Abundant Body
Stella
Topaz
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Facilitator Bio
I am a certified sexological bodyworker, a Wheel of Consent® facilitator, and an erotic educator. Becoming a registered nurse in the 80’s, I carry 40 years’ experience from nursing in community-based women’s health, sexual health, HIV, and LGBTIQA+ health.
I’m a queer, white-bodied older femme, valuing cultures of care, intergenerational queer kinships, and embodied consent practices. I work in-person and online with individuals, couples and thruples, and offer groups, workshops, speaking requests and peer consultation.
My work centres an embodied approach to choosing, consent, and pleasure. I teach people about their bodies, to notice their desires and limits, and to experience choice. This includes practicing ways to communicate with others, whether in sexual or non-sexual interactions.
I am on the training team and faculty of the School of Consent and run my own 2-day Wheel of Consent® workshops for general community as well as queer-only.
Through the Wheel of Consent® I have learned radically clear agreement making and its transformational role in relationships with self and others; in sex, play, kink and community making, and in everyday relating.
I live on unceded Aboriginal land - Dharawal country - on the South Coast of NSW, Australia.
Workshop 1 Name:
Storytime for Lovely Bodies
# of participants:
20+
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Workshop 1's Intention:
Story telling for adults: people get to gather around and be read to, to look at pictures, strike imagination, and then turn there focus to their own body and develop a very short story, with the option to then read it to the group!
I ran this last year and want to build on that / develop it! The title may change I'm still thinking.
Workshop 1 rough format:
Invites participation
I will also read a story to the group - this year I might write it tbc
Solo and paired activities (guided - no touch necessary)
Reflect on own body & lived experiences (guided)
Develop a focus from own body to create an idea for a short story
Help each other to prepare a story (groups of 2-4)
Option to present a story to the whole group (1-2mins max)
Be in audience to other people's stories
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Could I please have a little more time to send this in?
Workshop 2 Name:
You, me and the space between
# of participants:
10-25
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Workshop 2's Intention:
To play with personal space, proximity to others, and how these feel in the body. Opportunities to choose how to explore this with touch or non-touch activities, to notice impulses, choices and limits in relation to self and others. Based on Wheel of Consent, experiential.
Workshop 2 rough format:
Opening round. A range of opt-in games / activities that may or may not include touch. Some solo, some paired or trios, some the whole group, Reflection between each activity. Closing round.
Workshop 2 program description:
I am yet to write this! Similar to the one last year but this one is a bit more of a 'theatre games' approach.
I am happy to tailor this one to be complementary to the ones you are planning with the whole group around consent and choice and limits etc.
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