Wheel of Consent® Workshop

Are you struggling to speak up in your relationships – either expressing what you want or communicating a clear yes or no?

In today’s fast-paced and uncertain world, it can be challenging to navigate relationships, personal boundaries, and authentic connections. We’re constantly balancing the demands of work, relationships, and social expectations, and in doing so, we sometimes forget to check in with ourselves and others about what we really want and need.

Longing for a sense of belonging and greater connection?

This workshop is designed to help you gain the skills to do just that—communicate your desires, set boundaries, and foster a deeper sense of connection and understanding with those around you. This is not just personal growth and healing, but relational and collective healing. And it’s needed now, more than ever.

Seeking tools to turn burnout and overwhelm into joy and connection – with yourself and others?

Join us for a transformative two-day experience where we will immerse ourselves in a space intentionally designed to guide and support you in:

• Noticing what you truly want and asking for it;
• Recognizing your limits and confidently setting healthy boundaries;
• Cultivating a felt-sense of safety and resilience in your body and nervous system; and
• Discovering the joy of both giving and receiving, honoring your own wants while practicing generosity and respecting others' limits.

The Wheel of Consent® is a powerful framework that will help you navigate these aspects of life, improving the quality of your relationships—whether with intimate partners, friends, family, or colleagues. By practicing these tools, you'll be able to create clear agreements and experience satisfaction in your connections with yourself and others. The Wheel is simple, subtle, and profound—and it’s an essential tool to stay grounded and create more balanced, trusting connections.

This workshop is for you if:

• You want to improve your relationships and deepen your connection to yourself and others.
• You believe in the power of choice and want to build your capacity for speaking up and cultivating personal empowerment.
• You seek clarity around setting boundaries and creating agreements based on mutual respect and integrity.
• You’re interested in learning how to navigate both personal and collective challenges with grace, groundedness, and ease.
  
• You are committed to connecting to what feels good and brings you joy – even in the chaos.
  
• You want to improve your emotional, physical, and relational health and well-being.

Learning through practice:

This workshop is designed to help you experience these concepts somatically—this means you will be invited to engage your whole body in the learning and you will feel shifts in your body as you practice these skills in real-time, gaining insights through your body’s responses and reflections. By doing so, you’ll build new habits around giving and receiving, leading to more authentic connections and a stronger sense of empowerment in every area of your life. This work is life-changing and will support you to feel more at home in your body, create boundaries in all aspects of your life, and deepen your joy.

Details:

• DATES: Saturday, June 7th and Sunday, June 8th
• TIME: 9am - 5pm each day (with a 75 min lunch break around 12:30pm)
• LOCATION: Brooklyn, NYC

Course Facilitator: 

This workshop will be facilitated by Robyn Dalzen, a somatic sex and intimacy coach and co-founder of the School of Consent. Robyn’s work is at the intersection of mindfulness, consent, embodiment and sexuality — guiding people to slow down and feel more. She is passionate about creating spaces that feel safe enough to experiment, play, and have fun while learning new things about yourself. Learn more at https://www.robyndalzen.com/about. 

12 CE credits available for AASECT Certified Providers. Ask Robyn for more details.

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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 $425 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 $500 if they are able to meet their basic needs comfortably along with a few expendable wants with this rate budgeted in.

Tier 3

The $575 rate is for those who have stable income and easily meet their financial needs and provides a buffer so that those with fewer 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 somatic (body-based) practices in pairs, 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. 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. 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.
4. 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).
5. Group limits for exercises: we will not make requests or offers for unclothed, genital, or explicitly sexual touch.

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.