Plura

How To Disclose a Positive STI Test or Exposure - led by Reid Mihalko

  • Zoom
  • Thursday, Apr 9th
    12:30 AM - 2:30 AM
  • 41 people on the list
  • Organized by ReidAboutSex

Share hard news with more calm, care, and confidence—without spiraling yourself or freaking other people out!

🎟️ Plura+ Member tickets are only available on the Plura app. Download to access yours! 🎟️ This class will be recorded, and the replay will be available for 7 days after the call.

🌍 Note for folks in Europe: Since the Plura app won't work with international phone numbers (and the time zone ⏰ for this call is very late for y'all overseas), you can purchase the replay HERE.

CLASS DESCRIPTION

How To Disclose a Positive STI Test or Exposure

So you can share hard news with more calm, care, and confidence—without spiraling yourself or freaking other people out.

Getting news about an STI test result or possible exposure can send people into a tailspin fast.

WHO do I tell? 👀

HOW MUCH do I share? 😬

What if they FREAK OUT? 😬😬

What if they JUDGE ME? 😬😬😬

What if they STOP TALKING TO ME? What if they STOP SLEEPING WITH ME? 😬😬😬😬

What if I say it badly and MAKE EVERYTHING WORSE?

😬🤬😭😡😱

Most of us were never taught how to have these conversations well.

So people panic-text. Over-explain. Under-explain. Freeze. Avoid. Or accidentally deliver the news in a way that makes everything feel even scarier.

This workshop is here to help with that.

In this 2-hour class (with replay available), let international sex & relationship geek Reid Mihalko of ReidAboutSex.com teach you how to share STI-related news with more clarity, steadiness, and care… and how to respond better when someone discloses to you, too.

In this 2-hour workshop, we’ll cover:

  • How to disclose a positive STI test result or possible exposure with more clarity and less panic
  • What information is helpful to share, and what often creates more confusion
  • How to regulate yourself before, during, and after the conversation
  • How to respond when someone tells you difficult STI-related news
  • How to reduce shame & stigma without minimizing risk
  • How to handle silence, fear, blame, awkwardness, or people reacting badly
  • How to support partners, polycules, and connected communities when one piece of news impacts many people
  • Practical scripts and frameworks you can actually use in real life

This is not about pretending STI news is no big deal. It’s about learning how to handle it like a grown-up—with honesty, kindness, and skill.

What This Workshop Helps You Do

This class helps you move from:

“Oh no, how do I tell people?”

to

“Okay. I know how to do this with care.”

From:

spiraling

to

steadying

From:

shame and guessing

to

clarity and skill

What You’ll Leave With

You’ll leave with more than just “better wording.”

You’ll leave with:

  • More confidence about how to disclose a positive STI test or exposure
  • More skill for receiving hard sexual health news well
  • More ability to regulate yourself in emotionally loaded conversations
  • More language for talking about risk, care, and next steps without shame taking over
  • More tools for supporting lovers, friends, and communities with steadiness and compassion

Because this is bigger than one conversation.

It’s about learning how to be someone who can handle vulnerable sexual health moments with honesty, care, and backbone.

And that helps everyone.

Let Reid help YOU bring a little less “Reefer Madness” energy and a lot more grounded, Mister Rogers-style calm to one of the most emotionally loaded conversations many people ever have. 💛

Lower-cost tickets if you need them — Grab them before they're gone!

🎟️ Cost: $10-69

🎟️ Plura+ Member tickets are only available on the Plura app. Download to access yours! 🎟️ This class will be recorded and the replay will be available for 7 days after the call. Prices for the replay-only do increase after the class happens, so get your ticket NOW!

🌍 Note for folks in Europe: Since the Plura app won't work with international phone numbers (and the time zone ⏰ for this call is very late for y'all overseas), you can purchase the replay HERE.

ABOUT REID...

As seen on NETFLIX' "Chelsea Does..." alongside Chelsea Handler and HBO's "Sex Diaries," Reid Mihalko (he/him) of ReidAboutSex.com is an internationally known sex and relationship geek who helps adults create more self-esteem, self-confidence, and greater health and accountability in their relationships and sex lives using an inspiring mixture of humor, personal stories, keen insight, and comprehensive sexual health information.

To date, Reid’s workshops and college lectures have been attended by over 80,000+ people from all over the globe. His teaching and communication frameworks such as The Difficult Conversation Formula, Safer Sex Elevator Speech, and Reid’s Casual Sex Protocols are regularly recommended by therapists, educators, podcasters, and life coaches around the globe.

Reid has appeared in media such as Oprah's Our America With Lisa Ling on OWN, NETFLIX, HBO, Montel, Dr. Phil's The Doctors on CBS, Bravo's Miss Advised, Fox News, in Newsweek, Seventeen, GQ, The Washington Post, and in thirteen countries and at least seven languages.

In early 2018, some very brave people came forward during #MeToo sharing harms that Reid had caused them. Reid stepped down from teaching and initiated a restorative justice-based accountability process to address his misconduct and make amends if and where possible. The formal, year-long process along with Reid’s apology and resources were shared publicly and links and info can be found at ReidAboutSex.com/reidaccountability. Going forward, Reid’s projects and appearances will include pointing people towards resources on restorative and transformative justice-based accountability processes.

Reid is also founder of Sex Geek Summer Camp, Sex Geek Conservatory, and Sex Geek School for Gifted Sex Geeks, which help sex educators learn valuable business skills that allow them to reach more people with greater ease, transform more lives, and make a better living as sexperts.

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