Teaching Consent: Building Skills Across the Lifespan for Giving and Receiving an Embodied “Yes” | Ethics BCBA CEU Credits: 2

Teaching Consent: Building Skills Across the Lifespan for Giving and Receiving an Embodied “Yes” | Ethics BCBA CEU Credits: 2

Original price was: $20.00.Current price is: $16.00.

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This workshop is designed to equip behavior analysts with structured, developmentally sensitive strategies for cultivating authentic consent skills throughout the lifespan. Participants will learn to identify critical consent behaviors, create learner‑tailored consent exchanges from early education through adulthood, and impart both social and safety skills fundamental to giving and receiving an embodied “yes.” Instructional methods are grounded in behavior-analytic frameworks and enriched by empirical findings on functional-contextual consent teaching. The course also critically addresses ethical limitations and potential risks inherent in consent programming. (Behavior Analyst CE, 2025)

This course goes beyond the scope of the current BCBA and BCaBA Task Lists by explicitly addressing the behavior-analytic teaching of consent—including both sexual and non-sexual contexts—through a functional contextual framework that supports honoring autonomy across the lifespan. It remains behavior-analytic in nature by emphasizing the identification and assessment of consent-related behaviors, the use of structured decision-making trees, preference assessments, and systematic instructional sequences to teach and nurture consent skill repertoires. This course is designed for certified and aspiring behavior analysts, equipping them with ethical, developmentally appropriate, and empirically supported strategies to foster authentic consent exchanges that respect learner autonomy and reduce coercion.

This Ethics course provides 2 Ethics CEU credits for BACB, QABA, and IBAO.

BACB CEUs

2 Credits
IBAO CEUs

2 Credits
QABA CEUs

2 Credits
Type of Credit

Ethics

Learning Objectives

  1. Generate a list of both sexual and non-sexual behaviors which require consent
  2. Demonstrate the use of decision making trees for teaching consent skills to a learner when given a scenario
  3. Demonstrate the use of preference assessments for teaching consent skills to a learner when given a scenario
  4. List critical steps for facilitating consent-centric interactions

Speaker/Author

Worner Leland (they/them) is an agender, autistic, disabled human, and a behavior analyst. They are a former researcher and educator with Upswing Advocates, a current educator with Collab Lab and Sex Ed Continuing Ed, and a current collaborative writer with the Assent Lab and the Louisiana Contextual Science Research Group. They are a past president of the Sexual Behavior Research and Practice SIG of ABAI, and are the current president of the inaugural Board of Applied Behavioral Sexology. Their work focuses on sex education, assent and consent education, and harm reduction and coercion reduction education in behavior analysis.

Instructor Qualifications

Worner Leland is highly qualified to teach Teaching Consent: Building Skills Across the Lifespan for Giving and Receiving an Embodied “Yes” through their extensive work in consent education, sexual behavior analysis, and neurodiversity-affirming practice. As co-founder of the SexABA Conference and Sex Ed Continuing Ed, Leland has designed and delivered numerous workshops, including invited presentations at OHABA, NEABA, and ABAI, on consent skill development from early learning through adulthood. Their work integrates BACB ethics, contextual behavior science, and practical instructional design to build consent repertoires that are culturally responsive, autonomy-supportive, and developmentally appropriate. This course draws on years of clinical experience, research, and training aimed at equipping behavior analysts to foster authentic consent across the lifespan.

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