Intimacy Jam

Can you imagine being completely comfortable giving and receiving touch?

Come spend the day with like-minded people discussing and practising a series of carefully-designed exercises based around connection and touch. This is a space where you can reclaim, deepen and redefine intimacy towards yourself and others.

"Intimacy Jam is a pants-on workshop exploring non-sexual, but highly intimate, human contact." 

Come by yourself, with your friend/s, lover/s or partner/s. Leave feeling more connected, empowered, and with practises to continue at home with your friends or lovers. Intimacy Jam is a pants-on workshop exploring non-sexual, but highly intimate, human contact.

You will explore:
★ Finding out what you want, what your boundaries are, and how to communicate them
★ Becoming comfortable with talking about intimacy and sexuality
★ Building trust and showing vulnerability
★ Becoming comfortable with touch - how to touch and experience pleasure

To keep the dialogue and exchange going, you will be invited to join a closed Facebook group after the workshop to continue sharing knowledge, resources, and practises with each other.

TESTIMONIALS

"Loved the whole day! Thank you. Came out feeling my heart very open and connected to myself in a very deep way."

"Fantastic facilitators, super positive vibes- couldn’t have been happier I went"

FORMAT & PRACTICALS
- Everyone is welcome, regardless of age, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation or experience, ethnicity, religious beliefs, etc.
- No partner is required and everyone will have the opportunity to work with different people in order to enjoy a greater range of experience.
- This is a pants on workshop. Please come wearing comfortable clothing.
- Bring a refillable water bottle.
- There will be a break for lunch. Please bring any food or snacks you’ll need to sustain you. There are also shops close if you prefer going out for lunch. We’ll provide coffee, tea, and fruits.

TIMES
This is a 1 day workshop which will run from 11am - 5:30pm. Please arrive on time as latecomers may not be admitted to create a safe space.

WEBSITE
sexclubme.com

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS

Juliane Mueller
I’m a facilitator of transformational spaces, community activist and artist. Sexual liberation is at the heart of individual transformation, without which there can be no meaningful societal progress. To this end, I have co-founded Sex Club, a conversational and experiential group space to normalise talking about sex and its nuances, to share knowledge and experiences, and to redefine sexuality as a spectrum. I am an experienced space holder, having co-founded an intentional community in London and received training in non-violent communication, co-counselling and mindfulness-based resilience. 

My artistic and personal enquiry is the authentic expression of self through creativity, intellect, emotion and sexuality. I consult on collective experience design at festivals, transformational co-created events and artist residencies. I spent 10 years in the corporate tech industry before my calling into the nonprofit sector and I remembered that I'm an artist, as we all are.

Conor Cregg
Conor is a psychologist and has trained in holistic counselling. He has been hosting Sex Club and leading men's work for a number of years. He works as a coach, facilitator in corporate environments and recently has been delivering retreats training yoga teachers here and in India to bring inquiry and process work into their yoga practice.

WHY INTIMACY JAM?
Our culture today doesn't provide for our innate need for intimacy. Within this couples today must provide much more for each other's emotional needs - needs which the larger community used to furnish. Intimacy involves both emotional and physical closeness and openness, but we often confuse the two and end up feeling betrayed or used when, as often happens, we fail to satisfy our need for closeness in sex. A study based on a 40-year follow-up investigation from college through midlife, shows convincingly that throughout our adult years, intimacy is key to our well-being. We all have a need for intimacy, and we all sometimes confuse it with our need for sex. Intimacy can not only be found with partners and lovers but also with oneself, with friends and family.

ACCESSABILITY
Unfortunately, this venue is not accessible for wheelchairs. It's 26 steps up to the venue. The front door has an additional step. The toilets are located on the first floor. It's another 13 steps to the actual venue on the second floor. The workshop features minimal visual cues and can be suitable for people with visual impairment. The workshop features talking and listening and might not be suitable for people with a hearing impairment. Please enquire with us if you have questions. Our UK events are intended for a sober audience. We kindly ask that you respect this request.

A space like this might be therapeutic but it is not therapy. Please speak to your therapist if you have experienced abuse or trauma through touch or otherwise before you decide to attend this workshop.

TICKETS
Sex Club is a non-profit and intends to be accessible for everyone regardless of income. This is why we offer different income tiers and a volunteer option. The ‘Supporter’ tier is sponsoring people with lower income. Please contact us if you would like to apply for a free ticket in exchange for your time, or any other enquires: sexclubevent@gmail.com.

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