Like A Pro: The Wheel of Consent® for Professionals is coming to San Diego this November, and as the local coordinator, I get to be one of the first to tell you about it, because I genuinely think it's worth your time.

I first took this training in Seattle in the fall of 2021. The Wheel of Consent had already been part of my work, but nowhere close to the confidence I had using it by the time I left the training. One of the things that delighted me most was how many talented talk professionals were in the room too: therapists, coaches, facilitators, people whose work has nothing to do with physical touch but everything to do with communication.

Like A Pro: The Wheel of Consent® for Professionals, is a 5 day training with faculty from The School of Consent Marcia Baczynski and Carmen Leilani - in San Diego, CA, November 4-8, 2026, 10am - 6pm daily (applications now open)

Like A Pro is an embodied consent training that has become a foundational practice for cultivating integrity and developing boundaries for professionals working with 1:1 clients. We welcome professionals who work with people hands-on, as well as in non-touch capacity, including:

🧠 Therapists / Counselors / Social Workers
Expanding your somatic and emotional toolkit—for your clients and for yourself

🩺 Medical Professionals
Bringing body-based awareness and trauma-informed care into clinical settings

🤰 Birth & Death Workers / Doulas
Deepening your capacity to offer grounded, present support through life’s thresholds

💆 Body Workers / Massage Therapists
Learning to listen with your hands while nourishing your own boundaries and needs

🫂 Surrogate Partners / Cuddle Pros / Touch Providers
Honoring the intimacy of your work with deeper self-awareness and embodied communication

🧑‍⚕️ Sex Therapists / AASECT members
Exploring embodied, experiential frameworks for healing and sexual self-connection

❤️ Intimacy Coaches / Educators
Practicing what you teach by refining touch, desire, and consent in your own life

💃 Dance / Yoga / Movement Educators
Integrating touch, choice, and relational presence into the body-based practices you lead

🌱 Life Coaches
Anchoring mindset work in the body for more sustainable, transformative change

🎬 Intimacy Coordinators
Embodying clarity, care, and consent in high-intensity, creative, or collaborative environments

👐 Caregivers
Replenishing yourself and discovering new ways to offer supportive, respectful connection

✊ Activists
Aligning personal healing with social change through consent, touch, and nervous system literacy

🪷 Healers
Tending to your own system while supporting others in their healing journeys

🌀 Facilitators
Cultivating presence and nuance to hold space with clarity, integrity, and care

🔥 Change-Makers
Rooting your vision in embodied practice—for personal impact and collective transformation

Clients are savvier and more trauma-aware than ever — and they’re craving practitioners who can truly meet them with clarity, humility, and mutuality.

As professionals, we’re being called to do better — and to take better care of ourselves while doing it. Like A Prois at the forefront of supporting practitioners in this process.

For yourself, you will…

Refine your ability to create mutually satisfying and equitable agreements for play and work in both your personal and professional life
Learn precise skills for advocating for your capacity and limits
Embody the skills you are supporting your students in learning more fully, and with more nuance
Learn to inhabit all four quadrants of the Wheel, even when you are fundamentally in a professional service role
Prevent overgiving, exploitation, urgency and burn out
Navigate complex power dynamics with clarity and confidence
Build personal and professional resilience in challenging times

For your clients, you will be better able to…

Support your clients in noticing, trusting and communicating their boundaries and limits
Provide proven tools to empower your client to notice and communicate what they want
Address a client’s tendency to “go along with” - and support informed consent and clear decisions
Assess your clients’ ability to notice their own body and put words to their experience
Scaffold your client’s skill development and move at a pace appropriate to their capacity
Support your students in recovering their self-trust and agency
Help give your clients a felt sense of true mutual agreement and equity
Apply the tools of the Wheel directly and indirectly to support your clients’ ability to meaningfully choose every step of the way in your work together

About the San Diego Faculty:

Carmen Leilani De Jesus and Marcia Baczynski will be leading this 5 day training through the transformative model of the Wheel of Consent.

⚠️ Spots are limited. If you've been meaning to deepen your work with embodied consent, this is your moment.

Cost: US$1950

📝 Applications are open now — and this training fills quickly.

If this resonates, don’t wait — now is the time to claim your spot.

For more information or to apply: http://schoolofconsent.org/like-a-pro

Payment Plans available. 20 AASECT CEUs available. Partial scholarships are available for those who are part of or are working with marginalized communities.

I'd love to see you there!

San Diego, CA → Los Angeles | Baltimore/DC | Pittsburgh, PA

Telephone and Zoom Support Sessions Available

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