Beyond Yes and No: Consent as a Journey Toward Knowing Oneself

In this workshop, we explore how consent intertwines with (self)-care, boundaries, and mutual respect.

You will learn about the yes-to-no spectrum and the consent-iceberg and we'll look at consent as a shared responsibility, a practice of deep listening and choice, not as something that requires enthusiasm.

We’ll talk about people-pleasing, its roots in trauma and systems of oppression, and how it pulls us away from sustainable, consensual relationships.

Through exercises and reflections, you’ll learn tools to cultivate connections based on trust, honesty, and mutual care.

The workshop will include:

• Introduction (what brings you here, names, pronouns)
• Theoretical interactive part
• Small and big group discussions
• Writing exercises
• Guided meditation and somatic grounding/movement exercises (movement exercises if the space and number of participants allow for it)

Everyone is free to opt out of any exercises. People who don't feel comfortable to talk are welcome to listen or write down questions on a paper and hand them to the facilitator in breaks so they can address the questions throughout the workshop.

About the facilitator

Ron (they/them) is a queer, trans and polyamorous person, in love with nature and animals — their safe spaces.

After growing up in Germany, they lived in Switzerland and then in London, where they studied queer, transfeminist, decolonial, and Black critical theory. From that journey, ConsentRebels was born — a project that transforms theory into practice and explores consent and boundaries through a somatic, anti-capitalist, queer, and community-centred lens.

Ron facilitates workshops on consent, people-pleasing, and perfectionism, and is currently training in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, with the dream of bringing new forms of care and embodied consent to communities and collectives.

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