About this Group:

This is a free monthly practice community for those who have experience or are interested in learning and practising what the Wheel of Consent has to offer.

What is the Wheel of Consent®?

The Wheel of Consent® is a practice developed by Betty Martin as a way of supporting people to notice and communicate what we do and don’t want in relationship with ourselves and others.

Useful in intimate relationships, workplaces, friendship and general life, the Wheel supports us to be in integrity, clarity and empowerment with ourselves and consensual engagement with others.

Betty has established the School of Consent to foster the growth of this work and it is now taught and embraced across the world.

Here is Betty summarising the Wheel of Consent®

What you might expect to get out of this group:

Connection to a warm and caring group of newcomers and experienced people alike who have an ongoing personal commitment and interest in implementing the Wheel in their everyday lives.

Facilitated practices to support embodiment and develop and deepen your skills and awareness in implementing specific elements of the Wheel.

Expect fun, laughter and chocolate.

Remember - The Wheel is a practice, not a destination.

Dates for 2026:

26th February

26th March

30th April

28th May

25th June

30th July

27th August

24th September

29th October

26th November

All groups run from 6 - 8pm

What to bring:

Please bring cushions, yoga mats, bean bags, blankets or whatever you need to feel comfortable sitting on the floor. There are chairs available for those whose bodies prefer this option.

Guidelines for participation:

The following guidelines will support participants' engagement in this group and your decision to attend indicates your willingness to abide by these requests.

This is a practice space, not a therapy space.

Privacy – Please respect the privacy of others. Once the group ends you are welcome to share your own experiences and thoughts but please don't share the names or stories of other group members.

Participation – This is an experiential group and participation can look many ways. Everything is a choice and your ability to slow down, notice and honour what works best for you in each moment is the greatest offering. You are welcome to pair up for exercises, go solo or take a nap! It’s all participation and welcome.

Self-Reflection – Everything in this group is an opportunity and invitation for you to practice noticing. This includes noticing yourself, your body, your emotions and your mind.

Feelings are welcome – You are welcome in your fullness with your tears, laughter and all.

Scope of group – All touch is optional and not necessary to participate. Please refrain from naming requests or offers for unclothed, genital or explicitly sexual touch or experiences. This is a fully clothed space.

About your Organisers

Jeff Flatt:

Jeff brings diverse experience to this fun and vitally important consent work by actively weaving together lived experience of addiction, community complementary medicine, plant therapy, and massage practice, as well as higher education teaching, management and governance. Jeff is immersed in exploring and embodying the Wheel and all its goodness and is committed to supporting this to blossom in society and within his emerging interests in Eros as the basis of transcendent freedom, sexological bodywork practice and community death doula work.

Jeff approaches the Wheel of Consent as a practice that is able to - as Betty Martin eloquently says - crack open and expand the heart. To be with others in the exploration of the Wheel is a privilege, and to witness the simple practices lead to such surprise, reflection, understanding, bewilderment, excitement, and insight is something special. Jeff is honoured to be co-facilitating this Brisbane group and approaches this as a shared journey that can only bring good to the world through a vitality that becomes alive and beating within the hearts of participants.

Olivia Brincat:

Olivia's background is in education where she worked as a teacher for students with experiences of trauma and instability, where the focus was on building trust, confidence, and community. Her history continues to shape how she shows up in consent spaces: with care, clarity, curiosity, and a belief in everyone’s right to feel safe and seen

Olivia is currently studying counselling and has used her lived experience to create resources that cater to victim/survivors of sexual violence by combining discussion and guided practices to support the reclamation of sex and sexuality. Olivia has participated in Like a Pro training.

Background Support Person:

Susan Stark:

Susan weaves together over three decades of professional experience, study and personal exploration, and draws on her qualifications as a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner® and Interactive Erotic Educator.

Susan currently works with individuals and couples through her private practice in Meanjin (Brisbane) and co-organises an annual sexuality festival called FEAST (Festival of Embodiment and Sexual Transformation). She has a special interest and long-term commitment to supporting survivors of sexual abuse and trauma reclaim their birthright to pleasure and sexual sovereignty.

In addition to providing support to individuals and facilitating groups, Susan offers experiential training and resources to healers, creatives and organisers interested in working at the intersection of systemic violence and erotic liberation. She does this through her business partnership, Rewoven.

Susan is passionate about sharing and practicing the Wheel in all that she creates and offers both personally and professionally. Practicing the Wheel in community has been a potent learning space for Susan over the past 10 years. She is an accredited facilitator with the School of Consent.

www.susanstark.com.au

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