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One-on-one somatic coaching

This is an opportunity to set time for yourself to have support in areas of growth and conflict. This is a space to practice co-regulation, self-soothing, noticing and naming feelings and desires, learning tools for grief-tending and healthy angering. Topics can also include but are not limited to noticing and possibly transform habituated behaviours around consent-making, connecting to authentic desires, upholding boundaries, communicating and listening to wants and willingness. This space welcomes folks who connect to any and all of the following: politicised, neurodivergent, identify as BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, practice non-monogamy, kink/BDSM. Couple and constellation group work is also possible.

Mediation

Healthy relationships are not immune to conflict. Oftentimes, it is not the rupture but rather the quality of the repair that illuminates the sense of safety, trust, and resilience within our interpersonal relationships. Healthy conflict management or resolution is a skill that is not taught or even encouraged in a conflict-averse society. Mediation is supported through anti-racism practices, decolonising non-violent communication, and while centering the autonomy and consent of the individuals involved. A range of somatic practices are offered to support difficult conversations and make space for conflicts to be more generative.

Accountability Work

Accountability is the process of owning one’s responsibility to themselves and others. It is part of a process of managing or resolving conflict or harm after it arises as well as to prevent or limit further harm of a similar nature. Support is provided in the difficult work of being held to account, supports the body through defence, denial, and shame of having caused harm while embracing the dignity of all beings. Practices are informed by transformative and restorative justice frameworks. Processes look many ways and are adjusted based on needs and desired outcomes of those involved.

Intro to Consent, Boundaries, and Negotiations

This no-touch workshop introduces the topics of consent in everyday life, which includes boundaries and limits, and negotiations. Participants can expect facilitated discussions and a variety of activities in pairs and small groups to explore areas of ease and challenge in relation to consent-making, discerning wants and willingness, receiving limits, and engaging in platonic negotiations. Duration can be adjusted to group needs but usually runs as a 4 hour workshop which includes breaks and food. While consent is vital in high-stakes areas like sex and intimacy, these workshops aim to de-center sexual experiences and help participants identify consent opportunities across more areas of life. Workshops are therefore for both allosexuals and asexuals.

Embodied Consent Workshop

This builds off the intro workshop where we explore more deeply four aspects of consent: embodiment, informed, learning and knowing what you want, communication. Partipants are encouraged to practice direct communication and are invited to explore through touch-based activites. No-touch activites are also provided. You do not have to have joined the intro workshop to join this workshop. Duration can be adjusted to group needs but usually runs as a 4 hour workshop which includes breaks and food. While consent is vital in high-stakes areas like sex and intimacy, these workshops aim to de-center sexual experiences and help participants identify consent opportunities across more areas of life. Workshops are therefore for both allosexuals and asexuals.

Consent Retention Workshop

This workshop is for those who have participated in the embodied consent workshop and would like a safer space to practice the areas of challenge, whether that is having access to your yes, no, and/or maybe, practicing direct communication, noticing limits, differentiating between wants and willingness. This is a space to go towards the edges of comfort, will steep more deeply in difficulty or discomfort while learning, and may stir some stories stored in the body.

Somatic Visioning Workshop for Organisations

This is a workshop that can be adapted as an introduction (one-time intensive) or as a series. Teams, collaborators, and/or members of a group or organisation are invited to connect to their collective body, to build or strengthen the foundation of their organisation by identifying where they are in this moment and where they want to go.

This is an invitation to notice what is working and let go or shift what is not. It is a call to bring the collective action to greater alignment with collective values through somatic practices and discussions.