An International Intimacy Speaker who cultivates events for your members that are entertaining, playful, and skill-building.
What is most important when hiring an intimacy and relationship speaker about the sometimes uncomfortable and sensitive topics of sex, relationship happiness, marriage communication, and emotional intimacy?
√ Experience √ Creativity √ Humor √ Education √ Empathy √ Engagement √ Intelligence
Jennifer Gunsaullus, PhD, sociologist and intimacy & communication coach, started teaching and facilitating around these sensitive topics 31 years ago. She has specifically been working as a YPO Marriage & Intimacy Speaker for the past 9 years, speaking to over 30 chapters around the world, and also as a Certified Forum Facilitator (CFF) helping YPO forums go deeper.
Listed below you’ll find In-Person Topics, Virtual Seminars, and Retreats. (YPO chapters can also find Dr. Jenn in your Online Speaker Database - YPO Connect - at “Jennifer Gunsaullus.”)
In-Person Topics
With her signature style of honesty, creativity, and humor, Dr. Jenn will engage and educate your members around sex, intimacy, marriage, and communication in a memorable event.
All talks are interactive and tailored to the specific needs of your audience. Your members will always leave with new skills, insights, and tools to improve their intimacy and communication.
Primary Speaking Topics:
The Sex(y) Game Show (& Overcoming the Top 5 Barriers to Intimacy) — Test your knowledge of sex and intimacy research as your whole chapter gets involved with this lively and interactive game. Dr. Jenn will share details about the specific research and how it might be useful to improve the sex lives of your chapter members as we determine who gets the bragging rights to call themselves a “Sex-pert”! This talk includes a review of the top 5 barriers to intimacy and what couples can do to address these.
The Art of Mindful Intimacy — At the heart of true intimacy is couples knowing how to connect with each other physically…and also mentally, emotionally, socially, and spiritually. This fun and interactive talk helps couples deepen intimacy through new resources and skills in sensuality, communication, awareness, vulnerability, and desire.
Intimacy 360: Refreshing & Reconnecting with the “Red Rope” — Even the best relationships can use a boost every once in a while, especially with the complexity of modern lives, work, technology, kids, travel, and health. In this interactive seminar/retreat, Dr. Jenn will introduce the “red rope” as a new tool to help couples cultivate greater awareness, appreciation, kindness, sensuality, communication, listening, and play.
Avoiding End-of-Life Regrets: Building Deeper Connections with Vulnerability & Compassion (for Men) — At the end of life, men don’t regret that they didn’t make more money or work more; they regret that they didn’t cultivate more meaningful connections through vulnerability and authenticity. To create a meaningful life NOW, this seminar tackles childhood learnings, fears, purpose, appreciation, mindfulness, and compassion.
Redefining Women's Desire & Sexual Expression (for Women) — It is common for women in long-term relationships to struggle with desire, open communication, and self-compassion. This interactive seminar helps women create new frameworks to address many factors like physiological changes, shame, body image, boredom, resentments, competing priorities, and misinformation.
Going Deeper with Vulnerability — Is your forum or small group struggling to go deeper? We all have facades that we hide behind, because we've been hurt, judged, or never learned how to be authentic. This creates patterns that keep us stuck in place and unable to relate deeply and support others at this level. This then impacts work, family, parenting, intimacy, hobbies, travel, and everything else that matters to us. This highly interactive seminar helps your members build self-knowledge and meaningful connections through exercises in vulnerability, authenticity, and mindfulness.
Virtual Seminars
Dr. Jenn uses online technology to her advantage to create experiences and ways of interacting that facilitate engagement, openness, learning, connection, fun, and creativity for your attendees.
All seminars address four underlying components of effective communication and emotional, social, or sexual well-being: vulnerability, authenticity, mindfulness, and compassion for self and others.
Primary Speaking Topics:
Playing Nice at Home — Learn effective and compassionate ways to communicate with your partner about difficult topics, and in difficult times. (Designed for couples but can be adapted to individuals without their partners.)
Building Emotional & Physical Intimacy — This interactive workshop for couples guides them through various exercises to cultivate mindful presence, appreciation, feedback on physical touching, and emotional intimacy. (Designed for couples.)
More or Less: When Libidos Don't Match — It’s very common for couples in long-term relationships to struggle with sexual intimacy and desire; this workshop guides couples through the main blocks to intimacy, and how they can be addressed in creative ways. (Designed for couples.)
The Dreaded “Sex Talk” — Many parents never received adequate sex education or emotional intelligence training, and with so many relevant topics to be concerned about in today’s world, it can be hard to know where to start. Research shows that most teens want their parents to talk to them about these confusing topics. This talk will help you do that. (There can also be an “Ask the SEXpert” talk tied to this one for teens aged 13-18.)
Retreats
Plan a weekend away from everyday stress and habits to delve deeper into your personal growth and/or relationship growth. All retreats integrate mindfulness practices, authenticity training, communication skill-building, and fun. Dr. Jenn will be your fierce advocate as an Intimacy Speaker & Facilitator, helping you be the best version of you.
Retreats for Couples — Build intimacy, improve communication, identify and overcome blocks to desire and connection, and enhance sensuality.
Read about Dr. Jenn’s “Red Rope Retreats.”
Retreats for Women — Find your voice in new ways, cultivate courageous authenticity, redefine female sexual empowerment, and learn self-nurturing techniques. (For forum retreats, visit HERE.)
Retreats for Men — Redefine what it means to be a man, cultivate strength through openness, move through fears and blocks, and gain insights into how to be a better man. (For forum retreats, visit HERE.)
Dr. Jenn will come into your group and facilitate a transformational weekend to regain your connection with yourself, intimacy in your love life, and the skills and structure to integrate your weekend learnings for sustainable happiness and fulfillment.
Most of the in-person and virtual seminar topics can be converted into retreat topics as well.
Past Speaking Engagements
We Have the Right to Rewrite Our Intimacy Stories (Women’s History Month Event), Miami YPO, Miami, FL
The Sex(y) Game Show & Top 5 Barriers to Intimacy, Rocky Mt Gold YPO, Denver, CO
The Sex(y) Game Show with Dr. Jenn, Dallas Gold YPO, Dallas, TX
The Sex(y) Game Show with Dr. Jenn, Dallas YPO, Dallas, TX
Deepening Your Marriage Bonds, Tanzania YPO (virtual)
“Red Rope” Couples Retreat, Miami YPO, Costa Rica
Intimacy 360 with the “Red Rope” — Couples Retreat, Kansas YPO, Branson, MO
The Sex Game Show & Top 5 Blocks to Intimacy When Over 50, Pacific Coast Gold, Beverly Hills, CA
The Art of Mindful Intimacy, North Texas YPO, Dallas, TX
The Sex(y) Game Show with Dr. Jenn, Lone Star YPO, Dallas, TX
The Sex(y) Game Show & Top 5 Blocks to Intimacy, Long Island YPO, Long Island, NY
Mindful Intimacy: The Art of Meaningful Connection, Atlanta YPO, Atlanta, GA
The Art of Mindful Intimacy, Alpine YPO, Geneva, Switzerland
The Sex(y) Game Show with Dr. Jenn, Paris YPO, Paris, France
Mindful Intimacy: The Art of Meaningful Connection, London Star YPO, London, England
Intimacy 360: Refreshing & Reconnecting, Couples Retreat VA YPO, Cancun
The Sex(y) Game Show & Top 5 Blocks to Intimacy, Virtual Talk, MENA One Dubai YPO
Passion Dinner, Pasadena YPO, Pasadena, CA
The Sex Game Show & Blocks to Intimacy, Rocky Mt. YPO, Denver, CO
The Art of Mindful Connection, Bluegrass YPO, Louisville, KY
Sex(y) Game Show and Q&A, Virtual Talk, Atlantic 13 YPO Chapter
Redefining Women’s Desire & Sexual Expression, YPO Spouse/Partner Virtual Forum
Sustainable Intimacy Video Series & Live Q&A, YPO Global Spouse/Partner Network
5 Ways Great Sex is NOT What You Think, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Sexpert Game Show with Dr. Jenn, YPO Gold Austin, TX
The Art of Intimacy: Couples’ Interaction Seminar, YPO Maumee Valley, Key Largo, FL
The Dreaded Sex Talk: How, When, & Why, EO Global Families Network
Sex Game Show & Overcoming Blocks to Intimacy, YPO Coastal San Diego, CA
Gender Differences in Pleasure & Touch, Stanford Medical School, Palo Alto, CA
Sex Game Show & Overcoming Blocks to Intimacy, EO Western NY, Buffalo, NY
Intimacy 360, YPO Patriot Gold, Boston, MA
Reinventing Sex - Embracing the Awkward, University of California, San Diego, CA
Sex Coaching Invited Symposium, 24th Congress of the World Association of Sexual Health, Mexico City, MX
Sex Game Show & Intimacy Tips for Long-Term Relationships, YPO New England, Boston, MA
Finding Your Voice & Authentic Expression: 4 Questions for Personal Power, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA
Couples Connection: Fresh Approaches to Intimacy, YPO Gold New England, Boston, MA
Compassion Not Fear: Change Your Company Culture in a #MeToo Era, YPO Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA
Conference Emcee, AASECT Annual Sexuality Conference, Denver, CO
Cultivating Intimacy for Couples, Golden Gate YPO, San Francisco, CA
Sexual Rights, Health, & Pleasure, Founder & Host of World Sexual Health Day--San Diego, CA
Redefining Female Sexuality: Women's Sexual Empowerment, Barbary Coast YPO, San Francisco, CA
Mindfulness in Sex Coaching, 23rd Congress of the World Association of Sexual Health, Prague, CZ
Redefining Female Sexuality, Sharp Hospital’s Annual Women’s Health Conference, San Diego, CA
Undress Your Inhibitions, YPO Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
Overcoming Female Sexual Dysfunction, Women’s Health Conversations Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
Sexual Shame Hurts Us All, TEDx Talk, Phoenixville, PA
What is Sexuality? Student Peer Training at Lund University, Sweden
4 Keys to Erotic Play, EO Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA
Sex: Mind full or Mindful? TEDxWomen America’s Finest City, San Diego, CA