Integrating Intimacy
Samantha
Beer
Year of training:
2020
Related qualification:
CSB, CSSE, CEC,
How many and what type of workshops/classes have you previously facilitated?
Many erotic Embodiment Classes, IEE training 2024/25, 2022 Seven Sisters Festival, supporting at the sex bod intensive 2022/2024/2025 including teaching, 4EE eco sexual retreat, IPNB of Erotic Growth at ASSFest, FEAST 2025, Boundaries in sex work workshop at Scarlet Alliance National Forum 2025.
What qualities do you bring to your facilitation?
I bring curiosity and responsiveness - feeling for the flow of the group, allowing it to interact with my intention for the experience. I tend to facilitate reasonably casually, preferring to elicit than lecture, to hold the space through presence rather than firm structure. I enjoy creating space for participants to move into as they are ready to, that also challenges them and helps expand their sense of what they came for.
What relevant skills and experience/qualifications do you have in addition to Sexological Bodywork?
Extensive facilitation experience in intimate group learning spaces (EE classes, IEE, peer supervision circles). I have qualifications in Somatic Attachment Therapy, Mindsight - Interpersonal Neurobiology, a Certificate in Embodied Counselling, and am currently undertaking STREAM. I have also recently completed several training with ANZPOP - trauma informed facilitation, conflict resolution, facilitation masterclass series. In addition, I have completed Barbara Carrellas' Urban Tantra Professional Practice multi day workshop and Betty Martin's Like A Pro.
Facilitator Bio
Sam has been bumping around the sexy education space for six or so years. In this time they have facilitated a wide range of group learning experiences, including erotic embodiment classes, workshops and professional trainings such as the Interactive Erotic Educator Training.
What can you expect with Sam? To come into a space where whatever you are bringing, and however you show up, is valued as part of the learning of the group, where the erotic potential of everything and every moment is celebrated. Sam’s offerings have a throughline of existential embodied exploration, intimate interpersonal engagement and sacred silliness, with a high value placed on willingness to try new things imperfectly.
Come along to their workshops to dance and play on the line between known and unknown.
Workshop 1 Name:
Full Body Flirt
# of participants:
20-40
Workshop 1 duration:
2 Hour Workshop
Equipment needed:
Speaker, Mic, Cushions
Workshop 1's Intention:
Participants will be invited to play in the space between intention and action/ interest and established connection.
To experience various ways of connecting to their embodied curiosity for others, and to signal it
To deeply engage with their own experience of flirtation - fear and uncertainty? Enjoyment? Nervousness? Socially conditioned?
To explore their own embodiment and tendencies in flirting so they can connect to their own unique style
To experience flirting as an end in itself rather than as a means to an end!
Workshop 1 rough format:
Engage:
Engagement with flirting/ signalling interest through animal play
Small group - what is flirting? What is your relationship to it? What is your story? What is in your body?
Study:
Nod to differences in experience, rejection, safety (being perceived to be leading someone on, friendliness perceived as flirting),
Flirting with your whole body - breaking it up in to parts - how do your eyes flirt? Your chest and shoulders? Your legs? Your pelvis? Your hair?
Small group reflection, supporting each other to feel for their style.
Activate:
Non-verbal speed dating
Reflect:
Small then big group reflection
Workshop 1 program description:
Join Sam and Yedidya for a playful exploration of flirting. After exploring how you relate to flirting, what it means to you, and what might hold you back, you will let go of the stories and bring it all into the body to find how to move with confidence in your own unique style. Expect to engage beyond human constructs, leave words behind and make flirty connections that feel really good for exactly what they are.
Does W1 actively invite nudity?
It's optional but not a central part
Workshop 2 Name:
Hot Mess
# of participants:
20-40
Workshop 2 duration:
2 Hour Workshop
Equipment needed:
Speaker, Mic, Cushions
Workshop 2's Intention:
Participants will have the opportunity to explore their erotic brakes - fears and insecurities, limiting beliefs and how these show up in their body
Participants will have the opportunity to be supported by other members of the group in a process of allowing what is.
Participants will have the opportunity to embody what they fear, to be seen in it, to perhaps even embrace its erotic potential.
Workshop 2 rough format:
Engage
Playful movement based embodiment of hidden parts of self - prompt based
Small group discussion inviting reflection on small ways we our curate image/ presentation to be desirable.
Study
Exploration of impact of holding/ holding back/ tension/ not voicing on embodiment/ erotic embodiment/ relationship.
What does this get in the way of? What is the story it reinforces? How does this relate to eroticism and desire, sense of desirability/ desire-ability?
Practice in threes saying something you would never say/ doing something you would never do in front of someone/ embodying a shape that feels ugly. Being reflected by the person you are with Notice w\how the body responds.
Solo reflection on last practice leading into prep for activation. Feel for a pattern of holding back or not being your full self that you would like to shift.
Activation
Small group embodiment circle with mirroring where participants take turns embodying what they fear being seen as, and request some sort of celebration from their group - words of praise, touch, whooping and cheering, bowing down.
OR
Group self pleasure circle where participants are invited to go counter performative - bringing their hot mess to their self pleasure and being witnessed in it.
Reflect
Back to big group, circle of acknowledgement
Workshop 2 program description:
Hot Mess is a fearless embodied exploration of the parts of us we usually hide — the awkward, the insecure, the too-much, not-enough, too big, small, loud, quiet, angry, perverted, outrageous, bored and boring parts. Through movement, connection, and laughter, we’ll meet the mess with curiosity - and celebrate it! Because when we let go of our ideas about desirability, our desire ability awakens.
Does W2 actively invite nudity?
It's optional but not a central part
Workshop 3 Name:
Pillow Talk & Other Pleasures: Once Upon a Touch (with Kaggi)
# of participants:
However many the space fits
Workshop 3 duration:
Evening Experience
Equipment needed:
Speaker, Mic, Cushions
Workshop 3's Intention:
To explore where erotic fiction meets somatic experience
Masturbate before bed (if desired)
Broaden the scope of what might be erotic fantasy and to notice how that feels in the body.
Weaving fantasy into erotic practice
To entertain, play and tease and satisfy before bedtime!
Workshop 3 rough format:
Equipment required.
This workshop would need to be last on the nightly program up in the top room for warmth, the invitation would be for people to bring their pillow and any snuggle things and get cosy and be read to.
Loose format
To create a cosy environment where participants can bed down and if they choose to masturbate or touch themselves or just bask in the tales before bed.
Housekeeping: can touch self, if you come with another and you have a prearranged agreement can touch each other, do not engage with others in the session. Keep any self pleasure to a volume that does not interfere with the stories. No expectation to touch self etc… to enjoy
Invite brainstorming for how they might like to respond if the titillating tales before bedtime do not appeal, how they might like to take care of themselves.
To begin I would do a short body scan to awaken and open the senses, taste, sound, eyes,
Let the storytelling begin!
Will collect a range of short erotic tales that span genders, kinks and genres.
If this gets accepted in the FEAST build up we would love to invite participants who feel inspired to send me any erotic fiction they have written. We will set up an anonymous
Google form that people can submit their fantasies and promote on our platforms.
Could this turn into a FEAST piece of erotica in the future?
Workshop 3 program description:
In Kaggi's application.
Does W3 actively invite nudity?
It's optional but not a central part
Are you happy to facilitate support pods?
Fuck yes!
Are you interested in contributing to/facilitating at pre-retreat events
Yes that sounds great. Would love to be involved in those.
Is there anything else that you would like us to know as organisers?
I am super keen to come and be involved again. Uma has submitted a workshop on partner engagement practices that I would be involved in presenting as part of the IEE team if that is selected. I haven't submitted it in this application, but wanted to note it here. I have also offered to support a few other people who are new presenters with workshops - Tia Cloher's one on disgust and Yedidya's also. Really happy to be adaptable in what I am offering. Thank you both for all of the incredible work that you do for community.