SE Professional Immersion

Overview

Mole and Movement: A Retreat of Our Sacred Erotic

October 8–11, 2026

Casa Salcido, Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, México

This call is for two sexuality educators who move through the world as women, womyn, womxn, which includes the spectrum of non-binary, gender-expansive, and across femme and masculine expressions and are seeking an immersive, embodied professional learning experience that integrates sexuality education, ethics, cultural responsibility, and supervision within a ceremonial retreat context.

This is not an internship.
This is not an assistant role.
This is not a shortcut to certification.

This is a Professional Immersion Track embedded within Mole and Movement, designed for educators who are prepared to engage sexuality education as relational, ethical, and embodied work.

This offering weaves 8 live Sexuality Education Skills Training (SET) hours, 13 Core Knowledge Area (CKA) hours, and 6 hours of AASECT-aligned supervision into a slow, relational, and embodied weekend. Rather than separating professional development from presence, participants receive structured educator-only learning, reflection, and supervision while fully participating in the retreat itself. This is an opportunity to earn substantial hours while experiencing how sexuality education can be held with depth, care, and reverence.

Mole arrives as an ancestor. She is Indigenous memory made edible, a knowledge that survived colonization and assimilation because doñas refused to let her disappear. She moves like water and thickens like blood, slow and intentional, carrying heat, sweetness, bitterness, and desire. Mole is considered an aphrodisiac not because she rushes pleasure, but because she teaches patience, attunement, and consent. Her ingredients are called in, never forced. Heat, hands, time, and listening bring her into being. Every mole is distinct, shaped by place, lineage, and the body tending her. In this immersion, she is the teacher. She shows participants how knowledge is held in the body, how relationship lives in process, and how care, reciprocity, and intuition shape what becomes possible.

Who This Opportunity Is For

This track is intended for two sexuality professionals who:

Are current AASECT members
Are pursuing or actively preparing for AASECT Sexuality Educator certification, OR are certified and seeking advanced professional development
Have an existing primary supervisor, or be open to establishing one. Dra. Serina Payan Hazelwood may serve as a primary supervisor by mutual agreement, though participants are not required to designate the Dra. Payan Hazelwood as their primary supervisor.
Are comfortable engaging sexuality education through embodied, cultural, and non-extractive frameworks
Are able to hold ceremony, foodways, and movement with humility, consent, and respect
Are seeking supervision and skills training that does not separate professional formation from ethics, culture, and accountability

This opportunity is best suited for educators who already have foundational training and are ready to deepen how they practice, not just what they know.

What the Professional Immersion Track Includes

Full Participation in Mole and Movement

Professional Immersion participants are full participants in the retreat. You are not staff, assistants, or observers. You will engage in all retreat sessions as a guest within the ceremonial container.

The retreat explores mole as a matriarchal foodway and the sacred erotic as life force through embodied practices including somatic movement, voice, breath, sensory engagement, and shared meals.

Additional Professional Education, Skills Training, and Supervision

In addition to the full retreat experience, Professional Immersion participants receive:

The Professional Immersion Track integrates sexuality education skills training, core knowledge instruction, and supervision within the Mole and Movement retreat. Professional participants engage fully as retreat participants while also stepping into structured educator-only spaces that focus on curriculum design, facilitation methods, ethics, and evaluation.

Professional Immersion participants are invited into:

Educator planning sessions with Dra. Serina Payan Hazelwood and Kellie Ryan
Structured educator observation and guided pedagogical integration within retreat sexuality education sessions
Daily educator-lens reflections that support curriculum translation and ethical practice

Sexuality Training, Core Knowledge, and Supervision

Sexuality Education Skills Training (SET)

SET hours are earned through:

A required pre-retreat live SET intensive
Daily educator-only curriculum and planning sessions
Structured educator observation with guided pedagogical analysis of somatic sexuality education sessions
Explicit pedagogy and evaluation instruction

Total live SET hours: 8 hours
(All live, in-person or live virtual; no asynchronous SET)

Core Knowledge Area (CKA) Instruction

CKA hours are earned through explicitly framed instructional segments within the retreat and a required reading with guided reflection. Experiential components are only counted when paired with explicit teaching.

Total CKA hours offered: 13 hours

Group and Individual Supervision

Supervision remains intentionally bounded and ethical.

Supervision is offered by Dra. Serina Payan Hazelwood. These hours may count toward the 25 supervision hours required for AASECT Sexuality Educator certification, subject to your primary supervisor’s approval and overall supervision plan. If you do not currently have a primary supervisor, you may discuss supervision options with Dra. Serina Payan Hazelwood prior to the event; designation of a primary supervisor is required for participation.

Total supervision provided: 6 hours
Role: Additional supervisor (primary supervisor optional by mutual agreement)

Required Reading and Guided Reflection

Professional Immersion participants will complete:

One required reading (provided upon acceptance)
A guided written reflection (1–2 pages)

This component supports Core Knowledge Areas related to ethics, socio-cultural factors, and professional reflection and is designed to deepen integration rather than add busywork.

Accommodations

Professional Immersion participants will have private shared accommodations together, separate from the general participant sleeping areas.

This provides:

Privacy for professional boundaries
Space for reflection and integration
Separation from the primary group container when needed

All meals, bedding, and retreat amenities are included.

What This Opportunity Is Not

This is not cultural training or certification in mole, ceremony, or Indigenous food pathways
This does not grant permission to replicate retreat practices, teachings, or frameworks
This does not replace academic coursework or long-term supervision
This is not a facilitator training for Mole and Movement

Participants are expected to approach this experience as guests, not future teachers of the material itself.

Time Commitment

Arrival by Thursday, October 8, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Retreat concludes Sunday, October 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
One additional post-retreat group supervision call (scheduled within 7–10 days)

Tuition

Professional Immersion Track Tuition: $2,600 per person

This includes:

Full retreat participation
Private shared accommodations with other sexuality professional (2 total)
All meals and materials
8 SET hours
13 CKA instructional hours
6 hours of supervision
CE Certificate of hours completed for documentation

Payment plans will be available. A sliding scale may be offered after the initial application review process.

This opportunity is for sexuality educators who understand that professional formation is not separate from ethics, culture, or embodiment.

If you are seeking supervision that honors depth over efficiency, relationship over extraction, and integrity over replication, we invite you to apply.

Application Process

Because this opportunity involves supervision, ethics, and cultural responsibility, participation is by application only.
The application will ask about:

Your sexuality educator background and current role
A positionality statement
AASECT status and supervision arrangements
Your interest in embodied and culturally responsible sexuality education
Your intentions for integrating this experience into your work
Your capacity to engage respectfully with ceremony and protected knowledge

Selected applicants may be invited to a brief conversation before final acceptance.

Selection Criteria

Applications will be reviewed with attention to:

Alignment with the retreat’s values and ethics
A positionality statement that identifies proximity to power
Readiness for immersive professional work
Clarity of professional goals
Capacity for reflection, humility, and accountability

This track is intentionally limited to two participants to protect the integrity of both the retreat and the supervision container.

Primary Immersion Educator and Supervisor

Dra. Serina Payan Hazelwood

Dra. Serina Payan Hazelwood, PhD, MAIS, CSE, CSES

Dra. Serina Payan Hazelwood (Dra/She/Ella) is a queer, Indigenous Chicana scholar, educator, and community gatherer. Steward of The Elsewheres, she creates spaces for learning rooted in ceremony, storywork, and embodied practice. She holds a PhD in Sustainability Education and an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Prescott College and is currently pursuing a second master’s in Regenerative Design. As an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator, Organizational Provider, and Sexuality Educator Supervisor. Her work bridges professional education with Indigenous and decolonial pedagogies. Living on Kumeyaay lands in Playas de Rosarito, she teaches from a core truth: violence to the land is violence to our bodies. Guided by the Nahui Ollin, her work re-animates Chingonisma as a body of knowledge that restores voice, memory, and communal power. Through The Elsewheres, Serina stewards spaces where people remember themselves, practice accountability, and build futures with land, body, and ancestors in right relation.

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