An intentionally edgy experiential workshop, inviting you to a somatic inquiry into habitual dynamics, patterns and unconscious tendencies around asking for what we want and rejecting what we don’t
Pricing: between €59 - €73
What’s this about?
This is a full-day experiential workshop inquiring into our habitual relationship dynamics through the language of somatics (being and feeling in the body) and Conscious Kink.
By shining the light of day on some of these hidden shadows, we encounter the opportunity to engage with them in a safe-enough setting, and perhaps gaining new agency with some previously ‘automatic’ tendencies.
We will play with different flavors of common relational situations, working with themes like power, compliance, consent, love, standing our ground, wants and needs.
This workshop is an individual journey, supported by a group of journeying humans, offering you a personal hall of mirrors.
50 Shades of No is a Sex-positive space* with a focus on individual learning and growth.
*Meaning that reference to sex and sexuality is welcomed, used and normalized. This is a lights-on, clothes-on workshop environment that doesn’t navigate towards sexuality or intimate contact.
Who is This For?
You are curious to inquire into how you relate to your peers, lovers, and other humans around you, and are willing to step into a space where you may meet your own edges and unconscious patterns.
You have some exposure to sex-positive spaces and somatic or body-based practices. You feel comfortable enough in navigating vulnerability with other people.
You want to create more embodied awareness, and more agency and choice in your relationships (romantic or otherwise).
You want to get better at saying what it is that you actually want. Because you believe that this may significantly improve the quality of your life.
Program and Schedule
9:30 doors open
10:00 Workshop begins
(no late admissions)
13:00 Break for Lunch
(bring your own)
17:00 Closing and departure
What to Expect
• A dynamic series of partnered communication exercises geared towards self inquiry
• Embodied consent practices to notice and track authentic desire and resistance
• Scheduled pauses for integration, journaling and sharing
• A basic introduction and practice of the Consensual Non-Consent dynamic through Conscious Kink
Pricing
Early Bird - sign up by April 14 - €59
Regular - Apr. 15 until sold out - €73
this workshop is limited to up to 28 participants
Why Conscious Kink?
Consciously playing with taboo topics can offer another pathway for shadows to come onto the light of day, in a conscious, sober and intentional container. In this way we may use Conscious Kink as a pathway towards healing or transformation. This modality offers the opportunity to PLAY with our edges, allowing us to form new relationships with them.
Permission Driven Approach to Shadow Work
Fundamentally, this approach does not vilify or demonize shadow tendencies or unconscious behavior. The lens of permission sees every emotion and state of body and mind as equally valid and belonging. Through curiosity and compassion we first notice and observe, and allow transformation work to emerge from a place of intention and discernment.
Giving permission does not, however, stand to justify behaving violently or causing harm to ourselves or others, or to bypass potential transformation. Instead it acts as a tender and loving starting point to approach change.
