March 22- April 26, 2025

9am-12pm Pacific
12pm-3pm Eastern

Sessions:
Saturday, March 22
Saturday, March 29
Saturday, April 5
Sunday, April 12
Saturday, April 19
Saturday, April 26

Spend six weeks with a small cohort of intimacy coordinators prepping a real script to work with a real director and real actors. 

What if you could go through the process of being the intimacy coordinator on a project without the pressure? The experience without the exposure? The gig, but with a lot of guidance?

The gap between a how-to explainer workshop and actually doing the job can feel huge. To help bridge that gap and build confidence, many emerging intimacy professionals seek shadowing or assisting experiences, but those can be hard to come by, inaccessible, and logistically complicated- especially in film. 

I developed this program to give more intimacy coordinators the benefits of shadowing or assisting (see the process modeled, ask lots of questions, talk with actors and directors). But instead of just watching me do it, you get to talk concept with a director, you coordinate with the other departments, you will talk with actors and prepare the riders, you help choreograph a scene, and you give the notes to (and get notes from) the director.

In these six weeks (two back-to-back 90-minute sessions per week with one 30-minute break), you will work closely with me and a small cohort of peers to prepare and execute an intimacy coordination project based on a studio film production model. We will work with a director and actors to give you the real experience of role-playing the critical conversations and interactions without the pressure of a real production on your shoulders. 

What you'll get:

• 18 hours of instruction, led by Chelsea Pace (with special guests)
• Live, virtual sessions with video playback so you can catch up, re-watch, and stay on track
• Weekly assignments to keep the learning going between sessions
• Opportunities to practice being the IC in a supportive, constructive environment with other industry professionals
• Personalized feedback and advice
• Year-long access to a private community message board 
• Supplemental materials to support your intimacy work

Note: This program is for intimacy coordinators (film/TV) looking to step up their skills and who are ready to be mentored in a simulated production environment. This is not a beginner workshop. Participants are required to have training/experience in consent, boundaries, power dynamics, and deloaded/ desexualized language. 

This program is compatible with Staging Sex: Best Practices, Tools, and Techniques, but training/experience with other organizations/ resources is welcome. 

This program will not address live performance. For the equivalent training experience for intimacy choreography for live performance,  check out the Intimacy Choreographer Cohort Program. 

Participants must be 18 years of age or older.