Consent and Cookies

Note: This event is for Keene State students only.

What does good consent actually look like? Somehow, this is a question left out of most consent programs. The consent education most available to young people fails to illustrate what good communication looks like in real life: What words do I use? What does that do for my partner? What does that do for me? How do I say no? How do I accept a no gracefully? They say “consent is sexy” but how do I make it so? Many consent programs can manage to leave these questions unanswered.

This fun and interactive workshop, featuring a cookie-building activity, dives into central components of consent to explore the many aspects of our relationships influencing our ease of asking for & giving consent (such as gender & power dynamics) as well as practical tools and techniques (what do I say? how do I say it?) for bringing consent into our everyday relational and sexual interactions.

Presenter Yana Tallon-Hicks is a couples & relationships therapist and a consent, sex & sexuality writer and educator living in Western Massachusetts. Her work centers around the belief that pleasure-positive & consent-based sex education can positively impact our lives and the world.