This is a friends and family offering of this new core class for SPW to give our facilitators a chance to get more comfortable in their roles before our first offering to the world on Sunday, November 13. 

The purpose of this class is to help us all think about the many power dynamics that affect us when we interact in sex positive community. This is a core class in SPW for all of us wanting to learn more about how we show up/speak up/receive feedback from others when we share space together. It is intended to be a good space for beginners who are eager to learn.

We’ll think about our many identities and how they shape our expertise, and the areas where we need to learn and grow. We’ll spend time talking about the inevitable mistakes we make and the ways we hurt each other.  Then we'll walk through ways to better handle those hard times when we’ve done things that don’t align with who we think we are.

We’ll center race and gender in the exercises we work on together while learning more about how all aspects of oppression and privilege effect our sex positive interactions in community.  We'll encourage folks from all walks of life to work on perspective-taking from our privileges as well as our oppressions.