Embodied Consent & Empowered Relating
Event description
You don’t need to be in a relationship to benefit from this workshop, what we’ll explore will greatly enhance your understanding of Self and will bring benefits to ALL relationships and future relationships.
Connection, relating and intimacy rely on consent and communication. But..…
- Have you ever found it difficult to express yourself?
- Do you ever feel stuck or frozen when it comes to expressing your needs and desires, or asking others about their needs and desires?
- Do you find it hard to have the conversations you know you need to have for the level of relationship, connection, and understanding you truly desire?
- Have you ever found it difficult knowing whether you want to say yes or no, or felt unsure whether you, or the other person, were consenting during or afterwards?
In this workshop, participants will be offered Somatic tools and conversations to explore. Participants will work with a simple framework to practice making embodied decisions and express themselves confidently and comfortably. Participants will be empowered in feeling and embodying what works and feels good within their body.
We anchor this work in curiosity, self-compassion, and self-accountability.
This workshop shines light on what’s missing within dating and relationships to create new levels of understanding, communication and pathways to fulfilling and empowered connection.
In this workshop we’ll explore:
- Embodiment
- Circle of Consent
- Full body consent – “yes” and “no”
- Communicating your needs and desires
- Conscious relating and dating
- The “Talk”
- The myth of telepathy
- Empowered communication
- Understanding your partner
- Essential conversations for deep connection
- Pathways to fulfilling intimacy
This will be a space where talking about sex is welcomed, however, embodied consent and empowerment are not only about sex, and neither are the skills and activities we'll be working with.
-Would you like to feel more embodied?
-Would you like to feel more confident and empowered?
-Would you like to feel more relaxed and open?
-Would you like to better understand others and learn ways to confidently communicate your needs, desires and boundaries?
-Are you longing for deeper connection?
-Would you like to learn communication and relating skills to take your dating or current relationship to a whole new level?
If you have children and you desire to empower them, this workshop is for you. Teenagers 13+ years of age are welcome. An adult participant must accompany participants under 18 years of age.
All of the nourishing Somatic practices and exercises are offered as an invitation and opportunity to explore and learn. Your level of participation is your choice. Embodied consent is a powerful learning and practice. A “No” to someone else is a “Yes” to yourself.
This is a fully clothed workshop.
Please dress comfortably. Bring your favourite blanket, hoodie, shawl, or other cozy item to put on your body. Space is limited: maximum 12 participants. Bookings essential.
KATE ALDERMAN
SOMATIC SEXOLOGIST, CERTIFIED SEXOLOGICAL BODYWORKER, ISTA I&II, MASTER YOUR PLEASURE & SHAMANIC WOMB JOURNEY GRADUATE, LANDMARK GRADUATE, AUTHOR & WORKSHOPS FACILITATOR
Kate has the training and experience to support you in connecting more fully with your body and sexuality. She is very passionate about helping people feel more embodied and sexually empowered.
Kate has presented at festivals and retreats such as Taste Of Love, FEAST, Illuminate, One World Tantra Festival and The Edge.
She offers somatic education, embodied therapy and intimacy coaching to people in the Gold Coast, Australia - one on one, couples and group facilitation. She also works with people across the globe via Zoom or Messenger Video Call.
Kate combines many years of experience in fitness, health, healing, breath work, bodywork, transformation, plant medicines and the shamanic arts to create a unique transmission that inspires, enlivens and awakens. Kate is an engaging speaker with a natural gift of sharing interesting stories, references and rich personal experiences. She delivers her understanding and wisdom within a practical context that inspires, motivates, and awakens new perspectives.
Kate brings presence, warmth, openness, heart, and authenticity to her work, and welcomes people of all genders, sexualities and relationship preferences.
Kate is a professional member of SSEAA – Somatic Sex Educators Australia
www.sseaa.org