Pleasure (your) Chest: A Workshop Series for Transmasculine Folks
- Hosted by Beloved Coaching
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Join us for an experiential workshop series specifically created for trans masculine folks who have completed top surgery; holding space in community to explore grief, consent and pleasure from an embodied understanding.
Throughout the process of pursuing top surgery you can become so focused on the final outcome that you have to compartmentalize the myriad of emotions that are felt along the way. The medical team can prepare you for the healing process from surgery, but doesn’t have the knowledge or the capacity to teach you how to explore pleasure in your body as it is in this moment. Quite often you overlook certain losses and the grief that come with them to focus on the fact that you finally have had your surgery. This is a space to express the fullness of your experience and learn skills to support your body and your pleasure.
This Workshop is For You:
- If you have had any type of masculinizing top surgery
- If you have noticed complicated feelings during or after the surgical process
- If feeling into boundaries and embodying consent are skills you want to learn or practice
- If you want more access to, and practices that support, your pleasure
- If you want to feel more at home in your body
This offering is our love letter to post-op trans masculine spectrum people.
Session One: Establishing the Group Container
Session Two: Dipping Our Toes into Grief
Session Three: Learn and Practice Embodied Consent
Session Four: Individual Pleasure Practices to Expand Erotic Possibility
Other Important Details:
Location: Private Zoom Room with Captions
Dates: Saturdays in September 9th, 16th, 23rd, & 30th
Time: 10am-12pm PST
Cost: $250- Full price: For those who are gainfully employed and/or have other trappings of financial security like owning a home or having access to intergenerational wealth. Folks who can pay this price help make it possible for us to offer the other scales to those who need it. If you pay the full price and would like to further contribute to access for others, you can contribute to our community care fund.
$175- Medium price: For folks who may have consistent income, but also have consistent significant draws to your funds like rent that’s too damn high and/or credit card or medical debt. Folks who pay this middle price help support the livelihood of the providers while also taking into consideration the need to be modest with their spending.
$125- Budget price: For folks who may have inconsistent or insufficient access to income, including gig workers, emerging artists and disabled folks without support pensions to compensate for their inconsistent ability to perform within capitalism. If this price is outside of your ability and you would like to participate in the course, we have created the community care fund to help provide scholarship opportunities- be in touch with us by email (jess@belovedcoaching.net or softtouchbodies@gmail.com).
Payment Plans:
Payments are collected through the scheduling platform “Practice Better” which allows participants to schedule payments on a delayed payment schedule, spreading the cost out over 5 months. At this payment schedule the monthly payments are as follows $50/month full price, $35/month medium price, $25/month budget price. All fees must be paid in full within 5 months of the start of the class.
Please check out our fundraising efforts to support future students access to scholarships and bursaries for hands on scar support bodywork. LINK to Community Care Fund
Space for 10-15 participants.
Testimonials:
I appreciate the small group. Originally, I wanted a larger group so I could hide and not necessarily contribute but the smallness allowed for a really intimate connection and for me to actually share my experience in ways I do not normally. This workshop helped me hold grief for something that also brought me the deepest sense of joy and presence in my body. Both can exist together and must be honored. Thank you for that. I am deeply appreciative of this experience.
- anon -
What did you take away from this workshop?
I have the choice to give consent or to withhold it. I can embody that power of choice. My scars are a part of me and I can live in this body and experience pleasure. I can know with 100% certainty that top surgery was the right decision for me, and still experience grief about losing a part of my body.
- Ellis -
Meet the Facilitators:
Jess DeVries (she/her) is a queer cisgender somatic sex and intimacy coach trained in the Somatica method and trained in somatic sex education and sexological bodywork. She primarily serves the queer/trans community to support folks in reclaiming body autonomy and to inspire curiosity about pleasure and sexual expression including expanding possibilities of what sex can be and guiding folks to define and pursue pleasure on their own terms. In addition to her pleasure work, she is a grief advocate who regularly facilitates spaces for people to grieve, inviting the wisdom of the body to guide the grief process. She understands that there is a deep kinship between pleasure and grief and believes that they both deserve to be tended as full experiences of our humanity.
Kori is a queerly gendered parent, caregiver and freelance community educator based in Lekwungan territories. They have worked in the field of community organizing, sexual health, harm reduction and supporting groups and individuals in visioning liberatory futures for many years, on and off, while also tending to the human needs of recovering from injuries and surgeries, gestating and parenting a small human, tending home and family in the face of cancer and chronic illnesses, fleeing violence and the other unexpected turns that punctuate this life. They are a student of the Institute for Somatic Sex Education and are passionate about bodies, pleasure, and imagining our ways past colonial mythologies of scarcity and disconnection. They descend from European settlers and walk through the world with access usually granted to white men; utilizing these privileges with integrity is a project that they try to approach with humility and nuance.