Embodying Erotic Power
Healing Our Relationship with Intuition, Feeling, and Self
Investment: $90
A live 2-hour experiential training
2 NBCC contact hours. No prior Internal Family Systems (IFS) training required.
In 1978, Audre Lorde named the erotic as a source of power: our capacity to feel deeply, trust what we know, and live from that knowing. She was not writing about sex. She was writing about a way of being fully alive—a relationship with ourselves rooted in feeling, creativity, intuition, and embodied truth. She also wrote about what oppression, trauma, and survival ask us to abandon in order to belong.
Many helping professionals know this disconnection intimately.
Our training often rewards thinking over sensing, certainty over curiosity, and productivity over presence. Over time, many of us learn to question our intuition, override the wisdom of our bodies, and mistake numbness for professionalism.
This workshop is an invitation to return.
Together, we will explore the erotic as Lorde intended it: a source of life force, embodied knowing, creativity, and inner authority. We will examine the ways trauma, oppression, and protective strategies can distance us from our intuition, our feelings, and ourselves, and consider what becomes possible when we begin listening again.
Grounded in Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic awareness, and the writings of Black feminist scholars and poets, participants will be introduced to a compassionate framework for understanding the parts of ourselves that learned to distrust feeling. No previous IFS experience is required.
Through reflection, poetry, guided experiential practices, journaling, and discussion, participants will explore how reconnecting with the body's wisdom can strengthen intuition, deepen self-awareness, and cultivate a more compassionate relationship with themselves.
As we reconnect with our own embodied knowing, we naturally begin to show up differently—in our work, our relationships, our leadership, and our communities. We listen more deeply. We trust ourselves more fully. We make decisions from alignment rather than fear. We remember that the quality of our presence is one of the greatest gifts we bring to every space we enter. Come with curiosity, leave more connected to your Self.
Who Is This Workshop For?
This workshop was designed for mental health professionals, including counselors, social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, nurses, peer support specialists, and other helping professionals.
Graduate students, interns, educators, coaches, spiritual care providers, allied health professionals, and lifelong learners with an interest in embodiment, intuition, and healing are also warmly welcome.
NBCC contact hours are available for eligible participants in accordance with NBCC guidelines.
Participants Will Leave With:
1. A deeper understanding of Audre Lorde's concept of the erotic as a source of embodied knowing, creativity, and power
2. A practical understanding of how trauma, oppression, and protective parts can disconnect us from intuition, feeling, and Self
3. An experiential framework for recognizing and reconnecting with the wisdom of the body
4. Guided embodiment, reflection, and journaling practices that can be continued beyond the workshop
5. New language for understanding intuition, embodied knowing, and the role of Self in healing
6. Downloadable handouts and reflection prompts
7. An opportunity to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and learn alongside a community of helping professionals
Format
This is a live, virtual training held via Zoom.
This session is not recorded, on purpose. Bring your real questions and the moments that stayed with you.
Details
Saturday, September 12th, 2026
12:00–2 PM ET
Your Zoom link arrives with your registration confirmation.
Continuing education
This session offers 2.0 NBCC clock hours. Full live attendance is required for CE credit. Certificates are emailed within one week of completion of the evaluation.
Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP #8104. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Ascension Growth Center, PLLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
This training is committed to accessibility and ADA compliance. Participants requiring accommodations are encouraged to submit requests in advance. The Provider is dedicated to ensuring an inclusive learning environment for all participants and will promptly address accommodation requests in alignment with federal, state, and local ADA guidelines.
Investment
$90
No refunds for missed attendance.