The Modern Love Language Intensive offers clinicians, coaches, and sexuality professionals a deep dive into an updated and expansive approach to the popular "love language" relational theory. Join Speaking from the Heart: 18 Languages for Modern Love author Anne Hodder-Shipp for a friendly and engaging workshop that transforms the popular romance-centered theory into a valuable connection, communication, and rapport-building tool that clients can use in ALL their relationships - not just romantic ones. If you use the love language concept in your work, or your clients bring it up often, this workshop is for you.
This workshop includes interactive exercises, large and small group discussion, skills-building, and more active learning tools.
This workshop is right for you if:
You want to help your clients relate to love in a healthier, more expansive way.
You want to help your clients build loving relationships that are on their own terms — especially if your clients need some help figuring out what those terms might be.
You want tools for helping your clients dismantle common norms and expectations around sex, love, and connection.
You work with couples and notice that “desire discrepancy” and sexual entitlement issues come up frequently.
You want stronger competency in working with asexual and aromantic people, and anyone with an orientation that might fall along those spectrums.
You want to help “undo” the harms of purity culture, gender roles, heteronormativity, and allonormativity in your clients’ romantic and sexual relationships.
You want to expand your knowledge and understanding of platonic and queerplatonic relationships, and how important they are for building chosen family and community.
Bodily autonomy, consent culture, and reproductive justice (among other important values) are important to you and your work.
You find tools like Attachment Theory, “parts work,” or boundary work helpful.
You feel inspired in communal learning (and unlearning) environments with like-minded people.
This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 7 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification.
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This is the cost and value of the workshop. Select this if the cost will not prevent you from meeting your housing, food, transportation, childcare, and other basic needs, even though it might mean you have to temporarily cut back on some non-essential spending.
If a company or non-profit is funding your attendance, you must pay the Regular Price.
Select this if paying the Regular Price would mean your basic monthly needs, like housing, food, transportation, or childcare, would not be met or that your financial stability would be put at risk. If you choose this option but can genuinely afford the Regular Price, you are taking this option away from someone who genuinely needs it.
You are not eligible for this price if a company or non-profit is funding your attendance.
Select this rate if you are unemployed or underemployed, on disability or government assistance, or struggle to make ends meet, and paying the Equity Price would prevent you from meeting your housing, food, transportation, childcare, and other basic needs month to month. This is available only to people experiencing financial hardship who, without it, would not have the means to attend. If you choose this option but can genuinely afford the Regular or Equity prices, you are taking this option away from someone who genuinely needs it.
You are not eligible for this price if a company or non-profit is funding your attendance.
Accessibility accommodations (virtual):
We use Zoom to meet online, which does not require an account to join as an attendee.
We use AI-based closed captioning built into the Zoom platform, which shows up as white text on a black background at the bottom of the screen. Attendees can adjust the font size according to their needs.
Each Intensive features a live transcript, which displays what is being said in real-time on the right-hand side of the screen. It has a white background with black text. This transcript can be downloaded as a PDF document to attendees who request it.
Slides feature high-contrast colors, large sans-serif fonts, and image descriptions. They will be available to attendees after the event. Videos will feature closed captioning and/or a transcript.
The text chat is utilized heavily, and attendees are encouraged to participate using the chat if they are unable or do not want to participate verbally.
Anne reads out loud what attendees write in the chat so that it is included in the discussion.
Attendees are not required to have their cameras or microphones on during the training, and they are encouraged to show up to sessions as they are.
Each day features two 10-min breaks, which take place every 90-ish minutes.
Attendees are encouraged to take as many breaks as they need, in addition to scheduled breaks, and they do not need to ask permission to leave the space.
Attendees can eat, drink, stretch, and move as they need throughout The Intensive.
Refund policy:
Cancellations can be made for a full refund until 7 days of the Intensive. Please email me at anne@annehodder.com to cancel. (Refunds typically take 5-10 days to show up in your account.)
Cancellations made within 7 days of the Intensive, or after the Intensive has begun, are not eligible for a refund.