This course is sold out. Next offering in Toronto: October 18-20, 2024. Registration is open. 

This offer includes the 3-day in-person workshop and an individual integration call.

The Wheel of Consent® is a groundbreaking framework and awareness practice developed by Dr. Betty Martin. Since its inception, it has been brought into schools, universities, therapist programs, and organizations around the world, reshaping how practitioners are trained.

This is a deeply nuanced way to practice consent as an agreement that brings integrity, responsibility, and empowerment into all human interactions. Our lens starts with the personal and expands to the global. It includes touch, relationships, power dynamics, and social issues of equality and justice.

The practice is simple, subtle, and profound.

Using the Wheel of Consent®, we develop our capacity to tune into our bodies and our ability to skillfully and gracefully navigate interactions and dynamics in intimate and professional relationships.

You will come away from this offering with a deepened ability to navigate consent in all your interactions, including these practical embodied skills:
໑ Create a felt sense of safety in your body and nervous system
໑ Connect to what feels good and brings you joy
໑ Notice, value, and voice what you want, what you are available for, and what you don’t want
໑ Notice your tendency to go along with what is being done and reverse it
໑ Be mindful of others' tendencies to go along with what is being done and respect their limits
໑ Access two ways to receive and two ways to give and feel the joy of each of these four possibilities for interaction
໑ Navigate power dynamics, trauma, and systemic oppression and their impact on our capacity to access choice and uphold boundaries (yours & others)
໑ Make choices that support your well-being and connection with others
໑ Express your desires, limits, preferences, and willingness with more nuance and play

Our increased awareness enables more authentic relationships centered in safety, clarity, and ease.
Applied professionally, it makes us more effective practitioners, able to affect human change and healing.
Applied personally, it allows us to access deeper and more meaningful connections.

What participants say
"Life-altering" ~ Clinical Counsellor

“It's truly transformational work and so necessary for the healing and growth we are in desperate need of"

"I know myself WAY more. I am trusting my impulses, my no's and yes's and I am able to voice them more clearly now. I am grateful for this modality. It is a gentle, deep, and foundational piece for creating healthy, safe, and intimate relationships with oneself and others." ~ Teacher

"Deeply grateful for the workshop last weekend. It has been sitting with me all week. The content and my experiences have made their way into many conversations since...I feel very inspired by my experience!" ~ Acupuncturist

“Safest and most well-facilitated workshop I’ve ever attended”

“Deep gratitude. This was epic for me on so many levels. Feeling a profound shift.” ~ Plant Medicine Guide

“Wow. This is the only workshop I have ever attended where every moment was useful! ” ~ Senior Executive

In-person Workshop
Location: Bain Community Centre, 100 Bain Ave
Dates: March 15-17, 2024
Hours: Fri, Sat & Sun 10 AM-6 PM Eastern
There are several shorter breaks throughout the days, including a 75-minute break for lunch. Tea and snacks are provided.

Individual Coaching Call
One 40-minute individual integration and coaching call. Schedule with Helena within 2 months of the workshop to deepen your application of the Wheel of Consent practice in both personal and professional contexts.

Training Guidelines
How we ask that you engage with each other:
1. Confidentiality — outside the practices and the group, share only your own experience and learnings.
2. Feelings are welcome and do not need to be justified or explained; honor the feelings that arise in others by allowing them to feel without fixing or advising.
3. Share with intention, using "I" statements. Listen with attention.
4. Use the names and pronouns people request, and honor the lived experience of those in the group. Be willing to stay open and set aside assumptions about people's identities and experiences (e.g. gender, race, sexuality, etc.).
5. Stay within the stated limits of each practice. The workshop is clothed. We will not state wants for, or make requests or offers for unclothed, genital, or explicitly sexual touch during exercises. There will be options to engage in non-sexual touch with other participants and it is not required. You never have to touch anyone you do not want to, and you are allowed to change your mind as many times as your mind changes. You get the full value from the workshop however you choose to participate.

What we invite for your own experience:
1. Invite beginner’s mind — everything we offer is an experiment and an opportunity to notice yourself; take what works for you and leave the rest.
2. Participation can look many ways and you choose how you want to participate — actively join an exercise, witness, journal, take a break, and change your mind at any time!
3. Do not do anything you do not want to do.
4. Self-care and self-regulation — take care of your needs (for water, rest, movement, etc.)

Sliding Scale Tickets (includes the 3-day in-person workshop and individual integration call)
Ocean: $825CAD +HST (have investments (liquid or not), can afford travel/vacations)
Lake: $625CAD +HST (stable income or access to financial support)
Pond: $500CAD +HST (can afford occasional treats)
Puddle: $375CAD +HST (closer to living wage)
Please be mindful that if you purchase a price at the lower ends of the scale when you can truthfully afford the higher ticket prices, you are limiting access to those who truly need the gift of financial flexibility. Contact Helena for payment plan options.

Accessibility and health protocols
໑ Thank you for not wearing artificial scents (e.g. perfume, scented lotion, aftershave).
໑ The space is on the ground floor and wheelchair accessible.
໑ If you do not feel well, and it may be contagious, please do not attend.
໑ We ask all participants to take a rapid antigen test within 1 hour of the start of the workshop. If your test is positive, you will not be permitted to attend the workshop.
If these protocols present a hardship or barrier for you to attend, please contact Helena and we will explore options for making a Wheel of Consent® training accessible for you.

Acknowledgments About Racialization, Neurodivergence, Disabilities
The course is open to anyone interested in learning the Wheel, and our intention is for this to be a safe enough space for learning for everyone. However, we recognize that this offering will not meet everyone’s needs. As a facilitator and human, Helena is committed to serving you as best as possible. Please email Helena to let us know your questions or accessibility needs, and they will do their best to accommodate them.

Refund policy
Because of our limited space, we have a strict refund policy.  If you are unable to attend, you may choose to have your payment refunded minus an administration fee, according to the following schedule:
More than 30 days before the event: Full refund, less $30 admin fee
15-30 days before the event: 50% refund, or, if you can fill your spot with someone else, a full refund
Less than 15 days before the event: No refunds, or unless you/we can fill your spot with someone else*
*In cases of illness or family emergency, we will endeavor to refund your full tuition less any unrecoverable costs, or transfer to a future offering.

About the facilitator
Helena De Felice (they/she) is a Certified Facilitator of the Wheel of Consent® and has been facilitating Wheel practices since 2016.

Helena is committed that each person gets to experience the sacredness of their own being and life itself. She is passionate about developing individual and collective awareness that deepens our capacity to facilitate healing.

Her facilitation is deeply trauma-responsive and non-judgemental, informed by many years in the field of prevention and response to gender-based violence, senior leadership roles in sexual and reproductive rights, practicing and teaching holistic peer counseling, holding space for births and death as a doula, and leading erotic healing and entheogenic rituals.