Connect: The Language of Touch Workshop

Touch can communicate comfort, care, affection, hesitation, pressure, or disconnection—often before we ever say a word.

Join Health in Tandem and Aaron Gunn Wellness for a two-hour experiential workshop designed to help individuals better understand touch as a form of communication, regulation, and connection.

Led by Hannah Wojda, LCPC, and Aaron Gunn, LMT, this workshop will explore consent, pacing, nervous system safety, body awareness, pressure, intention, and feedback through guided education and structured exercises.

Participants will have the opportunity to:

• Notice physical and emotional responses to different forms of touch

• Identify what feels comfortable, supportive, or overwhelming

• Practice communicating preferences and boundaries clearly

• Learn language for offering feedback and requesting adjustments

• Explore how pacing, pressure, and intention affect the experience of touch

• Practice safe, non-sexual touch in a supportive environment

All touch-based exercises will be structured and supervised. Comfortable, loose-fitting, non-revealing clothing is recommended.

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop may be a good fit for you if you:

• Want to better understand your comfort, preferences, and boundaries around touch

• Feel unsure how to ask for changes, decline touch, or communicate when something does not feel right

• Are neurodivergent or have sensory sensitivities that affect how you experience touch

• Work in healthcare, caregiving, massage, bodywork, movement, or another profession where touch is part of your role

• Want to become more aware of nonverbal cues, consent, pacing, pressure, and nervous system safety

• Feel disconnected from your body or have difficulty noticing physical sensations until they become intense

• Want to feel more confident giving and receiving non-sexual touch in everyday relationships

How to Register

Complete this workshop interest questionnaire. Because this is a small, experiential workshop, the facilitators will review each questionnaire to help ensure the workshop is an appropriate fit.

After your questionnaire has been reviewed, you will receive an email letting you know whether space is available and providing instructions for submitting payment. Your registration is not complete, and your spot is not reserved, until payment has been received.

The cost of this workshop is $125 per participant.

Space is limited to 10 participants. If the workshop is full, you may request to be added to the waitlist and will be contacted if a space becomes available.

Cancellations are eligible for a refund when requested at least one week before the workshop. Payments are nonrefundable after August 16, 2026.