A 3-month online intensive for experienced members of the global sex-positive community

About this event

Beyond Consent: Intimate Abundance and Sexual Integrity

A 3-Month live online experience beginning October 3rd.

Guided by: Sexual Integrity Coach Mischa Byruck and Somatic Sex Educator Dr. Hazel-Grace Yates

A partnership with 🐵 Bonobo Network, the Bay Area’s premiere sex-positive community organization

👹 All ages and genders welcome! Bonobo Network Membership NOT required

CLICK HERE for detailed curriculum and testimonials

ARE YOU:

🍆 A sexual leader looking for inspiration for your community?

🤠 A kink veteran and still experiencing disconnects and accidents?

💝 A human being excited about more, easier, and better sex?

🌺 WELCOME TO INTIMATE ABUNDANCE! 🌺

• Become a pillar of your Community.
• Attract a new caliber of partner.
• Model a deeper, more integrated, and more liberated sexuality.
• Be a source of joy and connection for everyone you touch.

⚒️ SKILLS YOU’LL BUILD: ⚒️

• Learn when and how to skillfully initiate, invite, and escalate
• Handle disappointment and rejection with compassion and grace
• Flirt and seduce with spaciousness and ease
• Wield your beauty and social influence with generosity
• Confidently navigate consent accidents
• Ensure your full erotic expression is truly welcome
• Create new depths of intimacy with your partners!

🏛️ TOGETHER WE CAN GO BEYOND CONSENT! 🏛️

It’s been a quarter century since Dossie Easton published the Ethical Slut, but we still live in a consent-broken society. Even in the most advanced spaces, like Bonobo, consent can often consist of increasingly complicated behavioral norms that still manage to feel like obstacles instead of waypoints, and which don't keep us safe or fulfilled.

Beyond Consent is designed specifically for people ALREADY familiar with the concept and practice of consent and with experience in sex-positive spaces and communities. It provides an actionable, values-aligned, and community-based approach to intimacy that explicitly reassigns our priorities from conquest to connection.

You will learn a new language for navigating sexual encounters that transcends the subconscious agenda of getting to yes, and goes beyond even affirmative consent as the barometer of success. To do this you will learn to center your community in your pursuit of pleasure, separating desire from agenda, attuning organically, and demonstrating curiosity, not ambition.

You will walk away knowing how to escalate and de-escalate relationships and sexual encounters in line with your values, how to welcome your own internal “no” and proactively listen for the no’s of others, how to quickly diffuse harm and rebuild trust following an accident or misstep, and other concrete ways to foster safety and joy in the people around you.

You will emerge a better communicator AND a better person: more trauma-informed, more pleasure-focused, and more self-aware, and someone who can relish sex while ensuring you are respecting yourself and those you are with.

🔭 A Transformational Journey 🔭

This is NOT just a series of workshops!

It’s an in-depth experience that includes learning, extensive peer-to-peer interaction, as well as ongoing coaching support for to support you to overcome any challenges you encounter.

This experience will also Be HIGHLY interactive. Expect to bond and connect with your fellow students in a lighthearted and affirming container as you co-create your vision for a sex-positive future.

Each session will include live lectures with slides, light guided-embodiment exercises, dyad shares, role-play scenarios, small group discussions, and brainstorms, as well as time for questions.

There will be homework and ongoing invitations to engage between sessions to support you to integrate the learnings in the real world!

CLICK HERE for detailed curriculum and testimonials

📝 STRUCTURE 📝

• All sessions held virtually, on Zoom
• Office Hours Fridays 9AM Pacific
• Six 2.5-hour HIGHLY INTERACTIVE workshops
• Three 1.5-hour group coaching and integration calls
• Readings, exercises, handouts, and light homework
• Recordings provided
• Course capped at 50 students

📅 DATES 📅

All sessions are in the evenings, Pacific time

• Mon Oct 3, 6-9 - Workshop
• Tues Oct 18, 6-9 - Workshop
• Tues Oct 25, 6-8 - Group Coaching
• Tues Nov 1, 6-9 - Workshop
• Tues Nov 15, 6-9 - Workshop
• Mon Nov 21, 6-8 - Group Coaching
• Tues Nov 29, 6-9 - Workshop
• Tues Dec 13, 6-9 - Workshop
• Tues, Dec 20, 6-8 - Integration

🧑🏼‍🏫YOUR INSTRUCTORS 🧑🏼‍🏫

Mischa Byruck is a sexual integrity coach and teaches and guides people of all genders. He is the founder of Evolve.Men, where he supports men to prevent and repair sexual harm through accountability and integrity practice. Previously, he founded forLove, a virtual erotic events company, ran partnerships for DataKind and Code for America, worked in international development, and started a large-scale disaster relief organization. He is an ICF- certified coach, with training from Mankind Project, Men Can Stop Rape, and the Remember Institute. His mentors and advisors include world-renowned Men’s Coach and Author Destin Gerek and Angel Adeyoha, Executive Director of Folsom Street Fair. He has a BA from Columbia and an MPA from NYU.

Dr. Hazel-Grace Yates is a radical permissionist and pleasure warrior here to help eradicate global toxic sexual shame. She has a Masters Degree in education and a PhD in human sexuality. She is also a Certified Sex Coach, Certified Somatic Sex Educator, and a Trauma-Informed Somatic Practitioner. She has over 12 years of experience educating sex-positive facilitators, working with clients, and running workshops, courses and retreats including The Apollo Project, a transformational Men’s Experience.

🐵 YOUR HOST 🐵

Bonobo Network is the largest sex-positive community organization in San Francisco. We are the opposite of a swinger’s club: politically progressive, queer-focused, body-positive, and woman and minority-run. Bonobos constantly strive to become more informed, liberated, consensual, communicative, compassionate, and inclusive so that we can all get the pleasure, connection, and understanding we deserve. We unite pleasure seekers to live more informed, liberated, & consensual lives to find new ways of relating in kind, inclusive, & fun ways.