Nourishing Relationships: Trust, Intimacy, and Consent

We are ...a community of mental health workers, clinicians, psychiatrists, current and prior users of mental health services, advocates, artists, and survivors of trauma and adversity, who are interested in exploring the link between personal and societal transformation.

Institute for the Development of Human Arts

Part of IDHA's Spring 2022 virtual training series CULTIVATING COMMUNITY

<h3>To learn more, please visit: <a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/crisis-as-catalyst" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a><a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/cultivating-community" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.idha-nyc.org/cultivating-community</a><a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/psychologies-of-liberation" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a></h3><h3>*ASL and live closed captioning provided*</h3><h3>NOTE: 2.75 CE credits are available for this class. Learn more about CE credits at IDHA <a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/ce-information" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</h3><h2>Class Description</h2><p>Trust, intimacy, and consent are essential to all relationships – including connections found within wider collectives and communities, whether they be personal or professional. Nourishing connections is not a static process, rather one that must be tended to over time for connections to flourish and endure. Centered accountability is a cornerstone of sustaining these bonds, making it possible to heal wounds and navigate conflict with intention and care when it emerges.</p><p>In this session, we will explore tangible practices to nurture relationships and move towards a more liberatory future. Faculty will guide participants to consider how these values can be applied in both interpersonal and collective work, introducing tools and practices that can be deployed in virtual and in-person contexts. Participants will walk away with an understanding of how to attend to our individual wants, needs, and desires to show up more fully in our work and in our personal lives. We will also discuss how to strengthen ties with ourselves and each other when tested.</p><h2>Learning Objectives</h2><ul><li>Identify strategies to cultivate trust and consent in provider/client, interpersonal, and collective relationships</li><li>Apply strategies such as harm reduction, boundary mapping, and safety and care planning to deepen intimacy and connection and cultivate networks of care</li><li>Define consent in relationships beyond a binary, yes/no structure</li><li>Practice building our collective capacity for accountability in a transformative way</li><li>Identify strategies to cultivate relationships and intimacy virtually and in online spaces</li><li>Discuss embodied pleasure as a pathway toward presence, boundaries, and connection</li></ul><h2>Faculty</h2><p><strong>Dawn Serra</strong> is a therapeutic sex and relationship coach and pleasure advocate. As a white, cis, disabled, queer, fat, survivor, Dawn&#x27;s work is a fiercely compassionate invitation for each of us to deepen our relationships with our bodies and our pleasure as an antidote to the trauma, disconnection, and isolation so many of us feel. Your pleasure matters. Your body is wise. And Dawn&#x27;s work is all about creating spaces and places for you to explore what that means on your terms.</p><p><strong>Kai Werder </strong>(they/them) aims to curate healing spaces that invite curiosity, connection, and transformation. Kai is a clinical-community social worker, certified sex educator, community care coach, and writer who has a decade of experience providing social-justice informed education and 1:1 healing support. They believe that individual and interpersonal healing lends itself to systemic transformative and vice versa. Kai currently serves as care lead with Spring Up, a transformative-justice collective focused on cultivating a culture of consent and liberty for all.</p><p><em>Agenda:</em></p><ul><li><em>Introductions, welcome, and check-in (15 min, 12-12:15)</em></li><li><em>Consent and boundaries in interpersonal therapeutic relationships (45 min, 12:15-1)</em></li><li><em>Breakout room and share backs (30 min, 1-1:30)</em></li><li><em>Break (15 min, 1:30-1:45)</em></li><li><em>Applications for collective and community spaces (30 min, 1:45-2:15)</em></li><li><em>Breakout room and experiential practice (30 min, 2:15-2:45)</em></li><li><em>Group reflection and closing comments (15 min, 2:45-3)</em></li></ul><h2>What You Get</h2><p>Registration includes the 3-hour class session, and access to IDHA’s School for Transformative Mental Health forum on  Mighty Networks. Those who enroll at the General or Supporter Rate also have access to 2.75 complementary CE credits. This is our virtual learning community where you’ll have the opportunity to engage with other students and your faculty.</p><h3>Questions? Email us at contact@idha-nyc.org</h3>

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