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Jun 8, 2026
Deep Dive: An Irish intimacy coordinator explains how the job works
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Aoife BarryHOST
Like, what are you researching and studying when you're learning, when you're, yeah, when you're studying to be an intimacy coordinator?

Cathy WalshGUEST
So everybody, of course, comes with their own background, and so people are then studying about the things that they don't know yet.

Cathy WalshGUEST
Um, so for me, I was learning a lot more about film and the roles in film, as I already had kind of a bit more knowledge of, of actors training and, um, choreography.

Cathy WalshGUEST
Um, but then we also do, like, mental health first aid training to get a certification in that, and then, uh, information about diversity and inclusion, d- people with different needs, neurodiversity, safeguarding children, um, sexual harassment in the workplace, bystander intervention, uh, first aid.

Cathy WalshGUEST
So we have to do short trainings to get certification in all of those things so that we're kind of very prepared to be either on set or on stage, um, because of course you're gonna encounter things that need to be dealt with that are not necessarily, you know, vulnerable choreography or, like, sexual scenes.

Cathy WalshGUEST
Um, so we do a certain amount of, uh, active listening and, uh, conflict resolution training as well.

Cathy WalshGUEST
Um, and then, yeah, just trying to learn kind of from, from different intimacy coordinators about what...
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Aoife BarryHOST
Ta- talk us through a little bit about, like, how you have those conversations about a quite a vulnerable or intimate sex scene with a, a performer in terms of, like, how you chat about it and then things like intimacy garments and how you deal with that kind of end of things, 'cause I think people would be interested to know how that works on a practical basis.