6-week Online Wheel of Consent® Workshop
This offer includes 10.5 hours of facilitated practice, guided home practices, and videos.
Dates: Feb 6, 13, 20, 27, Mar 5, 12
Hours: Tuesdays 6-8PM Pacific
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We share brief instructional videos, optional home practice, and resources between sessions
About the course
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.
How is this online offering different from an in-person Wheel of Consent workshop?
This online offering is a beautiful complement to the in-person workshop.
It can be a great first step into the practice from the comfort of your own home.
In this virtual format, we dive into the nuances of each step in the process of noticing, trusting, valuing, and communicating our wants and limits.
The facilitated sessions are complemented with home practices in between the sessions to support you in integrating the nuances of these practices into you life.
Sliding Scale Tickets (includes the 10.5 hours of facilitated practices, home practices, and videos)
Ocean: $625CAD + GST (have investments, can afford travel/vacations)
Lake: $575CAD + GST (stable income or access to financial support)
Pond: $375CAD + GST (can afford occasional treats)
Puddle: $250CAD + GST (closer to living wage)
Contact Helena for payment plan options.
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
“A spa for the soul.”
“Deep gratitude. This was epic for me on so many levels. Feeling a profound shift.” ~ Plant Medicine Guide
“This was transformative for me in many ways.” ~ Sexual Health Educator
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. We ask that you attend the sessions from a quiet space and use headphones if anyone is in the same room as you. No recording or screenshots of each other.
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 others in the group. 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 or genital during exercises. There will be options to engage in practices with other participants and it is not required.
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. Do not do anything you do not want to do.
3. 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. You get the full value from the workshop however you choose to participate.
4. Self-care and self-regulation — take care of your needs (for water, rest, movement, etc.)
Accessibility
໑ Closed captions are available during the sessions
໑ All sessions are recorded in speaker view and available to attendees for 2 months after the last session
໑ We ask that you have your camera on for the introductions in the first session. After that, you may turn your camera off whenever it supports your participation
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 facilitators and humans, Helena and Rosalie 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 facilitators
Rosalie Chevalley (they/them) is a teacher, facilitator, and trainer.
Rosalie has dedicated they career to education and empowerment. They hold safer spaces for groups of youth and adults with intention, integrity, and inclusivity. They have experience designing and facilitating learning experiences that allow participants to explore, reflect, and grow. Practice is always at the heart of their offerings.
They encountered the Wheel of Consent® in their personal development in 2020 and have since then been dedicated to offering this practice to their Canadian and Swiss communities.
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, attending births and deaths, and leading erotic healing and entheogenic rituals.
She has brought the Wheel of Consent® in a wide range of settings and trains facilitators in trauma-responsive facilitation skills. Drawing from her background as a strategic management consultant and leadership coach, she supports teams and organizations to elevate their structures and practices.