Wheel of Consent® Workshops

A playground for agency, trust & connection

A powerful tool to improve the quality of your relationships, your touch, and your sense of safety. Create clear agreements for satisfying connection with yourself and others.

Upcoming workshops

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This is a clothes-on workshop. Participation in any somatic and touch practices is completely optional.

This workshop is not about sex, though it can be applied to all relationships, including sexual ones. Modern life disconnects many of us from our sense of agency, our right to say no or feel our desires, and our ability to feel safe and settled.

This workshop is offered as a space and a playground that allows people to connect — or re-connect — with each other and with a sense of agency, rest, and trustworthiness.

What this workshop is about

  • Noticing, valuing, and trusting your desires

  • The courage to ask for what you want and to set limits

  • Identifying and exploring YES and NO somatically

  • Building self-trust, and why it matters for trust in relationship

  • Finding and following wants and pleasure

  • Personal agency and learning how to choose for yourself

  • The nuanced dynamics of receiving and giving

  • Understanding consent well beyond sex and intimacy

  • The difference between giving and doing, active and passive receiving

  • Increasing your ability to receive

  • Reducing the risk of consent injuries

  • A shared language for communicating agreements

Registration & policies

  • I offer early registration pricing (see event listing for details).

  • I have a limited number of reduced-rate ($400) seats. Discounted rate spots are for folks who are experiencing financial hardships that would make the actual rate of the workshop inaccessible and we prioritize the discounted rate spots for folks who have marginalized identities that have impacted their financial access to income.

  • Refunds and cancellations — see event details for dates.

The Origins - Created by Dr. Betty Martin

The Wheel of Consent was developed by Dr. Betty Martin, a former chiropractor, and currently a sex and intimacy coach, sacred intimate, and sexological bodyworker. It was created in the context of consensual touch, but these practices apply far beyond touch, intimacy, and sex. They extend from work and feelings of safety to insight into power dynamics and finding more freedom.