Women’s Sexuality Workshop
Group Type: Workshop
Goals of the Group:
- To create a safe space for women to understand their sexuality better
- To rewire thought processes, overcome shame, and identify desires
- To learn from each other and explore positive sexual experiences
Who Is The Group For?
- This group is exclusively for women
- You can be single, committed, married, or somewhere in between
- It’s for those who feel they simply aren’t good enough, their marriage isn’t good enough, or their partner isn’t good enough
- It’s for those who want to break the inertia and explore more
Discussion Topics:
- Body image
- Self-esteem
- Boundaries
- Expressing needs
- Identifying desires
- Positive sexual experiences
What Will We Talk About?
- Exploring individual relationships with pleasure
- Erotic intelligence and accessing it
- Rooting pleasure in the 5 senses
- Working with pain and shame
- Self-worth and pleasure
- Tools and techniques for exploring sexuality
- Identifying desires and fantasies
Glimpse of the Sessions:
Session 1: Relearning Pleasure
- Exploring individual relationship with pleasure
- Understanding erotic intelligence and accessing it
- Rooting pleasure in the 5 senses
Session 2: Working with Pain and Shame
- Understanding the deeper roots of pleasure
- Moving from judging our bodies to occupying them
- Identifying and working with dissociation
Session 3: Tools and Techniques
- Exploring pornography and erotica
- Locating the erotic charge
- Masturbation techniques and safe practices
- Practising pleasure in daily life
Session 4: Identifying Your Desires
- Exploring fantasies
- Expanding understanding of sexuality
- Exploring queer love and kink
Please note that the session topics, order, and other details may be subject to change based on the needs and preferences of the group members and facilitators.
Facilitator Bio:
Facilitator: Veena Hari
Veena Hari is a Mental Health Practitioner with around 10 years of experience across the mental health and development sector. She is the founder of Bhavati Foundation, a not for profit organization working on reproductive mental health in India and host of the Mothering podcast. She describes herself as a passionate feminist and is a mother to a three and a half year old.
Through multiple batches of this group, Veena has been guiding women to identify and release emotional barriers around pleasure, fostering a safe space to redefine and embrace their unique experiences of joy and fulfilment. Her approach combines self-exploration techniques and supportive group dynamics to deepen participants’ understanding of personal pleasure.
