10/17/2019, Austin
Fearless Relating Panel. (This part of the evening is Free!)
Join Monique Darling, Peter Petersen, Reid Mihalko, Sasha Rose Love and surprise guest stars, as we co-lead a question and answer portion of the evening.
YOU bring the questions… We will do our best to answer each and every one. What are you dying to know about dating and relationships? About life? What has you super curious, but there never seems an appropriate place to bring up your inquiry?
This night is your chance! Ask away! And allow some authenticity and vulnerability when we sex geeks and vulnerability and communication experts use our life’s journeys and wisdom and courage (balls) to answer anything you throw our way.
Sometimes all that is left is to scream your heart out… it seems no matter what you say you’re not being heard. No matter how clear you feel yourself to be, what comes out of your mouth makes no sense to the other side. Come and explore with us how to hold difficult conversations, understand the different love languages you and your loved ones might have as your filter of giving and receiving love, learn to communicate what’s not being said in a way that will empower and connect you with others better. We will explore different modes of communication, verbal and non verbal… and different relating styles, open relationships, agreements, flirting, transparency — taking off your masks so that you can REALLY relate. Interspersing our favorite tools, and taking questions from the audience. For all of you longing for more touch and cuddles….. We’ve got you covered….
Cuddle Party is a 3 hour workshop where participants engage in communication exercises, explore touch in a non-sexual space, experience personal exploration and intimacy, and have fun with like-minded friends from the community.
Nurturing and consensual loving touch is good for maintaining healthy blood pressure, a strong nervous system, and a balanced emotional health. One’s ability to connect with and develop greater trust in others is emphasized during the group exchanges during Cuddle Party’s. Self-care is a cornerstone of Cuddle Party experience.
As seen on CBS’s the DR’S – http://www.thedoctorstv.com/videos/cuddle-parties
Cuddle Party is a formal, non-sexual event that offers participants an opportunity to explore intimacy with like-minded others. In a relaxed environment, that upholds personal boundaries and maintains a professional atmosphere, at all times, one is encouraged to engage in communication and touch, in a non-threatening, share-affirming environment.
Cuddle Party is a holistic, social environment, that attracts fascinating people from all walks of life. It provides a special and unique opportunity for connection, learning, and growth. Come cuddle with us!
About Cuddle Party
Cuddle Party experiences teach participants that they alone create their own safety container. How did it change my life? When I was growing up and received a NO, it felt like I was being rejected. The result was my emphasis on being nice, being lovable and being unconditionally available. The profound learning came when I realized my unyielding YES’s became a subconscious inability to trust another person’s YES, without their own personally vocalized NO!
I am very appreciative and honored by the courage shown by those who have clear boundaries, and an ability to voice their YES and NO decisions without guilt, shame or fear. It gives me the confidence to ask for what my own heart desires, instead of censoring myself, knowing the receiver of my request has the voice and courage to embrace or withdraw, based on their own perimeters. “Thank you for taking care of yourself”
IMPORTANT CUDDLE PARTY NOTES:
BRING: Comfortable PJs, Blankets, Pillows and any kind of soft fluff to enhance your experience.
Feel free to bring a dish to share.
PLEASE BE ON TIME: Make certain to account FOR TRAFFIC AND PARKING. Doors will be closed at 7:45 pm and late arrivals will not be admitted.
Do not wear strong scents.
The opening Welcome Circle is for introductions and to go over the rules of Cuddle Party. This is an important aspect of the Cuddle Party experience and creates a safe container for all participants. It is essential that everyone be on time.
Love exchange $35 prepaid or $60 per pair (The panel is free!)
About your facilitators:
ABOUT REID MIHALKO: Sex and relationship geek Reid Mihalko of ReidAboutSex.com helps adults and college students create more self-esteem, self-confidence and greater health in their relationships and sex lives using an inspiring mixture of humor, keen insight, and comprehensive, pleasure-focused sexual health information.
Reid frequently speaks at colleges and universities on healthy relationship skills, and regularly appears in the media sharing his views on shame-free sexuality. In 2018, Reid began a restorative justice-based accountability process, stepping down from teaching, to address sexual misconduct and harms from 2010 that had been courageously shared as a result of #MeToo. The formal, year-long process was shared publicly and can be found at TinyURL.com/reidaccountability.
Reid’s workshops and college lectures have been attended by over 50,000 people. He has appeared in media such as Netflix’ Chelsea Does… with Chelsea Handler, Oprah’s Our America With Lisa Ling on OWN, the Emmy award-winning talk show Montel, Dr. Phil’s The Doctors on CBS, Bravo’s Miss Advised, Fox News, in Newsweek, Seventeen, GQ, The Washington Post, and in thirteen countries and at least seven languages.
Reid is also founder of Sex Geek Summer Camp, Sex Geek Conservatory, and Sex Geek School for Gifted Sex Geeks, which help sex educators learn valuable business skills that allow them to reach more people with greater ease, transform more lives, and make a better living as sexperts.
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Monique Darling, Author of ‘Beyond Cuddle Party’ and workshop facilitator extraordinaire has led over 2000 workshops in the past 10 years. She is the founder of Juicy Enlightenment an organization dedicated to empowering people who are questioning the assumptions of how their life should be and to offering tools for self expression that create trust, inner knowing and wisdom to enjoy the life they have. Monique has taught at colleges across the US including Yale. She has been featured on TLC and The Dr’s as well as various radio shows, podcasts and magazines across the globe. She specializes in helping others reclaim their power and natural sensuality by transmuting fear and repression into courage, self-love and freedom. Her primary purpose is helping folks bring out their vulnerability, energetic embodiment and fearless relating. Learn more about Monique by going to www.Everydaytantra.com or track her whereabouts at www.whereintheworldismoniquedarling.com
Peter Petersen has been teaching for 17 years and has been a certified Sheng Zhen Qigong teacher for the last 15 years, where he has been teaching in health clubs, hospitals, retirement villas, and several different wellness/spa resorts in Mexico and the United States, such as Rancho La Puerta, Mayacamas Ranch, and Present Moment Retreat. Peter has traveled with Monique for over the last 3 years teaching Tantra all over North America, the EU, Asia, and Australia. Peter is also a personal wellness coach. This Qigong practice helps people ground themselves into their “now” to increase their present moment awareness of their behaviors, and find solutions to problematic habits such as: eating, moving, negative thinking, and sleeping. The result of this tool box of healthy information is that clients become their own health advocate and regain a sense of stability, peace, and well-being into their everyday lives.
“Our bodies are so wise! We just have to REmember how to listen to them.” Sasha Rose is an intuitive healer & life coach. She integrates her years of study in holistic health, somatic processing, tantra, touch therapy & shamanism to empower & support people in creating the life they truly desire. By REconnecting heart, body, mind and soul we can truly live in BLISS~ www.awakenbliss.me