Workshop | À Corps Consentants — Bodies & Empowerment: Embodying Consent

Listening to ourselves and others, asserting our boundaries, respecting our needs, owning our desires… consent, beyond a theoretical concept, is a practice! What beliefs, systems, and experiences stand in the way of our agency?

This workshop aims to create a space of empowerment for Queer people and women through a somatic approach to consent: accessing our choices, expressing them, and acting on them with greater confidence. We will explore how an embodied practice of consent can help us reclaim power in the intimate, professional, and artistic dimensions of our lives.

CONTENT

Our workshops alternate between moments of body connection (grounding, breathing, movement), practicing tools related to verbal and non-verbal consent, and group integration and sharing time. We use play and nervous system regulation as supportive factors for entering into relationships with ourselves and others.

Some exercises include touch, but it is never mandatory.

Participants may modify or simply observe an exercise, according to their needs in the moment.

This workshop is inspired by the Wheel of Consent as developed by Dr. Betty Martin. We have trained with The School of Consent but are not certified facilitators of this school. For more information, visit: www.schoolofconsent.org