FEBRUARY 6-WEEK || Consent Educator Training: The Yes-to-No Spectrum
with Mia (they/them)
for therapists, practitioners, coaches, and more…
VIRTUAL: Wednesdays, February 19–March 26, 5–7pm PT / 8–10pm ET. For students who can’t attend class live, there will be optional sessions Tuesdays March 4 and 25, 10–11:30am PT / 1–2:30pm ET so you can still participate in exercises live.
PLEASE NOTE: Recordings of this program will be for sale after the program so that others can get the material virtually and do it in their own time. If you do not want to be in the recordings, you will be able to turn your camera off, and I can stop recording if you want to share out loud without being recorded.
“Few things are more important than the Yes-to-No Spectrum in consent education. Knowing where I am on the spectrum in different situations and responding appropriately are the most transformative practices!”
Who is this program for?
This is the Yes-to-No Spectrum, the cornerstone of this intensive.
This is a personal and professional development course for therapists, coaches, sex-ed or lifeskills teachers, healers, practitioners, intimacy coordinators, and anyone who works in sex-related or intimacy fields. Whether you work with clients via 1:1 sessions, coaching, therapy, or workshops, this intensive will help you teach the Yes to No Spectrum through a trauma-informed lens, support clients in caring for themselves through no’s, and help you build your own care plan for doing this work sustainably.
If your clients need tools, skills, vocabulary, and exercises to…
communicate better
identify, feel they deserve, and ask for their needs and desires
say no
advocate for themselves
ask for a raise
feel secure attachment with themselves and others
stop self-silencing patterns in their relationships
…this program will give you tools to share with them, and use yourself.
I use a trauma- and toxic stress-aware, neuro-diversity-informed approach to consent that takes the gut-brain axis into account. Consent is more than “no means no” or getting permission. Consent is a language and an embodied practice.
PLEASE NOTE: This is not the Consent-Based Teaching Artist Program. That will happen in the Fall
If you’re interested in business support, building a sustainable and scaleable business structure, creating your own workshops, and getting 1:1 practice, the Consent-Based Teaching Artist Program will be a better fit. This program goes more in depth on the Yes-to-No Spectrum. However, if you join this program, you will be invited to join the business development portion of the Fall program, without having to join the full program. If you would like to do both this program and the full Fall program, you will receive a discounted rate for the Fall program.
“As a sex coach, I wanted to participate in Mia’s course in order to learn and then be able to teach their Yes/No Spectrum and Practice Saying No class to help people discover and confidently communicate their sexual desires. I love the simplicity of the tool and process and I appreciate Mia’s teaching style. Their combination of practical and theoretical/informational contributes to learning and the pace allowed for processing and integration of the concepts. They created a safe/brave space (e.g. through guidelines, expectations and the set up of the container) that was welcoming as well. They provided additional resources/homework that supplemented what was taught in class. I now have a simple, clear tool to add to my tool kit and how I support people in the work I do.”
An expanded version of the Yes-to-No Spectrum.
What will you get out of it?
Tools, skills, and exercises for you to make your own, build into your own curriculum, and teach to others.*
The right to teach my Practice Saying No class. Your payment for this class also covers that license.
Vocab to express yourself more clearly and quickly.
The ability to feel and communicate your boundaries, needs, and desires.
Practice saying “no.”
The ability to feel your capacity and not go beyond it.
The ability to feel “yes” and “no” in your body so you can think less.
Tools to support clients and students in feeling these things for themselves and identifying and asking for their needs and desires.
*This program does not provide a teaching packet, because I want you to take this information and make it yours.
Read what people are saying about these classes.
“[The Yes-to-No Spectrum] has helped to shape my understanding of boundaries both for myself and with others. Being able to visually check-in with myself using this framework has been a tool I continue to use and find necessary to help me identify and internalize what I really feel.”
Payment + Pricing
This intensive is $599 with early bird pricing through January 19. Regular pricing at $699 starts on January 20. There is a payment plan option that will allow you to pay in two installments, three weeks apart.
You can read about why our prices are what they are on our Business + Financial Transparency page. If this is cost-prohibitive, you are always welcome to make us an offer, especially if you are in a country where the exchange rate makes this class financially inaccessible.
Please note: The deadline for refunds is 24 hours before the first class.
Your job should sponsor you!! If you need a letter from me or any further information, I’m happy to help. Just email me to let me know what to provide.
Recommended (Optional) Reading:
Queer Attachment Zine
Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Turn This World Upside Down by Nora Samaran
Decolonizing Nonviolent Communication Workbook by Meenadchi
Have questions? Email me!
“I feel like the yes to know spectrum has helped me be less judgmental and more gentle with myself. It’s a super practical tool that aids my decision making and ability to communicate when I’m feeling overwhelmed or disconnected. Super grateful I found it!”
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“I am so happy Mia Schachter found this work so helpful [and] decided to share it, so that others could use it not only for themselves but to teach others. The one thing I find hard about online classes is that teachers forget about the student’s safety, health, and capacity. Mia’s work addresses not only these issues through its overall content, but Mia also walks their talk and what they teach. The classes create space for play, rest, openness, honesty, and acceptance while still being jam-packed with useful knowledge that will open your mind and heart. Through Mia’s ability to embody what they teach, I could find my own clarity, confidence, and power to implement these teachings into my personal and professional life. I am so grateful!”
“The Y-N spectrum often comes to mind when I’m considering my options outside of a binary yes/no. It’s a helpful visual representation that being out of your comfort zone isn’t always a red flag, and immediate yesses should sometimes be considered for more time. The visual representation is useful for gauging the complexity of my desires, needs, asks, and others’ responses to them.”
“The Yes-to-No Spectrum has helped me be less judgmental and more gentle with myself. It’s a super practical tool that aids my decisionmaking and ability to communicate when I’m feeling overwhelmed or disconnected. Super grateful I found it.”
“The Y-N Spectrum has given me a way to dialogue with myself when I’m having complex, confusing, or ambiguous feelings. It’s a way that I can unpack the layers of desire and separate them from layers of pressure, fear, or shutdown. Knowledge of the Y-N spectrum has also changed how I listen to others’ responses — I listen with more depth after I make an ask, offer, or invitation. I find that I’m more attuned to notice if the person is answering out of pressure… or if they are saying “yes” but giving off all the signals of a “maybe” or “no.” It’s the richness of the “maybe” that has been the most helpful to me— that there are many different emotional tones in there that I can understand and explore. Now that I understand the depth of the “maybe” space, it feels like a viable answer — not just an unspecific limbo. From an informed “maybe,” I can actually find action steps, renegotiations, and movement.”
—B
“I use the Yes-to-No Spectrum quite often in my coaching work and find it to be a remarkable tool for helping clients identify where in their body their authentic answers are. It also helps them to discover their patterns of how they have attempted to override their own consent in the past. It tends to be a breakthrough point for my clients, as well as a language we refer to as we progress through the work of accountability and boundary design.”
“The Yes-to-No Spectrum is such a transformational tool! Before it, I couldn’t describe what I felt when approaching various situations, I struggled to talk through shared decisions, and I made big life changes impulsively or in a state of frozen numbness. With the Yes-to-No Spectrum, I have a framework for reconnecting with my body, a grounded structure for navigating decisions with others, and I can trust myself to make choices that keep me safe.”
“As a sex coach, I wanted to participate in Mia’s Train the Trainer course in order to learn, and then be able to teach, their Yes-to-No Spectrum and Practice Saying No class to help people discover and confidently communicate their sexual desires. I love the simplicity of the tool and process, and I appreciate Mia’s teaching style. Their combination of practical and theoretical/informational contributes to learning, and the pace allowed for processing and integration of the concepts. They created a safe/brave space (e.g., through guidelines, expectations, and the setup of the container) that was welcoming as well. They provided additional resources/homework that supplemented what was taught in class. I now have a simple, clear tool to add to my tool kit and how I support people in the work I do.”