Don't forget to Cuddle!

[Pepper Mint]

Sunday evening we are ending the conference on a high note, with Cuddle Connection!  Cuddle Connection is a slightly modified Cuddle Party, an event where people engage in nonsexual touch, intimacy-building, and consent exercises.   We are very pleased to be bringing this event to OpenSF

Sunday June 10th, 6:30pm-10:00pm
At the Holiday Inn

Register on the website

Led by: Yvonne Shevnin

A Cuddle Party is: A structured, safe workshop on boundaries, communication, intimacy, and affection. A drug and alcohol-free way to meet fascinating people in a relaxing environment. A laboratory where you can experiment with what makes you feel safe and feel good. This playful, fun workshop has been a place for people to rediscover non-sexual touch and affection, a space to reframe assumptions about men and women, and a great networking event to meet new friends, roommates, business partners, and significant others.

The Cuddle Connection event will remind you of a Cuddle Party, however, due to time constraints the workshop portion will be shortened. For cuddle-veterans, it will still be the sweet, oxytocin-generating, cuddle fest you know and love. For newbies, it will be a clothes-on workshop on boundaries, communication, and intimacy skills and just generally about having fun.

Cuddle Connection only $20 for people attending OpenSF, a significant discount from usual Cuddle prices.

Yvonne Shevnin is a certified Cuddle Party facilitator and has been offering this workshop, to delighted cuddlers, since 2006. The website for Cuddle Party events in the South Bay and Santa Cruz is cuddle.theplayfulcircle.com. Yvonne offers other workshops and coaching in Compassionate Communication as well as Boundaries, Communication, and Intimacy Skills Building. She has recently been exploring Network for New Culture because the current culture inspires pessimism. Yvonne believes we create our own reality, and to the extent we can own that point-of-view, the more happiness we experience. Yvonne is playful, smart, confident, loving, generous, and tries to live in acceptance of what is. Yvonne has a web application development business, PointsConnected, and has been a technical consultant, serving a variety of businesses, from startups to Fortune 500s, since 1994.