Trauma can disrupt our trust in what our bodies feel and our relationship with pleasure. Reclaiming pleasure means becoming aware of what feels good, meaningful, and alive in our experience.
Join our workshop to explore how consent, embodiment, and agency can support that process - in movement, within ourselves, and with others.
Saturday, September 26th
10:00am – 1:00pm CST / 11:00am – 2:00pm EST
3-hour LIVE virtual workshop + 30-day replay.
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Register HereWhat Do We Mean by Pleasure?
Pleasure is bigger than the word usually gets credit for.
In this workshop, pleasure may include curiosity, rest, movement, connection, desire, eroticism, satisfaction, play, comfort, agency, and sensation, the experience of being able to choose what feels right for you.
We examine pleasure as a capacity for embodied information and agency, rather than something that must be earned, sexualized, performed, or optimized.
WHAT SHAPES IT:
- Your body, and what it currently has access to
- Your relationships, and who's in the room
- Your environment, and who's watching or who's safe
- Power, culture, and identity: whose pleasure gets recognized and whose gets policed
- Access: to time, to safety, to the ability to choose at all
What's Covered In This Workshop
Part 1: Foundations of Pleasure
Why pleasure matters, shared language, trauma's impact, expanding the definition of pleasure, embodied agency and erotic power
Part 2: Applied Practice
The SPACE Framework, capacity and interoception, real-time communication practice, integration and action planning
This is an interactive workshop designed to move beyond information and into practical application.
Participants will:
- Understand how trauma, power, and context can shape experiences of desire, pleasure, safety, and choice.
- Expand your understanding of pleasure beyond sex to include embodiment, connection, sensation, agency, and everyday experience.
- Apply the SPACE Framework—Safety, Pleasure, Awareness, Communication, and Empathy—to real-world consent and relationship scenarios.
- Recognize how trauma responses and shifts in capacity can influence communication, desire, boundaries, and decision-making.
- Practice real-time communication tools for expressing desire, uncertainty, boundaries, and changing preferences while maintaining connection.
- Develop greater awareness of interoception and embodied choice as tools for recognizing what you want, what you need, and when something has changed.
"We don't need to be fully healed to deserve joy, connection, or freedom.
Trauma may walk beside us, but so can pleasure.
And pleasure, with or without a life jacket, is still our birthright."
Candace Liger, Creator of Trauma Informed Consensual Kink
Who is this workshop for?
Professionals who want to deepen their practice
- Mental health professionals
- Coaches and strength professionals
- Sex educators and sexuality professionals
- Bodyworkers and somatic practitioners
- Educators and community facilitators
- Professionals working with trauma-impacted populations
People exploring their own relationship with consent and pleasure
- Anyone interested in developing greater awareness of their boundaries, desires, capacity, and communication
- People navigating changes in how they experience intimacy, connection, or pleasure
- People who want practical tools for making and communicating choices in real time
Trauma informed consent invites us to understand how capacity, nervous system responses, embodiment, communication, desire, power, and context shape our ability to make and experience pleasureable choices in real time.
Trauma often distorts a person's relationship to touch, power, and desire, and this workshop treats the reclamation of pleasure as a legitimate, necessary part of trauma recovery and embodiment.
This workshop introduces a trauma-informed approach to consent and pleasure. At its center is a belief that pleasure and eroticism are pathways to healing, not indulgences separate from it.
Participants in this workshop will build the capacity to access pleasure through practical tools for consent, communication, and embodied choice.
The Facilitators
This workshop is led by facilitators who work at the intersection of trauma and embodiment, bringing complementary expertise in trauma-informed education, consent, pleasure, and body-centered healing.
Candace Liger NASM, USAW, CE
(she/they)
Consent Educator
CFTE Program Director
Jenn Turner, LICSW
(she/her)
Executive Director, CFTE
TCTSY Co-Founder
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