June 14, 2025

9am-12pm Pacific 
12pm-3pm Eastern

What do you do when the actors say they are “fine,” and the director just wants to move on? 

How do you establish boundaries when the actors are “comfortable with each other,” and the power dynamics are all over the place? 

How do you balance meeting your collaborators' needs and doing your job?

The “workshop” version of how supporting consent and boundaries doesn’t always match the reality of working with real people on a real job. 

In this workshop, participants will take everything they have learned in workshops and through practical experience, and learn real-world strategies for applying their skills in environments that might not be set up to support them. This workshop will examine the core ideas and rationale for consent and boundaries for theatre and film, and offer practical, consent-based, trauma-informed, and inclusive strategies for supporting consent and boundaries in sub-optimal (or just unexpected) conditions. 

About Bend without Breaking

Things on set and in rehearsal often don’t go exactly to plan. With all of your experience and training, it can still be frustrating and overwhelming when your carefully curated toolkit and process get thrown out the window by the realities of production. In this workshop series, participants will revisit their tools' core ideas and theories and learn strategies for doing the right thing, even when everything is going wrong. 

What you'll get:

• Three hours of live instruction
• A recording of the session to review or watch later
• One year of access to the Open Intimacy Community Forum

Participants are expected to have a working knowledge of consent and boundaries tools before attending the workshop. 

Participants must be 18 years of age or older.