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Created by the IPEC syllabus team all Rights Reserved
SAG-AFTRA accredited training
Our Model
IPEC offers three tracks: Intimacy Coordination, Intimacy Direction, and Intimacy Education.
Any section or topic marked with a green asterisk '*' is required by SAG-AFTRA.
All sections consist of Lectures, Labs, and Accountability conversations.
All lectures are prerecorded.
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Already have training in a specific area? Have an intake conversation and just take the lab.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO EVERY SECTION
Schedule a "Welcome Mentor Hour" to decide where to step in.
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Labs MUST be completed in order to receive credit for viewing lectures.
Welcome To IPEC
2 videos - appx 45 min total
Welcome to our program
History of Staged Intimacy

What is an Intimacy Professional?
Introduction to
Intimacy
4 videos - appx. 10 hrs total
Cost Varies $100 - $45 per video
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Introduction to Intimacy
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Consent and Power
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Elements of the Intimacy Profession
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Introduction to ID / IC / IE
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Consent and Self care

Workshops
Consent and Movement
Cost: $300 - $225
appx. 3 hrs
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Consent practices in action
Intro to embodied consent
Consent exercises and when and why to use them
Closure practices
Making a consent based space

Intimacy and Intersectionality
Cost Between $100 - $60 Per Video
5 lecture videos - appx. 10 hrs total
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Intro - Sexual Dramaturgy, Culture & Identity
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Gender - Beyond the Binary *
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LGBTQIA2S+ *
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Race & Identity *
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Ability *
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Intersectionality and multiplicity of identity *

Workshops
Identity and Intimacy
Cost Between $300 - $150 Per Lab
appx. 12 hrs
4 Mentor Conversations appx. 6 hrs
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Intersectionality and the multiplicity of identity
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Lab Specialized Conversations (2)
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Choreographing disabled bodies
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Black intimacy
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Latine intimacy
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TRANS intimacy and working with trans performers
AAPI

Advanced Consent and Bystander Intervention
Cost between $100 - $60 Per Video
4 videos - appx. 8 hours
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Accountability & Intentional Apology
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Reporting paths, anti-harassment, power, anti-sexual harassment *
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What is trauma / Scope of practice / Bystander intervention *
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Trauma Informed Care and non-violent communication for IC / ID / IE *
Self care and closure course
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Workshops
Cost Between $300 -$150 Per Lab

Split into ID | IC | IE tracks
appx. 10 hrs total
​4 Mentor Conversations
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Trauma Responsive Practice w/ Scenarios
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Bystander / conflict resolution w/scenarios
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Accountability for our communities - a deeper dive
Choreography & Staging Hyper Exposed Scenes
Cost between $200 - $30 per video
7 videos - appx. 9 hrs
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Kissing *
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Modesty Garments, Barriers, Props and Kit
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Intercourse
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Outercourse
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Considerations Nudity (ID/IC/IE)
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Kink (sex-positive conversations and specialties)
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Specialty acting/movement techniques (pick at least 1)
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Workshops- 4 Required - 16-21 hr
Staging Simulated Sex
Cost Between $400 - $225 per lab

Lab 1 - kissing
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Staging sim sex 1 - Talking about and making the shapes of intercourse and outercourse
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Staging sim sex 2 - intercourse and outercourse - in application and implementation
Staging sim sex 3 - in-context staging sim sex with actors
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Lab 3 Modesty garments and barriers application
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Specialty Lab - movement / acting techniques ​
(Multiple class options that all apply - Pick at a least 1)
(Correlates to video 7 - deeper dive of the video)
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Specialty industry courses (1 special topics minimum)
Staging sim sex for camera
Choreographing Kink
Non-consensual intimacy
Dance
Clowning and intimacy
Improv and intimacy
Examples of Specialty Acting / Movement Techniques
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Laban
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Movement Qualifiers
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Viewpoints
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Improv
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Stage combat
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Stunts
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Trauma informed movement
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Droznin Movement
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Etc.
On Set / Review of Practices
Each Video Costs Between $100 - $30
6 videos - appx. 10 hrs
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Set Etiquette / Life on Set
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Prep / Pre-Production (riders, actor call, director call, costumes, etc)
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Production - On the Day
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Wrapping it up
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Networking and getting your next gig
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Choreographing for camera (required for ICs)

Workshops
On The Day
Cost Between: $400 - $100 per lab
Appx. 8 hrs
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Mentor conversation
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Pre lab
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Lab 1 - Putting it together
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Lab 2 - Negotiating Contracts
Decide your path
Step to Teachable to continue the adventure!



