Today's guest is Sandrine Monin, choreographer and founder of Unbound Dance Theatre. Sandrine's 2023 project Feathers, integrating visually impaired dancers led to an exploration of touch, and a realisation that the professional dance industry has often shown little consideration for consent and bodily autonomy. We explore this in conversation, and notice how work like hers is beginning to change the working culture in professional dance. Taking on these challenges and finding ways to work more consensually has been rewarding not only in terms of the healing and inclusion experienced by the dancers and participants but also in terms of the artistic excellence that has emerged from the process. There is lots to learn for dance and arts professionals, and there are huge parallels with all kinds of generational healing.

You can find out more about Sandrine's work here https://www.sandrinemonin.com/ or https://www.instagram.com/sandrinemonin/

and the Feathers project here: https://www.sandrinemonin.com/feathers-1

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This was a lively (and slightly sweary in places) conversation with Heidi about the ways standards in schools and mainstream education authorities (in the UK context) can become coercive and even harmful for some young people and their families.

Heidi describes herself as a late-identified, neurodivergent adult - she is a public speaker, advocate, author, podcaster, and parent to an Autistic/ADHD teenager. Author of best selling book "Your Child Is Not Broken", Heidi's passion for empowering families in their fight to secure suitable education for their children and young people comes from the challenges she worked through with her own son. She founded EOTAS MATTERS in 2019, to work with families so children can be supported by knowledgeable, confident adults who know how to get their voices heard. You can find out more about Heidi and her work, and where to get her book, here: https://www.heidimavir.com/about

This episode is a little bit longer than usual - I think it's worth it!

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In the second part of my conversation with Bigi we talked about how and when children learn about embodied consent from their parents and care-givers. How do we enable young people to learn about sex and sexual consent, without the harmful lessons of shame or fear we might have learned from previous generations?

You can find out more about Bigi and BG Parenting on the web - here is a blog post inspired in part by our conversation: https://bgparenting.co.uk/shall-we-talk-about-consent/

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I'm joined by Bigi who is a parenting coach, and a passionate advocate for approaches that centre the consent and personal agency of children and young people. We had a conversation full of ideas for fresh approaches and thoughts about the value of modelling consent in parent/care-giver and child relationships. There's so much to consider on this theme, we ran into a second episode.

You can find Bigi's coaching practice and writing at BG Parenting on the web at https://bgparenting.co.uk/about/

Bigi refers to:

• Libby Sinback podcast episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0C25YcJnc5ry072evyRJj0?si=IasCrf3yS6iSiakvHmjJQg
• Dr Laura Markham at Aha Parenting who coined the term Peaceful Parenting: http://ahaparenting.com/

Bigi also recommends:

• John Holt - author of works on child-led learning.
• Dr Dan Siegel - an advocate for child, with work based on brain science and child development.

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Continuing the conversation with Kitty Stryker on consent culture, we share thoughts on fear in relation to consent. We also consider how consent works in groups and communities.

Check out Kitty Stryker's work including the excellent books on consent culture at www.consentculture.com

Again, this episode has some swears in it.

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There's a bit of swearing in this episode because Kitty and I get very passionate about consent and what it means to us.

Kitty Stryker is one of the originators of the concept of 'consent culture', and has authored/edited 2 books on it already: "Ask - Building Consent Culture" and "Ask Yourself - The Consent Culture Workbook". I (Jenn Wilson) am a contributor to the second one and Kitty's new book "Say More" which is aimed at younger people is coming out in 2024.

We talked so much we needed 2 episodes - in the first we mostly wrestle with what consent is, what it means, and the nuance around how we apply consent practice in different contexts. This episode ends on a cliffhanger, but don't worry because the second part is coming later today... it's so stimulating hearing someone who is dedicated and immersed in their subject talk about it.

Look for Kitty online at www.consentculture.com and find the books online.

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Launching Season 2 on the International Day of Consent 30 November 2023 The Consent Compass is a new framework I've been working on for over a year. This is designed to help you with navigating choices, decisions, consent and consensus - and to explore the transformative possibilities of practicing consent, making positive changes from the personal to the global.

In this short episode I talk through The Consent Compass and how it works.

You can read more and watch a video version of this podcast - visit www.irregular.org.uk/consent-compass

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A quick reminder that we approach the International Day of Consent 2023 (30th November), founder Jenn Wilson brings a new model for consent practice, some great themes and guests, and a fresh approach to the IDoConsent podcast.

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Content note: mentions assault

In this episode, performing artist Kit Green talks about their assault in a dressing room, the pressure to continue and perform on stage, and the ways arts and performance venues could improve their consent practices to improve safety for the artists they host.

NOTE - when this episode was recorded in 2021, Kit Green was mainly performing under the name Chris Green or Christopher Green

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http://christophergreen.net/

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Jenny discusses the challenges of ethical/consensual non-monogamy with Giulia, and highlights the need for support for polyamorous communities to navigate and remove the stigma from consensual non-monogamous approaches to loving relationships. Recorded in November 2021 and released in autumn 2022, Giulia has since gone on to found the support organisation UK Polyamory Association.

https://ukpolyamory.org/

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