I offer workshops on consent, communication, and touch. I can also custom design a workshop for your organization or community on these topics. Contact me to find out more about doing virtual workshops using Zoom.
(Note: I am not currently offering in-person workshops)
Foundations of Consent
Awakening the Embodied Experience of Choice
A 2.5-hour workshop
Consent: “It’s about the choosing.”
Being empowered to say yes and no is fundamental to consent. Knowing what we want and what we don’t want is vital to being able to be at choice. Listening and honoring another person’s choice while staying true to your own limits and communicating these things to each other is what makes the agreement that is consent.
In this workshop, we will explore embodied practices to help us tune into sensations of what feels good to our body and then practice communication and consensual touch with another person. Touch will be focused on the hands and no touch beyond the arms will happen in exchanges. You are at choice in how much or how little you want to engage in these practices. You are welcome to change your mind.
This workshop is based on the Wheel of Consent, developed by Dr. Betty Martin.
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Embodying Consent
2-hour workshop
Consent is a hot topic these days, but many of us find it tricky to navigate what it really means to practice active consent. This workshop offers tools and practices to tune into what we want, specifically around touch, and to be able to communicate that to others. We will also practice open listening and getting comfortable with hearing “no.”
The workshop draws on the Wheel of Consent, developed by Betty Martin, and the Cuddle Party workshop. While the practices covered in the workshop can be applied toward sexual relationships, the content of the class is PG. No one is required to touch anyone else in this workshop. There is an option to exchange touch in some of the exercises. There is also the option to practice saying no to any and all requests for touch. Take-homes are provided, and you are encouraged to keep practicing what you learn.
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