Like a Pro:
The Wheel of Consent for Professionals

BIPOC - CENTRIC

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

September 10-15, 2026
10am-6pm each day

 

A space for Black, Indigenous and People of Color to learn the Wheel of Consent® together, facilitated by an all-BIPOC teaching team.

You have spent your career holding space for others. You’ve learned to read the room, to code-switch, to stay present in spaces that weren’t built with you in mind. You have offered your expertise, your care, your labor.

This training was built for the fullness of who you are and what you do.

 

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Read more about Like a Pro and see our full schedule, our Covid protocols, cost, and application.

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WHO THIS IS FOR

BIPOC professionals who work with the intimacies of being human.

This space is for leaders, changemakers, activists, organizers, psychotherapists, intimacy coaches, sex educators, bodyworkers, birth workers, somatic practitioners, counselors, tantric practitioners, physicians, sexuality educators, and all professionals working with clients around consent, trauma, boundaries, relational wellbeing and/or touch.

You don't just bring your credentials into the room. You bring your history - the personal navigation of systems that have never fully seen you. This is the space where you get to show up for yourself.

"Being in a space that centers the experience of People of Color has made it possible for me to access the liberatory framework of the Wheel of Consent."  - René Rivera

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WHY AN AFFINITY SPACE

Some things can only be said in rooms where you don't have to explain the backstory.

We want to be honest: BIPOC is not a monolith. We don't arrive without bias, without mistrust, without the complicated histories we carry toward one another. We don't ask you to perform solidarity you don't feel.

What we share is a nervous system shaped by living under white supremacy, patriarchy, and systemic oppression - the hypervigilance, the survival strategies, the cost of navigating spaces that do not center our humanity. This caucus space holds that complexity. The full BIPOC-centric lens isn't a module added to this training. It is the container.

For more:

Here's an article written by a woman of color, that goes more deeply into this question. https://arrow-journal.org/why-people-of-color-need-spaces-without-white-people/

 

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THE FRAMEWORK and PRACTICE

Developed by Dr. Betty Martin, the Wheel of Consent® teaches us to ask: Who is this for? Whose desires and limits are being centered? These questions determine whether an interaction nourishes or depletes, whether it is genuine consent or compliance. For BIPOC communities whose labor, bodies, and care have so often been extracted without genuine agreement, they carry particular weight, and particular power.

We ground this framework not only as a professional tool, but as a practice of decolonization and collective care.

How will the course content differ from other Like a Pro trainings?

The Wheel of Consent® remains the same and the basic course content of Like A Pro remains the same, although the insights may differ according to the lived experience of our teaching teams. As with every Like A Pro, discussion can be diverse and emergent depending on what is presenced in reflections and questions, including dynamics and feelings which may arise in this cohort that otherwise would not, and if so, we will honor and follow those as needed.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

For you as a practitioner:

→ Recognizing compliance - in your clients and in yourself - and distinguishing it from genuine consent

→ Somatic assessment – reading what clients are actually ready for, not just what they say they want

→ Building containers where real work can happen

→ Identifying and communicating your professional limits without apology

→ Co-creating moment-to-moment presence, meeting clients where they are

The majority of people are drawn to this work because something in them acknowledges that the way they were taught to relate - to their own needs, to other people's bodies, to the word yes and the word no - was incomplete, or harmful, or simply never taught at all. They've felt the cost of that in their relationships, in their bodies, in the gap between what they settle for and what they actually long for. The Wheel of Consent brings clarity to relational dynamics, and tools, language and new skills for more honest and embodied relating. 

For your clients:

→ Capacity to notice, trust, and communicate their own needs

→ Responsibility for their own limits, without shame

→ For practices involving touch: confidence and clarity in giving and receiving

→ The ability to sit with discomfort and complexity - not to bypass or resolve it quickly, but to stay present inside the full, messy truth of being human in relationship with others

Three principles run through everything: slowing down, noticing, and accessing genuine choice.

If you are a member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), you can earn 20 continuing education credits for attending our course. More info here. https://www.schoolofconsent.org/aasect

 

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The Teaching Team:

Lead Faculty: Carmen Leilani De Jesus
Assisted by Wheel of Consent® Workshop Facilitators-In-Training: Jax and Tunde J.O.

About Carmen (she/her)
Carmen has been working with Betty Martin since 2013 and the School of Consent since its inception in 2018. Her lens on the Wheel of Consent centers somatic discernment, reclaiming agency and consent as a liberatory practice. As part of the School of Consent faculty, she teaches Like A Pro trainings, Working with Groups and Wheel of Consent® Workshop  Facilitator Certification - and she has led or been on the teaching team for the BIPOC-centric trainings since 2023. She has been mentored and trained in the Wheel of Consent® framework by both Dr. Betty Martin and Robyn Dalzen, and brings insights from her own lived experience as a neurodivergent, 2nd generation Filipina-American, survivor of child abuse, sexual assault and breast cancer. In addition to teaching groups and coaching leaders, Carmen also hosts Instagram livestreams on the @thewheelofconsent account, where she invites colleagues and other professionals to chat about the broader contexts, applications and impacts of consent education and consent culture. More here and here.

About Jax (she/her)
Wheel of Consent Workshop Facilitator-In-Training, Pleasure Facilitator and self-proclaimed DC Cuddle Ambassador, Jax is dedicated to fostering safer, inclusive spaces for pleasure, intimacy and connection as a Consent and Intimacy Coach, Guide, Educator, Consultant, and Platonic and Erotic Bodyworker and Companion. Specializing in facilitating somatically focused coaching and practice with individuals and groups, Jax's work aims to empower Black, POC, Queer, and gender expansive communities primarily along the East Coast.

About Tunde (Maer/Mer, She/Her)
Tunde believes that pleasure is liberating & liberation is pleasureful. In mer life, maer’s found that spaces that center marginalized folx tend to foster more generative/alive experiences. So maer has built a life supporting other folks with marginalized identities in accessing more choice, and supporting groups in creating such spaces that move us all towards collective liberation. Tunde offers body-based coaching & workshops that blend somatics, play, consent, and an anti-oppressive lens, to help individuals, couples/polycules, and collectives to recognize their unique relationships to power and move closer to freedom. Certification: Diversity Facilitrainer, Big Leap Coach, Urban Tantra Practitioner, Wheel of Consent Facilitator IT.

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WHAT PAST PARTICIPANTS SAY

"The BIPOC LAP was profoundly healing, deeply rich, and full of lessons that immediately changed my life. I feel more self-trust, more nourished, with an incredible toolkit."

"An invaluable resource for anyone seeking to live into their truth, unlearn systemic oppression, and evoke permission for others to do the same."

"I loved how Carmen included systems of oppression and how someone can even know what a yes or no is, if you've been socialized to ignore your own needs." - S.J.

 

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INVESTMENT & ACCESSIBILITY

The School of Consent is committed to making this training accessible to the BIPOC professionals it was designed to serve. We offer a self-selecting sliding scale.

A sliding scale only works when it is used honestly. When those who can pay more do, it creates real space for those who cannot. That is not charity. That is the same principle of collective care that runs through everything we practice in this room.

Please read the questions below before choosing your tier. Sit with them. Let them be a small practice in noticing, which is what this training is built on. Using these price points as a guide, choose the rate that both works for you and asks something of you - and trust that asking something of yourself in this moment is part of what this training is about.

Accessibility Rate: $975 For those navigating genuine financial hardship

Are you carrying inconsistent or precarious income? Significant debt - student loans, medical, caregiving costs? Do you lack a financial safety net - no savings, no family wealth to draw from, no institutional support? Are you a community care worker whose labor has historically been undervalued and underpaid?

If yes: this rate exists for you. Use it without apology.

Standard Rate: $1,950 The actual cost of delivering this training

Do you have stable income, even if it doesn't feel abundant? Access to professional development funds through your practice, employer, or institution? A financial floor - housing security, no crisis-level debt - even if money feels tight month to month?

If yes: this is your rate. Paying it is an act of integrity that makes the accessibility rate real for someone else.

Sustainer Rate: $2,200 or more For those who are able to give a little more

Do you hold financial privilege beyond your monthly income - through inheritance, property, investments, or a partner's income? Do you have access to professional development funding you haven't fully used? Are you in a position where the standard rate would not require sacrifice?

If yes: your sustainer contribution directly funds a reduced rate for a BIPOC practitioner who could not otherwise be in this room. That practitioner will be in the circle with you. Your generosity changes who gets to be there.

Still not sure what to pay or need to talk through it? Please name it in your conversation with Carmen. We will look at what is possible. We mean that.