Becoming An Educator
Applications are due April 22nd, 2024 at 11:59pm for the fall 2024 cycle!
Apply here!
Peer Educators act as leaders to facilitate discussions about a variety of relationship and sexual health topics. Educators are also empowered to support their fellow students with information and guidance about sexual health, relationship concerns and resources on campus.
New members undergo a thorough training process before the start of each term, which prepares them to lead workshops on sensitive topics and support friends who face challenges in their personal lives.
If you are interested in learning more, talk to any pleasure educator – or submit an application! We will schedule a brief interview with you where we will get to know you a bit and answer any questions you have.
What is it like to join PLEASURE?
If you are selected to be a PLEASURE educator, you will be training with the rest of your cohort + VPR and OSW staff + some amazing talented PLEASURE educators. That training is pretty diverse in content (everything from info on contraceptives, to ways to understand how your own identity impacts your work as an educator, to presentation skills, and so much more). It’s important to us to equip new Pleducators with both the info and skills needed to do important work and to give them strong bonds with their cohort so they always have a support network.
Once you are trained, the main commitments are showing up to general body meetings (which range from specific content to creating content for outward facing workshops), about one presentation a month to either other Pleducators or a group we are working with and being an active participant in informal culture change on campus.
However, PLEASURE is very much an organization that you can commit your energy is much or as little as you would like.
Some things we have going on right now that I or other educators are involved with are: a committee that orders and distributes heavily discounted menstrual cups and sex toys, a special working group making content about pods and relationship boundaries for first years, a committee that works on recruiting new PLEASURE educators, and a team that gives the athletics teams their mandatory sexual assault prevention workshops. These are just a few of the things Pleducators are involved with right now, so if there is something that YOU want PLEASURE to be involved in we’d love to hear it.
Ruby ’22