Lori's Bio
Lori Rose is a sexuality and relationship educator and coach, violence prevention advocate, and somatic movement guide — and for over a decade, her Rose Model for Healthy Relationships has helped thousands of people navigate mental, relational, and sexual health, avoid and recover from harmful dynamics, and reclaim their true selves and fulfillment.
Lori believes in the power of authentic connection, anti-oppression, and centering the wholeness and humanity of people to repair and sustain the world. As a neurodivergent survivor of sexual, intimate partner, and workplace violence, her mission became breaking the cycle of abuse and embodying a new paradigm of healthy connection.
Whether coaching and facilitating in virtual spaces or speaking and leading workshops throughout the U.S. at campuses, corporations, and TEDx, Lori’s programs don’t just talk about change — they embody and practice it, using movement and dance to reinforce the building blocks of healthy connection and sexuality. Through a myriad of creative practices rooted in neuropsychobiology, Lori arms participants with lifelong toolkits to dismantle the underpinnings of harm and build healthy selves, relationships, sexuality, and communities. Clients and students walk away with practical, trauma-conscious, and sex-positive tools to address mental health and wellbeing, build healthy connections in their lives and work, and share their unique brilliance with the world.
The Rose Model’s mission to heal, empower and ignite teens’ and adults’ lives through movement and education came to life when Lori stepped onto a TEDx stage four days after beginning a divorce in 2012 and nervously spoke about peeing in her chair in first grade, to convey the importance of acknowledging fear and creating space for suppressed human needs to be heard. During her healing process, Lori changed her last name to honor seven matriarchal ancestors and the power of unfolding and coming back to life that roses demonstrate in nature. In 2016, she left her 15-year career connecting communities via bicycle and pedestrian trails and moved to South Carolina to dedicate herself full-time to a two-fold mission: 1) preventing interpersonal violence and abuse, and 2) creating healthy relationships and systems that liberate people to become the most of who they are.
During her ten years as a nonprofit executive director, Lori co-founded Salsa Loca and brought One Billion Rising to Fort Wayne, part of a global movement to end intimate partner violence and abuse. Lori has won awards including Indiana’s Sagamore of the Wabash, the Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly 40 Under 40, the Indiana State Trail Advocacy Award, and the YWCA Hope Award for Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention. In her efforts to illuminate others’ pilot lights, she has taught varying forms of movement and dance for over 20 years. She holds a B.S. from Indiana University and a Certificate in Sexual Health Education from the University of Michigan.
In a COVID-altered world, Lori’s values of community care and disability justice have amplified her goals to co-create inclusive and accessible spaces. Whether she is delving into trauma healing and nervous system recovery, hosting impromptu outdoor or online dancing, or attempting to learn the flying trapeze, Lori strives to balance learning with play, celebrate people and nature, and remember the power of laughter.
Lori's Bio
Lori Rose is a sexuality and relationship educator and coach, violence prevention advocate, and somatic movement guide — and for over a decade, her Rose Model for Healthy Relationships has helped thousands of people navigate mental, relational, and sexual health, avoid and recover from harmful dynamics, and reclaim their true selves and fulfillment.
Lori believes in the power of authentic connection, anti-oppression, and centering the wholeness and humanity of people to repair and sustain the world. As a neurodivergent survivor of sexual, intimate partner, and workplace violence, her mission became breaking the cycle of abuse and embodying a new paradigm of healthy connection.
Whether coaching and facilitating in virtual spaces or speaking and leading workshops throughout the U.S. at campuses, corporations, and TEDx, Lori’s programs don’t just talk about change — they embody and practice it, using movement and dance to reinforce the building blocks of healthy connection and sexuality. Through a myriad of creative practices rooted in neuropsychobiology, Lori arms participants with lifelong toolkits to dismantle the underpinnings of harm and build healthy selves, relationships, sexuality, and communities. Clients and students walk away with practical, trauma-conscious, and sex-positive tools to address mental health and wellbeing, build healthy connections in their lives and work, and share their unique brilliance with the world.
The Rose Model’s mission to heal, empower and ignite teens’ and adults’ lives through movement and education came to life when Lori stepped onto a TEDx stage four days after beginning a divorce in 2012 and nervously spoke about peeing in her chair in first grade, to convey the importance of acknowledging fear and creating space for suppressed human needs to be heard. During her healing process, Lori changed her last name to honor seven matriarchal ancestors and the power of unfolding and coming back to life that roses demonstrate in nature. In 2016, she left her 15-year career connecting communities via bicycle and pedestrian trails and moved to South Carolina to dedicate herself full-time to a two-fold mission: 1) preventing interpersonal violence and abuse, and 2) creating healthy relationships and systems that liberate people to become the most of who they are.
During her ten years as a nonprofit executive director, Lori co-founded Salsa Loca and brought One Billion Rising to Fort Wayne, part of a global movement to end intimate partner violence and abuse. Lori has won awards including Indiana’s Sagamore of the Wabash, the Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly 40 Under 40, the Indiana State Trail Advocacy Award, and the YWCA Hope Award for Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention. In her efforts to illuminate others’ pilot lights, she has taught varying forms of movement and dance for over 20 years. She holds a B.S. from Indiana University and a Certificate in Sexual Health Education from the University of Michigan.
In a COVID-altered world, Lori’s values of community care and disability justice have amplified her goals to co-create inclusive and accessible spaces. Whether she is delving into trauma healing and nervous system recovery, hosting impromptu outdoor or online dancing, or attempting to learn the flying trapeze, Lori strives to balance learning with play, celebrate people and nature, and remember the power of laughter.