Wheel of Consent workshop

Sunday 5. October at 13:30 - 16:30

Workshop begins 13:30

Flo's cafe, Oxford

The Wheel of Consent is a profound model of relating which brings clarity and authenticity to our relationships in all areas of life: with friends, family and work colleagues, as well as in our intimate, kinky and sexual relationships and interactions.

The Wheel distinguishes between the ‘doing’ aspect of an interaction: who is doing? - and the ‘gift’ aspect: who is it for? Asking these two questions together creates four possible dynamics or ‘quadrants’, each of which has a different flavour, and requires a different type of consent agreement to be made. These insights support us to clarify and express our desires, needs and boundaries. We also see how our life experiences may have limited our expression of some of these qualities, and we can learn how to use the Wheel as a practice to open them up again.

In this workshop, Rupert from the Art of Consent will introduce us to the core principles and practices of the Wheel of Consent. This will include invitations into a solo practice called ‘waking the hands’, and a fully-clothed, paired, non-sexual touch practice, which offers a simple, embodied experience of each of the Wheel’s four quadrants.

The paired touch practice is - like everything else in the workshop - completely optional. You’re very welcome to observe our demonstration of it, and then try it later with a friend or partner (for which handouts will be provided). If you’d like to do the paired practice during the workshop itself, you’re very welcome to attend with someone you have agreed to work with. You’re also equally welcome to find someone to pair up with at the workshop itself (and we’re happy to support participants in a pairing up process, if needed.) The principles of the Wheel can also be learned without sharing any touch at all.

Rupert is an accredited facilitator of the Wheel of Consent. He also designs and delivers university student consent workshops.

Flo's cafe • OX4 3JZ Oxford, England, United Kingdom

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