This offer includes the 2 ½ day In-person Workshop, Applying It Professionally Virtual Session, and Individual Coaching.

The Wheel of Consent® is a powerful practice to improve the quality of your relationships and create clear agreements to experience satisfying and empowering connections with yourself and others.

We engage in a deep exploration of the nature of receiving and giving, embodied consent, knowing what you want and what your limits are, and how to communicate and create agreements with others.

The Wheel of Consent® offers a deeply nuanced way to practice consent as an agreement that brings integrity, responsibility, and empowerment into human interaction, starting with touch and relationships, and further expanding our understanding of consent to power dynamics and social issues of equality and justice.

The practice is simple, subtle, and profound.

You will come away from this offering with a deepened ability to skillfully navigate consent in all your interactions, including:
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 Understand two ways to receive and two ways to give and feel the joy of each of these four possibilities for interaction
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

For more information, check out Dr. Betty Martin's book "The Wheel of Consent: The Art of Receiving and Giving"

What participants say
"Life-altering"

“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."

"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!"

“A spa for the soul.”

This offering
໑ Meets you wherever you are in your practice – we welcome beginners and practitioners
໑ Is for anyone who is interested in learning more about themselves and improving the quality of their relationships – with clients, colleagues, staff, intimate partners, friends, parents, or children
໑ Is experiential – you will have plenty of opportunities to practice and explore
໑ Respects your boundaries – you will always have choices about how you engage with the exercises
໑ Deepens your access to the four quadrants of the Wheel – how to find them, feel them in your body, and expand where they can take you
໑ Is open to all genders, sexual orientations, and relationship constellations

In-person Workshop
Location: Vancouver, BC
Dates: May 5-7, 2023
Hours: Friday 6:30PM-8:30PM, Saturday 10AM-6PM, and Sunday 10AM-6PM
There are several shorter breaks throughout the day, including a 75-minute break for lunch. Tea and snacks are provided.

Integration Call - Applying the Practice
Thursday May 11, 2023 6:30-8:30PM
Virtual group session offering an opportunity to discuss and explore applying the Wheel of Consent to your specific professional context. 

Individual Coaching Call
Deepen your application of the Wheel of Consent practice in both personal and professional contexts. 
One hour-long individual coaching call. Schedule with Helena within 2 months of the workshop. 

Training Guidelines
How we ask that you engage with each other:
1. Confidentiality — outside 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. The workshop is clothed. We will not 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.)

Tickets (includes the 2 ½ day In-person Workshop, Applying It Professionally, and Individual Coaching)
Ocean: $825CAD (you have investments, can afford vacations)
Lake: $625CAD (you have stable/sufficient income or access to financial support, can afford occasional treats)
Pond: $375CAD (unstable or living wage, closer to paycheck to paycheck)
Please be mindful that if you purchase a price at the lowest end 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 COVID protocols
໑ Thank you for not wearing artificial scents (e.g. perfume, scented lotion, aftershave)
໑ This workshop is limited to 12 participants
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. You may transfer your registration to a future in-person or online Wheel of Consent workshop offered by Helena, within 18 months of this event.
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 Race, Neurodiversity, and Disability
The course is open to anyone interested in learning the Wheel, and our intention is for this to be a safer space that is inclusive. However, we recognize that this offering will not meet everyone’s needs. As a facilitator and human, Helena is committed to serve you as best as possible. Please email Helena to let us know your questions or specific needs, and they will do their best to accommodate them.

Tickets are non-refundable. If, for some reason, you book a ticket and then can't make it, you are welcome to find someone to take your spot. We invite you to be clear, listen to your YES and sign up for experiences you really want to be present for, and then show up!

About the facilitator
Helena De Felice (we/they/she) is a Certified Facilitator of the Wheel of Consent® on the faculty of the School of Consent. She has taught the Wheel of Consent® in a wide range of settings to individuals, professionals, teams, couples, and groups.