Fully Receiving ～ Fully serving
What’s the difference between “wanting” and “being willing” and why does that matter? Why is it difficult for some of us to know what we want and desire and how can we get on a path of relearning how to? How much do we actually give ourselves permission to dive into pleasure and to be served by others through it? What could it mean to embrace the fact that what we want actually matters? Do I often find myself trying to guess what my partner(s) wants to receive from me instead of receiving clear and direct feedback? Inspired from Betty Martin's work, we'll explore the dynamic of Receiving (Accepting) and Giving (Serving) from the Wheel of Consent and we'll identify what are potential brakes that can stop us from deeply landing into those roles. As receivers, we'll explore ways to re-appropriate ourselves with the right to feel pleasure, to honor it and to be guided by it. As givers, we'll humbly try to put our performative selves aside and instead, attempt to listen sincerely to our partner(s). This creates an empowering space where their desires can flourish. This is an invitation to embrace both these roles with deep respect of each others needs, limits and consent.
by Marie-Christine Trudel-Langevin (Marie Cachou)
Marie-Christine Trudel-Langevin (Marie Cachou)
Marie Cachou is a gender-fluid artist, massage therapist, activist and sex geek originating from northern Quebec and now based in Montreal. Artistically, they are well studied as a contemporary dancer focused mainly on contact improv, burlesque and DragKing. As a facilitator, they've created many workshops around conscious intimacy, body expression and gender identity in the context of a grassroots project they've co-created in Montreal called LIIC (Laboratoire d'Intimité Insurrectionnelle Consciente) and for Touch&Play Montreal. Marie Cachou has co-created the À Corps Consentants project that strives, at its scale, to contribute to the creation of a consent culture offering accessible and embodied workshops around the topic. They are particularly interested in all means of physical re-appropriation and healing processes which they consider essential to facilitating our individual and collective emancipation from oppressive systems that contaminate our existence. They're also part of the Monotrop Colletive, a project focused on harm reduction and sensibilisation to cultural appropriation and consent in festive contexts.