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Pleasure As A Revolutionary Act
Is pleasure essential in becoming more humane — to feeling the ache of the world without losing our capacity to love, create, and imagine?
On this page, you’ll find the full schedule of all speakers, links to their interviews, and their free gifts to you!
Please Note: Each interview will air at the date & time listed below — Between October 6-10, 2025.
All interviews are available FREE for 48 hours after they initially air.
If you’d like to permanently own the full set of 16 interviews in downloadable audio (mp3) and video (mp4) format, to enjoy even after the event ends, please click here:
Event Schedule
Monday, 6 October, 2025
Vive Oldham
It's time to rethink our relationship with pleasure and challenge the cultural story that tells us pleasure is selfish or indulgent.
What if we considered it essential to our capacity - to love, create and relate - without shutting down or shutting out what feels tricky?
In this talk, I share my own journey from living in patterns of sedation to growing my capacity to be in my most human self - and actually enjoying it. I share stories (and the science) showing how small moments of genuine pleasure actually rewire our capacity for resilience.
The Pleasure Rebellion
Libby Rose Waite
Pleasure from the Ruins: Psyche and Eros
What if the stories we've been told about pleasure—that it's frivolous, dangerous, or something to be ashamed of—are keeping us from the very thing that connects us most deeply to life?
Libby Rose Waite, mythopoetic therapist and dream witch, begins the invitation back into pleasure, weaving the ancient tale of Psyche and Eros - a story that reveals how soul and love find their way back to each other through the full spectrum of human experience - the agony and the ecstasy.
As she guides us through this myth of a young woman's journey from the ruins of distrust to the birth of true pleasure, she invites you to carry this story with us throughout the week, letting it work on us as we explore what it means to reclaim pleasure as a revolutionary act of aliveness and connection.
Michael Meade
The Return of Eros: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
Michael explores how pleasure is our connection to Eros—the primordial force that brings everything together—and why in times when "the world is falling apart," we must become more committed to what we love, who we love, and how we love.
He reveals how myths teach us that we're living at "the end of an era which is secretly the beginning," where our task is to be witnesses to the devastation and agents of the re-creation.
Drawing from ancient wisdom that "what we love is the cure" and the image of the fountain of life as the "heal-all," this conversation shows how our real task on earth is awakening to that inner combination of genius, natural gifts, and ways of loving—because that's how life actually changes.
Chameli Gad
Guardians of Pleasure: Honouring the Whole of Life
Chameli reveals how reclaiming pleasure is both a fierce act of rebellion and essential medicine for our times.
Drawing from her work as a therapist and her studies in goddess mythology, she shares the paradoxical truth that softening into vulnerability—rather than armoring up against brutality—actually gives us more agency and power to set boundaries without joining "that violent consciousness."
She unpacks the biology behind why women's bodies desperately need oxytocin-producing acts (connection, sensual touch, goal-free activity) to balance the cortisol overload of our productivity-obsessed culture, and offers beautifully simple practices that bring you back into the aliveness of your actual life.
This is about becoming a guardian of pleasure and joy for future generations—protecting what makes us truly human on this earth.
Event Schedule
Tuesday, 7 October, 2025
Leonie Dawson
The courage to create a life outside of conventional "shoulds"
Leonie shares how she built a $14 million business working just 10 hours a week by following one simple rule: chase what feels like "being a kid in a candy store."
From ditching her government job at 21 to become an artist against her farming parents' wishes, to scaling back from 25 staff when success started stealing her joy, Leonie lets us in on the raw truth about building a business that feeds your soul instead of burning you out. Her secret? Treating pleasure as your North Star.
Sil Read
She Who Delights: Pleasure, Soul, and the Fierce Inner Loving Mother
Sil draws from four decades of guiding women through Jungian psychology and her deep study with mentor Marion Woodman to explore how we can heal generational patterns around our bodies, food, and self-worth.
In this conversation, she weaves the concept of archetypes - particularly the "fierce inner loving mother" - as powerful healing energies we can access within ourselves, rather than needing to work things out with our personal mothers.
Sil reveals how eating disorders and body shame often signal a "repressed feminine" in patriarchal culture, and shares how cultivating this inner conscious mother allows us to “pick ourselves up off the kerb” with compassion, ultimately creating space for authentic pleasure and the courage to individuate into who we truly are.
Jocelyn Star Feather
Reweaving the Feminine Mysteries
This conversation is a journey into the feminine mysteries and the power of surrender. Together we explore how loosening our grip on rigid plans allows wild ideas, synchronicities and unseen support to move through our lives and work.
Jocelyn shares how following the call of her heart led her to Egypt’s ancient temples and pyramids, where time spent with living goddess traditions and sacred sites deepened her understanding of intuitive leadership.
We talk about listening to the messages in nature, in our bodies, and in the myths of the goddess — wisdom that invites us to build our businesses and lives with more attunement, creativity, and joy than any purely logical plan ever could.
Uma Furman
Learning to Receive: Why Pleasure Feels Hard (and Why It Matters)
Uma Furman explores the radical notion that you—not your partner, not external circumstances—are in charge of your own pleasure.
In this candid conversation, she helps us to understand why receiving can feel harder than giving, how cultural conditioning shapes our relationship with desire, and why starting small (yes, even asking someone to pass the salt) is the pathway to deeper fulfillment.
Uma shares practical wisdom on navigating the delicate dance between giving and receiving, plus insights from her research with women who've discovered that self-nurturing isn't selfish—it's essential for staying juicy at any stage of life.
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Wednesday, 8 October, 2025
Kim Marie
Seduced by Life: Reclaiming Pleasure, Magnetism, and the Feminine Mystery
What if the word "seduction" actually means something completely different than what we’ve been led to believe?
What if it isn’t something dangerous to avoid?
Kim Marie takes us on a journey through the etymology of seduction, revealing how women have been taught to fear their own magnetism and appetite for life.
She explores how reclaiming our ability to be seduced by life - through our senses, through nature's cycles, conscious risk-taking and soul connection could be the antidote to the anxiety and disconnection so many of us feel.
Chris Skidmore
Wrestling with Lions: Myth, Edge, and the Animal Body
Chris takes us deep into why pleasure has gotten such a bad rap in Western culture, unpacking how the ancient god Dionysus was far more than drunken chaos. Instead, we discuss how vital the connection is to our animal bodies and the wild within us.
Through a mythological lens, Chris explores the crucial difference between wild and feral, and why we need to learn to wrestle respectfully with our edges rather than keeping the lid sealed tight for future generations.
Beyond the World of Thought, A Sensuous Relationship with the Natural World Awaits
Tayria Ward
Depth psychologist and dream practitioner Tayria Ward explores how scientific materialism has severed our connection to the archaic consciousness that lies between each heartbeat—a realm of pleasure and aliveness that's always available.
She shares her own stories of transformative vision quests and reveals how stepping beyond the "machine cosmology" opens us to direct communication with the natural world, where trees speak, animals guide us, and our bodies become instruments of indigenous knowing.
Tayria challenges us to presume our competence in this ancient way of being, offering practical wisdom for reconnecting with the intelligence that has always been our birthright.
Event Schedule
Thursday, 9 October, 2025
Tracksuit Pants & Problem Solving: How to Be a Happy Artist (No Torturing Required)
Sarah Connor
Sarah flips the tortured artist myth on its head, exploring how gratitude and savoring tiny moments -from morning coffee (made by someone else) to the scent of roses and petrol, power sustainable creativity.
This self-taught ceramicist turned "ding dong playing in clay" reveals how embracing failure as problem-solving, creating cozy creative environments, and honoring your 10-year-old self's dreams can transform both your art practice and your relationship with pleasure.
Sarah's conversation weaves together ADHD, neurodivergence, and the radical act of making mugs that will outlive us all while finding joy in the process rather than just the outcome.
Jonathan Kay
Being in Timelessness, Thin King and the Fool
Beware - this is not your ‘usual’ kind of conversation.
Come play in the theatre of now, where thinking gets caught with mud on its face and we discover the apple was never the point—the tree was always holding us.
Watch what happens when two people stop trying to be clever and start being curious about the gaps between words, the spaces where understanding lives before we dress it up in explanations.
This is fooling in real time: messy, immediate, and surprisingly tender.
Casey Beros
Permission Slips and Couch Time: A Refreshingly Honest Take on Pleasure
Casey gets candid about her complicated relationship with pleasure.
This raw conversation explores how we've been conditioned to see pleasure as a luxury we must earn, rather than something essential for navigating life's hardest moments.
From her experience caring for her terminally ill father to the challenges of motherhood and marriage, Casey reveals how the smallest acts—a 30-second hug, a three-minute phone call—can become revolutionary when we stop making pleasure an all-or-nothing endeavor.
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Friday, 10 October, 2025
Molly Douglas
The Priestess Codes: Erotic Wisdom for a Radiant Life
Molly takes us on a raw journey from sexual trauma to sacred reclamation, exploring how pleasure becomes a revolutionary act of self-healing and divine connection.
She shares how ancient sacred sites became portals for archetypal remembrance, transforming her relationship with her body from shame and disconnection to sensual aliveness and creative fire.
Through art therapy, trauma-sensitive yoga, and what she calls "erotic innocence," Molly reveals how reclaiming our pleasure is actually reclaiming our birthright to wholeness.
The Well That Never Runs Dry: Pleasure, Purpose and African Drumming
Baki Binah
In this warm conversation, Baki explores how pleasure has evolved from instant gratification in her youth to something deeper—a connection to joy that feels like "a well that doesn't dry up."
Through her work with drumming therapy, she reveals how rhythm becomes a gateway back to our bodies and authentic selves, stripping away the daily layers we accumulate just to survive.
What emerges is a powerful discussion about finding purpose through the primal act of connecting to your own heartbeat, and how this simple practice can bring us back to our “baseline” and to what we love.
Keep These Conversations Forever
These interviews will be streaming free while the event is live - but honestly, they're the kind of conversations you'll want to come back to.
If you'd rather listen at your own pace instead of catching them live, Lifetime Access is for you.
You'll get both audio and video files of every conversation from Pleasure As A Revolutionary Act.
Listen while you're walking, watch if you get a quiet moment, share with people you love - choose what fits for you.
Here’s how it works…
Early bird: $77 (through October 7th)
Regular price: $99 (through October 10th)
After the event: $222
When you upgrade, you’ll receive downloadable mp3 (audio) and mp4 (video) versions of each & every interview.
For $77 you can have these conversations in your back pocket.
What You Get with Lifetime Access…
All 16 interviews in downloadable audio and video files that are yours to keep.
The files appear in your private space within 48 hours of each interview going live.
No rushing to catch anything in real time, no FOMO - just rich conversations, to enjoy at your own pace.
If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding. ~ Marion Woodman
Lucy AitkenRead
Pleasure as Resistance: Why Joy, Generosity and Trust Are Not Optional Extras
Pleasure as a Business Blueprint, wanna try!? What happens when you stop pouring yourself out from a sense of duty and start rooting your life — and work — in pleasure? In this vibrant chat, unschooling mama, rewilding guide and creator of DISCO and Rewild Your Livelihood Lucy AitkenRead shares the moment she flipped the script on service, stress and “shoulds” after discovering Adrienne Maree Brown’s Pleasure Activism.
We wander through the three pillars of Lucy’s pleasure practice — paradigm shifts, big joy and quiet nervous-system care — and how “turning down the heat” (literally and metaphorically) can unlock freedom, creativity and presence. Along the way she redefines autonomy as self-trust in relationship, not ‘me-first’ individualism, and shows what it looks like to raise children and build businesses that honour intuition, agency and community.
This is a conversation full of real stories and the practical shifts you can make right now to bring more ease, aliveness and generosity into your family life, your work and your activism. Watch now and discover how pleasure can be your most radical, reliable business strategy — and the secret to showing up whole in a world that needs you.
Joshua Tree (Thomason)
Life as Experiment: Weaving Dreams, Science, and Spirit
In this expansive and deeply embodied conversation, multidisciplinary artist and musician Joshua Thomason invites us into the simple, profound pleasures of being human.
We journey with him into the places where music becomes a portal — not just sound, but a universal pulse that threads through our bodies, our relationships, and the cosmos itself. He speaks about weaving together dreams, neuroscience, First Nations wisdom, and spirit into what he calls “the great experiment” of his life and art.
This conversation is both intimate and vast — touching the heart of creativity, authenticity, and the human experience.