Red Thread
Jotara
Watson
Year of training:
2020
Related qualification:
IEE Interactive Erotic Educator, currently completing CSSE
How many and what type of workshops/classes have you previously facilitated?
50 workshops/closed group courses and webinars since 2018 in childbirth preparation & parenting, personal development, embodied consent, sexuality and conscious relating.
What qualities do you bring to your facilitation?
Playful, embodied calming presence, somatic awareness, patience, deep listening, passionate explorer of eros, trauma informed, sex positive inclusive, empathy, curiosity, creativity & integrity.
What relevant skills and experience/qualifications do you have in addition to Sexological Bodywork?
'-FEAST facilitator assistant 2025
-25 years as a midwife, birth & parenting advocate & educator (in person & online)
-12 years in sex positive play & workshop spaces with Curious Creatures/Luscious & conscious kink with Seani Love, Matt Schwentek & Roger Butler
-Wheel of Consent facilitator & Working in Groups training
-Certified STREAM practitioner & ongoing mentorship with Ellen Heed since 2020
-Certified Interactive Erotic Educator & currently completing CSSE
-Trained in Rebirthing Breathwork, Self-Cervix, Internal Pelvic Release & Holistic Pelvic Care with Olivia Bryant, Fiona Hallinan, Jenny Blyth & Tami Lynn Kent
-Co-facilitator of professional development practice days for CSB’s
-Facilitator of monthly Wheel of Consent in person practice groups Naarm
Facilitator Bio
Jo Marie, founder of Red Thread Education, is an experienced practitioner & facilitator working with people through transitions at the intersections of birth, love & sex. Her embodied skills include being with what is, allowing not knowing & trusting erotic body intelligence. Jo co-facilitates embodied consent practice groups. Alongside Glenn Bailey, they co-facilitate professional development for Sexological Bodyworkers and Crucible of Love intimacy workshops for people from all walks of life.
Workshop 1 Name:
Crucible of Love - a touch lab exploring your pleasure
# of participants:
40 to 60 (or smaller group depending on the space available)
Workshop 1 duration:
90 Minute Workshop, 2 Hour Workshop
Equipment needed:
Speaker, Mic, Cushions, Whiteboard
Workshop 1's Intention:
• Experience extended time making/ receiving requests, receiving/giving touch.
• Learn and practice micro skills (scaffolding on basics taught at start of FEAST.)
• Practice making authentic present centred touch requests free of agenda.
• Practice deepening capacity to slow down and connect with body wisdom.
• Practice deep listening to the body, allow it to inform authentic communication.
• Experience embodied connection with the heart and loving touch.
• Notice what supports expanding/growing capacity for surrender, sensitivity, pleasure.
• Learn what supports safety when making requests, giving and receiving.
Workshop 1 rough format:
• Introductory grounding embodiment practice
• Reminder of consent agreements including facilitated guidance is an invitation and participation is about presence to person centred learning
• Workshop delivery and scaffolding of content supportive for entry level to more experienced folks participating, including an emphasis on conscious transition between activity, installing and integration throughout
• facilitated experiential embodied learning practices through solo, paired, triad, and group activity that supports participants in self-regulation, co-regulation with different people
• Small and larger group reflective practice
• Suggestions for after-care and ongoing practice offered
• Completion embodiment practice for integration
Workshop 1 program description:
Curious to connect more deeply with your body wisdom, be present to your authentic desire and ask for the touch you want?
The Crucible of Love is a deluxe opportunity offering abundant time to practice giving and receiving. Explore deepening your capacity to fully receive loving touch. Discover your pleasure ceiling, cultivate and expand your receptivity and sensitivity.
You will be invited to participate in solo, paired and group activity. We suggest coming prepared to work with a variety of people. You are welcome to practice with a specific partner for the longer paired work.
Does W1 actively invite nudity?
It's optional but not a central part
Workshop 2 Name:
Orgasmic Radiance Ritual - honouring the diversity of orgasmicity
# of participants:
40-60 (or smaller group depending on space available)
Workshop 2 duration:
90 Minute Workshop, 2 Hour Workshop, Evening Experience
Equipment needed:
Speaker, Mic, Cushions, Whiteboard
Workshop 2's Intention:
• Experience a communal erotic embodiment ritual, practicing authentic consent with self however orgasmicity shows up for each person in their chosen level of participation
• Provide enough structure and freedom for entry level and more experienced people to feel supported to fully participate in authentic consent.
• Invitation to experience intentional witnessing and appreciation
- Practice guided and inspired fundamental embodiment skills (breath, touch, sound, movement and placement of awareness).
• Potential to experience liberating shame and welcoming appreciation of one’s body.
Workshop 2 rough format:
• Grounding embodiment practice.
• Clarify the variety of how participation (up-regulated/down-regulated) and consent might look to empower people with engagement options.
• Ritual begins with solo space, transitions to larger groups, until creating one large circled group.
- Facilitators provide initial guidance of some embodiment practices transitioning to inviting rotating guidance from others in the group.
• Invitation to embody moment to moment expression of orgasmicity
• Installation time in stillness before reflection in pairs and group.
Workshop 2 program description:
Are you interested to explore your own experience of orgasmic rite of passage in community? Curious to embrace how embodied orgasmicity might show up for you, moment by moment?
The Orgasmic Radiance Ritual is a guided ritual process designed to support listening to your body wisdom and allowing it to inform your expression of orgasmicity. There will be solo and collective group learning experiences and the opportunity, if you choose, to be witnessed by others in appreciation. This can be a powerful experience for releasing shame and celebrating your erotic embodiment.
Does W2 actively invite nudity?
It's optional but not a central part
Workshop 3 Name:
Body Love - transforming shame, welcoming appreciation
# of participants:
30-50 people or smaller group
Workshop 3 duration:
1 Hour Morning Practice/Offering, 90 Minute Workshop
Equipment needed:
Speaker, Mic, Cushions, Whiteboard
Workshop 3's Intention:
• Learn and experience how intentional embodiment practice can be a pathway to transform shame and negative thoughts and beliefs about one’s body, to one of authentic appreciation.
• Offer reminder of consent framework, guidance and spaciousness, for entry level and more experienced folks to fully participate.
• Cultivate awareness of existing body narrative.
• Practice embodying a self appreciating narrative and notice its’ influence on sensation, pleasure and feelings.
-To experience pleasure mapping.
-to have an opportunity to share experiences of body shame and body appreciation.
Workshop 3 rough format:
'-Grounding embodiment practice.
-Paired listening turns on themes of body shame and body appreciation.
-Guided embodiment practices to experience a felt sense of body appreciation.
-Opportunity for being witnessed and witnessing.
-Installation, integration and after care.
Workshop 3 program description:
Do you feel shame or have judgemental beliefs about your body?
Would you like to deepen authentic appreciation for your body?
This experiential workshop offers a pathway for strengthening a felt sense of loving kindness for your body through embodied pleasure mapping and other practices.
This workshop includes solo, paired and group activity, in a space of welcoming yourself and others as you are. You might discover body shame is a shared experience. In naming shame and welcoming body love, how might you experience yourself each day?
Does W3 actively invite nudity?
It's optional but not a central part
Are you happy to facilitate support pods?
Fuck yes!
Are you interested in contributing to/facilitating at pre-retreat events
Jo Marie and I feel this is an excellent idea and are interested to facilitate an activation event. We have capacity to do this easily online and could do in-person if scheduled well in advance.
One suggestion is to facilitate a 90 min online gathering that offers a creative way for people to clarify curious questions such as what they want to learn more about sex and what they want more of in their erotic and intimate life. This could be an obligation free opportunity to experience the culture of FEAST for those that have bought tickets and those who are undecided. This may value add to FEAST by helping people in their motivation to purchase a ticket and be more intentional with their learning experience at the festival.
Is there anything else that you would like us to know as organisers?
Jo Marie and I, as recommended by Jordan, have submitted separate applications although we would be co-facilitating the same workshops. We are excited to combine our strengths and diverse experience to add value to the learning experiences of participants.
We are also both interested in contributing to the ‘laying of the practical foundations’ of FEAST by arriving earlier to help co-create the space before our Facilitator responsibilities/commitments would commence. We would love to support in this way.
We are both passionate about cultivating sex positive community and inspired to support post FEAST activity in addition to our offerings above. We feel another opportunity to add value could be to offer participants two 90 min online gatherings to support integration after attending FEAST (such as 1 week and 3 weeks post event). We have capacity to commit to specific dates and facilitate such gatherings. If this is of interest to you, we are happy to provide a specific proposal of intention, rough format, and description.