Name: Journey to Platonic Touch
Start: 2024-12-11T18:30:00-06:00
End: 2024-12-11T20:30:00-06:00
Location: Pink House Studio

Grounded & safe platonic touch is something that is not commonly modeled or taught to us in our culture, and yet it’s something we all can deeply benefit from. When approached with slowness, listening, and deep care for your own needs and boundaries, as well as the needs and boundaries of whomever you’re engaging with, platonic touch can be incredibly healing and promoting of trust.

In our Journey to Platonic Touch, you will be skillfully guided into intimate platonic connections with verbal shares in dyads, eye gazing, toning in dyads, exploring touching of hands, and other exercises based on Betty Martin’s Wheel of Consent. We will have practice reaching past and through, to and from any old habits of bypassing our authentic no’s and authentic yes’s, rediscovering the first notion of touch as listening in the body—to what our true no sounds & feels like and what our true yes sounds & feels like—even making room for honoring the vibration of maybe. We will practice slowing down to make space for feeling into our bodies, without the need to please anyone or negotiate our own comfort and pleasure, learning how to authentically communicate our needs and wants for proximity and space. In closing, we’ll explore the healing, heart opening vibrations of touch through shared song, weaving our voices to and through our ancestral lines, reclaiming our belonging with and for each other and the Earth.

This workshop is nonsexual in nature. Together we will cultivate a container of communication and consent.
Bring/come with:
- comfortable cozy clothes
- a water bottle
- any other comfy items. there are pillows at the studio and you’re welcome to bring your own

This gathering will be facilitated by Beth Ann, emily june, and Tink at the Pink House Studio in Riverwest.
601 E Wright St
Milwaukee, WI 53212

We ask that you kindly pre-register on Eventbrite to help us appropriately prepare.
Link to Sign Up : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/journey-to-platonic-touch-tickets-1083615837139?aff=oddtdtcreator

We are pleased to be sharing this offering on a donation-based basis. A suggested sliding scale donation of $10-$20 can be made via cash or venmo at the door upon arrival. This is not required and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Meet Your Hosts :
Beth Ann
Beth Ann is a self-love focused mindset coach based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s East Side.
She has gathered many tools throughout her own lived experiences overcoming addiction, cycles of abuse, and reclaiming her power - and is devoted to supporting others in their own transformation and healing utilizing storywork, breathwork, community connection, nervous system and somatic work, and methods built to access deeper acceptance of the Whole Self.
Beth Ann offers both in person and virtual opportunities to work with her, in the form of 1:1 containers, group sessions, and community workshops. Her offerings are intentionally crafted to create pathways back home to the self on an individual level, as well as deeper interconnectedness and belonging on a community level. Heal one, heal all.
Her philosophy is that while personal development is important and sacred, the work we do on ourselves is integrated and comes into full potency when we share our experiences and growth with the hearts, minds, and space of other humans.
Considering herself a “Per-missionary” - Beth Ann encourages all those who share space with her to honor every stage of their journey with reverence and respect, to take risks, to stay curious, and be playful. “The Work” gets to be fun, especially when we have support.

Tink
As a somatic DJ and facilitator, Tinkis fired up to create spaces in the Midwest that empower people to step outside their comfort zones and express themselves freely. This begins with safety, a pilar for any kind of deep work.
TInk resources from her background of yoga, retreat chef work, and years of deep processing with friends and therapists to provide a grounded and non-judgemental environment for exploration into new territory.After three years living nomadically, Tink is firmly planted back in her hometown of Waukesha and supporting the steady growth of a network of heart-centered beings between Madison, Milwaukee, and Chicago. Her non-profit, Lightroot Collective, that she started with her partner Lucas in 2023, is currently operating as a hub for holistic facilitators to share their offerings.

emily june
emily june is a touch activist, upcycler, book artist, song carrier, grief tender, forest rememberer and poet, living near "the gathering place," Lake Mishigami, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and strives to thrive in ways which honor the ancient and present ones of the Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Odawa (Ottawa), Fox, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sauk, and Oneida land based tribes and peoples. They/she works to co-create spaces where we may remember ourselves home, back to each other and the Earth. They have a B.S. in Sustainable Living, and MFA in Creative Writing from Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa, and currently is working towards a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology with an emphasis on Dreaming and Decolonizing, through Sofia University, online, from Palo Alto, California.