Sunday 11/16/25

Workshops and Presenters

Diane Long,(they/them), MHS, SEP, BCTMB

Intro to Sex-Positive Self-Defense and Somatics

Course Description:

Sex-Positive Self-Defense and Somatics provides effective tools to protect ourselves and our communities across intersections of sexual orientation, gender/identity, race, class, age and ability. Practices include environmental awareness, assertive communication and a wide range of verbal and physical skills. Somatic literacy allows us to recognize needs, to set limits, to better regulate internal states, and to make informed choices essential for self-care and safety. We can actively build habits that help us move away from unwanted experiences and move towards desired experiences while expanding the capacity for intimacy and connection. This experiential workshop draws from a variety of body-oriented therapies like Somatic Experiencing®, Trauma First Aide™, Empowerment Self-Defense (ESD), CuddleParty, Somatic Sex Education, massage, energy work, and yoga. Learn easy-to-use, dynamic strategies you can apply in your life and therapeutic practice right away, with individuals or groups.

 

Course Objectives:

 

  • Define somatic literacy and its role in building self-efficacy and self-esteem

  • Learn to anchor resources in the body by orienting towards pleasure and connection

  • Discover 5 activities that explore personal boundaries and preferences as a way to increase a felt sense of agency and choice

  • Build interoceptive skills for sexual negotiation and consent

  • Increase personal comfort using touch, breath and movement in a therapeutic setting

Victor Warring, MA

The ReWilding of Eros: UnColonizing the Erotic Body

Course Description:

If you grew up outside of intact village or an indigenous framework, your body learned its somatic sexuality education under the auspices of domestication and colonialism. Colonization is the context in which our wild sexual and erotic bodies currently reside. 

Often when we attempt to re-write the script on how we would like to inhabit our erotic and sexual lives we end up re-creating the obstacles present in our culture because we have not taken into account the degree to which colonialism has shaped our sexual reality, our sexual expression and the narrow range of erotic options available to us.

In this class you will get a theoretical understanding of how colonization impacts your erotic and sexual body and you will learn experiential tools/practices for rewilding/un-colonizing the erotic body. 


Course Objectives:

*Define Erotic ReWilding, UnColonization and understand the body, eros and sexuality within a colonized and uncolonized context.

*Learn the foundational piece of ReWilding Eros: Erotic Sovereignty

*Understand the role of shame and somatic contraction in interfering with the liberation of the erotic body.

*Understand the roles of moving pleasure and grief in reconnecting with the erotic body.

*Learn and practice several experiential somatic/movement exercises to support and deepen the ReWilding of Eros.


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