CORAS Workshops & Community Education

CORAS offers a variety of peer-led workshops focused on sex worker safety, labour rights, harm reduction, community education, and advocacy.

Our workshops are designed to be approachable, practical, and discussion-based. We can adapt topics to suit different workplaces, organizations, and community groups.

All workshops are inherently free for sex worker groups, grassroots organizations and other such collectives. Workshops for other organizations can be arranged upon request.

1. Sex Worker Workshops

For independent workers, collectives, agencies, and sex worker organizations.

• Workplace Relationships & Conflict Resolution – Getting along with coworkers, navigating disagreements, establishing boundaries, and addressing workplace bullying/harassment.

• Recognizing Trafficking & Exploitation – Identifying coercion, trafficking, abusive management, and exploitation within commercial sex work spaces.

• Client Safety & Screening – Practical strategies for screening clients, setting boundaries, recognizing red flags, and responding to unsafe situations.

• Know Your Labour Rights – Understanding workplace rights, unfair working conditions, exploitation, and available options for addressing mistreatment.

• Working Together Safely – Building safer workplaces for all workers, and establishing community safety practices.

• Privacy, Outing & Digital Safety – Protecting personal information, navigating online harassment, and responding to threats or incidents of exposure and/or blackmail.

• Advocating for Yourself as a Sex Worker – Navigating discrimination, accessing services, documenting mistreatment, knowing yorur rights under the law and understanding your options (with a focus on avoiding police interaction).

• Avoiding Burnout– Managing emotional labour, preventing burnout, and maintaining healthy professional boundaries with clients and otehr workers, both at work and at home.

2. Workplace & Organizational Education

For employers, nonprofits, social service providers, community organizations, and professional groups.

• Sex Work vs. Human Trafficking – Understanding the difference between consensual sex work, exploitation, and trafficking, why those distinctions matter and why they cannot be conflated.

• Recognizing Trafficking in the Workplace – Identifying potential exploitation and coercion without relying on stereotypes or assumptions.

• When an Employee Is Outed as a Sex Worker – Responding appropriately when someone's involvement in sex work is disclosed, including privacy, confidentiality, discrimination, and workplace responsibilities- both legally and morally.

• Supporting Sex Workers in Your Organization – How to appropriately engage with employees, members, volunteers, customers, or clients who are involved in sex work.

• Sex Work & Stigma– Challenging the assumption that sex work is inherently immoral and examining how stigma contributes to discrimination and harm.

• Providing Nonjudgmental Services – Making social services, healthcare, outreach and otehr community programs safer and more accessible to sex workers.

• Supporting Survivors Without Removing Their Agency – Trauma-informed approaches that respect the autonomy of people experiencing exploitation or trafficking.

• Sex Work & the Law in Canada – An accessible overview of Canadian sex work laws and common misconceptions.

• Decriminalization & Sex Worker Rights – Understanding decriminalization, labour protections, how decriminalization of sex work is harm reduciton and the importance of sex worker-led advocacy.

3. Sexuality & Social Education

For community groups, adult education programs, kink communities, and other interested audiences.

• Sex, Disability & Accessibility – Exploring sexuality, intimacy, disability, accessibility, and the barriers disabled people face in accessing sexual expression.

• Engaging Respectfully with Sex Workers – Understanding boundaries, consent, etiquette, and respectful communication when interacting with sex workers.

• Sex Workers in Kink & Alternative Communities – Navigating the overlap between professional sex work and kink spaces, including consent, boundaries, and community expectations.

• Sex Work Is Work: Let's Talk About It – An approachable and peer led introduction to sex work, basic safety, its role in the labor world, common misconceptions, and the realities of the industry.

• Consent, Boundaries & Power Dynamics – Exploring consent in professional, personal, anonymous, group, and other such sexual relationships.

• The History of Sex Work & Sex Worker Rights – Looking at sex work throughout history, criminalization, resistance, and the development of sex worker movements.

• Sex Work & Feminism– Discussing competing perspectives on sex work, women's rights, autonomy, and the role of stigma.

• Why Decriminalization Matters – Exploring how criminalization affects safety, access to justice, healthcare, and workers' ability to organize.

4. Advocacy & Community Organizing

For activists, grassroots organizations, service providers, and community leaders.

• Meaningful Sex Worker Inclusion – Moving beyond token representation and creating opportunities for sex workers to lead decisions that affect them.

• Harm Reduction Beyond the Buzzwords – Putting harm reduction principles into practice without judgment, unnecessary bureaucracy, or moral conditions.

• Supporting People Without Demanding Disclosure – Providing assistance without requiring people to share traumatic experiences or prove their deservingness.

• Challenging Stigma in Advocacy Spaces – Recognizing discrimination and exclusion within organizations that claim to support marginalized communities.

• Community Safety Beyond Policing – Exploring peer support, conflict resolution, mediation, and other community-based responses to harm without involving the same institutional powers that caused that harm..