DECEMBER 12 + 13 || Holiday Prep: Boundaries Quickie

Like boot camp for your boundaries — just in time for the holidays!

with Mia (they/them)

VIRTUAL: Thursday, December 12 + Friday, December 13, 2–4pm PT / 5–7pm ET, plus recorded content to watch at your own pace.

Recordings of live classes will be available only to students who registered for the full program in advance.

This program is founded on principles of autonomy and agency. 

I believe consent is a shared responsibility, not that of one person or demographic. I believe we must take responsibility for risks we knowingly take and choices we make, and move through regret when it comes. I don’t believe in blaming and punishing people without access to quality consent education. I believe in rehabilitation and repair. I believe we have an obligation to learn and communicate our own boundaries, as much as to ask and check in about others’. If we redirected resources toward healing, support, and education, and away from trying to identify and punish “guilty” parties (often by incarceration), we would all be better off. 

My respecting your autonomy includes trusting you to know what you need. I will support you in building a care plan at the beginning of class so you have it as tough things come up.

Beginning with consent knowledge, vocab, and frameworks, this class will help you communicate in a fraction of the time you're used to, as well as gain confidence, self-trust, and ease in your relationships with yourself and others.

Is this class for you?

Need a boost before spending time with family for the holidays? This class is like boot camp for your boundaries. It will help you identify your boundaries and express them, learn to advocate for yourself and when to let things go so you don’t waste your time and energy, and how to notice your own indicators of stress so you can go stare at yourself in the bathroom mirror and take a few deep breaths before heading back out for a cup of mulled wine.

It’s great for people who people-please, struggle to say no, feel burnt out, feel taken advantage of, or have a hard time identifying and asking for what they need. It’s also great for anyone who has been told they’re hard to say no to, tends to make indirect requests, or has been told that they’re pushy or intimidating.

You’ll learn what consent is and what it’s not, you’ll learn about the Yes-to-No Spectrum, Nonverbals, and FRIES (and what’s wrong with it), and then you’ll get practice in breakout rooms to really get this stuff into your body.

In order to explore and be creative, we have to feel safe. Consent work can give you the internal sense of safety you need to move through the world with less friction, find flow, and express yourself.

This is a trauma-informed, neurodiversity-aware approach to consent that takes the gut-brain axis into account. Consent is more than “no means no” or getting permission. Consent is a language and an embodied practice that we’re expected to understand as simply as breathing. But it’s not that simple!

This class is likely not a good fit for those who have only just dipped their toe into consent, or are at the beginning of their journey saying no. If you’ve just discovered that you haven’t been saying no, I’d recommend waiting until you’ve found your footing a little bit before signing up. This class contains some tough love, and you may want to start with a gentler approach <3

What will we be doing?

This course will give you tools to access your confidence, ask for what you want, say no, take rejection with gratitude, and advocate for yourself.

This is a hybrid live and recorded class. Before we begin, you’ll receive recordings of my classes Practice Saying No and Nonverbals (a $150 value), which will inform Class 2’s exercises.

• Class 1: What is consent? FRIES + the Consent Iceberg

• Class 2: Practice Exercises: Bringing it into the body

You’ll leave with deep, intuitive understanding of power dynamics and the tools to communicate with more nuance and subtlety. You’ll begin to access the embodied sense of your boundaries, which will help you find needed options, structure, and space for creativity in your life.

This is a skill-building intro course that will change how you think about consent and your boundaries:

• You’ll learn vocab to express yourself more clearly.

• You’ll learn to feel your boundaries and communicate them.

• You’ll practice saying “no.”

• You’ll get more in touch with your needs and desires.

• You’ll learn to feel your capacity and not go beyond it.

• You’ll feel your yes and your no in your body so you can think less.

Read what people are saying about these classes.

Payment + Pricing

This course is $99. Inquire for group rates.

You can read about why my prices are what they are on my Business + Financial Transparency page. If this is cost-prohibitive, you are always welcome to make me an offer, especially if you are in a country where the exchange rate makes this class financially inaccessible.

You can read more testimonials here.

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