Introduction to The Wheel of Consent
Join Corinne and Michael in-person in Victoria BC for a 4-hour introduction to the practice of the Wheel of Consent. This is for anyone curious about learning more, or advanced students who want to gather to practice with other like-minded people.
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What would it be like to be gentle, clear, and respectful – as you ask for what you want?
What would it be like to feel comfortable saying No or setting a limit, and doing so with clarity and grace?
Many people take this workshop to clarify and enhance their personal or intimate lives. The Wheel of Consent is great for that! What surprises them is how much it affects the rest of their lives too.
The Wheel of Consent is a model of interaction that is based on exchanges of touch but applies to much more. It sheds light on troublesome and confusing interactions and clears them up. It turns out to describe the fundamental dynamics of most human relating.
The Wheel of Consent distinguishes between who is ‘doing’ and who it’s for. With this distinction four kinds of touch become possible, opening a rich and varied possibility of experience. It shows you how to notice what it is you want, how to trust that, value it and communicate it.
The real meaning of ‘Receiving’ and ‘Giving’ become clear – and they are not what you might think they are! You learn to tell them apart, learn when to use each of them, and come to appreciate and enjoy each of them.
Many people have found this workshop and the Wheel of Consent to be life-changing. The Wheel brings clarity, ease, freedom, gratitude, and generosity in all your interactions.
No Touch Partner Required
WORKSHOP LOCATION:
The workshop will be held at a cozy studio apartment in downtown Victoria BC. Address will be provided upon registration. The venue is accessible by bus and there is free parking on the street behind the building on Sunday
There is an elevator and no steps. Please be in touch with further access needs.
Your Instructor
I am a mother, a lover, a yoga therapist, a lifelong erotic adventurer, a certified wheel of consent facilitator, a past president of the SSEA, and part of the founding faculty of the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education. I live on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish First Nations peoples, colonially known as Victoria BC. I am passionate about creating safe enough spaces for folks to have conversations with their bodies about pleasure and offering practical tools for negotiating consent from this empowered place. I have a dream, that the healing work we are doing here and now in our bodies, we can send down into the earth to the ancestors of this land, and we can send forward to future generations in peace and reconciliation. I love dark chocolate, bubble baths, and getting my hands dirty.
Michael Hall
Michael has accumulated more than thirty years of study and practice in the fields of; Acupuncture, Massage, Yoga, Counselling, and Somatic Based Therapies, all of which inform his practice. He has studied with a wide variety of innovative and creative practitioners. Michael currently works in private practice and is also on the faculty at The Pacific Rim College in Victoria BC. He completed his training as a somatic sex educator in 2015 and has studied the wheel of consent with Dr. Betty Martin, Corinne Diachuk, and Caffyn Jesse.
The Wheel of Consent is for people who:
~ are seeking the next level of ease, confidence, and joy
~ love and care for each other, but can’t quite find the key to loving your love life
~ know there is something more meaningful in sex, but have no idea where to start looking for it
~ have been experimenting with Tantra but find it awkward and contrived
~ are not comfortable ‘receiving’ and don’t know why or what to do about it
~ want to have more fun!
~ work professionally with people and want to better support healthy realtionships
~ work with children and youth and want to be able to guide them in learning about consent
~ are single, dating, coupled, poly, married, divorced
~ want to learn skills for negotiating touch pods in a pandemic world