The Wheel of Consent: A 3 day deep dive, in-person workshop for more Joyful Connection!
October 18 - 20th, 2024
Fri, Sat & Sun, 10am - 6:00pm with a 90 min lunch break each day.
At the lovely Dayenu Wind Mountain Retreat Center in Stevenson, WA. 1 hour East of Portland, OR in the beautiful National Scenic Area of the Columbia River Gorge. Inquire about lodging to turn your stay into a retreat.
About The Wheel of Consent®…
The Wheel of Consent is a simple and powerful tool to improve the quality of our relationships. It’s a foundational practice for relating. Like learning the ABC’s to talk and write, it’s the ABC’s of relating first with ourselves, then with others.
During these sometimes dark and challenging times, many of us are feeling lost, depressed, anxious and isolated. We need touch and intimacy for health and wellbeing, but we often don’t know how to get it. We need tools to better communicate what we want and need, to understand what we don’t want and how to say both yes and know, and to build true intimacy and connection in order to heal and thrive, not just survive.
This framework provides a new way of thinking and a language to create clear agreements and richer connection. It’s nuanced enough to include awareness of embodied and systemic oppression, is trauma-sensitive, and simple enough to teach to all. This embodied awareness practice was developed by Dr. Betty Martin and is being taught in schools, universities, therapist programs, and organizations around the world.
““I’ve learned the language of relationship in lots of different ways, but this was more like learning the notes or the letters I didn’t know I was missing! A few big AHAs for me for sure.”
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This is truly a foundational practice for all human relating. It's for anyone interested in learning more about themselves and improving the quality of their connection – personal and professional, with lovers, friends, parents, children or colleagues. No prior experience is necessary.
This Experiential, Embodied Workshop Is…
In Person! Participation can take many forms. The choosing is more important than the doing.
Empowering! Learn to Notice, Value and Trust Yourself. Have the Courage to Ask for What You Want, & Feel Safe enough to Receive it.
Fun! Create more Joy & Intimacy for yourself. Connect when and at the level that feels just right for you.
Transformational! Learn how to Choose for Yourself by Understanding the Art of Giving & Receiving - Who is Doing and Who it’s For.
Safe! No one can guarantee safety. But we can create safer / braver spaces for ourselves. Understand and lean into your own Boundaries & Desires.
A Path to Waking up Sensuality – because it's healing and we are all worthy.
Invented by Dr Betty Martin and certified by The School of Consent.
Perfect for Individuals & Couples - this framerwork promotes deeper and more meaningful connection.
Empowering for Professionals and Educators - become a more effective practitioner at affecting human change and healing.
Why is it important?
Consent is an art that is way more fun than you think, and is the key to relational freedom. It brings clarity, ease, liberation, joy, pleasure and spirituality to all our relationships - personal and professional. Actually, this is a foundational practice for all human relating! Wow!
““This workshop brought clarity to why I don’t ask for what I want. Looking forward to practicing what I learned!”
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““Feeling engaged, empowered, and enlightened after taking this workshop!”
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“I’m bowled over at how much richness I received from this course.
THANK YOU! The enduring piece was HUGE. To see everyone’s hands go up in that 3rd session was a real eye opener for me. Another thing that struck me was realizing that saying NO provides such freedom for the other person, if I can just get over myself and not worry about hurting their feelings, it can provide a fertile container of new imaginings of what to do together! I felt some hard NO’s this week in my body and had the courage to just say it. The freedom here was realizing that I am actually SERVING them as well by saying NO.”
There is a tremendous amount of confusion around the nature of consent— what it actually is — and how we consciously or unconsciously traverse in or out of the boundaries of it with our own bodies and in our relationships with others.
Setting appropriate boundaries is not always straightforward or easy to do. 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?
Click here to see a short video on the Wheel of Consent
About participation:
While there are many opportunities for exchanging non-sexual touch with others during this workshop, you do not need to touch anyone. This is NOT a sexual workshop; it is fully clothed. You may choose to exchange touch for the purpose of learning, or you may choose to participate through observation, journaling or even taking a nap! You are always empowered with choice and voice, and may change your mind as many times as your mind changes.
* Discounts available for middle & high school educators, and some health care providers. Please email me, Amy@JoyfulSelfLove.com to inquire.
Workshop Details
Dates: 10/18 - 10/20: Oh so soon!
Time: 10am to 6pm all 3 days, with a 90 min lunch break and several shorter breaks each day
Location: Dayenu Wind Mountain Retreat Center in Stevenson, WA
Price:
3 Day Workshop: $650/person. Or $1,200 for two. Payment plans can be accommodated, please contact me
Retreat: Overnight lodging can be accommodated. Please inquire as there’s space for 6 with different bed configurations. Pics are here. It’s so lovely to spend the night in this incredible serene retreat, complete with hot tub.
Covid: Local and State covid protocols will be followed. I will send an email update on this 1 week prior to our event. And of course, you’re always at choice so if wearing a mask or taking other precautions feels good in your body, please do take care of yourself. If you test positive for Covid, you’re welcome to roll your registration fee to a future event or private coaching with me.
Register Now and Join us in the Circle! I look forward to sharing this powerful, empowering work with you, your friends and your colleagues. Thank you for your trust and courage!
About Amy, she/her
I am deeply passionate about healing the world through pleasure, about truth in relating, about choice and voice, about empowerment and about joyful living. As a certified somatic sex educator and coach, I provide a compassionate, body-based approach to sexual health and wellness - a sort of sex therapy for the body. Because knowing yourself and your own body makes you happy and whole. It also makes for better community and a healthier planet.
*Certified Wheel of Consent facilitator at the www.SchoolOfConsent.org
*Certified Somatic Sex Educator and Sexological Bodyworker
*Certified Betty Dodson Bodysex Facilitator and Orgasm coach
*Member of the SSEA, ACSB, and AASECT