Sundays from 5-7pm PST
February 25 - April 14

It is time to transform your relationship to sex from limited, private, and unexamined to expansive, playful, and healing.

In this 8-part online course, we will co-create a liberatory and courageous space to explore topics of sexual identity, sexual anatomy, pleasure, communication, consent, kink, eros, needs, desires & boundaries. This offering is for any man* who wants to change their usual conversation about sex-related topics from limiting, shallow, and sometimes harmful to expansive, playful, and healing.

These conversations are so often kept in private places or remain tucked away within our romantic relationships—especially for men. Yet, we so often yearn for openness in how we talk and feel about sex. We have heard many times from retreat participants that the realm of sex and sexuality never gets enough time and attention, so we want to give it the energy it deserves. This is an opportunity to come together around these rich topics and necessary conversations.

*this course is specifically welcoming of all men including queer and trans men.
if you an hold an identity beyond cis/het male, we’d love to talk with you about what inclusivity means to us.

explore your sexuality with openness and ease.

mapping our journey

sex&sexuality is an 8-part live online course and cohort.
you will have lifetime access to all course materials.
all modules include a live online session and a variety of integration activities including:
recorded guided practices, at-home exercises, journal prompts, and reading materials.

part 1
Leaning in and Meeting your Edges
intros & group orientation. sharing intentions & hopes. receiving the invitation of our discomfort.

Sunday, February 25 @ 5PM PST

part 2
How we Learned our Stories of Sexuality
examining our thoughts, feelings and behaviors of sexuality. where can we find more permissions moving forward?

Sunday, March 3 @ 5PM PST

part 3
Orgasm & the Anatomy
of our Pleasure
revisiting sex-ed with a new, embodied lens; the body’s capacity for pleasure and where anatomy meets eroticism.

Sunday, March 10 @ 5PM PST

part 4
Communication, Intimacy, and Liberating Boundaries
mapping your desires and needs. identifying blocks to intimacy. cultivating sexual responsibility.

Sunday, March 17 @ 5PM PST

part 5
Kink, Queerness, and Power
exploring our relationship to cultural taboos, the healing capacity of sexual play, and power dynamics within sex.

Sunday, March 24 @ 5PM PST

part 6
The Stories our Pelvises Hold
unpacking shame and how we hold experiences of harm within the context of our sexuality.

Sunday, March 31 @ 5PM PST

part 7
Moving into Wholeness
integrating our sensual experience into our sexuality. celebrating yourself as a sexual being.

Sunday, April 7 @ 5PM PST

part 8
What’s Left & What’s Next
integrating what’s been awakened. charting a course for continued expansion and growth.

Sunday, April 14 @ 5PM PST

“I felt so welcome and safe in delving deep inside to answer questions I hadn't even considered asking.”

- kinhood program participant

Testimonials from the 2023 Sex & Sexuality cohort:

“This is the only space I've been in where exploring sexuality freely, messily, fearfully, and experimentally, was not only tolerated but celebrated. To be able to discuss topics as diverse as shame, trauma, desire or lack there of, lifestyle, sensuality vs sexuality, consent, and sexuality in culture, history and mythology, was so rich, challenging, necessary to unpack in such a suppressed and yet sexually driven culture.”

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“This was a beautiful space of deep, sprawling exploration of socialization, shame, desire, self-connection, and transformation. There were intimate confessions and connections, and lots of space for moving through it all.”

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“The Kinhood sexuality course helped me open up to so many layers of my sexuality that I didn't have access to. It helped me channel my erotic being in a deeply embodied way.”

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“I feel blessed to have so suddenly and so strongly been offered a look into so many world perspectives all at one. I came to this course with my views, hopes, and fears about sex thinking they would be unique only to find that they were shared by many men whose paths were drastically different from my own. Finding out that I was not unique was comforting. I no longer had to find a solution for what I thought was wrong with me and instead embrace the wild, messy, and beautiful human experience.”

“Men's work is brand new to me, and I couldn't have asked for better guides into exploring my soul.”

- kinhood program participant

meet your guide

Ophir Haberer

Ophir (he/him) is a Jerusalem-born facilitator, educator, mediator, ritualist, storyteller, and organizational consultant. He has been guiding men’s work for over 6 years and has facilitated for numerous organizations all over the country. He is a certified Esalen Massage practitioner and in the process of certifying as a somatic trauma therapist through the Hakomi Institute of California. He is passionate about working with clients to move trauma through the body.

assistant facilitators

Alexandr Soran
Alexandr (he/they) is a jack of all trades from Kalapuya land in Oregon. He is currently a Master of Divinity & Chaplaincy student at Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he studies the intersections of masculinity, ecology and liberation theology. An inhabitant and lover of liminal spaces, Alexandr commitment to deep solidarity and liberation for all beings manifests through their exploratory approach to multifaith chaplaincy and men’s work.

Kaylyn Wright
Kaylyn (he/him) is an artist and healer with a BA in Psychology. With a background in Hip Hop and passion for mental health, he is actively training to be a Sound Therapist through The Illuminiki Method. He was introduced to Mens work through Sacred Sons in 2021. In addition, he participated in the Kinhood launch program for young men of color, which initiated his path to leadership in Mens Work. Kaylyn is currently a Teaching Artist with the Smiling Boys Project,  working with high school young men in Watts, California.

guest educators

Victor Warring
Victor (he/him) is a Somatic (body-centered) Sexuality Educator, Mentor, Coach and also an Erotic Activist. He works one on one, with people in relationships and with communities and groups to re-wild and reclaim their connection to sexual and erotic aliveness. Using a range of supports from counseling to experiential movement practices, Victor offers permission and support to his clients to normalize the normal human desire of erotic wholeness.

Shawnrey Notto
Shawnrey (she/her) is the sensual intelligence and embodiment guide, teaching and inspiring people to reclaim their joy and pleasure, and embody self-love, so they live fully, joyfully, full of pleasure, and uniquely themselves. She is the author of the soon to be published book on Sensual Intelligence: The Lost IQ. She blends 15+ years of dance and performance art, erotic poetry, sensual intimacy coaching, mindfulness, and nude live art modeling to connect mind, body, spirit, and pleasure to heal cycles of shame and suppression and find the joy you’ve always desired.

Ashley Berry
Ashley (she/her) is a professional dominatrix, intimacy coach, conscious kink educator and the co-founder of Wholistic Kink LLC. After nearly two decades of working and playing the realms of transformation, personal growth, altered states of consciousness, and traditional healing arts, she found her way to conscious kink as a framework for personal development, empowerment, healing, pleasure and FUN.

Ariel Kohane
Ariel (she/her) teaches people how to reclaim their emotional experiences and recover their brilliance in peer-to-peer counseling group work. For the past 8 years, Ariel has practiced and taught  2800+ hours on topics such as Men's Oppression/Liberation, Ending White Racism, Ending Class Oppression, Jewish, Young Adult, Native, Women‘s, and Mental Health Liberation, Family Work, Allies to Muslims, the Alcohol Industry, Allies to Large Women, Allies to LGBTQ, Ending the Climate Crisis, Working on Aging, Death and more. She is a certified Re-evaluation Counseling (RC) teacher. 

Dor Haberer
Dor (he/him) has been facilitating groups in men’s work, self care, and cultural & ancestral reclamation for 6+ years and brings his expertise and passion in these areas to our course. Dor incorporates somatic modalities into his work and is trained in Shiatsu Therapy, Qi Gong, and 5 Rhythms dance. Dor brings together his connection to his ancestral Arabic Jewish Roots, his love of ecology, and an orientation towards simplicity and pleasure.

are you ready to…

explore the possibilities of your sexual being?

unpack your stories, habits, and patterns around sex?

understand your anatomy and expand your capacity for pleasure?

reclaim exiled parts of your sexuality, including queerness, taboo and kink?

feel the stories of sex that are stored in your body?

awaken your wild and erotic expression?

refine your communication of needs, desires and boundaries, and learn to make consent sexy?

transform your relationship to sex?

The male Andean flamingos flock together in their collective mating dance. How can we embody expression & delight in our sexuality?

frequently asked

  • Early sign-up is available until February 1st and is just $240!

    Regular price for the 8-week program, cohort, and course materials is $360.

    If you would like to support our work at kinhood, we invite you to pay a sustainer price of $480.

  • When you sign up for Men’s Sex&Sexuality Course, you are getting an 8-week program dedicated to your healing and evolution of your sexuality, joining a cohort of men who are on parallel paths of self-discovery, and becoming a part of the larger kinhood community.

    As a member of the course you will have access to a collection of learning materials including readings, reflection exercises, recorded meditations and guided practices.

    Each course session will center around a live 2-hour call, with integaration exercises to work with after.

  • This course is for any and all men who want to follow their curiosity toward a more authentic sexual expression, and build supportive, meaningful relationship with other men on the same path. This course and cohort will support and nourish you whether you are new to men’s groups or have been participating in them for years.

  • At kinhood, when we say men, we are including everyone who identifies as a man, has been conditioned or socialized as a man, or has experienced life as a man. Our community is made up of a wondrous spectrum of experience and identity, including queer and trans men.

    We recognize that the intersection of gender and sexuality is a complicated one, and we are in a collective process of learning to navigate it. If you are a queer and/or trans man trying to decide if this course right for you, please feel free to reach out so that we can support you in evaluating this path. We would be happy to connect you with queer/trans members of our community who can share their experience.

  • The main part of each module is a 2-hour live call with the entire cohort, your cohort guides, and guest educators/facilitators. During this time you will be learning and sharing alongside a dedicated group of men.

    Following each live call you will receive a set of readings, journal prompts, and exercises that will help you to embody and integrate the week’s learnings and to prepare for the upcoming session.

  • All of the calls will be recorded and available to you on the course cohort page to watch or review after the live session.

    You will have lifetime access to these recordings and all of the course materials to use whenever you’d like.

  • kinhood is committed to ensuring that nobody is unable to participate in our programs due to financial limitations.

    If you would like to sign up at a subsidized rate, please email us at community@kinhood.org and we will send you a discount code to enter when purchasing.

  • As soon as you sign up you will receive a welcome e-mail with a link to the cohort page. From there you will have immediate access to the course syllabus, cohort page, and pre-course materials. You will also receive a link to a cohort whatsapp group where you will be able to interact with other course participants.

  • Yes!

    We have several retreats coming up for summer 2023, and more online cohorts and courses in the works. Connect with us on instagram @kinhood.community to learn about upcoming program offerings including online gatherings and in-person meetups.

kinhood is a men’s wellness organization.
we are committed to growing the care that men experience, receive, and give.

we envisions a world where all people live beyond toxic masculinity, in liberated, nurturing and interdependent expressions of self and community. kinhood is a place for men to explore and become their most authentic and expressive selves.

kinhood is holding a wide and brilliant spectrum of what it means to be a man, and our community and offerings are for any person who carries experience or identity as a man.