Your Facilitator: Jacinta Lee is an Australian author, Registered Nurse, Provisional Counsellor, Sex Educator and Coach, with postgraduate studies in Counselling and Sexology. She is the founder of Open Hands, Soft Palms — a space for curiosity, learning and personal growth. Drawing on her background in nursing, counselling, sexology, sexuality education and relationship coaching, Jacinta brings an evidence-informed and compassionate approach to exploring the experiences that shape our lives. Her work explores sexuality and intimacy, relationships, body awareness, emotional wellbeing, self-worth, identity, personal growth and the changing seasons of being human. At the heart of Jacinta’s work is a belief that understanding ourselves gives us greater freedom to make choices that reflect who we are and how we want to live. Inspired by the Hatha Yoga principle of strength through softness, she approaches personal growth with curiosity rather than judgement and compassion rather than force. Through her GROW and YONI book series, Jacinta creates accessible, practical and thought-provoking resources that bring together evidence-informed education, reflective exploration and lived human experience. Her writing encourages readers to become curious about themselves — their thoughts, emotions, bodies, relationships and desires — without prescribing who they should be or how they should live.