July 2022 Reclaiming Pleasure, Reclaiming Ourselves
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Reclaiming Pleasure, Reclaiming Ourselves: What can reclaiming pleasure bring into our lives? How can it help us change our world for the better? And what do the voices of marginalized peoples and ancestors have to teach us when it comes to practicing and reclaiming our joy?
In this experiential workshop, Kai Cheng Thom, MSc, Somatic Sex Educator and Adjunct Faculty at the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education will facilitate an embodied exploration of pleasure in its many forms. Participants will be invited to try out guided practices for awakening and celebrating our bodies' inherent capacity to feel and find pleasure, as well as exercises around consent and empowered choice and voice.
Kai Cheng will also lead a discussion on pleasure not only as our individual birthright, but also as a collectively shared means of pursuing social change. Participants are asked to note that a frank discussion of sexuality and sex work will take place in this workshop. However, asexual and non-sexual forms of pleasure will be discussed and celebrated in equal measure as well.
Kai Cheng Thom is an author, community worker, somatic healer, lasagna lover, and wicked witch based in Toronto. She has spoken and published widely on the topics of trauma, transformative justice, and mental health. A former clinical social worker, Kai Cheng has also spent over a decade working in public sector mental health with LGBT youth and their families, an experience that continues to inform her work today. She is also the author of four award-winning books, including the Stonewall Award-winning essay collection I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE.
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