Exploration space

A lived exploration of the male gaze, consent, and body shame. 

Through stories, guided discussion, and simple reflective exercises, we’ll explore consent, responsibilities, and ownership of thoughts.

Facilitators may be naked; participants are not expected to be.

• Facilitator: Col and Sadie
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Friday tbc

An invitation to have the parts of you witnessed that you may be too scared to share, may feel shame at being seen, or are hiding away from the world. It may be a body part, an emotion, part of your sexuality or gender expression, something you don’t like about yourself.

Held as a circle, there is a chance to share and be witnessed by your fiercely supportive fellow circle holders.

You will be held in unconditional positive regard, and experience what it is like for the parts of you that have been hidden in the shadows, to be celebrated and loved with radical acceptance and no judgment.

• Facilitator: Nicky Wetherell
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Thursday tbc

This practical, community-focused session invites queer, trans and gender-diverse participants to explore strategies for emotional and physical safety in a world that can feel hostile.

Through guided discussion and scenario-based exercises, we examine recognising risk, strengthening boundaries and building networks of solidarity.

Participants leave with concrete tools for mutual support, ally-ship and collective organising, and a clearer understanding of what safety can look like individually and in community.

• Facilitator: Dafydd Pearson
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Saturday tbc

This interactive workshop offers a supportive space to explore erotic embodiment, emotional sensation and the basics of striptease, with no experience, rhythm or nudity required.

Participants are invited to connect with themselves, express inner movement, receive guidance and build confidence through creativity and play.

By letting go of performance fears and inhibitions, we discover surprising depth and pleasure.

All are welcome; participation is optional. The session is movement-oriented.

• Facilitator: Fennel Waters
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Friday tbc

This practical, gently facilitated workshop explores the physical, emotional and psychological layers of sexual boundaries through embodied exercises, guided reflection and optional small-group discussion.

Participants learn to recognise early bodily signals of ‘too much’ or ‘not enough’, practise pausing and resetting, and develop tools for communicating limits with clarity.

The session supports deeper self-awareness, authentic yes/no/not yet responses, and navigating intimacy with greater presence, consent and choice.

• Facilitator: Dafydd Pearson
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Friday tbc

A half-hour at the end of each workshop day for anyone wanting to know more about the evening cuddle space in the Exploration Space and the play space in the Temple, with a chance to ask questions and clarify things.

• Facilitator: Nicky & Rachel
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Daily

If this were your last night on Earth, how would you play, relate and love?

This guided, movement-based workshop invites participants to set aside identity and judgement, connect with desire and heart-opening, and explore shared humanity.

Through playful innocence, sensual embodiment and non-judgemental connection, we meet ourselves and one another with honesty and presence.

All are welcome; everything is by invitation, and participation is always optional.

• Facilitator: Fennel Waters
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Saturday tbc

Conflict is unavoidable; it’s what happens afterwards that matters. This workshop explores the structure behind navigating conflict.

Can we hold each other in our difficult feelings?

Can we own and take responsibility for what is ours without getting defensive and reactionary? 

How do we soothe and regulate our nervous systems through these painful moments?

• Facilitator: Bear Philips
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Thursday tbc

Once we step outside the paradigm of neurotypical eroticism, what emerges and becomes possible?

In this workshop we will explore how neurodivergent folk connect with their personal sense of eros. How do we support ourselves and others with asking for what we want to receive; in touch, in play, and in sexual encounters?

There will be a space to share your erotic experiences as a neurodivergent person, and an opportunity to explore platonic touch if desired.

• Facilitator: Kirstine Weaver
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Sunday tbc

We all have issues with listening to ourselves in intimate situations.

In this workshop we will look at our personal patterns of relating, balancing how we can offer pleasure to other people while remaining centred within ourselves.

Through exercises in giving and receiving we will look at how we can remain open and vulnerable while remaining honest and authentic.

• Facilitator: Mouna (Tommy Nevo)
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Sunday tbc

Conflict is unavoidable; it’s what happens afterwards that matters.

This workshop will explorer the challenges and joys of repairing a relationship after a rupture.

It invites you to bring a genuine rupture that has occurred in your life, and to be held by the group as we examine different ways to give a felt sense of an apology and ways to move on.

• Facilitator: Kirstine Weaver
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Friday tbc

A grounded, practical session for anyone whose passion for justice, community, and queer liberation sometimes comes at the cost of their own wellbeing.

Through reflection, embodied practices and small-group exploration, participants identify signs of burnout and practise tools for self-regulation and recovery.

Drawing on models such as the Comfort Zone, Drama Triangle, Empathy Triangle and Johari Window, the workshop cultivates sustainable activism, helping us stay connected to purpose while honouring our needs, limits and rhythms.

• Facilitator: Dafydd Pearson
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Sunday tbc

An exploration of public nudity, body shame, patriarchy, and social permissions.

A participatory workshop using discussion and simple role-play to explore how unspoken social rules shape our responses to public nudity.

Through shared experiments and reflection, we’ll examine power, projection, consent, and responsibility. No acting experience needed.

Participation is always optional. Care, clarity, and choice guide the space.

• Facilitator: Col and Sadie
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Saturday tbc

We have all grown up in a culture of obedience and unspoken power relationships. Queer and trans lives have been particularly marginalised and impacted by shame.

Within this context it can be hard, or even unsafe, to know, acknowledge, and articulate our own truths.

In a carefully held space, we will be invited to share how we have been hurt by shame.

We will share strategies to unlearn and overcome the ways we have been silenced, finding safe ways to share our experiences and say what we need to say.

• Facilitator: Tam Omond
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Sunday tbc

This workshop explores the language we use for our bodies and how it is shaped by shame, culture, family, education and lived experience.

Through guided journalling with somatic awareness and creative body-mapping, participants reflect on how naming — or not naming — affects self-relationship.

Together we will co-create a shared community body map, with optional, consent-based word placement.

All participation is by invitation; no touch or sharing is required.

• Facilitator: Nicky Wetherell
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Saturday tbc

Sex isn’t separate from other personal experience, sex isn’t easily definable, sex isn’t always implied by nakedness, sex isn’t just about genitals, sex isn’t proof of ownership or entitlement.

A practical, interactive workshop looking at what ‘sex’ means to us, and how the concept of ‘sex’ has been hijacked and warped by convention, religion, fear, shame and commercialisation.

Starting from ourselves and our own experiences, we’ll explore, redefine and reclaim our unique personal relationship with our own sexuality.

• Facilitator: John Button
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Saturday tbc

An interactive workshop looking at how shame is learned, embodied, and shaped by power.

Using reflective exercises, we will examine how these messages affect our relationships with our bodies and our desires and explore where self-judgement comes from and how it connects to gender, sexuality, and power.

No pressure to disclose. Consent, care, and choice are central.

• Facilitator: Col and Sadie
• Location: Exploration Space
• Suitability: 
• When: Sunday tbc