The “Friends of the National Society of Intimacy Professionals” are individuals and organizations of various disciplines and specialties who share similar values, perspectives, and ethics with NSIP. We acknowledge differences in protocols and best practices due to location, cultural beliefs, and needs; the goal is to create a diverse network of people with similar values and goals within the intimacy and performance community.
To broaden our courses and perspectives, we seek the opportunity to collaborate with our colleagues within and outside of NSIP to share ideas and resources. This may be in the form of inviting Friends to support workshops as guest instructors/speakers or class auditors.
We know we aren’t aware of every organization related to intimacy, performance, and mental health; if you are interested in a professional friendship with NSIP, please feel free to send us an email with your interest. We will arrange a time to meet with you.
The Association of Acting Coaches and Educators (AACE) started by gathering together concerned industry partners, knowledgeable and dedicated educators, grassroots community groups, students and parents to help create best practices and address safer spaces in acting education. AACE now has over 100 full members, with many more in the pipeline for membership. With members across Canada, the US and the United Kingdom and a growing list of supportive industry and community partners, AACE is fast becoming a leader in elevating the conversation about respect-based acting training. But beyond bringing oversight and best practices to the sector for educators, students, parents and the industry, AACE is also creating a much needed community for acting coaches and educators to learn, share and grow together.
Actsafe Safety Association is a not-for-profit organization with a vision of British Columbia having the safest and healthiest arts & entertainment workplaces in the world. Since 1998, we have been preventing workplace injury, illness and death by providing world-class occupational health, safety and wellbeing programs and services to the employers, supervisors and workers in the BC motion picture, performing arts and live events industries. Actsafe offers industry-specific training, resources, advice, campaigns, e-newsletters, e-magazines and events, including an annual conference and awards gala.
BIK is the German speaking Association for Intimacy Coordination and Fight Choreography with seat in Munich. Founded 2017 as a Network for freelancing fight choreographers, 2019 it evolved to a union for simulated Intimacy and scenic violence. Since then it aims to set standards in the realms of scenic fights and simulated intimacy on stage and screen. BIK members are from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 2023 BIK organized and hosted the International Conference for Intimacy Coordination in Berlin. First chairs are Franzy Deutscher and Florian Federl from Germany.
BIPOC TV & Film is a Toronto-based nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting Black, Indigenous and Racialized crew and creatives working in or aspiring to work in Canada’s screen industry. We believe diverse representation, on-screen and behind the camera, is vital in shaping a vibrant and inclusive media landscape. From writers, directors, producers and actors to editors, crew members and executives, our members are a mix of emerging, mid-level and established industry professionals. Through our dynamic programming, we offer many opportunities to our community (at no cost) and our allies within the Canadian screen industry: Education, Mentorship & Training; Panels & Networking Events; Advocacy & Outreach. BIPOC TV & Film is dedicated to the economic empowerment, creative sovereignty and career advancement of BIPOC both in front and behind the camera.
CINTIMA offers comprehensive, flexible training opportunities for aspiring Intimacy Coordinators. Our mission is to diversify the field by offering affordable training for historically excluded individuals.
Consent Wizardry offers consent education that is integrative, somatic, anti-binary, trauma-informed, and abolitionist.
Gender Equity in Media Society Vancouver (GEMS) is a member-based organization committed to creating gender equity in film and television. Previously named Women in Film and Television Vancouver (WIFTV), GEMS incorporated in 1989 as a not-for-profit society registered in British Columbia. By addressing systemic barriers, GEMS works towards supporting more inclusive, representative media.
Intimacy Coordinated United (ICU) is an emerging collective of Intimacy Coordinators, Directors and Consultants based in Tkaronto. With movement as their language and collaboration the centre of the organization, ICU contributes to all scales of media, including film, television, theatre and dance. With a combined 80 years of experience in story-telling and performance, Christina Pitts Jazzar, Anisa Tejpar, and Lisa Stevens thrive in fast paced, communicative environments and bring their extensive knowledge and expertise to all the projects they have the opportunities to support.
The Intimacy Practitioners’ Guild is an organisation of intimacy professionals in the film, television and performing arts industries in Europe. The IPG was established in 2020 with the aim to provide an exchange of information and ideas, honouring the achievements of members and standardisation of consent-based working practices within the industry. Our members have joined together to further their common interests in establishing a recognised standard of professionalism in the industry, enhancing the safety of working with intimate content within artistic context, the expression of intimacy within media and the stature of the profession.
Key Intimate Scenes (KIS) is an Australian Intimacy Coordination Company which exists to support storytellers by providing specialist-trained Intimacy Coordinators for stage and screen. Our professionals combine holistic, mental-health-focussed artistry with legally-literate, evidence-based risk minimisation. Our approach is rooted in our core values of Care, Community, Cultural Competence, Courage with Integrity, and Change without Shame. We build from the wisdom of our elders and the dreams of our youngers in all of our work, which ranges from queer-perspective, experimental stage dramas to some of the world’s most high profile screen content. Our training programme is comprehensive and cutting edge, First-Nations-endorsed and SAG-AFTRA-accredited, specific to Australia and supported by international training and best practice.
Safe Sets provides intimacy coordinators globally for film, television and theatre. Safe Sets Intimacy has certified and trained intimacy coordinators across South Africa, the UK, Italy, the EU and the Middle East, and collaborators across America, Brazil, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Safe Sets was established as an intimacy coordination company in February 2020 in South Africa. Safe Sets now has offices in Johannesburg and London, and intimacy coordinators in South Africa, London, Madrid, Rome and Berlin.
Set Protect: Providing health and well-being support to the film, television, arts & entertainment industries in Canada.
Founded in 2017, Theatrical Intimacy Education is a consulting group specializing in researching, developing, and teaching best practices for staging theatrical intimacy. Theatrical Intimacy Education empowers artists with the tools to ethically, efficiently, and effectively stage intimacy, nudity, and sexual violence. We train the whole company, department, or ensemble in TIE Best Practices so that you aren’t on your own when the choreographer goes home. This is about culture change, not just choreography. We believe that staging theatrical intimacy should be Ethical, Efficient, and Effective and we want to train you to do it.
The National Society of Intimacy Professionals is separate and distinct from, and is not associated with, licensed or endorsed by, or otherwise affiliated with Intimacy Coordinators Canada.