The Ethical Slut Presents: Navigating Consent
Coming Fall 2024
– Round 11 –
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We are finally back and excited to offer our first Hybrid In-Person and Online classes.
Join Dossie Easton, Ms. WillowKat, and our team of dedicated and compassionate educators for the Eleventh Round of The Ethical Slut Presents: Navigating Consent Series.
We are offering twelve highly interactive classes to the community, teaching about supporting sexual diversity, consent, collaboration, cooperation, and how to make safe spaces and protect yourselves and each other.
Six of these classes will be offered to people who have been violated or fear violation, the other six for those who have or fear they might violate.
We are excited to be able to continue to offer this unique workshop series to our friends across the country and around the world, as well as our local community in this hybrid in-person/online format.
Our Vision
Our goal is to move forward from wherever we may be today into a safer, saner, sexier, and more consensual future.
If we want to live in a sex-positive culture where we are free and safe to celebrate our sexuality in the ways we choose, it is up to us to build and support a culture of consent. We are looking for transformational solutions. Our classes are a space in which we explore possibilities, work on developing solutions, and on finding tools which might be useful in our lives.
During the course we’ll be asking you to do a lot of personal sharing. With a strong focus on self-care we will practice the skills of speaking painful truths and getting heard in situations where others may not be eager to listen. We will work on being a good listener even when we are hearing something really painful.
We have a teaching team who are available to offer one-on-one support if needed. Please reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns.
Things to Think About…
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What would you want to change, in yourself, and your own patterns of how you connect?
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What might you need to work on in order to have the sex life you want?
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What old shame stories might you need to unlearn to live the life of your dreams?
Part of our purpose is to increase our comfort in talking about sex. The vulnerability and realness of this type of communication is powerful. One of our goals is to recognize and validate the spectrum of sexual orientations and relationship possibilities. People’s desires, ranging from asexuality to pansexuality and beyond, are honored while we explore how to share what is true for us.
One of our most important agreements in class is, “No Blaming No Shaming”. This helps create a safer space to do the work of developing strong recovery tools for living the life we desire.
While exploring what our attitudes and beliefs are around sex, we work on our language to describe what we want in our relationships and sexual lives. We also practice talking with each other when things go sideways or become harmful. We work on skills and problem solving to gain self understanding. With these steps of self knowledge we can gain personal growth, perhaps, changing and healing old patterns and wounds.
Deepening our understanding of boundaries, and adding to our communication repertoire gives us additional skills to practice consent. We use exercises and discussions to give us additional ways to access becoming a whole person in a sex negative culture. This opens possibilities so we can find or craft relationships that are truly satisfying to us individually.
The Navigating Consent series consists of two tracks:
1) Claiming Your Consent: About Surviving
2) Honoring Others’ Consent: About Transgressing
Each series will be held in consecutive, separate, six week blocks via Zoom and at Folsom Street Community Center here in San Francisco.
Participants can come to one class, the full series or whichever classes they are able. Signups will remain open throughout the series.
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Clear Consent Makes Wilder Sex Possible!
Navigating Consent is a registered 501(c)3. All donations are tax deductible.