
WHEEL OF CONSENT WORKSHOP
Sat, June 7th - Sunday, June 8th
COURSE FACILITATOR: Robyn Dalzen
DATES: Saturday, June 7th and Sunday, June 8th
LOCATION: Brooklyn, NYC
TIME: 9am - 5pm each day
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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.
Reduced Rate
This is below market rate for those with limited financial resources. We are hopeful that you will be able to access support without financial strain.
Market Rate
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.
Above Market
Those who are able to pay a higher rate so that those with few 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 practices in dyads, and sharing what you are noticing about yourself. It’s our intention to create a group learning space that feels safe enough for you to have the experience you want to have.
Tending this space is a collective responsibility, and we offer the following guidelines to support group participation and learning:
Confidentiality — outside the group share only your own experience and learning; do not share the names or personal experiences of others in the group.
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.
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.
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).
Group limits for exercises: we will not make requests or offers for unclothed, genital, or explicitly sexual touch during exercises.
What we invite for your own experience:
Invite beginner’s mind — whether you are newer to the Wheel of Consent or have studied and experimented for years, there is always more to learn! Everything we offer is an experiment and an opportunity to notice yourself.
Participation can look many ways and you choose how you want to participate — actively join an exercise, witness, journal, take a break, step out of the room, and change your mind at any time!
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?
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.
As facilitators of this group, we will hold to these guidelines and we will remind you of them as needed. We also acknowledge that we are imperfect beings and we will all make mistakes. Our ‘come from’ is humility and goodwill.
