Many of us may want desperately to explore erotic embodiment and have mind-blowing sexual/sensual/kink experiences, but actually doing can feel tremendously edgy, risky, and frightening—particularly given that most of us hold various forms of trauma in our bodies.

How, and under what (pre-)conditions or frameworks might we turn toward, embrace, and meet each other, during, and after, transformative experiences, and in the face of the risk of rupture, discomfort, and uncertainty?

Conventional wisdom—particularly in most trauma modalities—is to work to first help a client establish an internal sense or feeling of safety in the body or within one’s system (to draw on the language of “parts work”). This highly interactive, three-hour workshop departs from this conventional w

isdom to first problematize the discourse of safety, and then propose as a risk-attuned alternative: solidarity. Feeling a keen sense of solidarity—whether with providers or with partners or within our systems—in concert with an honoring of our neurobiological defenses allows for the rich, emotionally transformative, and pleasure-soaked experiences of erotic embodiment we and our clients so deeply yearn for.

**2 AASECT CEs**

In-person (limited spots) and online synchronous workshop