Empowered Choices
Guiding young Adults to build healthy selves, Relationships and sexuality
not your p.e. Teacher’s sex ed
With authenticity, engagement, and sensitivity to diverse lived experiences, Lori Rose guides young adults through a journey of self-discovery and critical skill building. The Rose Model is evidence- and trauma-informed, combining a biopsychosocial approach to sexuality education with Lori’s coaching abilities to unlock human potential and support people in reaching their dreams.
This virtual program is intentionally small and intimate — with a maximum of 8 participants — so that everyone feels safe, heard and supported as they build their personalized toolkit for navigating healthy selves, relationships and sexuality.
Find your voice and express your authentic self
Build supportive and empowering connections
Ignite your dreams, and be a part of changing the world
Who this is for:
16-22 year-olds who want to improve wellbeing and build a personal toolkit for managing healthy relationships and sexuality throughout their lives.
Aspiring world-changers who want to help end violence and abuse and build a culture where everyone is safe, valued, supported and free to share their unique gifts.
Empowered Choices Includes:
Eight (8) live group video calls with Lori Rose, sexuality educator and transformational coach
Two 1:1 coaching sessions to set goals and take next steps
Recordings of all content presented
A private facebook group for discussion, accountability and support
How it works:
In eight video calls, Lori will guide the small group through interactive discussion and exercises, using intuitive modalities from journaling and artistic expression to movement and dance in order infuse fun, build self-trust, and embody lessons learned.
Weekly course content will be recorded in case participants need to miss a session, and participants will have access to recordings after the course.
Participants will complete a short self-reflective exercise after each session in order to practice what they’re learning and integrate the material into their own lived experience.
1:1 coaching at the beginning and end of the program allow personalized time to set goals and gain clarity as participants determine next meaningful steps in their own journeys.
Program outline:
Self-Discovery — Your Most Important Relationship
Building self-worth and discovering your own unique gifts
Understanding ownership and personal responsibility
Sexuality 101 — what is sexuality, really, and how does it impact us throughout our lives?
Interconnectedness of gender, shame, body image and sexuality — setting the stage to overcome unhealthy messaging
Shedding What Holds You Back
Trauma in the brain and body — understanding trauma, and restoring our true sense of self
Impacts and understanding of sexual violence and intimate partner violence
Limiting beliefs — understanding how they happen, and gaining critical tools to reframe them
Completing the stress cycle — developing the ability to restore your true self in any moment and any season
Taking Charge of Happiness
Earliest warning signs of toxicity — honing your skills to choose and build healthy relationships
Core values and boundaries — establishing your foundation of healthy and wholeness
Anatomy and sexual functioning — setting the stage for empowerment and self-efficacy
Self-leadership and the benefits of self-compassion
Healthy Connection Building Blocks
Identifying truth in your body
Understanding freedom, respect, safety, and honesty in relationship with self and others
What is healthy sexuality, and how do we create it?
Cultural messages — dispelling myths and creating a culture of health
Communication Essentials
The Rose Model Communication Formula
Completing an effective self-check
Identifying feelings and needs
Practicing Nonviolent Communication
Building Blocks of Healthy Sexuality
Practicing consent
Using your voice
Sexual functioning and whole self
Online sexual expression
Decision-making around relationships and intimacy
Creating Cultural Health — Allyship
Understanding the spectrum of gender, biological sex, orientation and expression
Intersection of racism and sexuality
How to express concern to friends and how to be an ally for healthy relationships & sexuality
Media literacy and reframing unhealthy messages
Life Transitions — Heal, Empower, Ignite : The Launch
Navigating change and the transition curve
Accessing accurate resources
Developing a personal manifesto for guidance
Open discussion and Q&A
Next step toward your dreams & accountability — how we’ll support each other