Foundation for Sex Positive Culture Presents: Choosing to STAY - reThinking Communication

Join mental health counselor Kristen Knapick for an enlightening workshop, offering practical tools and examples for more loving and effective exchanges, even in the face of stress.

Relationships of all kinds can try our communication skills as we struggle to feel heard. This introductory/intermediate level workshop is about coming together to share frustrations, ideas, and skills for healthier communication.

Perhaps you can't get your message across without feeling
unsupportive, or encountering defensiveness. Maybe you want some space in the relationship for your feelings to be heard, and your efforts to get that time end in frustration for both of you. Maybe you or your loved one get so worked up, you just give up trying to talk.

You will leave this session with practical tools and examples for more loving and effective exchanges, even in the face of stress.

All sexual orientations, genders, and relationship dynamics welcome.

The last 30min of the workshop will be an opportunity to practice skills and get Kristen's one-on-one input.

Participants are advised to bring paper/pen to this workshop, but it is not required. There is no requisite skill set for this workshop.

NOTE: We encourage you to purchase your tickets in advance to secure your attendance. If advance tickets do not sell out, then we will have them available at the door while supplies last.

More about Kristen Knapick
Kristen Knapick, MA, LMHCA, is a mental health counselor associate in private practice in Seattle. She specializes in working with those for whom kink/poly/sex work/queerness/gender variance are a part of life, whether the source of a problem or not.

Her lengthy experience as a member of all of these communities gives her a unique, non-judgmental perspective on mental health within them, and her professional training has sharpened her skills.

Please visit reThinkTherapy.wordpress.com for more info on her practice.

NOTE: Any attendee with a ticket to the Seattle Erotic Art Festival will receive a $10 discount at the door for this workshop. Bring your ticket (or ticket stub) to receive the discount!