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From the Bedroom to the World:
Sex as a Key to Unlocking Your True Manhood
+ 3 other resources to support your journey into embodied sexuality, consent, and connection.
Whether you're exploring masculinity, healing sexual dissatisfaction, or deepening your understanding of consent — this free resource hub is a great place to start.
From the Bedroom to the World:
Sex as a Key to Unlocking Your True Manhood
+ 3 other resources to support your journey into embodied sexuality, consent, and connection.
Whether you're exploring masculinity, healing sexual dissatisfaction, or deepening your understanding of consent — this free resource hub is a great place to start.
Wheel of Consent™ Training & Coaching with Sian JohnsonFor Any Body With a Body Reclaim Boundaries • Deepen Connection • Empowered Choices |
WHAT IS THE WHEEL OF CONSENT?
The Wheel of Consent™ is a simple and powerful way to understand how we give and receive touch, care, or attention with clarity and confidence. Created by Dr. Betty Martin, it helps you notice who an action is really for; so you can communicate your boundaries, ask for what you want, and feel more comfortable saying yes or no. It’s a practical tool for building trust, improving relationships, and enjoying more authentic connections in everyday life.
Created by Dr. Betty Martin, the Wheel of Consent is a powerful model for understanding the art of giving, receiving, asking, and allowing. It offers a practical path to deeper self-awareness, healthy boundaries, and more authentic intimacy in your body and your relationships.
Created by Dr. Betty Martin, the Wheel of Consent is a powerful model for understanding the art of giving, receiving, asking, and allowing. It offers a practical path to deeper self-awareness, healthy boundaries, and more authentic intimacy in your body and your relationships.
WHY THE WHEEL OF CONSENT MATTERS
Learning the Wheel of Consent supports you to:
- Move from obligation to authentic choice & consent
- Heal patterns of people-pleasing & boundary confusion
- Express your desires clearly and confidently
- Recover from your fear of rejection
- Respect your own boundaries and easily navigate those of others
- Build deeper, more respectful relationships
- Reconnect with your body’s wisdom and sensation
Whether you're brand new to consent or familiar with related ideas, these tools help you notice, trust, value, and communicate what you want, respect your own boundaries and those of others and create safer, more pleasurable relationships.
WHAT I OFFER
Wheel of Consent Workshops, One -to-One Coaching & Integration
Ways to Experience the Work:
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.
Ways to Experience the Work:
- Two Hour Tasters (2 hours): Get an intro to the framework, try a simple exercise, and ask your questions
- Workshops & Trainings (1 day to 5 days / 8-week deep dive): Group learning with partner work, games, embodied practices. Available in person and online (no partner needed)
- One-on-One Coaching / Integration: Apply the insights in your life with personalised coaching and support.
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.
| Meet Certified Wheel of Consent Facilitator Sian Johnson As a Trauma Informed Certified Wheel of Consent Trainer, I lead online & in-person Wheel of Consent workshops for anybody with a body. And I integrate The Wheel of Consent into sex therapy, couples coaching, and embodiment work My goal is to support you to notice want to / willing to / no, set healthy limits and boundaries, and experience authentic consent. I combine practical consent coaching with deep, heart-centred presence. My approach helps you build confidence with boundaries, communicate your needs clearly, and rediscover authentic connection; both with yourself and in your relationships. |
A Wheel of Consent Facilitator for Anybody with a BodyI help anybody with a body who find themselves in situations that they don't want to be in, which can include:
Through the pioneering work of Dr Betty Martin, I offer one to one coaching and online and in person events designed to support you speak your desires with confidence, and reconnect with your body’s wisdom so you can experience authentic choice and communication |
WHY CHOOSE ME AS YOUR WHEEL OF CONSENT FACILITATOR?
As a Certified Wheel of Consent™ Facilitator, Sex & Intimacy Coach, and Tantric Pleasure Guide, I bring deep personal devotion to this work. I’ve integrated the Wheel into my sex therapy, embodiment practices, and coaching. My approach is grounded, kind, and deeply relational: I support you to speak your boundaries, trust your body, and transform your relationships.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY...
“The wheel is impactful, a couple of hours exploring is really powerful; ongoing practice is life changing”
“packs a real punch. Lots covered and deeply felt in a short space of time”
“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.”
“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 find"
“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”
"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"
“[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.”
2 hour Introduction Online
“packs a real punch. Lots covered and deeply felt in a short space of time”
1 day workshop Leeds
“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
“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 find"
8 week Online Course
“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
"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
“[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
“In this practice, you learn to tell the difference between receiving and giving. You learn why we need them and find how each of them feeds you in a different way. You learn about desire, consent, selfishness, generosity, boundaries, respect, and pleasure.”
Betty Martin, The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent
READY TO BEGIN?
Whether you're curious or committed, here’s how to start:
Let the Wheel guide you back to yourself - with safety, choice, and connection.
- Book a Complimentary Clarity Call: Let’s explore whether the Wheel of Consent is right for you
- View Upcoming Workshops & Trainings: Online & in-person options
- Start with a 2-hour Info Event: A low-pressure way to try it out
Let the Wheel guide you back to yourself - with safety, choice, and connection.
WAKING UP THE HANDS BY BETTY MARTIN WITH SIAN JOHNSON
Waking Up the Hands is a simple yet powerful practice, and is one of the foundational elements of The Wheel of Consent. It was developed by Betty Martin to help people to reconnect with sensation, presence, and pleasure, core skills for deeper embodied awareness and authentic intimacy. I teach this in my workshops and as part of my Men's Sex Coaching programmes and Sex Therapy sessions.
I created this free video so you can try it for yourself. Whether you’re new to this work or have been exploring it for a while, this practice is a beautiful way to slow down and reconnect with your sensations in a non sexual way.
I created this free video so you can try it for yourself. Whether you’re new to this work or have been exploring it for a while, this practice is a beautiful way to slow down and reconnect with your sensations in a non sexual way.
Waking Up The Hands by Dr Betty Martin presented by Sian Johnson
THE CONSENT REVOLUTION IS HERE!
Wheel of consent presented by Sian Johnson with Fennel Waters of Vermillion
In this 45 minute video, I talk with Fennel Waters of Sex Positive Community Vermillion, about consent.
Topics Covered include:
- What is consent?
- Some ideas of consent is not
- A helpful definition of what being in consent really looks like
- What makes consent sexy
- Dr Betty Martin and the Wheel of Consent
- What is the Wheel of Consent and how it can help improve relationships
- What we mean by consent violations and some reasons why these happen
- Cultural influences and power imbalances
- Communication
- Going slower enables better choices
- The gift of speaking and hearing a “no”
- What to expect in a Wheel of Consent workshop
WHAT DO I MEAN BY CONSENT?
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.
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.
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.
DISCOVER MORE ON THE WHEEL OF CONSENT
Betty Martin’s book The Art of Giving and Receiving: The Wheel of Consent
The School of Consent the home of everything on The Wheel of Consent
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WHAT DOES CONSENT MEAN TO ME?
The Wheel of Consent was included in my Sexological Bodywork training and I subsequently trained with Betty Martin and Robyn Dalzen, both as a Practitioner (Like a Pro) and a Wheel of Consent Trainer (Facilitator Training). The Wheel of Consent changed my life. I went from ‘giving to get’ and manipulating my way into trying (and often failing) to get my needs met, to feeling empowered to know what I want and to be able to clearly ask for it AND to be able to receive a ‘no’ as a gift rather than a sign of how terrible/needy (insert your own word here) I was. This was a huge turn around for me personally and in my work with men.
Now I use the principles, practice and ethos of the Wheel of Consent in all of my work: in one-to-one sessions with clients and couples, for online courses and I run my own in-person and group events.
Using Wheel of Consent techniques, I can support you to:
As the word ‘consent’ implies, it’s all about choice. Whether you work with me in Sex Therapy, Sex Coaching or join a Wheel of Consent event, in every moment you are invited to make a conscious choice about what happens to and with you.
As a therapist I bring lots of skills, training and experience with pleasure techniques and a warm kindness that aims to empower you to be in full choice at all times. Specific games from The Wheel of Consent include the Yes-No game, Want To – Willing To – No, the 3-minute game, boundary setting, Waking up the Hands, Direct and Indirect Routes to Pleasure and many others.
Now I use the principles, practice and ethos of the Wheel of Consent in all of my work: in one-to-one sessions with clients and couples, for online courses and I run my own in-person and group events.
Using Wheel of Consent techniques, I can support you to:
- Notice what you want and ask for it
- Know when to put your desires first (receiving) and when to put them aside (giving)
- Know the difference between ‘want to’ and ‘willing to’
- Get better in communicating and making clear agreements about touch
- Notice and set boundaries
- Feel safe enough to relax and enjoy touching and being touched
- Let go of the habit of ‘going along with’ unwanted touch
- Make empowered choices in sexual negotiations
As the word ‘consent’ implies, it’s all about choice. Whether you work with me in Sex Therapy, Sex Coaching or join a Wheel of Consent event, in every moment you are invited to make a conscious choice about what happens to and with you.
As a therapist I bring lots of skills, training and experience with pleasure techniques and a warm kindness that aims to empower you to be in full choice at all times. Specific games from The Wheel of Consent include the Yes-No game, Want To – Willing To – No, the 3-minute game, boundary setting, Waking up the Hands, Direct and Indirect Routes to Pleasure and many others.
WHEEL OF CONSENT WORKSHOPS
I organise and hold in person and online workshops and events, anywhere from 1.5 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.
| Inclusion: The Wheel of Consent is an inclusive, trauma-informed approach to embodied learning that welcomes people of all genders, sexual orientations, and relationship styles. My consent workshops in the UK and online offer practical tools to deepen communication, intimacy, and personal boundaries. Whether you’re a practitioner, educator, couple, single, or simply curious about consent and embodiment, you’ll find supportive guidance and hands-on learning for every experience level. People of all backgrounds, ages (18+), and communities are warmly welcomed. Language: Courses are delivered in English through clear, accessible spoken and written formats. In-person sessions may use flipcharts; online sessions sometimes include PowerPoint slides to support learning. Venues: When I host in-person consent and intimacy workshops, I prioritise accessible venues, ground-floor spaces with parking, wide doors, and accessible toilets. Refreshments are provided, and all workshops are drug- and alcohol-free to support safety and presence. The Delivery Team: As a white, cisgender woman leading consent and embodiment education, I recognise my privilege and ongoing responsibility to learn. I collaborate with diverse team members who bring lived experience of race, gender diversity (including trans and non-binary), sexuality, neurodiversity, disability, trauma, and chronic illness, ensuring an inclusive, balanced, and representative space. Participation: Participation looks different for everyone. You’re invited to join in, observe, journal, move, or rest as needed. Your boundaries, pace, and consent are always respected, central principles of the Wheel of Consent practice. Pricing: To make my consent and intimacy training accessible, I offer early bird rates, tiered pricing, and instalment plans (payable before the workshop start date). Please email for details. Bursary Places: I offer bursary and low-cost places for people from underrepresented or marginalised communities, including:
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