Coordinating intimacy

Mia Schachter, our guest for this week, is an intimacy coordinator for film and television and an educator, podcaster, and writer as well. Additionally, she teaches classes about consent and boundaries, both one-on-one and to groups.

As an intimacy coordinator, Mia helps people with struggling with self advocacy, boundaries, and communication. Through practice, meditative exercise, different scripts, and a multitude of other different methods, she guides a number of sessions to help boost people’s consent and boundary skills.

Throughout this episode, Mia covers consent and boundaries not only within a sexual framework, which many of us may be familiar with, but also in a nonsexual setting. She discusses:

• Power dynamics

• Giving vs. Taking

• Boundaries for couples

• Boundaries and consent in long-term relationships

• How ongoing focus on consent can add fun to an experience or relationship

Mia is also offering online classes right now during the COVID-19 pandemic, which you can learn more about on her website, and she is active on Instagram as well at @miaschacter.