From Harm to Healing: A Guide to Community Accountability

with Adam and Ash from Consent Academy

a live and recorded three-hour class from Wicked Grounds

11/15 10am - 1pm Pacific

Advanced ticketing required to attend live or through the recording. Get yours through Forbidden Tickets or Plura.

And RSVP on FetLife to let friends know you're coming.

Harm happens -- from abuse of power to consent incidents and violations. When it does, it creates ripples through the lives of the people involved and the community as a whole. Sometimes these events are handled well. Too often they're not, which frequently leads to more harm.

Join us for a look at new ways to deal with harm that works to support the person harmed, foster accountability for the person who did the harm, and manage the response for the community at large–including transforming conditions that allow harm to arise in the first place."

Consent Academy is an educational collective founded in 2016 in Seattle, WA, currently with staff and volunteers all over the world. We believe consent is a part of everyday life, and its practice builds stronger, safer, and more connected communities. Our approach incorporates disciplines of psychology, sociology, public health, psychotherapy, and personal coaching to create a systemic view of how consent impacts everyone, from the bedroom to the boardroom.

INSTRUCTOR:

Adam is a community organizer, mediator, conflict transformation facilitator, kink and consent educator, and ongoing learner. Their passions lie at the intersections of disability justice, neurodivergence accessibility, trauma-informed care, consent, embodied somatics, harm reduction, and systems transformation. They desire to help people relate in safer, skillful ways that are trauma-, power-, and risk-informed. Adam is an educator with several groups including The Consent Academy, advocating for consent from the individual level to the systemic. They do consent and accountability work in many contexts and community spaces, from organizing spaces to the sex+ world. Adam sees this work as intersectional, directly connected to the better, more liberatory world they want to live in.

**Asha Lerae** has been a part of Consent Academy since 2018, teaching established curriculum, creating new workshops, facilitating discussion groups, and acting as a consent advocate and consultant. She became Co-director of Consent Academy in January, 2022. She is passionate about consent education as a way to reduce trauma, promote pleasure and eroticism, support accountability, and foster cultural change that balances autonomy with responsibility. Asha is also an adjunct faculty member at Antioch University Seattle, an AnteUp! certified sexuality, gender, and justice educator, a certified abortion doula, and somatic sex educator.

TICKETING:

https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/f9d4f12406

We offer a sliding scale, so that cost is not a barrier to attendance.

The regular ticket is $45 for this three-hour class. This is what most people should pay. Choose the level you can comfortably afford on our $30-$80 sliding scale.

Patreon members at the VIP+ level may get discounted tickets for $15. Just see your Patreon membership emails for this month's discount code. Find out more at Patreon.com/WickedGrounds!

If cost is a barrier at any level, please use the "Volunteer List" to request a free scholarship ticket. We will award as many scholarship tickets as we can on a space-available basis.

ACCESS:

This will be a live, online class offered through Zoom. To participate, you may need to download the free, basic version of the Zoom app before the class! This class will be recorded.

Zoom now provides closed captioning, which will be available for this event.