Like a Pro:
The Wheel of Consent for Professionals
Queer edition
Oakland, California, USA
July 16-20, 2025
10am-6pm each day
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 of all stripes, we have expanded to include non-touch professionals as well. We welcome consent educators, intimacy coaches, intimacy consultants, birthworkers, psychotherapists, physicians, tantra practitioners, intimacy guides and providers, counselors, teachers, coaches, and just about anybody working with people.
Read more about Like a Pro and see our full schedule, our Covid protocols, cost, and application.
This workshop is specifically for queer people; a space offering time-out from the cis&hetero-dominant world. An opportunity for queer folks to learn the Wheel of Consent® together, facilitated by an all queer teaching team.
This Like a Pro offers a unique space that centers our lived experiences as 2SLGBTIQA+ people.
We as a team are influenced by the questions as we offer this experience of the Wheel: How do we create consent when we are living within systems of oppression and erasure? How do our practices of resistance and community-making interact with embodied consent? What other experiences, intersections, and identities influence our personal, professional and community practices? How does our queerness in relation to our other identieis support us practicing the Wheel?
We will explore the practices of the Wheel of Consent as a tool for our personal and collective liberation, as a way to understand the challenges and joys of relating with others.
As a queer team we bring varying lived experiences, histories, and socialisation from the different places we call home.
The teaching team:
Lead Faculty: Sasha Lasdon, Stella Topaz, Puma Höflich
Assisted by Wheel of Consent® Workshop Facilitators-In-Training: Tunde J.O.
Will the course content differ from the usual Like a Pro?
The Wheel of Consent® remains the same and the basic course content remains the same, although the insights may differ according to the lived experience of our teaching teams. As with every Like A Pro, discussion can be diverse and emergent depending on what is presenced in reflections and questions, including dynamics and feelings which may arise in this cohort that otherwise would not, and if so, we will honor and follow those as needed.
How do we register?
The same way as usual - by reading the group agreements and covid protocols, filling out the application (you can do that further down on this page, or on the main Like A Pro page); after that, we have a conversation to be sure we are a good fit. Carmen will be offering those conversations.
Cost
NEW STUDENTS
- Application fee of $50, then:
- Sliding scale of $975 to $2200 USD
- Work-study (Helping with set up and clean up. You won't miss any class time.) $200 off
RETURNING STUDENTS (already taken Like a Pro):
- $975.
Purchase of Betty's book, The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent, is recommended. $24 US to be purchased on your own.
Life happens! Cancellation policy here.
Apply
New students:
INSTRUCTIONS
1) On the main Like A Pro page, read about the course format, and what we'll cover
2) Read the group guidelines, and the public health protocols. because you must be willing to uphold these in order to attend (please note: both of these are regularly kept up to date and revised).
3) Fill out the application linked below.
After you submit this form you will go to a confirmation page
4A) If the course is full: you will be added to the waitlist and contacted if a spot opens up for you. Please do not pay the application fee.
4B) If there is a space available: Pay the $50 application fee.
Then
5) You will be sent a link via email to book a call with us to make sure we are a good fit.
6) If we are a good fit, you're in. We'll give you the link to make your payment. (If we are not a good fit, we will refund your application fee.)
APPLY HERE.
Returning students:
We have room for 3 half-cost returning students in each class.
However some courses are full for this discount. Please ask! [email protected]
