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Clauses. A self-reflection
Beata Absalon Beata Absalon

Clauses. A self-reflection

The list of what we want to include as clauses in our workshop descriptions grows and grows from one workshop experience to the next. For example, it used to be enough to write that "people of all genders and sexual orientations are welcome." It is now clear that simply mentioning this is of course not enough. Because a mixed group brings its own explosive power and of course everyone is welcome, but how do you do justice to the specific challenges? Are workshop leaders able to talk about vulvas in such a way that people without an anatomical vulva but with an energetic vulva can also receive a pussy massage? Who can do that? How? And how do group leaders manoeuvre through whether a group is cool with, for example, structurally marginalized people (e.g. people with bodies on the spectrum of race, gender, age, dis_ability who have different conditions than the socially conventional norm) - without being drawn into the triggering...

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