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Interview with & introduction by Betty Martin

In the time since joining the faculty with the School of Consent, I’ve been teaching regularly and deepening my experiences with the Wheel of Consent. Recently, I had the honor of being interviewed by my teacher and mentor, Dr. Betty Martin, as an introduction to the faculty. Watch it here!

What does it mean to be on the faculty at the School of Consent? A big part of what it means is that I get to teach the course offered by the school called Like A Pro. It’s basically the Wheel of Consent for professionals, especially those who work one-on-one with clients.

Want to bring Like A Pro to a location near you? First, check the calendar here and see if one of the in-person or online offerings fit your needs, desires and options. Just this past year, we offered Like A Pro in Michigan, based on the request and organizing willingness of locals who wanted to build a community of practitioners with a shared set of practices and skills. You can reach out to me and I can walk you through the process.

What’s the difference between Like A Pro and a Wheel of Consent workshop? Like A Pro is a 5 day intensive (when in person) and is designed specifically for professionals, especially those who work with clients. Originally, Betty Martin was the only teacher of this work. Now there are a small number of us who have trained directly with her. A Wheel of Consent workshop is for anyone interested in experiencing and learning the Wheel. Anyone who is a Certified Facilitator of the Wheel of Consent can offer a Wheel of Consent workshop. Luckily, I can do both. Upcoming workshops can be found here. Want to bring a Wheel of Consent workshop to your community? Please reach out and be in touch! I would love to find out what’s possible.

The Wheel of Consent, naming the dynamics of Take-Allow and Serve-Accept, and showing how receiving and giving interact with doing and done to

Diagram of the Wheel of Consent

August 20, 2025/by Sasha Lasdon

Consent, practices, Uncategorized, workshops

Like A Pro in Manchester MI Feb 26-March 2, 2025

We are bringing Like A Pro to the Midwest! Apply to join us for Like A Pro in Manchester, Michigan Feb 26-March 2, 2025!

I’ve been teaching Like A Pro online and assisting for and co-teaching Like A Pro in person for the past two years. It’s a deeply enjoyable and enriching experience. I keep learning so much! Like A Pro is the Wheel of Consent for Professionals. Geared for those who work with clients and individuals. I’ve been working towards bringing this training closer to home, geographically speaking. Want to know more? (for example, what is the Wheel of Consent?) Want to help me create a Wheel of Consent community of practitioners? Come train with us!

Like a Pro brings the transformative model of the Wheel of Consent to professionals working with topics of consent, boundaries, relational intimacy, body sovereignty, trauma recovery, sexuality, communication, and touch. Originally developed for touch practitioners, the course has, by popular demand, expanded to include non-touch professionals like therapists, coaches, teachers, and workshop leaders.

Like a Pro guides you into a personal somatic experience of The Wheel, and then teaches you how to integrate it into your practice, to make all your sessions safe, effective, and satisfying.

Like a Pro is for you if…

You have a professional practice and…

you want to bring the Wheel into the one-on-one work you are offering
you’ve read the book and you want to practice what you’ve been learning
you’ve taken a Wheel of Consent workshop or been introduced to the Wheel in another training and want to go deeper
you want to clarify the dynamics of working with clients
You are a body worker, physical therapist, psychotherapist, healer, sex worker, teacher, workshop leader, life coach, intimacy or relationship coach, surrogate partner, cuddle therapist, tantric practitioner, massage therapist – if you work with people, you need this course!

December 16, 2024/by Sasha Lasdon

Consent, practices, workshops

Becoming Faculty at the School of Consent

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined the faculty with the School of Consent! What does this mean? It means that I will be helping to teach the 5 day course, Like A Pro, both online and in-person. This course teaches you the practice of the Wheel of Consent and how to apply it with or teach it to your clients, patients, or individuals you work with. Like a Pro gives you the opportunity to experience and embody the Wheel as well as ways to share it with your clients.

You might have seen that I teach Wheel of Consent workshops, both in 6-week series and in 3-day intensives. These are geared towards anyone who would like to experience the practice of the wheel for themselves and with others. I became a Certified Facilitator with the School of Consent in 2021 to be able to offer these. Like A Pro is that material, plus how to apply it to your professional life. A deeper dive and well worth it!

I’ve assisted with other teachers these past couple of years, building my experience with the curriculum and flow. I will continue to assist (next up: Like A Pro in Salt Lake City March 2024! Apply here!) and will now begin to co-teach Like A Pro with my colleagues.

A diagram of the Wheel of Consent. It shows four quadrants that include the dynamics of Take and Allow, Serve and Accept. The practices of the Wheel of Consent show us how to differentiate doing for me, doing for you, being done to for me and being done to for you.

To find out more about about my trainings, experience and skills, click here. I will still offer sessions to individuals, couples and moresomes. Please be in touch to find out more! I’d love to hear from you.

January 15, 2024/by Sasha Lasdon

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Wheel of Consent class in person, Chicago! August 18-20

We have POSTPONED this event until the spring of 2024 due to family medical emergencies for both facilitators. STAY TUNED!

We invite you to join us for a Wheel of Consent practice laboratory in a six week online course! Register Here

Why is it so hard to ask for what we want? What gets in our way? How can we learn to know what we want, trust in our own desires, and communicate that to others?

I keep exploring these questions as I delve deeper into working with the https://www.schoolof consent.org/ as a Wheel of Consent Certified Facilitator. The model of the Wheel and the exercises that help us learn about it help us with questions about ‘who is it for’? Who is the gift of our actions for? Is it for me or is it for them? These practices help us discern and tease apart who is doing an action and who is it for. It anchors it in practices that help us notice our wants, trust ourselves that what we want is real, value that we are allowed to want what we want, and to communicate it with clarity.

Where do we practice these skills? I’ll be co-teaching a weekend workshop with my friend and colleague, Max Pearl August 18-20, 2023. Join us!

In this workshop, we will take time to explore how to notice what we want. We will practice naming our desires, honing our senses for feeling ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in our bodies. We’ll practice listening and being listened to. We will wake up our senses together to build trust in ourselves first, and in each other as we communicate. Asking for what we want can feel daunting, and it gets easier with practice. Max and I set a spacious, compassionate container to explore and practice in a low-stakes environment.

Register Here

or see more about the event on my events page.

Because of who we are as teachers, we offer a space that raises up marginalized voices instead of mostly the default white, western, cis/het voice. We are offering a coalition space (hat-tip to Bernice Johnson Reagon) for practicing and learning the Wheel of Consent. It is a learning space for us to practice together, even when it is uncomfortable, with a vision towards and supporting our shared growth. For this workshop, we will reserve 50% of the participant list for BIPOC registrants in order to fully inhabit that coalition space. (Why are we doing this?)

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May 23, 2023/by Sasha Lasdon

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Wheel of Consent online practice laboratory offered again!

We invite you to join us for a Wheel of Consent practice laboratory in a six week online course! Register Here

Why is it so hard to ask for what we want? What gets in our way? How can we learn to know what we want, trust in our own desires, and communicate that to others?

I keep exploring these questions as I delve deeper into my training with the https://www.schoolof consent.org/ as a Wheel of Consent Certified Facilitator. The model of the Wheel and the exercises that help us learn about it help us with questions about ‘who is it for’? Who is the gift of our actions for? Is it for me or is it for them? These practices help us discern and tease apart who is doing an action and who is it for. It anchors it in practices that help us notice our wants, trust ourselves that what we want is real, value that we are allowed to want what we want, and to communicate it with clarity.

Where do we practice these skills? I’ll be co-teaching a 6-week online workshop with my friend and colleague, Max Pearl starting in March 2022. Join us!

In this practice laboratory, we will take time to explore how to notice what we want. We will practice naming our desires, honing our senses for feeling ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in our bodies. We’ll practice listening and being listened to. We will wake up our senses together to build trust in ourselves first, and in each other as we communicate. Asking for what we want can feel daunting, and it gets easier with practice. Each week will build on the last.

Register Here

or see more about the event on my events page.

Because of who we are as teachers, we offer a space that raises up marginalized voices instead of mostly the default white, western, cis/het voice. We are offering a coalition space (hat-tip to Bernice Johnson Reagon) for practicing and learning the Wheel of Consent. It is a learning space for us to practice together, even when it is uncomfortable, with a vision towards and supporting our shared growth.

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January 18, 2023/by Sasha Lasdon

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Wheel of Consent online learning laboratory

We invite you to join us for a Wheel of Consent online learning laboratory!

Why is it so hard to ask for what we want? What gets in our way? How can we learn to know what we want, trust in our own desires, and communicate that to others?

I keep exploring these questions as I delve deeper into my training with the https://www.schoolof consent.org/ as a Wheel of Consent Certified Facilitator. The model of the Wheel and the exercises that help us learn about it help us with questions about ‘who is it for’? Who is the gift of our actions for? Is it for me or is it for them? But even before that, how can we notice, trust, value, and communicate what we want?

Where do we practice these skills? I’ll be co-teaching a 6-week online workshop with my friend and colleague, Max Pearl starting in March 2022. Join us!

In this practice laboratory, we will take time to explore how to notice what we want. We will practice naming our desires, honing our senses for feeling ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in our bodies. We’ll practice listening and being listened to. We will wake up our senses together to build trust in ourselves first, and in each other as we communicate. Asking for what we want can feel daunting, and it gets easier with practice. Each week will build on the last.

To register: https://bit.ly/MarchWheelCourse

or see more about the event on my events page

Because of who we are as teachers, we offer a space that raises up marginalized voices instead of mostly the default white, western, cis/het voice. We are offering a coalition space (hat-tip to Bernice Johnson Reagon) for practicing and learning the Wheel of Consent. It is a learning space for us to practice together, even when it is uncomfortable, with a vision towards and supporting our shared growth.

January 18, 2022/by Sasha Lasdon

blog, workshops

An event: Creating home in our bodies: gender contentment through mindfulness and movement

I will be co-facilitating this offering on Nov. 6, 2021 with my colleague and friend, Max Pearl. It is specifically for trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people.

Here’s the description:
As trans and NB/gnc people, we may experience our bodies as a place of conflict, dysphoria or unease. Do you wonder how to attend to and change that? Do you want to find a place of contentment with your body and your gender? Do you want greater access to joy and gender euphoria?

Join us for a day long retreat where we will introduce you to embodied mindfulness, self-compassion, and attending to pleasure. Practicing these can lead us to acceptance of ourselves, making rootedness and pleasure an ordinary experience in our daily lives. We will nourish gender contentment by supporting the movement of our baselines from dysphoria and discomfort towards gender euphoria.

Find out more (including registration link) on the Events page! We would love to have you join us!

October 13, 2021/by Sasha Lasdon

Wheel of Consent online learning laboratory

An event: Creating home in our bodies: gender contentment through mindfulness and movement

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