Why don’t we ask for what we want, and what do we do instead?
Why can it feel so hard to verbalize our wants and needs? Whether we’ve learned to put others’ needs above our own, to make our wants and desires smaller, or to forget about them entirely—we live in a culture that often treats our needs as selfish or secondary, and teaches us to abide by social norms over intuitive choice.
What does it look like to be embodied in our yes’s and our no’s?
Betty Martin’s Wheel of Consent provides us with the tools and practices to get truly comfortable advocating for ourselves, setting boundaries, expressing our wants and needs, and accepting them fully when they come to us.
With hands-on activities to help us get out of our comfort zones and into our feeling-sense, we’ll move into the world more in-tune, more embodied, and more confident in our ability to ask for what we want, speak up for what we don’t, and get more of what we hope for.
This practice is in collaboration with Temple New York, and takes place at their lovely space. The button below will take you to their website to book!
Who’s facilitating?
Beth Poague is a disability justice, accessibility, and inclusion educator. She is trained in restorative practices and conflict resolution, including circle-keeping, transformative mediation, and group facilitation.
Passionate about pleasure, desire, and embodied “no’s,” Beth is an active practitioner of the Wheel of Consent, and is training to become an official Facilitator with the School of Consent. She strives for warm, inclusive, vulnerable spaces, where everyone feels cared for.
With a Master’s degree in Social Justice Educational Studies, Beth is interested in somatics and co-regulation, neurodivergence and trauma, healing and connection, abolition, and collective care.