[TL/DR] A group event for tactile, consent-based, non-sexualized interaction, in a supportive and safe setting. A space of emotional healing and re-charging.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ LGBTQ+ friendly 🏄 Participation in sober state only 💂♀️ Guidelines in English
Participation To participate, you need to pass a short friendly interview with the facilitator in voice messages. Write to the facilitator in Telegram, WhatsApp (+351 913593932).
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A cuddle party is a resourceful group practice, where we cuddle, explore our interaction, intentions and personal boundaries, in a safe and caring setting.
Due to this safe setting, cuddle space is not just cuddles. It’s therapeutic and it can heal. Here, one can slow down, relax and soothe their mind, receive support, learn something new about themselves and re-wire their default reactions to something they chose as more safe and resourceful.
To help you feel relaxed, in the first hour of a party, we walk through group rules, get to know and see each other, make warm-up practices of interacting, rejecting and inviting, feeling our body’s signals. After that, there’s several hours of free interaction, when you do whatever you want, within the rules. In the last 30 minutes, we gather in a circle to share and close the space.
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What do people do at a cuddle party
Freedom of (non)interacting
At a cuddle party, you are free to chose with whom and how you interact. Sometimes, guests chose not to cuddle and not to interact physically with others. Instead, they may wrap up into a blanket, watch others interact, enjoy staying with their tribe and observing its life, thaw from stress into relaxation and safety. At times, this is the most meaningful and caring way of treating oneself. At a cuddle party, there’s always a place to stay solo and take a break from interactions.
Non-sexualized interaction
In the cuddle space, guests do not focus on sexual arousal. Arousal may naturally come from the touch and physical proximity of someone new, and that's okay. It's just that at a cuddle party, we agree, with all due respect to human sexuality, that we do not allow arousal to develop into interaction, but rather focus on "oxytocin"-ish sensations, like when you pet a cat, hug a beloved friend or relative. Sexualized interaction is OK in other settings outside a cuddle party. But within cuddle space, the agreement of non-sexualized interaction is an important part of safety. To learn more about why, click here.