Name: Exploring Touch and Consent
Start: 2018-09-15T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2018-09-15T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Rhizome DC - Art Learning DIY Culture

Exploring Touch and Consent

Libby Sinback is a coach, sought-after educator, and host of the podcast, Making Polyamory Work. Libby helps individuals, couples, and polycules who want to break out of harmful relationship patterns and rewrite their broken scripts from childhood and culture to embrace nourishing, authentic, boundless love in their life. Libby is trained in Relational Life Therapy and the Gottman Method, and her coaching is laser-focused on getting quickly to the heart of the heart of the heart of what is in the way for her clients, and so they can move past what is limiting them and into a more relational way of being. Libby believes love is why we are here and how we heal, and that relationships are at the core of our wellbeing as humans.

Libby Sinback

Do you have trouble expressing your desires? Do you struggle to assert your boundaries around touch? Do you want to take your experiences with touch from fine to amazing?
Exploring Consent and Touch is a guided, clothes-on workshop in practicing clear consent and non-sexual, open-hearted touch. It is an invitation to connect, express your no, set your boundaries, own your desires, practice moving through and past rejection, negotiate, enjoy and explore touch, and be present with yourself and others. All in a fun, playful workshop that welcomes all bodies, races, genders, orientations, relationship configurations and backgrounds.
Here's the agenda for the afternoon:
3:00 - Doors open and you'll have an opportunity to arrive, sign in, and get comfortable.
3:30 - We'll begin with an opening circle, then we will move into a series of authentic relating, consent and touch exercises.
These exercises will create opportunities to practice saying no and setting boundaries, practice asking for what you want and negotiating, explore giving and receiving touch. We will explore using Betty Martin's Wheel of Consent to play with the differences between accepting and allowing, taking and serving, and why they are all valid ways to touch and be touched.
5:30 - Event will conclude.
Notes: 
All exercises are 100% optional. Anyone who does not want to participate at any time may sit off to the side or cross their arms in front of their chest. 
If you want to participate and need any accomdation, please e-mail Libby at libby.sinback@gmail.com The venue is not accessible to all - there are steps to enter.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please e-mail Libby at libby.sinback@gmail.com
What is non-sexual, open-hearted touch? It is touch that is given and received with an open heart. It is touch that is always 100% chosen by all parties. Touch without any agenda that is given with an open heart can be incredibly nourishing to the human spirit, and it is the goal of this workshop to create space to give and receive that together.

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