Based on the Wheel of Consent® | A foundational practice for relating
Immersive
Embodied Consent Practice
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$395-$855 + GST (CAD)
Max 16
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$395-$855 + GST (CAD)
Max 16
Looking for a customized offer? Don’t see your community listed?
We work collaboratively with communities, teams, and organizations to engage in this practice.
We co-create offerings that are “safe enough” for your learning and tailored to your specific needs.
Through experimentation in practices we deepen our skills in sensing and tending our own wants, needs, and boundaries and our ability to support others in honouring their inherent dignity.
What people say
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“This is an incredibly subtle and profound practice. We're deepening truly foundational skills. I experience so much resonance and complement to the work that I do. It has been immediately applicable in my practice” ~ Somatic Experiencing Therapist
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“It's truly transformational work and so necessary for the healing and growth we are in desperate need of." ~ Acupucturist
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“This practice has completely changed how I related to others. I'm more loving, kind, respectful of myself and others. Being more trusting of myself. Less co-dependent. Less potential for burnout. List goes on and on.” ~ Occupational Therapist & Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
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”This course is so relevant to me personally, as I navigate how to be a good friend and partner, as well as professionally in my work as a counsellor and facilitator. By becoming clearer about when I am asking people in my life to give to or receive from me, and listening to my own and others' limits, I am able to create relationships with more safety and integrity for everyone.” ~ Trina, Therapist
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"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
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“Wow. This is the safest container I have ever been in. I’ve never experienced this freedom and spaciousness. There's SO much value here, and I have experienced insights I will digest for a long time, and yet I never felt overwhelmed. Very powerful” ~ Somatic Therapist
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"Amazing. Do this course. It will change your life, as you practice the skills that grow your confidence to live in greater residency in your body, and to take up the space in the world that you want and need." ~ Kristina, Non-profit consultant
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This was the most well-facilitated workshop I've experienced. I learnt as much about facilitation and creating safety as I did from the practices themselves. ~ Therapist
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!["The workshop, the facilitator/Helena and the physical/energetic space created a safe enough space to explore what was happening within myself and then also in relation with others. The dyad practices were powerful in slowing down and noticing what]()
"The workshop, the facilitator/Helena and the physical/energetic space created a safe enough space to explore what was happening within myself and then also in relation with others. The dyad practices were powerful in slowing down and noticing what was happening in my body, and furthermore communicate to another (if needed) my needs/wants. I learnt to understand and respect my limits (and also those of others). The whole 3 days was a practice in strengthening the wiring within my brain and body to really value and TRUST the signals emerging from within. Getting to practice that "choosing is more important than doing" allowed me to remember the choice and agency I have. I can now better FEEL in my body what feels like my yes, no, maybe etc. I feel I have more agency now. I am honouring my rhythm more now. I understand now why I have repeatedly burnout in the work I do with others. It truly is sacred work that not only impacted me, but also has been rippling out into all my relationships. It is allowing me to access more joy, pleasure and open-hearted living with myself, others and mother earth. Words can't fully describe the power and wisdom that I accessed through this workshop :)" ~ Occupational Therapist & Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
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!["I am feeling deep respect and admiration for every single person that showed up. The willingness and courage to voice insecurities, vulnerabilities, and so much risk taking in allowing yourselves to be seen. The desire others have to learn about thi]()
"I am feeling deep respect and admiration for every single person that showed up. The willingness and courage to voice insecurities, vulnerabilities, and so much risk taking in allowing yourselves to be seen. The desire others have to learn about this practice and witnessing that learning unfold in realtime. Modelling taking care of oneself and each other, and asking for what you needed. Witnessing the extension of grace, care, patience and respect to one another and a willingness to make mistakes. The tapestry of my heart has been changed from feeling the efforts around inclusion, and for caring about folks that otherwise, oftentimes, get left behind. And so much gratitude to Helena and the assistants for making this happen! Something that you’re taking with you? I’m not able to articulate yet what I’m taking with me. I feel like I “should” be using words like desires, limits, domain, willing, allow etc. But the sentiments travelling through my body are more along the lines of “connected…. belonging…. healing….”
Embodied Consent (informed by Wheel of Consent®) is practice
of embodied awareness, attunement, and communication.
This practice is relational. We need each other to engage in it.
The root of the word consent is con- sentire. To feel with.
Feeling together is a practice of personal and relational integrity.
Within this practice, we meet what arises with presence, curiosity, and care.
We slow down and tend to our personal and mutual sense of safety and connection.
We include awareness of how power dynamics impact our relationship.
Engaging in this practice deepens our awareness and capacity to care for ourselves and tend what is occurring
in our relational dynamics.
This enables us to navigate our relationship with ourselves and others with more care, dignity, and integrity.
We access new levels of clarity and ease,
gratitude, joy, generosity, and confidence.
What do we learn through this practice?
We gently unwind deep protective patterns of people-pleasing, fawning, manipulation, and control to attempt to get our needs met.
We deepen our understanding of how power dynamics, trauma, systemic oppression impact our capacity to access choice and respect for our boundaries.
We deepen our experience of fundamental dignity and self-trust.
We deepen our skills to notice what belongs to us (our body, our emotions, our wants, our limits, etc.) and what belongs to someone else.
We develop skills to notice, trust, value, and communicate our needs.
We learn to notice when we want something.
We learn to notice when we are willing to do something or having something happen.
We learn to notice when we do not want something, when we are not willing to do something or have something happen.
We learn to notice our subtle signals when we are not safe-enough to connect with our wants and limits.
We become more aware of our tendencies to “go along” with what is happening - noticing the circumstances and places where it is more difficult for us to say no, stop, pause, or negotiate.
We learn to communicate more clearly with requests, offers, or invitations.
We learn to savour the experience of receiving a gift, and of giving a gift with ease.
We learn how to support others to notice their wants, needs, and limits and be able to communicate with them.
What do you mean by trauma-responsive?
Engaging in this practice means engaging with the most fundamental aspects of caring for and respecting personal autonomy.
This means we will connect with moments where we haven’t been able to care for our autonomy or respect another’s.
The whole design of this practice is designed to support moving slowly, at a pace where we can notice, choose how to participate, and digest and metabolize what arises. We carefully tend to the learning environment, the exercises, and how the practices are offered and facilitated, to offer a presence of care and choice.
The opportunities to experiment are small and short and each experiment builds on each other.
The pace is slow, the setting is private and comfortable, there are many options for how to participate, and the group agreements and guidelines support the practice. The facilitator models the practice while holding the space, including welcoming feedback and repair as mistakes are made.
What “safe-enough” means varies from individual to individual, and not every environment works for every person. Experimenting in this practice is particularly delicate for individuals and groups who have systematically experienced *not* having a choice, or not having their choices or bodily autonomy respected.
We offer tailored and affinity programs for individuals and groups to best serve these needs.
A small sample spaces that have held this practice
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![Wheel of Consent Workshop Sudbury Ontario]()
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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![Wheel of Consent Workshop, The Sentinel, Kalso, BC, Canada]()
The Sentinel, Kalso, BC, Canada
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![Wheel of Consent Workshop, What Lab, Vancouver, BC, Canada]()
What Lab, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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![Wheel of Consent Workshop, Ottawa, ON, Canada]()
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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![Wheel of Consent Workshop, What Lab, Vancouver, BC, Canada]()
What Lab, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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![Wheel of Consent Workshop, Love & Peace Studio, Vancouver, BC, Canada]()
Love & Peace Studio, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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![Wheel of Consent Workshop, Sudbury, Ontario, Candad]()
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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![5 Rhythms, Vancouver, BC, Consent Training, Canada]()
5 Rhythms Team Training, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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![Wheel of Consent Workshop, AO Studio Space, Vancouver, BC, Canada]()
AO Studio Space, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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![Like A Pro Facilitator Training]()
Facilitator Training, California, US
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![Helena De Felice leading a Wheel of Consent Workshop at Love & Peace Studio, in Vancouver, BC, Canada]()
Love & Peace Studio, Vancouver, BC, Canada
The Wheel of Consent® is a framework and embodied awareness practice developed by Dr. Betty Martin.
Since its inception, this practice has been brought into schools, universities, therapist programs, and organizations around the world, and reshaped how therapeutic practitioners are trained.
It is simple, subtle, and profound.
This frame for consent is an embodied awareness and communication process we navigate.
In this practice, we deepen our capacity to feel into ourselves, trust our own body’s signals, value ourselves, and communicate.
Through the practice, we deepen our capacity to attune with others while deeply caring for ourselves, navigating interactions with deep presence, care, and dignity.
What does it feel like in your body to want something? What does it feel like when you don’t?
What does it feel like when you are willing? What does it feel like when you’re not?
What does it feel like to make a clear request for something you truly want?
What does it feel like when you are feeling safe enough to speak up or say no?
What does it feel like when you don’t?
What does it feel like when you can trust the other person’s capacity to say no?
What does it feel like when you don’t?
This practice goes beyond legal- medical consent and beyond consent in intimate contexts.
Consent as an embodied process is a foundational relational skill that applies to all interactions
(personal, intimate, familial, organizational, professional, communal).
Engaging in this practice develops our skills to notice personal, interpersonal, and group dynamics when making choices, respecting one’s own and others’ boundaries, and navigating situations and relationships with more integrity, clarity, and freedom.
It’s a practice. Each time we engage, we have an opportunity to bring ourselves to our current learning edge and deepen our awareness.
What is the Wheel of Consent®?
“Going along with” is so familiar to us that we hardly notice it is happening.
Slowing down, tending to safety, and attuning to ourselves
changes everything.
Who is it for?
“Who is it for” is a central question in the practice of the Wheel of Consent®.
The practice of embodied consent is profoundly impactful for bringing deeper intimacy, integrity, and care into your relationship with yourself and others.
Those who are drawn to this practice tend to:
໑ work with people in a position of power, and have a commitment to positively affect human change and healing (teacher, therapist, bodyworker, physician, manager, leader, etc.)
໑ be looking for deeper and more meaningful connection in their relationships (intimate, family, friendship, community, etc.)
໑ have experienced harm and have a desire to access a deeper sense of safety and trust in their own body and confidence in moving towards deeper intimacy
໑ be interested in developing deeper self-awareness and relational skills for more ease and joy in life, and/or
໑ care deeply about dignity, respect, and want to be more skillful in caring for themselves and others.
With more power comes greater responsibility.
We consider advanced embodied consent skills ,with awareness of how power and safety influences choice, to be essential for:
໑ practitioners, teachers, facilitators and care providers,
໑ leaders working within positions of authority, and
໑ leaders committed to empowering others in affirming their personal autonomy and power.
Who is this not for?
This practice is tender and potent.
It is important that you participate because you want to.
It is not appropriate for anyone else to require or demand that you attend.
You are welcome to arrive and leave with skepticism and doubt.
You are welcome to leave whenever you want, and return when you want to (or not at all).
You are not required to trust or believe what the facilitator offers or trust others in the space.
Doubt, skepticism, and distrust are all important and wise signals designed to keep you safe.
A cue that it may be best to wait until you are more resourced is that
the idea of engaging in this practice causes your body to contract, experience tension, or anxiety.
If you are in active crisis, it is best to seek other supports. Consider engaging in this practice once you are out of crisis and you can access more curiosity, perhaps with ongoing support from a therapist.
Sometimes more information about the workshop, what you can expect, and how you can care for yourself can resolve some tension or hesitation. Sometimes it helps clarify a ‘no’ or ‘not now’.
Sometimes a brief meeting with the facilitator can help.
You can schedule a free 20-minute consult here.
Sometimes it is supportive to attend with a partner and a friend, sometimes it can make it more difficult to drop into the practice and your own experience for your own learning.
It may not be appropriate to attend with someone you are in a role-power differential relationship with (e.g. your boss, or therapist).
Where can I start, without committing to an in person workshop?
- read the book The Art of Receiving and Giving by Betty Martin
- explore some of the practices that Betty describes on your own
- watch some of Betty’s videos
- try a one-on-one coaching session, or
- attend an online introduction or online training.
My relationship to the
Wheel of Consent®
Since first being introduced to the Wheel of Consent® in 2016, it has transformed how I approach every aspect of my life.
I left my first immersive training with the experience that my brain had rewired - my inner compass for desires, needs, and limits had been reset - and it gave me a completely new frame and somatic awareness to engage from. I was awestruck and inspired by the possibility of unwinding deep individual and collective patterns of harm and move towards more caring and reciprocal relationships.
At the time, I was immersed in work in the realm of gender-based violence, a field that felt heavy and charged, along with necessary and inspiring. Experiencing this practice lit a spark and has provided a pervasive sense of possibility.
These are foundational skills that we can learn.
It is possible repair relational harm, bring compassion for ways we have learnt to survive, restore trust and dignity where we have abandoned ourselves or been abandoned, and move towards nourishing connections. I immediately saw the connection and relevance of this practice for a wide range of contexts: organizational, leadership, service and caregiving, familiar, collective, and intimate.
Since then, I have delivered over 20 Wheel of Consent workshops in North America and Europe, with hundreds of participants from several continents and cultural backgrounds in both group and one-on-one sessions. I focus on extended immersive offerings that allow us to slow down, unwind patterns, and develop new habits.
My personal and professional practice continues to deepen through the individual and collective wisdom that emerges each time I offer this work, other modalities I engage in, and my own personal practice of embodied consent.
It is an honour and great fulfilment to get to share this work with you.
Past Offerings
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$395-$855 + HST (CAD)
Max 14
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$395-$855 + HST (CAD)
Max 16
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$395-$855 + GST (CAD)
Max 16
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Max 12
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$395-$835 + GST (CAD)
Max 16
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$395-$835 + GST (CAD)
Min 6, Max 14
Tuesdays
9-11AM Pacific
Feb 11 - Apr 8, 2025
Sliding scale:
$150-$650 (USD)
SOLD OUT
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$395-$835 + HST (CAD)
Min 10, Max 16
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$395-$835 + GST (CAD)
Min 10, Max 16
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$385-$825 + HST (CAD)
Max 15
Oct 22 - Nov 26, 2024
9-11am Pacific, 12-2 Eastern
Sliding scale:
$250-$625 + GST (USD)
Max 20
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$385-$825 + HST (CAD)
Max 12
Fredag till Söndag
10-18
4,700 SEK
Te och snacks ingår
Max 13
Svenska & English
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$385-$725 + GST (CAD)
Max 14
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$375-$725 + GST (CAD)
Max 15
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$385-$825 + GST (CAD)
* SOLD OUT*
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$375-$825 + HST (CAD)
* SOLD OUT *
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$375-$825 + HST (CAD)
* SOLD OUT *
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Residential Retreat:
$1,085-1,385 + GST
Commuter:
$495-895 + GST (w. lunch)
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$385-$825 + GST (CAD)
Feb 6, 13, 20, 27, Mar 5, 12
Tuesdays 6PM - 8PM
Sliding scale:
$250-625 + GST (CAD)
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10AM - 6PM
Sliding scale:
$385-$825 + GST (CAD)
*SOLD OUT*
Join Helena De Felice and Amy Weissfeld at a luxurious and restful retreat to dive deep into this foundational practice for relating.
Transform your ability to connect with yourself and others.
This transformative modality increases our awareness, enabling more authentic relationships centered in safety, clarity, and ease.
Applied professionally, we become more effective practitioners, empowering others in their healing and development processes. Applied personally, we access deeper and more meaningful connections.
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 and reshaped how therapeutic practitioners are trained.
This deeply nuanced way to practice consent as an agreement brings integrity, responsibility, and empowerment into all human interactions.
It is simple, subtle, and profound.
Our lens starts with the personal and expands to the global. It includes touch, relationships, power dynamics, and social issues of equality and justice.
This exquisite retreat experience is for:
໑ Professionals who work with people to affect human change and/or healing
໑ Couples and individuals looking for deeper intimacy and more meaningful connection
໑ Anyone interested in developing deeper self-awareness and relational skills for more ease and joy in life
Basic tickets (ideal for locals):
3-day workshop
3 gourmet lunches Fri, Sat, & Sun
from $495 sliding scale
Full package ticket:
3-day workshop
Luxury Retreat Lodging Fri & Sat
7 gourmet meals
from $881 sliding scale
Wheel of Consent Training, May 5-7, 2023, Vancouver
2 ½ day In-person Workshop, Applying It Professionally Virtual Session, and Individual Coaching.
Come away 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
In-person Workshop
Location: Vancouver, BC
Dates: May 5-7, 2023
Hours: Friday 6:30PM-8:30PM, Saturday 10AM-6PM, and Sunday 10AM-6PM
Applying It Professionally
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.
Sliding scale tickets. Max 12 participants.
Wheel of Consent Training
2 ½ day In-person Workshop, Applying It Professionally Virtual Session, and Individual Coaching.
Come away 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
In-person Workshop
Location: Vancouver, BC
Dates: March 17-19, 2023
Hours: Friday 6:30PM-8:30PM, Saturday 10AM-6PM, and Sunday 10AM-6PM
Applying It Professionally
Thursday March 23, 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. Open to participants who have completed a full Wheel of Consent training.
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.
Sliding scale tickets. Max 12 participants.
March 17-19, 2023, Vancouver
2 1/2 Day In-Person Wheel of Consent ~ Lausanne
Join us for this 2 ½ day in-person immersive workshop on the Wheel of Consent® – a powerful practice to improve the quality of your relationships and create clear agreements to experience satisfying connection to yourself and others.
It is simple, subtle, and profound.
Location: Lausanne
Dates: May 27 to 29, 2022
Hours: Friday 4PM-8PM, Saturday 9AM-4PM, and Sunday 9AM-4PM
Space is limited to 15 participants
You will come away from this course with the ability to
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 and what you don’t want
໑ Notice the tendency to go along with what is being done and reverse it
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
This Workshop
໑ 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
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 practices and exercises
໑ Lets you start where you are – regardless of how much you know about the Wheel, there are always new levels of awareness to be found
໑ Teaches you the four quadrants of the Wheel – how to find them, feel them in your body and see where they can take you
໑ Is open to all genders, sexual orientations, and relationship constellations
Accessibility
໑ This workshop will be taught in English. French interpretation is available
໑ Thank you for not wearing scents (e.g. perfume, scented lotion, aftershave)
໑ We are offering limited partial scholarships. These scholarships are reserved for individuals from marginalized and oppressed communities and based on financial need, with priority going to applicants who are BIPOC. To apply, please email Helena De Felice.
Acknowledgments About Race
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. We feel that it is responsible to name that our capacity to provide a safe and supportive learning experience for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color is limited by our whiteness. This course will be taught by a white-conditioned, white-privileged instructor and the demographics of the participant cohort may be predominantly white. As facilitators and humans, we are committed to unlearning and waking up to the ways in which we are unconscious of racism and participate in its patterns so that we may better serve you.
2 1/2 Day In-Person Wheel of Consent ~ Lausanne
Join us for this 2 ½ day in-person immersive workshop on the Wheel of Consent® – a powerful practice to improve the quality of your relationships and create clear agreements to experience satisfying connection to yourself and others.
It is simple, subtle, and profound.
Location: Lausanne
Dates: September 17 to 19, 2021
Hours: Friday 6PM-9PM, Saturday 9AM-4PM, and Sunday 9AM-4PM
You will come away from this course with the ability to
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 and what you don’t want
໑ Notice the tendency to go along with what is being done and reverse it
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
This Workshop
໑ 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
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 Lets you start where you are – regardless of how much you know about the Wheel, there are always new levels of awareness to be found
໑ Teaches you the four quadrants of the Wheel – how to find them, feel them in your body and see where they can take you
໑ Is open to all genders, sexual orientations, and relationship constellations
Accessibility
໑ This workshop will be taught in English. French interpretation is available
໑ Thank you for not wearing scents (e.g. perfume, scented lotion, aftershave)
໑ We are offering limited partial scholarships. These scholarships are reserved for individuals from marginalized and oppressed communities and based on financial need, with priority going to applicants who are BIPOC. To apply, please email Helena De Felice.
Acknowledgments About Race
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. We feel that it is responsible to name that our capacity to provide a safe and supportive learning experience for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color is limited by our whiteness. This course will be taught by a white-conditioned, white-privileged instructor and the demographics of the participant cohort may be predominantly white. As facilitators and humans, we are committed to unlearning and waking up to the ways in which we are unconscious of racism and participate in its patterns so that we may better serve you.
COVID Protocols
໑ We will be in a large room with windows. There is enough space to keep distance from others if you wish. Interacting with each other and touching others is voluntary and negotiated in advance.
໑ Please only show up if you show no symptoms of cold (sore throat, cough, fever or congested/runny nose)
໑ The use of face masks is voluntary. We have paper masks and disinfectant available for you to use.
Join us for our Eight-Week Online Wheel of Consent® Workshop
This workshop is delivered via Zoom
8 sessions, January 30 to March 20, 2021
9am-11am Pacific Jan 30, Feb 13, Feb 20, Feb 27, Mar 6, Mar 13, Mar 20
9am-10am Pacific Feb 6
Check your local time zone here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Facilitators: Helena De Felice & Max Pearl
We have a maximum of 23 participants.
Limited early bird tickets $325 USD
Regular tickets $375 USD
Register here
Join us for this 8-week workshop series on the Wheel of Consent® – a powerful practice to improve the quality of your relationships and create clear agreements to experience satisfying connection to yourself and others.
We will engage in a radical inquiry into and practice of the nature of receiving and giving, the nature of consent, knowing what you want, and how to communicate it.
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 social issues of equality and justice.
It is simple, subtle, and profound.
You will come away from this course with the ability to:
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 and what you don’t want
໑ Notice the tendency to go along with what is being done and reverse it
໑ Access 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
This Workshop
໑ 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
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 Lets you start where you are – regardless of how much you know about the Wheel, there are always new levels of awareness to be found
໑ Teaches you the four quadrants of the Wheel – how to find them, feel them in your body, and see where they can take you
໑ Is open to all genders, sexual orientations, and relationship constellations
Accessibility
໑ This workshop is taught in English with interpretation/support in French available
໑ Closed captions are available during the sessions
໑ All sessions are recorded in speaker view and available to attendees only for 2 weeks after the last session
໑ Noone is turned away for lack of funds. We offer limited partial scholarships. If finances are a barrier, please reach out to Max or Helena directly to express your need and request for a scholarship or payment plan.
Acknowledgments About Power and Privilege
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. We feel that it is responsible to name that our capacity to provide a safe and supportive learning experience is limited by our lived and learned experiences as facilitators. As facilitators and humans, we are committed to unlearning and waking up to the ways in which we are unconscious of our own patterns of oppression so that we may better serve you.
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 facilitators
Helena De Felice (we/they/she) is a Certified Facilitator of the Wheel of Consent® on faculty of the School of Consent. Born in Sweden, they now live on the stolen territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations (colonially known as Vancouver, Canada). They offer sessions, courses, and experiences for people to develop skills in sovereignty, intimacy, and connection.
Maxwell Pearl has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, and a Certificate of Theological Studies from Pacific School of Religion. Max is a long-time practitioner of contemplative spirituality, both in Buddhist and Christian traditions. He has taken training by Gay and Katie Hendricks, Body Trust, Body Electric School, and School of Consent where he is a facilitator-in-training. He has studied embodiment modalities including Tantra and Authentic Movement. He has been teaching contemplative practices since 2005, and currently teaches and coaches individuals and groups on emotional awareness, self-love, embodiment, and consent.
The Art of Receiving and Giving: A Six-Week Online Wheel of Consent® Workshop
SOLD OUT
Six-Week Online Wheel of Consent® Workshop
Sundays Aug 8, 15, 22, 29, Sept 5, 12. 2021
9-11am Vancouver / 12-2pm New York / 6-8pm Stockholm
Facilitators: Helena De Felice & Robyn Dalzen
We have a maximum of 22 participants. our previous 5 courses have all sold out.
Limited early bird tickets $325 USD
Regular tickets $375 USD
BOOK HERE
Join us for a six-week online course on the Wheel of Consent® – a powerful practice to improve the quality of your relationships and create clear agreements to experience satisfying connection to yourself and others. It is simple, subtle, and profound.
YOU WILL COME AWAY FROM THIS COURSE WITH TOOLS TO:
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 and what you don’t want
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
Understanding and embodying the Wheel of Consent® happens through a somatic experience – you feel it in your body. And with this, you will start to rewire old patterns around giving and receiving. You will feel clearer about expressing yourself and understanding others, enjoying more authentic connections with greater ease.
THIS WORKSHOP:
໑ Is online and includes home practices between meetings
໑ 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
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 course
໑ Lets you start where you are – regardless of how much you know about the Wheel, there are always new levels of awareness to be found
໑ Teaches you the four quadrants of the Wheel – how to find them, feel them in your body and see where they can take you
໑ Is open to all genders and sexual orientations
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
This is a six-week online course. We meet once a week for two hours. We will offer options for home practice that include both solo practice and paired – and with each paired practice, there is an option to do this remotely or face to face. There will be lots to experiment with and notice!
We believe in this work and want it to be accessible. Live captions will be available during the sessions. The sessions will be recorded and made available to course participants only, so you can come back to the material.
Acknowledgments About Race
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. We feel that it is responsible to name that our capacity to provide a safe and supportive learning experience for BIPOC is limited by our whiteness. This course will be taught by white-conditioned, white-privileged instructors and the demographics of the participant cohort may be predominantly white. As facilitators and as humans, we are committed to unlearning and waking up to the ways in which we are unconscious of racism and participate in its patterns so that we may better serve our community.
We are offering three (3) partial scholarships for a ticket price of US$200 each ($175 off the regular registration fee). These scholarships are reserved for individuals from marginalized and oppressed communities and based on financial need, with priority going to applicants who are BIPOC. To apply, please complete this form.
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!