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A Feast for the Senses – A Celebration of Spring!

Name: A Feast for the Senses – A Celebration of Spring!
Start: 2023-04-01T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-04-02T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Utrecht Kanaalweg – see email

01/04/2023 @ 10:00 - 02/04/2023 @ 19:00 CEST

A Feast for the Senses – Deepening the relationship with yourself, others and life through pleasure, sensuality, and teasing. A Celebration of Spring!

The winter is almost over. Nature is slowly waking up. We are slowly waking up!

This weekend is for everyone. Whether single, coupled, throupled, solo-poly or otherwise, Young, older, wise, or wet behind the ears. This weekend is a deep dive into our own pleasure packed in a feast for the senses.

>>> As this is a brand-new weekend, I celebrate by offering the tickets for the lowest price possible. Next edition tickets will be at full price again. <<<

How much do you allow yourself to feel?
How large is your capacity for receiving (oh yes, this is a skill you can train!)
Which pathways for pleasure have lay undiscovered, waiting for you to explore them?
Which intimacy languages work for me?

This brand new weekend is all about taking pleasure in different ways, about getting as intimate as we can get. It’s research into what makes us tingle while accepting that there may be things that don’t work for us too (and that is perfectly valid information). It’s the juiciest laboratory imaginable.

Elements you will find this weekend:

stimulation for all the senses. Your eyes, ears, mouth, nose and skin will be tickled.
the usual build-up. Getting in touch with your inner guidance system and boundaries before anything else.
slow pace, because the slower we go, the more we feel…
shorter exercises to meet different faces (if you want to – you are also welcome to stay with your partner) and longer exercises to dive deeper
neuroscience, baby! A workshop is great, but how about we invite our neural pathways to rewire for structural change – for the better?

Things we may play with:

stimulating all the senses: the eyes, nose, ears, skin, and mouth
touch, including sensual touch, but underpants stay on (it’s a pink event) and no touching of naked genitals.
tools like rope, food, blindfolds, feathers, etc
exercises and inspiration from the Wheel of Consent, Ritual Play, eclectic neo-tantra, consciously chosen power dynamics
practicing teasing, seduction, anticipation. How can we build up pleasure even more?

This weekend is a weekend to nourish yourself. It’s all about deepening your relationship with yourself, and/or your partner(s), and/or new friends, and/or life as a whole. You are tickled to shake patterns and find new ways to meet. To bring healing to insecure and unloved parts of yourself.

This event welcomes folks from all walks of life. We are LGBTQIIA+ informed (Wilrieke and most of their team identify as such), $lut-friendly, trauma-informed, and non-monogamy informed. White folks are overrepresented in our team and life experiences are coloured through that lens. We do come from different social backgrounds and have different life experiences when it comes to health, wealth, neurodiversity, gender, sexual orientation, etc.

We welcome folks with disabilities. We can adapt exercises so that they fit you. Where we can we will support you. If you have a person/animal that supports you in daily activities that you need to bring for your care, they can of course come with you without buying a ticket. Please reach out if you have special needs, and we will discuss how we can support you. In case we cannot comfort your needs, we will honestly let you know.

Accessibility of this specific venue: The elevators in this building are out of function – the owner won’t fix this to our regret. There are stairs to enter the building. On the ground floor is an all-access bathroom. The workshop is on the first floor. There are two stairs to get there. There are several bathrooms on the first floor (no all-access bathrooms), and a kitchen with lunch facilities. There are mattresses in the workshop space.

Timings:

Saturday: 10.00h – 18.00h (doors open at 9.30h)
Sunday: 11.00h – 19.00h

About Wilrieke Sophia:

Wilrieke Sophia (they/them) is a sex & intimacy educator, conscious kink facilitator, intimacy activist, TEDx speaker, writer, and founder of Exploring Deeper and Cuddle Workshops International.
They identify as queer, sex-positive, polyamorous and kinky. Wilrieke is based near Amsterdam, The Netherlands where they openly combine being a mother of three daughters with their work.

The main focus of their work is empowerment through self-knowledge and understanding, radical self-inclusion, the embodied experiencing of boundaries and desires, and an extensive practice of consent – all based on a foundation of trauma awareness and neuroscience, embedded in experiential spaces based on intimacy practices. Wilrieke hosts sex-positive retreats, play parties, teacher training, and festivals. In several projects with colleagues, Wilrieke creates workshops and materials on accountability, abuse and power dynamics in the intimacy and wellness communities.

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About Exploring Deeper:

We all need touch. Here at Exploring Deeper, we believe that satisfying intimacy needs to be available for everyone. To have that intimacy, a person needs to feel safe and secure in their own body. We need to know our boundaries and desires, and we need to know how to communicate them. How does a person change their life? By doing things differently, and then repeating that new way. When it comes to intimacy, our current society does not provide us with the means, tools, and places to practice our intimacy skills.

Exploring Deeper aims to create those spaces. Laboratories for exploring intimacy – deeper. We do that by creating events, sessions, materials, and professional training. All our products and services are based on the pillars of solidarity and inclusion. This means our events are meant to be a welcoming place to you, independent of race, gender, age (though 18+), sexual orientation, relationship style, being neurodivergent or neurotypical, being disabled or non-disabled, or looks.

We acknowledge everyone is learning and may make mistakes in addressing others, ourselves included. Making mistakes is welcomed in our workshops. Intentionally causing harm by discrimination, racism, misogyny, shaming, bullying, spreading disinformation etc is not tolerated. As a team, we are actively speaking up against these issues, and repeated misconduct will lead to removing the person causing harm from the workshop and potentially withholding access to future events.

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A few words on team ethics:

Integrity and creating a safer space are super important to us, the team of Exploring Deeper. You, the participants, are not our personal dating pool. There are power dynamics that can be juicy, but also abusive.

Members of our team, regardless of their role (which may be facilitator, assistant, co-facilitator, helper or participant) will not individually date people they meet in the workshop. They will not have any form of fluid exchange with participants.

We might support you in your exercises or provide a service during the play party (we’re always keen on helping you improve your spanking skills for example!).

If we have pre-existing partners or lovers in the workshop, we will disclose that at the opening of the workshop when appropriate.

If you are curious about our Guidelines for Team Members, feel free to check the full document out here: https://exploringdeeper.com/ethics

Some Practicalities

In the week before the event, you will receive an email with detailed information about this training. Make sure you sign up with an email address that you use. Check your spam filter if you did not receive an email seven days before the event.

LOCATION
The weekend takes place in Utrecht, Kanaalweg.

ACCESSIBILITY OF THIS LOCATION

The elevators in this building are out of function – the owner won’t fix this to our regret. There are stairs to enter the building. On the ground floor is an all-access bathroom. The workshop is on the first floor. There are two stairs to get there. There are several bathrooms on the first floor (no all-access bathrooms), and a kitchen with lunch facilities. There are mattresses in the workshop space.

SLEEPING

The workshop doesn’t include standard lodging. There are options nearby.

WHAT DO I EAT?
We will provide tea and water. Feel free to bring snacks, and bring food if you are here for the afternoon as well.

WHAT DO I WEAR?
Wear what makes you feel comfortable during the workshops. Bring some layers, as you might get hot or cold.

HOW MUCH IS IT?
You find that info in the ticket shop. There is a limited amount of budget tickets, meant for people with limited financial resources. We trust you to choose the ticket that fits your situation.

WHAT DOES THE COLOUR CODE OF THIS EVENT MEAN?
We use a system of colours to explain what happens in an event with regards to sexuality:
White: clothes stay on, there is no sexuality or nudity. (e.g. cuddle workshops.)
Pink: partial nudity is allowed but genïtals stay covered. Sensual play is possible. (e.g. energy sex workshops and pink play parties.)
Red: full nudïty and sexual interactions are possible (e.g. exploring kink, red play parties.)

WHAT IF I CAN’T COME ANYMORE?
There are administration costs involved, but refunds are possible. You are free to sell your ticket to someone else, e.g. in the Facebook group Exploring Deeper Online Community. We don’t mediate in selling tickets. See Wilrieke’s terms and conditions for all details. In case we send pre/aftercare emails, forward them to the person you sold your ticket to.

WHAT IF TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT?
You can ask for a ticket at the Facebook event or in the Facebook group Exploring Deeper Online Community.

WHAT IF I DON’T FEEL LIKE TOUCHING SOMEONE?
Then you don’t. We will never push you to do anything, nor to do anything with anyone. You can come, decide to keep all your clothes on and not touch anyone – and that’s perfect. You can also always sit out an exercise.

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COVID: Check our COVID-19 protocols here. We may ask for a self-test of max 24hr old for this event.

Ticket holders will be informed prior to the event through email. Always check your SPAM folder. If you have signed out for Wilrieke’s emails, these emails won’t reach you. Reach out to Wilrieke if you did not get any information seven days before the event.

For this workshop, Exploring Deeper’s Terms and Conditions apply.