitation skills.
You can be as creative as you like with your content and facilitation style and you will have plenty of opportunities to develop in all 4 leaderships styles.
Some suggestions include:
teaching from information - eg teaching on an aspect of the curriculum that you are passionate about and might like to develop as a niche area of specialism. You would ideally present this during a relevant phase in the CSI or CSIB training.
teaching from self - eg supporting the students with your own unique perspectives on any aspect of the training curriculum. We often become great teachers in areas that we found difficult to learn. Sharing your own journey and experience can be deeply inspiring and motivation for others and can support us to acknowledge our lived experience as a gift.
teaching from vision - eg finding creative ways to play and learn together. You can include other aspects of your expertise and wisdom and create your own unique weave and style of group facilitation. This may inspire your professional development.
teaching from connection - eg providing a connecting supportive space for students to hang out together to foster a greater sense of community, safety, shared experience and connection which support students in their belonging and confidence to participate and learn.
offering group supervision sessions during the training.
These experiences will support your confidence and online group facilitation skills.
Being visible to the students also allows them to get to know you and if they feel aligned with your style they can choose you as their supervisor for their supervised practicum when you are in year 4,
Many practitioners then continue in regular professional supervision with you. This supports your thriving supervision practice.
During the three-month supervised practicum
CSI & CSIB students can choose their supervisor during supervised practicum from the current 4th year supervisors in training and from the listed RHI supervisors.
Each student will schedule 4 supervision calls during the supervised practicum to reflect on 5 sessions.
Student supervision calls are offered at the reduced rate of £75 per call.
After completing 20 sessions they will certify and they can then choose to stay with the same supervisor for their regular professional supervision as a practitioner.
Learning from recorded sessions
During the training each student will submit 3 recorded sessions with a volunteer client.
RHI will provide detailed coaching from these sessions for each student.
This supports us to assess whether a student is ready to move into supervised practicum.
During supervised practicum each student has the option to continue to record sessions with volunteer clients for their own learning. They may wish to bring moments from these recorded sessions to their supervision calls to reflect and learn in supervision.
The CSSE years require us to step into leadership roles and inhabit our personal power fully and with heart
Fully inhabiting our power is a journey of growth and many of us fear becoming too powerful and too visible. We may still feel like imposters and choose to continue to study to gain more experience or qualifications.
Often there comes a point where we have more than enough experience and qualifications and what we need next is the support to believe in ourselves and to start offering the fruits of our study and creativity.
During the CSSE years 3 and 4 you will be supported in both group reflection and 1:1 supervision to explore limiting core beliefs and to understand how our history and past relationship with power is still influencing our present. When we have experienced impact from misuse of power it can be hard to inhabit an up-power role without fear of doing harm.
These concerns are driven by excellent ethics but we learn that when we don’t fully inhabit our personal or role power then we can misuse of power in a different way.
Through greater awareness of our relationship with power we will support you to step into the up-power roles of educator and supervisor with awareness and care so that you are able to offer your gifts and so that we can grow together.
Your Application and Enrolment Process
Year 3 - Certificate in Somatic Sex Educator and Year 4 - Supervisor training
Course Fees £2,500 plus 20% VAT per year
Contributing to the Postgraduate Program:
During the year 3 CSSE and year 4 Supervisor training you will be developing and creating educational material as you facilitate a monthly webinar for the CSI and CSIB students.
The educational material you create and present will be of interest to graduates as well as CSI and CSIB students.
You may choose to further develop this educational material in an area of the curriculum that is of special interest to you and tp create educational opportunities for practitioners in the field.
You will have the opportunity to present your material in the postgraduate webinars and to offer further training in your niche area to practitioner as part of their continuing professional development.
During the CSSE 3rd and 4th years you will be supported to develop as a somatic sex educator in your chosen niche area.
You may wish to explore a number of different areas for your deeper study before choosing one or more areas to develop further.
You may already be particularly skilled in a specialism that is related to the field of somatic intimacy. During the CSSE years you will be supported to develop your unique weave further and to create online or in-person training opportunities for practitioners.
There are opportunities to present an introduction to your courses or training programs in the postgraduate webinars and to promote them through the RHI.
You may have an interest in one particular area of the curriculum and wish to research, study and develop further in this area. You may feel you have a unique perspective and approach in this area which could enhance and expand the current curriculum.
There are opportunities to join the RHI as part of the teacher team to offer your gifts as webinars during the CSI and CSIB training and to be listed as a teacher with the RHI in your area of specialism.
During the CSSE 3rd and 4th years we will support you to step into more leadership roles, develop in your chosen areas of special interest and gain visibility as a supervisor and educator for practitioners in the profession.
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