SHIFT: Embodied IQ Series
A collection of integrative somatic workshops delivering neuroscience-backed tools for emotional regulation, self-trust, and navigating relationship repair.
For college students, first-line staff & administrators
Trauma-Informed Speaker · Educator · Erotic Liberation Practitioner
Mx.Lena Queen,
LCSW, M.Ed.
Integrative Somatic Sexologist · AASECT-Approved CE Provider · Author
Centering survivors while supporting leaders, clinicians, educators, and somatic professionals cultivate their capacity and reclaim their relationship to their wholeness through the power of Erotic Intelligence with The Womanism Way .
Mx. Lena Queen — Founder, Erospirituality Centre
Cultivating Capacity
We need a wholeness point of view.
Burnout prevention cannot succeed in systems designed for perpetual exhaustion. Without restoring our capacity — for ourselves, each other, our relationships, communal care, desire, and pleasure — sustainability stays out of reach. This is the work of embodied intelligence.
In a world that prioritizes productivity over presence, I support therapists, educators, coaches, leaders, and organizations to build durable capacity by integrating somatic, emotional, and erotic intelligence into professional and personal life.
This work helps people & organizations
- Develop somatically safer ways of examining and unlearning internalized sexuality, gender, and relational biases.
- Address empathy fatigue and burnout by restoring emotional, mental, and nervous-system capacity.
- Support post-burnout recovery through trauma-informed somatic and erosomatic care practices.
- Cultivate embodied safety, self-trust, and intuitive relationship-building and repair.
- Increase the capacity to love what we do — and love who we love — well.
“We are not on this earth just for the use of our labor.”
Erotic energy is life force — a divine GPS guiding us back to wholeness, purpose, and love.— Mx. Queen
About Mx. Queen
Mx. Lena Queen, LCSW, M.Ed. (Queen / they) is a clinical integrative somatic sexologist, trauma-informed integrative psychotherapist, TEDx speaker, and founder of the Erospirituality Centre, where they developed Erospirituality: the integrative approach of somatic sexology. As the creator of the Healing the Erotic Self™ framework and Erotic Intelligence Coaching™, Queen helps individuals and professionals transform shame into self-trust, reconnect with their bodies, and cultivate embodied liberation through trauma-informed, decolonial, and healing-centered practices.
Their healing-justice approach, The Womanism Way , to decolonial comprehensive sexuality education weaves the uses of the erotic — as informed by Audre Lorde — together with integrative somatic psychology, neuroplasticity, energy medicine, and ancestral wisdom rooted in the healing arts of the Global Majority, bridging the gap between healing, pleasure, touch, connection, and WHOLENESS.
Featured by Them magazine as “the Sista Sexologist bringing Audre Lorde to your bedroom,” Queen has become a nationally recognized voice advancing conversations about erotic intelligence, healing justice, and LGBTQIA+ wellness. Through keynotes, professional trainings, and transformative learning experiences, they equip therapists, educators, somatic professionals, healthcare providers, organizations, and communities with practical frameworks for resilience, authentic connection, and whole-person well-being.
★ Read the feature in Them magazine ↗Why work with me
Capacity building is an ethical imperative — not a luxury add-on.
Research in neuroscience, trauma recovery, and provider burnout is clear: sustainable, ethical care takes more than cognitive or behavioral strategies alone. It takes the wisdom of the body. Embodied intelligence — the integration of three capacities — is essential to provider well-being, burnout prevention and recovery, and affirming, equitable care.
What audiences walk away with
- A practical framework for integrating erotic intelligence into professional decision-making and leadership presence.
- Somatic tools for nervous-system regulation, emotional resilience, and embodied self-trust.
- A trauma-informed lens for healing-centered leadership and culturally responsive practice.
- Permission — and a clear path — to move from surviving to living whole and pleasurably.
See the work in motion
From the stage to the nervous system.
Cultivating Capacity — a wholeness point of view
Erotic intelligence in leadership & service
Signature talks & workshops
Keynotes and CE-eligible series, tailored to your community.
Each experience can be sized for a conference stage, a leadership retreat, or a multi-session professional learning intensive. Levels indicate depth: 101 is foundational; 201 goes deeper into practice.
The Other EQ: Erotic Intelligence in Leadership & Service
Reframes the erotic as the life force behind visionary leadership — desire, creativity, and embodied discernment as strategic tools. Built for those new to and seasoned in leadership.
Great for leadership retreats
Authentic Consent: The 7 Principles
A trauma-informed journey through embodied safety, self-compassion, and boundaries — exploring the principles that shape how survivors access choice and voice.
Foundational & widely accessible
Erospirituality & Embodied Liberation
An experiential workshop introducing Erospirituality — an integrative, decolonial approach to comprehensive sexuality education that bridges sexuality, spirituality, and somatics for the reclamation of the erotic.
For somatic & sexuality educators
Let’s build capacity together
Request a consultation.
Tell me about your community, your stage, and your goals. I’ll follow up to shape a keynote, retreat, or CE-eligible learning series that fits — no pressure, just a conversation.
- CE-eligible, capacity-building professional learning
- Trauma-informed, healing-centered, and culturally responsive
- Sized for conferences, retreats, campuses, and organizations
- A real person reads every request — you’ll hear back personally
Thank you — your request is in.
Mx. Queen’s team will be in touch personally. In the meantime, explore the talks above or the offerings.
