COURSE FACILITATORS: Robyn Dalzen & Michael Dresser

START TIME: 9am Seattle / 12pm New York / 6pm Amsterdam

DATES: June 5, 12, 19, 26, July 3, 10
We will have a maximum of 22 participants. We will send the meeting link and password one week prior to the course start.

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Equity Pricing 

We are committed to our work being as accessible as possible, so we ask each participant to self select their rate based on their own circumstances.

Reduced Rate

This is below market rate for those with limited financial resources. We are hopeful that you will be able to access support without financial strain.

Market Rate

We ask folks to select $400 if they are able to meet their basic needs comfortably along with a few expendable wants with this rate budgeted in.

Above Market

Those who are able to pay a higher rate so that those with few resources can have access as well.

We acknowledge the work of Our Collective Space for the Equity Pricing Model that we are following.

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Group Container

This class is about experiencing the Wheel of Consent, which happens by learning the theory, engaging in practices in breakout rooms, and sharing what you are noticing about yourself. It’s our intention to create a group learning space that feels safe enough for you to have the experience you want to have.

Tending this space is a collective responsibility, and we offer the following guidelines to support group participation and learning:

1. Have your video on at the start (so we all get to connect with and see who is present)

2. Confidentiality — outside the group share only your own experience and learning; do not share the names or personal experiences of others in the group. Please situate your computer so that others in your home are not able to see the screen or hear the conversation.

3. No personal recording or screen shots.

4. Feelings are welcome and do not need to be justified or explained; honor the feelings that arise in others by allowing them to feel without fixing or advising.

5. When sharing, speak from your personal experience using ‘I’ statements (eg. I feel, I notice, I’m experiencing, etc.). This helps each of us to notice and take responsibility for our own experience, and to avoid speaking in generalized ways on behalf of people or groups.

6. Use the names and pronouns people request, and honor the lived experience of those in the group. Be willing to stay open and free of assumptions about people's identities and experiences (eg. regarding gender, race, sexual orientation, etc).

7. Group limits for exercises: we will not make requests or offers for unclothed, genital, or explicitly sexual touch during exercises.

What we invite for your own experience:

1. Invite beginner’s mind — whether you are newer to the Wheel of Consent or have studied and experimented for years, there is always more to learn! Everything we offer is an experiment and an opportunity to notice yourself.

2. Participation can look many ways and you choose how you want to participate — actively join an exercise, witness, journal, take a break, turn your camera off, and change your mind at any time!

3. Self-care and nervous system regulation — take care of your needs for water, toilet, etc; if there is something specific you need, can you find a way to ask for it?

4. As much as you can, become aware of when you are in your learning zone (comfortable discomfort) and when you are pushed beyond (overwhelm). Notice what you need to step in and out of your learning zone — take a break, move your body, express something to the group, etc.
   

   As facilitators of this group, we will hold to these guidelines and we will remind you of them as needed. We also acknowledge that we are imperfect beings and we will all make mistakes. Our ‘come from’ is humility and goodwill.

Acknowledgments About Race

The course is open to anyone interested in learning the Wheel, and our intention is for this to be a safer space that is inclusive. However, we recognize that this offering will not meet everyone’s needs. We feel that it is responsible to name that our capacity to provide a safe and supportive learning experience for BIPOC is limited by our whiteness. This course will be taught by white-conditioned, white-privileged instructors and the demographics of the participant cohort may be predominantly white. As facilitators and as humans, we are committed to unlearning and waking up to the ways in which we are unconscious of racism and participate in its patterns so that we may better serve our community.

Partial Scholarships

We are offering three (3) partial scholarships for a ticket price of US$200 each ($200 off the market rate registration fee). These scholarships are reserved for individuals from marginalized and oppressed communities and based on financial need, with priority going to applicants who are BIPOC. Apply here.