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The original Cuddle Workshop

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Longing for deeper connection and authentic, safe touch?

The Original Cuddle Workshop is a gentle, playful, and powerful exploration of how we relate to boundaries, consent, and nurturing human touch. In this workshop, you’ll experience how cuddles can be healing, comforting, and connecting β€” without pressure, expectation, or hidden agendas.

Through carefully guided exercises, you’ll learn:
✨ How to clearly communicate your needs and limits
✨ How to say β€œno” with confidence β€” and hear a β€œno” without taking it personally
✨ How to give and receive safe, consensual touch
✨ How to relax and unwind into nourishing connection

Expect a combination of solo reflection, pair work, and group exercises that build skills for healthy relating β€” all in a warm, welcoming, and non-sexual setting.

This workshop is designed for all genders, sexualities, and relationship styles. You can join on your own, with a partner, or with a friend. Witnessing is always valid participation β€” there is never any obligation to cuddle, and you can choose your level of engagement moment by moment.

🏳️ Who is this for?
βœ… Those new to consent-based spaces
βœ… People wanting to explore their boundaries in a safe container
βœ… Anyone who craves mindful, heart-centered connection
βœ… Folks of all bodies, backgrounds, and relationship structures

🎀 FACILITATOR

πŸ‘‹ Wilrieke Sophia (they/them) – Netherlands
Sex & intimacy educator, (TEDx) speaker, advisor & coach for creative makers and scientists, author, and founder of Exploring Deeper and Cuddle Workshops International.

Wilrieke’s work focuses on empowerment through self-knowledge, radical self-inclusion, trauma awareness, and neuroscience-informed practices woven into experiential spaces. They champion boundaries, consent, and embodied play as foundations for healthy connection.

πŸ”— www.exploringdeeper.com
πŸ”— www.redflagsinworkshops.com
πŸ”— www.wilriekesophia.com


πŸ“± Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Fetlife: @WilriekeSophia

πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ INCLUSION & VALUES
Our workshops are LGBTQIA+ informed, trauma-aware, body-positive, and neurodiversity-welcoming. Partnering is never based on (assumed) gender. You are welcome to come solo, with friends, or with partners β€” and stay together or explore with others, always with choice.

πŸ‘©β€πŸ¦½ ACCESSIBILITY
The workshop venue, Awananda, is on the first floor with stairs (no elevator available). There is an all-access bathroom on the ground floor and regular bathrooms on the workshop floor. No shower is available.

If you have access needs, please message us β€” we will do our best to support you.

πŸ“ PRACTICAL INFO
The week before the workshop, you’ll receive an email with full details on what to bring, where to go, and how to prepare. Sign up with your correct email and check your spam folder if you don’t see the mail three days before the event.

πŸ‘‰ Read the full invitation and get your ticket here:
https://www.exploringdeeper.com/event/the-original-cuddle-workshop-4/

πŸ“Œ Questions about practicalities? Check the FAQ here:
https://www.exploringdeeper.com/faq

πŸ“ Our terms and conditions apply to all events:
https://www.exploringdeeper.com/terms-and-conditions/
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