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About the Wheel of Consent®

 

The Wheel of Consent®, developed by Dr. Betty Martin, is a transformational framework and embodiment practice that has reshaped how we understand consent, relational dynamics, boundaries, desire, and empowered choice. It is used globally in schools, universities, therapeutic programs, somatic practices, and community organizations.

 

This practice invites you into a deeply embodied understanding of your own agency. It supports clearer communication, healthier relational dynamics, and an increased capacity for intimacy — with yourself and others. Its impact is personal, professional, and systemic, touching touch dynamics, relationships, caregiving, sexuality, and broader conversations around power, safety, equity, and justice.

 

The practice is simple. The learning is nuanced. The impact is profound.

 

What You Will Learn and Practice

 

Across these three days, we will offer guided experiential practices, partner and group exercises, reflection, and gentle facilitation. You will develop embodied skills that support consent in all areas of your life:

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• Cultivate a felt sense of safety in your body and nervous system

• Connect with what genuinely feels good, nourishing, and joyful

• Notice, Value and Voice what you want, what you’re willing for, and what you’re not available for

• Recognize habitual patterns of going along and learn to interrupt them

• Recognize when others may be going along and honor their limits

• Explore the four quadrants of the Wheel — two ways to give, two ways to receive — and discover the distinct gifts of each

• Navigate power, trauma, and systemic oppression and their impact on our capacity to access choice and uphold boundaries (yours & others)

• Skillfully express desires, limits, preferences, and choices with nuance

• Learn to communicate with clarity, integrity, and relational presence

• Strengthen self-trust while deepening connection with others

• When integrated, this work naturally creates relationships grounded in clarity, ease, respect, and mutual understanding.

 

Why This Work Matters

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Professionally, these tools support practitioners in creating trauma-sensitive, empowered spaces without burning out — allowing you to offer clearer boundaries, deeper presence, and more sustainable care.

​Personally, the Wheel expands your self-awareness, your sense of choice, and your ability to experience intimacy, pleasure, and connection in ways that feel safe, nourishing, and true.

 

Workshop Details

Location

Awaken Bliss Studio

Ottawa, ON • K2B 6G2

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Dates & Hours

February 20–22, 2026

Friday, Saturday & Sunday

10:00 AM – 6:00 PM EST

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There will be several shorter breaks throughout the day, plus a 75-minute lunch break.

Tea and snacks are provided. You are responsible for your lunch.

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Group size:

A maximum 10 participants to ensure intimate facilitation, personalized support, and a safe-enough container for practice.

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Individual Integration Session

Every participant receives one private 45-minute integration and coaching call with one of the facilitators, to be scheduled within 6 months of the workshop.

 

This session supports you in applying the Wheel of Consent® to your personal, relational, or professional life with more precision and depth.

 

Training Guidelines

 

How we interact with each other in the space:

1. Confidentiality

Share only your own experience outside the room.

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2. All feelings are welcome

You do not need to justify or explain emotional processes.

Hold others’ feelings with compassion rather than fixing.

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3. Share with intention. Listen with attention

Use “I” statements. Bring awareness to power, privilege, and care.

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4. Respect names and pronouns

Approach everyone with curiosity and avoid assumptions about identity or lived experience.

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5. Stay within the stated limits of each practice:

• The workshop is fully clothed.

• No requests or offers for unclothed, genital, or sexual touch.

• All touch practices are non-sexual, and all are optional.

• You never have to touch anyone you do not want to.

• You may change your mind at any time — this is celebrated as part of the learning.

 

How we invite you to tend to yourself:

 

1. Beginner’s mind

Everything is an experiment in noticing. Take what serves you.

2. Choosing is more important than doing

Participation can include doing, watching, journaling, pausing, or stepping out.

3. Do not do anything you do not want to do

4. Self-care

Move, hydrate, rest, and resource yourself as needed.

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Sliding Scale Pricing

(Includes the full 3-day workshop plus an individual integration call)

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Ocean   — $600 (can comfortably afford travel, savings, or investments)

Lake      — $500 (stable income or access to support)

River     — $400 (can afford occasional non-essentials)

Stream — $300 (closer to living wage)

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Please choose the tier that honestly reflects your resources.

Lower-tier access is preserved for those who truly need it.

If the base rate is inaccessible, or if you need a payment plan, please contact us.

 

Accessibility & Health Considerations

 

• The studio is not wheelchair accessible (please message the host about mobility concerns

• Kindly refrain from wearing artificial scents

• If you are feeling unwell or potentially contagious, please stay home

• The space will have air filtration running throughout the workshop

 

If any aspect of accessibility presents a barrier, please contact us so we can explore options or future possibilities.

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Acknowledgments for Racialized, Disabled, and Neurodivergent Participants

 

This course is open to anyone interested in embodied consent.

We are committed to creating a safe-enough learning space and recognize that no space meets all needs.

Please reach out with any questions, needs, or requests — we will do our best to honour them.

 

Refund Policy

Due to limited space, our refund policy is as follows:

 

More than 30 days before: full refund minus $30 admin fee

15–30 days before: 50% refund, or a full refund if you help fill your spot

Less than 15 days before: no refund unless your spot can be filled

 

In case of illness or family emergency: we will attempt to refund your tuition minus unrecoverable costs, or transfer you to a future offering.​