What will happen in this play space? You can be in choice as to how much you participate and how. You can tune in to an inner sense of what you want to do, stay connected to this sense and be aware that it can change from moment to moment. You might want to talk, watch, dance or snooze You might invite someone(s) to cuddle, touch or kiss. You might give or receive a massage or impact / sensation play. You might say or receive a ‘No’ You might say or receive a ‘Yes’. You might say or receive a ‘I’m not ready to decide now’ You might say or receive 'That's enough for now' You might say or receive 'Not like this. I want to stop.' You could thank people for their honest responses to your requests. You might feel desiring and desired and feel really present! You might feel some grief, or feel alone, uncertain and disconnected. There will be empathic space for you if you do. You might wear an outfit to satisfy your desire to dress up. You might wear something super comfortable.
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About This is a weekend of embodied and playful approaches to transformative communication, conflict transformation and grief work as a way into soulful intimacy. At the heart of being human, there are always raw and tender emotions. For example, all of the following can create rawness and tenderness
Date: Friday 24th February 2023 – Sunday 26th February 2023 Times: Friday evening 6.30 – 9pm Saturday 11am – 8pm Sunday 11am – 7pm Venue: Lebensraum, Basel, Switzerland Why do we need support around conflict? Punitive justice prevails in our societies (which leads to cancel culture, victim-blaming, lack of accountability, conflict avoidance and suppression of grief) and attempts to do things differently are hard and under-resourced. This weekend we will have an embodied experience of what non-punitive accountability looks and feels like. We will move into frames that allow empathy, compassion, togetherness, resilience to conflict, curiosity, accountability and movement. This weekend is an invitation to see the connections between things and to see the systems of separation we operate in. This supports us to not take things personally and find more effective solutions to problems. This weekend is an invitation to acknowledge failure. It’s an invitation to be light-hearted, full-hearted, but not careless about failure. Let’s not ultimately be embittered by it (although there may be bitterness on the way), not allowing it to close our open and willing hearts (although that may happen on the way). We cannot not fail within this culture of separation. Everyone fails. This weekend is an invitation to get curious ….. curious about what isn’t known, beyond the binary certainty of right and wrong that often comes in to protect us from raw feelings. When we get curious, when we approach tension and conflict as important feedback surfacing, we can approach it as the seed of a better solution, and conflict can become a revitalising driver for change. This weekend is an invitation to soften …. soften into our vulnerability beyond the hard shell of all that we use to defend our hearts from grief and pain. It can be hard to be vulnerable and it can be erotic when we allow ourselves to be. Grief can be a highly sensual and enlivening experience. When we soften, everything has the potential to become erotic. Cost: Early bird price (before 31st December 2022)
Please get in touch if these costs would prevent you from coming. Size of group: There will be 20-30 participants Register here Sex positivity assumes that sex is a healthy impulse in life and a fun thing to be creative with. Sex and all forms of sexuality can be discussed without shame or awkwardness. Sex isn’t taboo.
Sex positivity encourages inclusive and safer spaces to talk about and explore sexuality. Sex positivity requires improving understanding and practice of safer sex, consent, boundaries and what makes for emotional and physical safety Sex positivity requires improving communication around our own and others’ needs, emotions, desires and relationship choices Sex positivity requires improving understanding of and healing from judgement and shame around our bodies, sexual experiences, sexual trauma] and positionality in relation to this, that we have been conditioned with and/or subject to. Sex positivity involves understanding that sexuality is fluid and changing. Sex positivity involves challenging harmful, rigid or restrictive perceptions around sexuality Sex positivity involves acceptance of other people’s consensual expressions of sexuality |
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