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Wheel of Consent™ Training & Coaching with Sian Johnson

For Any Body With a Body

Reclaim Boundaries • Deepen Connection • Empowered Choices


What is The Wheel of Consent?

The Wheel of Consent™ is a simple, powerful framework by Dr Betty Martin that helps you understand how to give and receive touch, care, and attention with clarity.
It reveals who an action is really for, allowing you to communicate boundaries, ask for what you want, and say no with confidence.

The benefits:
  • Move from obligation to authentic choice
  • Heal people-pleasing and boundary confusion
  • Express desires clearly and confidently
  • Respect your own limits and those of others
  • Build deeper, more honest relationships

“I had read Betty Martin's book, but this course gave me opportunities to do interactive practices, and reflect on them with the group, and that was very precious."

8 Week Online Course Participant

Why The Wheel of Consent Matters

Why it Matters:

  • Move from obligation to authentic choice & consent
  • Heal patterns of people-pleasing & boundary confusion
  • Express your desires clarity & Confidence
  • Recover from your fear of rejection
  • Respect your own boundaries and easily navigate those of others
  • Build deeper, more trusting relationships
  • Reconnect with your body’s wisdom and sensation

Whether you’re completely new to consent or or already exploring embodied practices, these tools help you create safer, freer, and more pleasurable connections. For yourself and with others; in intimacy, relationships, workplaces and communities.

Ways to Experience the Work

Workshops & Trainings: From 1 day tasters to 5-day immersive experiences, available online and in person.

One-to-One Coaching & Integration: Personalised guidance to bring consent practice into your everyday life.

Two-Hour Introductions: A gentle first step to explore the framework and ask questions.
All experiences are trauma-informed, inclusive, and pressure-free.

What to Expect:
A safer, inclusive, trauma informed space. You choose your level of participation. No pressure, no judgment. All bodies, all orientations, and all experience levels welcome.


Sian is an excellent facilitator. A good communicator, using humour, irreverence, self-deprecation and years of insight and learning of her own lived experience, as well as from teachers like Betty Martin. It's fun, comic useful, you are welcome to participate as much or as little as you wish.”

2 day workshop Salford

Meet Certified Wheel of Consent Facilitator Sian Johnson

I’m a Trauma Informed, Certified Wheel of Consent™ Trainer, Sexologist, and Men’s Sex Coach.

I integrate this work into sex therapy, couples coaching, and embodiment sessions to help clients:

  • Notice what they want
  • Set healthy boundaries
  • Communicate needs with confidence
  • Build authentic, consent-based relationships
I bring warmth, humour, and deep presence to every session, creating spaces where safety and self-trust can grow.


"This course has given me keys to live my life more fully, by accessing some freedom I always had but wasn't able to hope to. I was looking for the key for years, but the door was always open".

8 Week Online Course Participant



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Who This Work Is For
Inclusion & Accessibility

This training is for anybody with a body who wants to:

  • Understand consent in a practical, embodied way
  • Stop over-giving and start making empowered choices
  • Heal resentment, shame, or confusion in relationships
  • Build confidence around touch and boundaries
We welcome:
  • People with no experience, some experience, practitioners and facilitators
  • All genders including Trans and Non-Binary people, sexual and relationship orientations, ethnicities and bodies.
  • All courses are taught in oral and written English
Accessibility:
My workshops are held in accessible venues or online spaces, with clear communication, trauma awareness, and options for rest and reflection.

packs a real punch. Lots covered and deeply felt in a short space of time”

1 Day Workshop Leeds Participant

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Why Choose Me?

As a trauma informed Certified Sexological Bodyworker, Certified Wheel of Consent™ Facilitator, Sex & Intimacy Coach, and Tantric Pleasure Guide, I bring deep personal devotion to this work.

I combine practical consent education with deep emotional awareness.

My approach is grounded, relational, and inclusive, helping you find freedom through understanding, communication, and choice.

The wheel is impactful, a couple of hours exploring is really powerful; ongoing practice is life changing”

2 hour Introduction Online Participant




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Free Resources

Free Video: Waking Up the Hands practice by Betty Martin + Sian Johnson

Waking Up the Hands is a simple yet powerful Wheel of Consent™ practice created by Dr Betty Martin to help you reconnect with your body’s sensations, presence, and pleasure. It’s one of the core foundations of embodied consent work and a beautiful way to slow down, awaken touch awareness, and build authentic intimacy.
I teach Waking Up the Hands in my Wheel of Consent workshops, Men’s Sex Coaching, and Sex Therapy sessions, and I’ve also created a free video tutorial so you can experience the practice at home, an easy, non-sexual way to reconnect with your senses and your body’s wisdom.
Waking Up The Hands by Dr Betty Martin presented by Sian Johnson


Podcast: The Consent Revolution
Podcast with Fennel Waters of Sex Positive Community Vermillion

Consent is more than just saying “yes” or “no.” It’s an ongoing conversation — with yourself and others — about choice, awareness, and respect.

Through my work with The Wheel of Consent™, I’ve witnessed how learning to articulate desire, boundaries, and willingness transforms not just intimacy, but life itself. When we understand what we want and can speak it without shame or fear, we create the foundation for real freedom, trust, and pleasure.


Wheel of consent presented by Sian Johnson with Fennel Waters of Vermillion

Article: The Language of Touch, The Power of Touch

READY TO BEGIN?

Let the Wheel guide you back to yourself - with safety, choice, and connection.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY...

“I’ve faced some of my most shameful fears with you Sian and never felt judged. You’ve encouraged me through all of the darkness into finding the light again. I feel so much more alive and I can trust myself to communicate properly in all aspects of finding a new sexually fulfilling relationship”

Men's Sex Coaching Client


"The whole programme, has been completely transformative for me. I’m not the same person I was when I started. […] I can honestly say that it’s been one of the most worthwhile things I’ve ever done. I now understand why I was held back from forming relationships before"

The Sexual Empowerment Programme Client


“[Sian] made very useful and helpful suggestions. She helped me grow and learn in a gentle, positive way. I highly recommend Sian and the knowledge and care she brings to her sessions.”

The Advantage Client

How Do I Use The Wheel of Consent Across Other areas of my Work?

Consent is more than simply “yes” and “no”, because interactions between people are never that simple, we are far too interesting and complex for that!

For the most part, our desires (our needs) are mostly buried under layers of self judgement, embarrassment (shame) or just not knowing! What we want is often unclear or unspoken, so instead we try to muddle on with a mixture of second guessing, performance, telepathy and people pleasing. I don’t know about you, but that never seemed to get me anywhere, least of all to the kind of intimacy and relationships I really longed for.

To get the most out of our intimacy we first need to get really clear about what we want, how to trust what we want, how to value it and then to ask for our needs to be met in a way that is clear and clean.

When we add one or more other people into the equation, each of whom are also trying to get their needs met and using the less-than-helpful guesswork-performance-telepathy-pleasing approach, everything can get a bit messy.

This is what makes consent so exciting. If we can work through our shyness of talking about our wants and desires, of trusting that neither you or your partner(s) are weird and that you can talk about this stuff, consent can be very fun and very sexy!

Which is why consent is absolutely fundamental to all of my work and interwoven into everything I offer, from Wheel of Consent workshops and events to The Advantage Programme.

Have a Wheel of Consent Workshop Come to You

I organise and hold in person and online workshops and events, anywhere from 2 hours to 5 days. I also deliver workshops at festivals and other hosted events and venues. Got a venue? Or want to produce an event? Get in touch by email or arrange a call.