Vanessa
Vance
Vanessa K Vance is a Creative Arts Therapist, Consent Educator, and Somatic Sex Educator based in Western Australia. She holds a Master of Creative Arts Therapies, a Bachelor of Counselling, a Certificate in Sexological Bodywork and is a certified Wheel of Consent® facilitator. She is the founder of Consent Craft, an initiative offering online and in-person workshops, courses, and consultancy on embodied consent, communication, and relational wellbeing.
Vanessa is working towards a PhD at La Trobe University and the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS), researching consent and embodiment. In 2026, Vanessa stepped in to serve in an eldership role at FEAST, offering care, guidance, and stewardship in service of the community’s values and wellbeing.
Workshops
Ground & Gather Art Space | Ongoing
Vanessa is offering a communal art space at FEAST as a place to rest, reflect, and integrate your festival experiences. It is an open, drop-in space where people can make art, sit quietly, connect with others, or simply be, at their own pace.
Artmaking is optional and self-directed, with no expectation to create anything in a particular way. No art experience is required, and guidance is available if wanted. The space is held as a shared place for exploration, grounding, and integration.
Wanting & Willing: A Wheel of Consent Workshop
This Wheel of Consent workshop explores the distinction between wanting and willing, and how these show up in lived, embodied experience. Wanting and willing are often mistaken for the same thing.
Through the Wheel of Consent, the differences become clearer, offering practical skills for getting what you want, staying within your limits, and creating interactions that work for everyone.
The session invites participants to notice desire, limits, and choice as they arise in real time through simple, consent-based practices. It supports people to build and refine communication and boundary skills that can be useful during the festival and beyond. This workshop is suitable for both beginners and those with prior experience.