Workshop: Rethinking Break-ups: A Guide to Decoupling & De-escalation

Major shifts in our relationships are inevitable, but we are conditioned to avoid them, ESPECIALLY any form of de-escalating or decoupling. We rarely, if at all, see representations of romantic partners amicably decoupling or de-escalating their relationship. Most representations of breakups or pauses depict a couple in conflict, distressed, and heartbroken. The fear of losing an attachment bond can be challenging to navigate, but it doesn’t mean you or the relationship failed.

​The social pressures of remaining in relationship dynamics that no longer serve us bar us from realizing our authentic needs and desires.

​Rethinking Break-ups: A Guide to Decoupling & De-escalation provides a roadmap for navigating major relationship shifts with compassion, grace, and self-assurance.

​Key takeaways:

1. ​Deconstructing mainstream representations of "break-ups" and how to step off the “relationship escalator”
2. ​Understanding emotional thresholds, boundaries, and personal limits
3. ​Initiating and warmly welcoming shifts in romantic relationships
4. ​Outlining a "de-escalation" process + tools to move through it
5. ​New perspectives on "decoupling" + templates, ceremonies, and rituals on how to have a conscious, proactive, and loving decoupling

​Presenter Bio:

​Bear (he/him) & Fifi (they/ella) are certified Tantric practitioners, educators, and event producers. They share practices and perspectives for deeper, more fulfilling intimate relationships, and curate consensual spaces for people to engage mindfully with embodied play. Their mission is to eradicate oppressive social binaries, address the personal barriers that limit human connection, and offer ways of relating that center collective care. Bear & Fifi are a queer/trans polyamorous couple, born, raised, and based in New York City. Follow them on instagram at @BEARXFIFI.

​Join us at Madame X at 6pm for pre-workshop drinks.

​7PM Workshop.

​8:30pm Mixer