Wheel of Consent® Workshop

Are you wondering how to negotiate consent in your relationships?
Looking for tools to better communicate what you want and need?
Are you longing for a sense of connection and belonging?

This workshop will give you two days to sink into a space intentionally designed to support and guide you into noticing what you want and asking for it, and noticing your limits and setting boundaries. The Wheel of Consent® is one of the most powerful tools I have encountered to improve the quality of relationships, to create clear agreements with others, and to experience satisfying connection to self and others. It is simple, subtle, and profound. Join me for a Wheel of Consent workshop to learn and practice the art of receiving giving.

This workshop:

• Is for anyone who is interested in learning more about themselves and improving the quality of their relationships – with intimate partners, friends, parents, children, or colleagues
• Respects your boundaries – you will always have choices about how you engage with the course
• Lets you start where you are – regardless of how much you know about the Wheel of Consent, there are always new levels of awareness to be found
• Teaches you the four ways of interacting -- two ways of receiving and two ways of giving
• Is open to all genders and sexual orientations

You will come away from this workshop with tools to:

• Create a felt-sense of safety in your body and nervous system
• Connect to what feels good and brings you joy
• Notice, value, and voice what you want and what you don’t want
• Understand two ways to receive and two ways to give and feel the joy of each of these four possibilities for interaction
• Make choices that support your well-being and connection with others

Learning through practice:

Understanding and embodying the Wheel of Consent happens through a somatic experience. Which means, you feel it in your body. To support your learning, you will have many opportunities to practice, notice, and reflect. And with this, you will start to rewire old patterns around giving and receiving. As a result, you will feel clearer about expressing yourself and understanding others, enjoying more authentic connections with greater ease.

DATES: Saturday, September 27th and Sunday, September 28th
TIME: 10 am - 6 pm each day
LOCATION: Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84117

COURSE FACILITATOR: Robyn Dalzen

This workshop will be facilitated by Robyn Dalzen, a somatic sex and intimacy coach as well as co-founder and trained facilitator of the School of Consent. She is passionate about creating spaces that feel safe enough to experiment, play and have fun while learning new things about yourself. https://www.robyndalzen.com/about

12 CE credits available for AASECT Certified Providers.

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Equity Pricing 

We are committed to our work being as accessible as possible, so we ask each participant to self select their rate based on their own circumstances.

Tier 1

The $375 rate is a below market rate for those with limited financial resources. We are hopeful that you will be able to access the course without financial strain.

Tier 2

We ask folks to select $450 if they are able to meet their basic needs comfortably along with a few expendable wants with this rate budgeted in.

Tier 3

The $525 rate is for those who have stable income and easily meet their financial needs and provides a buffer so that those with few resources can have access as well.

We acknowledge the work of Our Collective Space for the Equity Pricing Model that we are following.

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Group Container

This class is about experiencing the Wheel of Consent, which happens by learning the theory, engaging in practices in breakout rooms, and sharing what you are noticing about yourself. It’s our intention to create a safer space so that you can have the experience you want to have. Tending this space is a collective responsibility, and we offer the following rules of engagement to support group participation and learning:

How we ask that you engage with each other:

1. Confidentiality — outside the group share only your own experience and learning; do not share the names or personal experiences of others in the group.
2. No personal recording or screen shots; call recordings and videos that we share are for your personal viewing.
3. 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.
4. When sharing, speak from your personal experience using ‘I’ statements (eg. I feel, I notice, I’m experiencing, etc.). This helps each of us to notice and take responsibility for our own experience, and to avoid speaking in generalized ways on behalf of people or groups.
5. Use the names and pronouns people request, and honor the lived experience of those in the group. Be willing to stay open and free of assumptions about people's identities and experiences (eg. regarding gender, race, sexual orientation, etc).
6. Group limits for exercises: we will not make requests or offers for unclothed, genital, or explicitly sexual touch during exercises, either during class, or during practice sessions with other class members.

What we invite for your own experience:

1. Invite beginner’s mind — whether you are new to the Wheel of Consent or have studied and experimented with it before, there is always more to learn! Everything we offer is an experiment and an opportunity to notice yourself.
   
2. Participation can look many ways and you choose how you want to participate — actively join an exercise, witness, journal, take a break, turn your camera off, watch the recordings, and change your mind at any time!
   
3. Self-care and nervous system regulation — take care of your needs for water, toilet, etc; if there is something specific you need, can you find a way to ask for it?
   
4. As much as you can, become aware of when you are in your learning zone (comfortable discomfort) and when you are pushed beyond (overwhelm). Notice what you need to step in and out of your learning zone — take a break, move your body, express something to the group, etc.