# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Consent, Conflict, and the Nervous System Workshop
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 11 Jul, 2026 at 05:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Consent is about far more than saying yes or no.

Our nervous systems, trauma histories, neurodivergence, social conditioning, and relationship experiences all influence how we communicate boundaries, navigate conflict, repair harm, and connect with others.

In this workshop, we'll explore how patterns such as freeze, fawn, shutdown, overwhelm, people-pleasing, defensiveness, and boundary confusion can show up in everyday life, relationships, kink dynamics, and community spaces. We'll examine how many of us were taught to disconnect from our bodies, override our own limits, ignore hesitation, or experience boundaries as rejection rather than information.

Together we'll explore topics such as:
- Neurodivergence and communication
- Trauma and nervous system activation
- Consent beyond scenes and sexuality
- Conflict, rupture, accountability, and repair
- Patriarchal conditioning and boundary override
- Rebuilding embodied consent and relational awareness

Participants will gain practical tools for:
- Understanding nervous system responses
- Communicating across different neurotypes and communication styles
- Recognizing activation, overwhelm, and shutdown
- Navigating conflict with greater awareness and accountability
- Repairing relational ruptures when they occur
- Reconnecting with choice, agency, and embodied consent

This workshop combines discussion, practical tools, reflection exercises, and optional embodied practices. No one will be required to share personal experiences, and participants are always welcome to engage at whatever level feels right for them.

This isn't a therapy session or a callout space but rather a grounded, trauma-conscious exploration of how we create healthier, safer, and more repair-capable relationships and communities.

All respectful adults are welcome. Cost is on a $5-$25 sliding scale donation to support our nonprofit, Unbreaking, which supports those outside the mainstream through community care.

We ask everyone to help care for the shared space by being mindful of boundaries, keeping scents (such as strong perfume, cologne, cigarette smoke, cannabis smoke, or body odor) and noise at levels that do not disrupt others, and engaging with kindness and respect. If something doesn't feel like a fit in the moment, it is always okay to step back or adjust how you participate.

Facilitated by Kris Hietala

Kris Hietala is a trauma-conscious yoga guide, ACEs presenter, construction tradesman, and facilitator focused on nervous system awareness, embodiment, communication, and relational repair. His work bridges practical lived experience with somatic awareness, depth psychology, and community-centered healing practices.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/duluth/consent-conflict-and-the-nervous-system-workshop/200030238725912
- **Event Categories**: workshops, health-wellness, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 6

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Duluth
- **state**: MN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 20 W 1st St, Duluth, MN, United States, Minnesota 55802
- **lat**: 46.78691
- **long**: -92.09977
- **full address**: 20 W 1st St, Duluth, MN, United States, Minnesota 55802

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Consent, Conflict, and the Nervous System Workshop being held?
  - **A:** Consent, Conflict, and the Nervous System Workshop takes place on Sat, 11 Jul, 2026 at 05:30 pm to Sat, 11 Jul, 2026 at 05:30 pm at 20 W 1st St, Duluth, MN, United States, Minnesota 55802.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Consent, Conflict, and the Nervous System Workshop?
  - **A:** Consent, Conflict, and the Nervous System Workshop is organized by UnbreakingNetwork.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Consent, Conflict, and the Nervous System Workshop is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Duluth, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Consent, Conflict, and the Nervous System Workshop sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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