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Here’s recent podcast with Marije Janssen – we cover the Wheel, of course, along with trying to define sex, sexuality, consent. Requests, offers and invitations. Also debunking a few consent
Continue readingHere’s recent podcast with Marije Janssen – we cover the Wheel, of course, along with trying to define sex, sexuality, consent. Requests, offers and invitations. Also debunking a few consent
Continue readingThis is a question that came up recently and I’d like to answer it. The Wheel of Consent is a diagram of what happens when 2 (or more) people make
Continue readingThank you, Carole, for inviting me, and offering this interview. I look forward to being there!
Continue readingThis is a recent webinar, with my friend Dr. Susan Kaye, about the Triadic Model, and the Expanded Triadic Model, in how to work with other professionals in support of
Continue readingThank you for asking about sharing the Wheel of Consent – I am thrilled that so many people are finding it useful. It’s gone around the world ahead of me!
Continue reading‘Thank you for taking care of yourself’ – That’s a sentence you’re bound to hear if you attend various workshops that have anything to do with touch or consent. However
Continue readingSomeone recently wrote to me, saying that they are working on their presentation for a conference (in Montreal!) and they had heard that in my classes I prefer people to
Continue readingA conversation Manuel Harand in Vienna. Manuel asks about, and we talk about, how I started on this path, what sex work means, how men and women differ (in general)
Continue readingHere’s an email from my archives – about why people might choose a surrogate over other forms of help or touch. Hi Betty, I met you at the recent ****
Continue readingWoo-hoo! It took a while but here ya go – A 1-page booklet on the 3 Minute Game … and the shortest possible explanation of the quadrants. To print: Set
Continue readingHere’s the recording of the webinar with Dr. Susan Kaye and myself. We talk about the Triadic model – therapist, client, body practitioner-or-surrogate. What the practitioner needs to know and
Continue readingHere’s the lovely Charlotte Cronquist, who took Like a Pro last year in Berlin. Most of her podcast is in Swedish, but for us she switched to English. This is
Continue readingThis is an exchange from a few years back – name is changed, of course. The inquiry came to me via my companion website, hence the name, ‘Beth’. Dear Beth,
Continue reading(40 min.) I discovered this one somewhat by accident, some years back, and the more I play with it, the more powerful I notice it is. The point of this
Continue readingAnother webinar! A follow up to the previous one, this time with Deej Juventin and Uma Furman. The 3 of us are facilitating In the Field, an advanced training for
Continue reading[Video here – audio is below, which you can download] February 15, 2016, with Betty, Katie Sarra of Dawlish, UK, and Curt Mason of Sydney Australia. Yes, the irony is
Continue readingHere’s the recording of our free teleclass on Jan. 6, 2016. Here you get to hear about the basic principles as well as some steps to take. (Includes bonus topic
Continue reading(5 min.) I love Harry! Here’s a clip (from a longer conversation) in which we ruminate on things related to the Taking Quadrant.
Continue reading(11 min.) I have a very different view on the G-spot massage than most people. Recorded at Like a Pro, Oakland, 2014.
Continue reading(12 min.) This is somewhat of an extension of the Bossy Massage – same principle. The receiver, or ‘client’ directs every step along the way. Once I started playing with
Continue readingThese posts are in no particular order – they are here because it’s the easiest place to put them! Most are for practitioners, but anyone is welcome. There are a
Continue readingOne of my favorite topics! ~ What is the intersection of sex work and healing work? And what are they, anyway? (1 hour, May 2011) To listen: click the link.
Continue reading(14 min.) Thank you to all the friends who so generously starred in this video! DOWNLOAD THE BOOKLET: Letter Size, for US A4 size for Europe, Australia and UK WHERE
Continue readingHere’s a series of calls from spring 2015 – Beyond the Basics, for practitioners. This is one long lesson, but in 3 parts. To listen – just click the link.
Continue reading(20 min) After the Like a Pro class in Berlin, a number of students had questions about teaching the Wheel of Consent to their students and clients. The short answer:
Continue reading( 6 min.) Here’s a clip about what most of us body workers have backwards. We tend to think the doing is what counts – but there is another piece
Continue readingthis is an email i wrote a while back, in response to a question to a group of us (my extended family), by my son, wondering if the climate crisis
Continue readingThis is not a well formed article – just some notes from last weekend. Might as well put them here as anywhere. Met with a small group of elder women
Continue readingI love facilitating groups – I love that people learn so much from each other, and both challenge and support each other. I’m part of the teaching team for Foundations
Continue readingHarry and me: get on the table, dear!
Continue reading(24 min.) An overview of basic principles about hands-on session work – what it is that creates awareness and empowerment and why the choosing is more important that the doing.
Continue readingOne Way Touch ~ How it works, how to love it, why it feeds you. What you need to know as a professional. This was at the request of a
Continue readingIs it a useful concept? Hmmm . . . depends . . . Sacred Sexuality ~ What’s the fuss? How and why it can be helpful and how it might
Continue readingA few more from the files . . . Consent, Boundaries and Mentoring professionals ~ I am interviewed by Laurie Handler on her WebTalk Radio Show. (about 45 minutes, June
Continue readingMy new friends at Angsbacka retreat in Sweden, sang happy birthday to my daughter, back in the USA, who turned 35 that day – thank you all!
Continue reading(1 hour) Harry Faddis is the inventor of the 3 Minute Game – thank you, Harry! This spring I got to finally meet Harry and we had a nice long
Continue readingHere’s the short version – just a definition. Below is the full version, with more questions and discussion with the practitioners there.
Continue reading(5 min.) Last year I had the great good fortune of teaching with Uma Furman and Deej Juventin in Australia. Next year we offer the same thing in the U.K.
Continue readingHere is the recording of last week’s [March 2016] webinar, presented by The Somatic Sex Educators Association of Canada. The prevailing theme is – What is best for the client?
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