Somatic Consent Training

It is offered to all practitioners working with topics of consent, boundaries, relational intimacy, body sovereignty, trauma recovery, sexuality and communication, especially those with touch-based practices such as massage therapists, Tantra practitioners, sexological bodyworkers, sacred sexuality guides, surrogate partners, and other therapeutic touch providers. Professionals such as psychotherapists, physicians, counselors, educators and coaches also gain great insight and skills from this training.

This class is experience based, with a series of somatic experiences in which you experience each of the four Quadrants of the Wheel of Consent, which then allows you to apply the principles to your client sessions and offer it as a practice for your clients to take home. (Also expect it to affect your personal life.)

You will learn to coach your clients:

To notice, value, trust and communicate their needs and desires
To notice and be responsible for their boundaries
Simple touch practice/games to take home
To identify the tendency to go along with what is being done and how to reverse it
How to listen for ‘the pull’ instead of ‘the push’ when choosing to engage with another
Communication skills to distinguish between requests, offers and invitations to create clear agreements
When touching: to gain confidence in their ability to touch and distinguish between touching for the other person’s pleasure and touching for their own pleasure
When being touched: noticing they have a choice about how they are being touched and how to choose how they want to be touched

If you are a touch practitioner, you will also improve the quality of your touch, bringing both clarity and heart into your hands, and pass this on to your clients.

Visit the Calendar for information about upcoming courses.