Training

Online workshops

Touching Base currently offers two types of online training workshops:

Please follow the links above for more details about these two streams of training or to add your name to our waiting list so you can be notified of the next workshop dates.

Presentations or shorter in-house training

We can also provide tailored presentations or shorter workshops of between 1-4 hours, for organisations wanting to provide in-house training sessions for their staff.  Please email us via training@touchingbase.org to seek a quote.

CANCELLATION POLICY: If you cancel more than two (2) weeks before the training day you will receive 100% refund. Cancellations received after this time will receive 50% refund. There is no refund available for non-attendance or cancellation on the actual day of training. Touching Base Inc reserves the right to cancel a workshop and in this case a full refund will be provided. Touching Base Inc is not responsible for any costs incurred by participants in attending our training.

Professional Disability Awareness Training (PDAT): Participants at a PDAT workshop who are not sex workers/sex industry workers will be asked to leave the workshop and will have their registration cancelled with no refund.

Access to Intimacy Final Report October 2023

Touching Base collaborated with the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective on a Massey University research project to deliver pilot aged-care related workshops in New Zealand in May 2023. One was for sex workers about working with older clients in aged care residences, and the other was training for aged care staff about supporting older people to access sex services.

This pilot project explores the feasibility of improving access to intimacy for residents of supported care facilities by providing education and training for sex workers in working with older and disabled persons and to staff on sex work and sex workers. The project ultimately aims to improve the quality of life of people in residential care by safely increasing the options for intimacy available to them. Link to final report 

Touching Base endorses The Uluru Statement from the Heart and acknowledges First Nations as the traditional custodians of country throughout Australia, their diversity, histories and knowledge, and their continuing connections to land and community. As Australians all, we respect our nation’s First Peoples, their cultures, and Elders of past, present and future generations.