Intimacy Directors/Coordinators vs Intimacy Coaches
Just some helpful info: When to use What term:
Intimacy Coach (NOT an Intimacy Director/Coordinator):
Is a trained individual who guides individuals and couples in real life therapy sessions into deeper and more satisfying connection, sex, and sustained relationships. They help transform intimacy challenges and support clients in mindful dating, break-up processes, grieving, trauma, relationship skills (strategies and tools), resolving sexual concerns, and facilitating embodied awareness and better sex.
An Intimacy Director/Coordinator/Choreographer (NOT a coach):
Is a trained individual who specializes in scenes involving nudity, simulated sex, and intimacy in theatre, film, and television. They aim to create a respectful and confident space for performers while supporting the creative vision of the director.
They are movement coaches for scenes of simulated intercourse or other areas of physical intimacy.
They support actor's impulses and creativity while maintaining consent-based practices
They collaborate with the production team in creating unique and exciting images of intimacy.
They facilitate conversations of sensitive nature (consent, boundaries, vascular reactions of the body, menstrual cycles, biomechanics of sex acts, mental health support, etc.)
They assist in creating Riders for performers in layperson’s terms
They are conduits and mediators between the actors and production
Hope this helps. I know there are a lot of folks who mistakenly call us Intimacy Coaches but that's a whole other remarkable vocation that has less to do with art on stages and sets and more to do with the art of real-life living and relationships. Supes valuable just not what ID/ICs do. Coaches work with your boundaries, we work around them.
That's it. Class dismissed
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