If you're building something and you need someone who knows how to hold a room.
I've been facilitating for over twenty years — in theatres, schools, community spaces, and now in the specific territory where embodiment, intimacy, and queer experience meet. I know how to read a room, how to build a container that holds, and how to work with material that asks something real from the people in it.
This page is for people who might want to bring that into their own work — whether you're programming a festival, curating a retreat, or developing your own practice as a facilitator.
I don't arrive with a fixed script. I arrive with twenty years of knowing how to read what a room needs and the experience to meet it.
GUEST FACILITATION
Bringing the work into your space
I'm available to bring workshops and facilitated experiences to festivals, events, and retreat programmes — particularly those serving queer communities, or those working at the edges of embodiment, intimacy, and personal transformation.
I work well in festival contexts where participants may be encountering this kind of work for the first time, as well as in more experienced or specialist settings. I'm comfortable holding workshops that touch on kink, power dynamics, consent, and sexuality — and I know how to do that in ways that feel safe, grounded, and genuinely alive rather than clinical or overly cautious.
Residential retreats are something I take on more selectively — these tend to grow from longer-term relationships and conversations rather than a single booking. If you're in that territory, I'm always open to talking.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Bringing people out of their heads and into their bodies — through movement, breath, sensation, and presence.
Embodiment & somatic awareness
Conscious kink & power dynamics
Safe, grounded, and genuinely exploratory spaces for kink, surrender, and power exchange — built on consent and embodied awareness.
Relational awareness & connection
Consent culture & community safety
How we actually show up with each other — the patterns, defences, and possibilities in the space between people.
Creating spaces where consent is alive rather than procedural — where people feel genuinely free to say yes, no, and everything in between.
Ecstatic dance & movement
Intimacy & touch
Facilitated and DJ'd dance spaces where the body leads and the music holds. Particularly for queer communities.
Creating conditions for genuine contact — slowing things down enough that something real can happen between people.
“Simon is a rare facilitator who balances deep professional stability with a light, infectious energy. Our community at Naked Men consistently responds to his calm presence and his witty, approachable way of teaching. For me as an organizer, having Simon on the team means total peace of mind and a guaranteed high-quality experience for everyone involved.”
— Julian Martin, Naked Men, Zurich
FACILITATOR MENTORSHIP
For people developing their own practice
Over the years, facilitators have found their way to me — some newer to this work, some experienced but wanting to go deeper into territory they haven't fully entered yet. Kink and power dynamics. Queer community dynamics. What it means to hold a container for material this intimate. How to develop a voice and an approach that is genuinely yours rather than borrowed from someone else's model.
I'm now offering this more formally — as one-to-one mentorship for facilitators at any stage who are working in embodiment, intimacy, kink, or queer community spaces. This isn't supervision or therapy. It's experienced, honest, peer-adjacent conversation about the work — what's happening in the room, what you're bringing to it, and how to keep developing without losing yourself in the process.
The best facilitators I know are the ones still genuinely curious about what they don't yet understand. That's who this is for.
Container-holding & facilitation skills
How to build a space that's strong enough for real things to happen — and how to stay grounded when they do.
Working with kink & power dynamics safely
The ethics, the edges, and the genuine skill involved in facilitating conscious kink spaces for adults.
Navigating queer community dynamics
The specific things our community carries — and what that asks of a facilitator who wants to work with real care.
Developing your own voice & approach
Moving from practising someone else's method to finding the work that is genuinely and distinctively yours.
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Mentorship happens one-to-one, primarily through conversation and reflection. For facilitators interested in observational learning, there may also be opportunities to assist at events — something we can discuss depending on what you're looking for and where you are in your practice.
Whether you're thinking about booking me for an event, exploring a longer collaboration, or curious about mentorship — the best starting point is always a conversation. Tell me a little about what you're building and what you're looking for, and we'll take it from there.