Founder of the Sensory Intelligence Framework™, Scarlet Jaxen is leading a movement to return power to the people through the development of their sensory intelligence— where instincts function as a compass, intuition becomes a method of discernment, and the cultivation of these capacities becomes a foundation of internal authority.
Through her work, Scarlet is advancing her Sensory Intelligence Framework™: a practice-based system for embodied healing and internal leadership— a model that challenges systems of domination by restoring sensory intelligence as a legitimate and necessary form of knowledge.
About Scarlet
Scarlet Jaxen is a social work expert specializing in the analysis of power and the transformative role of pleasure in healing and leadership. She is recognized for her clinical depth, relational research, and innovative work in multisensory storytelling as a method of embodied inquiry and knowledge translation.
Her research on instincts and intuition as vital systems of meaning making meant for identifying risks and opportunities shifts the narrative of sensitivity from “woo-woo” into strategic intelligence.
Through her work as an educator and multi-sensory facilitator, Scarlet constructs sensory rich experiences that are designed for discovery, reflection, and embodied learning. She is the author of Intuition is a Bitch— a multisensory story blending words, sound, scent, and visuals to evoke an experiential understanding of sensory intelligence.
Scarlet is also a registered counsellor with over 15 years of experience providing therapy and coaching to people impacted by systemic oppression, exclusion, neglect, violence, mental illness, and substance misuse.
If you’ve done “the work”— therapy, self-help courses & books, but still feel disconnected from your body’s wisdom, you’re not alone. Sensory Intelligence is the missing link.
Programs
Sensory Groundwork
Immersive Program
In-person multisensory learning to explore and expand your sensory intelligence through embodied inquiry, reflective dialogue, and collective practice. Build your capacity to listen deeply, trust your instincts, interpret your intuition, and navigate relationships. Integrate what you know by developing your sensory intelligence.
Rooted Magic
Experiential Course
Group learning of sensory intelligence as a practice for living intuitively. Explore how your instincts, pleasure, and personal ritual collaborate to form internal leadership. This program offers space to experiment with who you’re becoming— and root into it fully. Learn to lead with clarity and confidence.
Wild Unfolding
Multisensory Retreat
A sensory rich retreat for those straddling the worlds of authenticity and belonging— trying to stay true to themselves while moving through systems that don’t always make space for their wholeness. Enter ceremonial space to untangle from inherited roles, reset your nervous system, and root into your inner truth, so you can stop shapeshifting to fit in and finally feel at home in yourself. Realign with your truth in an environment that welcomes your whole self.
a multisensory story
a multisensory story
A multisensory story about power, pleasure, and the wisdom of our senses.
Cultures that are based on the normalization of domination prioritize intellect over intuition and external authority over internal wisdom. Intuition is a Bitch is an immersive experience detailing humanity’s gradual loss of guts— those feelings that are central to discerning risk and opportunity but have eroded within systems of supremacy.
Scarlet blends words, sound, scent, and visuals into a an embodied experience of sensory intelligence— weaving evidence-based research, personal narrative, cultural analysis, and folklore to guide a way back to the power held within.
This is not a book to simply read— it’s a book to fully feel.
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Speaking & Facilitation
Invite Scarlet to your event, conference, or gathering.
Scarlet Jaxen delivers keynotes, participates in panels, and facilitates sessions that explore sensory intelligence, embodied healing, and the role of ceremony in personal and collective transformation. She blends research, personal narrative, and multisensory experiencing to facilitate deep inquiry.
multisensory storytelling
Scarlet doesn’t simply talk about knowledge — she helps people feel, practice, and become it.
Her Sensory Intelligence Framework™ integrates evidence-based research, arts-based inquiry, and embodied practice to translate knowledge into lived and integrated understanding.
Scarlet guides participants through carefully designed, embodied experiences where discovery, learning, and transformation emerge through direct sensory engagement. The stories that unfold are not performed or acted— they are encountered and directly lived by participants through structured and interactive facilitation.
