When was the last time you received exactly what you wanted?

Were you taught in some way that it's rude/wrong to ask? Do you want to make clearer agreements? Do you notice a deep sigh or a little bit more relaxation in your body when you're in spaces with other people of color?

If you're a yes to these, we made this workshop just for you, and you're invited to join us this September in New Orleans for three days of practicing the Wheel of Consent. 

The Wheel of Consent® enables deep understanding and practice interacting with genuine agency in a world that often demands compliance over consent. You may have heard that consent means “no, means no” - here we’ll practice feeling exactly what our yesses and noes feel like in our bodies and feel like to express. In this all-BIPOC space, we’ll engage in this practice with a little more access to our authentic yesses, noes, and space to choose.

We acknowledge that Race and Ethnicity are two of many identities that we all hold. We are not a monolith. We don't arrive free of bias and full of trust simply by entering the space. No one will be expected to perform this.

What we share is a nervous system shaped by living under white supremacy, patriarchy, and systemic oppression - the hypervigilance, the survival strategies, the cost of navigating spaces that do not center our humanity. This workshop holds that complexity. Space for the Black, Brown, Indigenous, POC lens isn't a section of this workshop. It is the container and the heart of it. Bring your whole self.

Together in this container, we will explore how we practice embedding choice in our lives, relationships, communities, and work. We’ll thread embodied practice, discussion and play together to provide you with tools to practice authenticity and clarity consistently in situations spanning from the bedroom to the boardroom.

Come slow down and feel more.
For many of us, there is more to consent and choice, autonomy and agency than we'd been taught to consider. If you've made this discovery at some point along the way, and wanted to do something about it, this space is for you.

What you can expect:

• A series of practices, play, and theory to guide you through a felt understanding of the Wheel.
• Approved practice and foundations from Dr. Betty Martin and the School of Consent’s official curriculum
• An intimate group cared for and led by Jax and Tunde
• An intentional, accessible, and inclusive container rooted in our intersectional voices and experiences. 
• A platonic* touch-possible container to practice where choice is key and touch is not required for participation.
• To walk away with tools you can practice and new community to practice these tools with. 
• Some laughter, play and joy.

Who is this workshop for?

Generally, this  work is for those interested in deepening their knowledge about themselves, clarifying their communication with others, and ultimately improving the quality of their various relationships: friends & lovers, parents & children, colleagues & clients, and more.

This specific training is for Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Global Majority folks/People of Color.**

As Black, Queer educators, coaches and facilitators, we utilize the Wheel of Consent as a relational tool to repair the spaces where we haven’t always had choice to set boundaries and speak up in the past. We’ve found the tool to have expansive effects in our lives and work and we’re excited to share in deep practice of this tool with other BIPOC folks in a space we've constructed to be able to discover and name needs with less translation, performance or pretense.

Calling in all healers, coaches, educators, organizers, touch practitioners, somatic practitioners, erotic workers, birth workers, spirit workers, dreamers, disrupters, visionaries, and those looking to usher in a radically different existence in some way.

Prior experience is not required. For those who have been exposed to the Wheel, and those who haven’t, we believe there are always new levels of awareness to be found.

*Note: This is a fully clothed, non-sexual learning space.

**Note: This workshop is created by two People of the Global Majority for our community and will center intersectionality. If you don't identify as a member of this community, please join us in one of our other workshops. Allies who would like to support this work: signal boost this workshop, sponsor the registration for a BIPOC person in your life or click the donation button at the end of this page.