Authentic Desire:
a Sexual Health Program
An 8 week online course empowering women to reconnect with their bodies and authentic desires through mindfulness practices and sexual education.
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Feel disconnected from your sexuality and unsure how to proceed?
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Long to have more intentional sexual experiences?
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Does sex feel like a chore?
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Hope to have a more present and satisfying sexual life?
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Want to learn how to be more connected to yourself?
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Long for more authenticity around your sexuality?
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Craving community around issues that are often taboo?
Welcome to Authentic Desire:
A Sexual Health Program and Deep Dive
on your journey
In this course we will:
Get the sex education you never had.
Use reflection questions and formal mindfulness practices to dive deeper.
Use the most current and researched tools to reconnect you to your body and pleasure.
Explore how to talk about sex with current or future partner/s in a low stakes, productive way.
Work towards finding your AUTHENTIC DESIRE at this moment in your life.
Work to cultivate a more satisfying sexual life in an 8 week supportive environment.
How the weekly class will go:
Each week in class we will:
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Gather together and get oriented to the week's themes and lessons
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Talk about the previous week's exercises and any questions
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Have a sexual education lecture with the latest in research and understandings
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Be lead in a mindfulness practice meant to connect you to your present experience and body
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Explore reflection questions related to the week's theme to help you dive deeper and bring more intimacy with your experience
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Have breakout group conversations ​
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Review the upcoming week's home exercises
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Another aspect of the class:
We will use Dr. Lori Brotto's workbook in part to guide us, and offer support between weekly classes.
This class is also inspired and informed by the work and research of Jack Morin, Emily Nagoski, Esther Perel, and many more.
We live in the information age. There is so much amazing information out there. This program was created to distill and make this information digestible.
The Authentic Desire Sexual Health Program
is an investment of $600 for the full 8 week live online course (1.5 - 2 hrs each class).
This includes:
live lectures with special visual aids, handouts, home practices, guided meditations and invaluable communal support that cannot be replicated with one-on-one therapy.
You will be lead by Gwenivere Weiss, MA, LPC, owner and operator of Real Change Therapy, who specializes in Mindfulness and Sex Therapy and began teaching 16 years ago.
We hope you join our next group
on this powerful journey.
Interested in knowing when the next
Authentic Desire sexual health program will run?
Sign up below and we will let you know, as soon as we know!
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Will this course increase the amount of sex I have?
The truth is, everyone is at a different place in their journey, and I cannot really say precisely what will happen on yours. My hope is not specifically that you have MORE sex (although this definitely can happen!), but that the quality of the sex (solo or partnered) that you have begins to be from a place of more authenticity, presence and pleasure. My hope is that you will enjoy the intimacy and sex much more that you are having.
It probably looks like you taking those big next steps on your exploration of knowing yourself more, feeling more connected to your body and pleasure, and if you are partnered that you are able to share a bit more about your true inner experience and pleasure with them. This will probably lead to more intimacy. The hope is more intimacy (into-me-see) with yourself, your partner/s, and experiencing your pleasure in a deeper more present way. So we are talking quality over quantity.
Can I join this class if I am single?
Absolutely! You are welcome partnered, dating, single, poly, and all forms of relationship or non-relationship.
Can I join this class if I am Ace/Asexual?
If you identify as Asexual then please get in touch with me and we can have a conversation to see if it may be the right fit for you. I don't have a straight forward answer for this.
Can I join this class if I am religious?
Absolutely! All folks are welcome. This is a non-denominational, non-religious course based on science and psycho-education. There are parts of the course that involve mindful self touch on your own in the privacy of your own home. If this is not appealing to you, I would suggest another course. It is an important part of the class and in building comfort with one's body, sexuality and understanding what kinds of touch your body responds to and bring pleasure to you.
Can I join this class if I am in my 60's/70's/80's?
Yes you are so welcome to join at any age from 25 years of age on up.
Can I join this class if I haven't had sex in the past many years?
Absolutely.
Can I join this class if I have never meditated, or don't like meditation?
Yes, definitely. As long as you are willing to try the practices weekly in class and daily at home, and are aware that the most current, most highly researched and most successful treatments of low-desire are Mindfulness-based practices and programs. If you are open to seeing what it can do for you, this could be a good course for you.
Can I join this class if I don't want to do the Mindfulness exercises, or don't think I can fit them into my busy schedule?
I would say if you don't want to do them, this isn't the right course for you. If it is really that you fear you cannot find time for the daily exercises, I would like to let you know that this course is not about being perfect. You are welcome to modify how much you can do to your reality. We will do exercises together each week during the class, and then I encourage you to have a daily practice. The research shows the more you do the practices, the more likely you will have the results you want and feel more connected to your body and desire. And yet, I also know that life is complex. If you see this course as one more step on your journey, and you are going to do what you can in the 8 weeks, I know you can still get a lot out of the course.
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