PROGRAM OVERVIEW
This studio is for practitioners from both screen and live disciplines who want deepen how they show up in rooms… where intimacy, power, bodies, and stories intersect — and who understand that this work asks for presence, ethical responsiveness, and an ongoing relationship with learning.
We are interested in your intent, your relationship to people, and your willingness to engage with complexity through practice, enquiry, experimentation, and guided risk.
Think of it not just as a course, but also a practice space — offered both virtually and in person — where learning is felt, tested, questioned, and shaped over time.
In this Studio, people are not protected from discomfort. But they are not abandoned to it either.
WHY THE STUDIO EXISTS
A lot of training focuses on what to do and how to do it. We cover that.
But we are also deeply interested in how you think, respond, and hold responsibility when things get complex.
This training studio is intended for intimacy professionals working across Asia and Asian diasporic contexts. We acknowledge the diversity of cultures, identities, and working environments within this region.
This program is in a developmental phase and does not aim to define a single Asian approach. Instead, it creates space to examine and adapt intimacy coordination practices shaped in Western contexts, through ongoing dialogue, cultural awareness, and community-led learning.
Our Approach
This distinction matters.
Because intimacy work isn’t static — and neither are the spaces you’ll walk into.
The BraveSpaces Studio focuses less on having the right answers, and more on how you show up when things get complex.
Rather than centring only techniques or protocols, the BraveSpaces Studio is built around capacity building — the deeper, integrated abilities that allow intimacy professionals to work with care, clarity, and responsiveness across contexts.
The capacities you build here
We build the deeper capacities that shape presence, judgement, and responsibility — so you can meet each room with care, clarity, and responsiveness.
The competencies we look for
We assess how those capacities show up in practice — through communication, boundary-setting, decision-making, and accountability in real working contexts.
The skills you practice over time
You practice tools, language, and embodied skills that strengthen capacity and support ethical, responsive work across changing situations.
HOW THE STUDIO WORKS
You don’t move through this Studio in neat steps.
You move through it by practising.
You’ll work online, gather in person for an intensive residency, and stay connected beyond certification — returning to questions, conversations, and practice as your work evolves.
Instead of ticking off just mandates, we will grow across five core capacities. Each one is tested in real scenarios, reflected on together, and refined through lived experience.
This isn’t about getting it “right.”
It’s about learning how you respond — with integrity, imagination, and care — again and again.
THE FIVE CORE CAPACITIES
Relational Presence
Because people come before protocols.
How you meet others — with attentiveness, care, and accountability. This capacity supports navigating conversations, boundaries, and power dynamics with sensitivity and respect, even when things feel tender or uncertain.
Embodied Authority
Because leadership lives in the body, not just the voice.
Learning to lead without force. To take up space without overpowering it. Supports grounded decision-making, clear communication, and calm presence — especially when the room feels charged.
Narrative & Aesthetic Intelligence
Because intimacy shapes meaning, not just security.
Sharpens your ability to understand how bodies, proximity, touch, and emotion shape story, tone, and audience experience — allowing care and craft to work together.
Ethical Response in Context
Because responsibility lives in nuance.
Supports culturally aware, thoughtful responses to complexity — helping you navigate power, difference, and uncertainty with discernment rather than rigidity.
Space Stewarding
Because every room deserves to be honoured.
The capacity to read a room, hold it with intention, and shape environments that feel secure, brave, and open — without control or performance.
PROGRAM DURATION, STRUCTURE & FEES
150+ hours
Total Learning Hours
150+ hours of experiential learning
12 weeks
online learning
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2 days per week
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6 hours per week
9-day
in-person residency (midway)
Immersive embodied practice, enquiry, guided risk
7 weeks
online continuation
Integration, reflection, continued development
*The Class of 2026 applications open on 6th January and close on 20th of February.
Program starts in April first week, with a the residency in July and ends in September.
Final certifications will be rolled out by October end.
What’s Included
All online sessions
and learning materials
In-person residency
Assessment & certification
Access to ongoing Studio community
Accommodation & food during residency
*Not Included
Travel to residency
Let’s Begin Here
If you’re looking for formulaic, you won’t find it here.
If you’re looking for a space that takes intimacy, creativity, and responsibility seriously — while leaving room for curiosity, courage, and a wink of mischief — you might be in the right place.
Join the BraveSpaces Asia Intimacy Professionals Studio.
Practice with intention.
Grow with others.
Create spaces that feel as good as they do meaningful.
OUR TEAM
BEYOND CERTIFICATION
Certification is a threshold, not an ending.
The Studio continues as a professional community — a place to return to for practice, reflection, dialogue, and continued learning.
Because this work evolves. Because you evolve. And because staying in conversation with others doing the work matters.
Graduates don’t just carry a certification.
They carry a way of working — thoughtful, responsive, and rooted in care.