Consent-Forward Teaching Artist Program Application Form

Before you fill out this form, please strongly consider if I, Mia, am someone you want to learn from. There are other people doing similar, aligned work, albeit in different kinds of containers. If I’m not who you’d like to learn from, check out the people in the Educators + Friends tab.

Also please consider your own capacity. Are you truly available for this time commitment? Will you be able to attend most classes in full?

Some things you should know going in to inform your decision:

A lot of grief comes up in this work. Relationships fall away as you begin to stand up for yourself and voice your boundaries. You will likely experience grief (or anticipatory grief) for those relationships, as well as grief for your past self and how different things could have been.
Your standards will go up. This will contribute to relationships ending, but it will also help you gravitate towards and pull in more aligned, fulfilling, easeful relationships.
The consent concepts we’ll go over in class are things you cannot unsee. I mean this in the best way. The world around you will become clearer, more specific, and you’ll see communication in granular detail. You’ll be able to not monitor or constrain yourself because you will become fluent with the concepts. It will becomes easy and intuitive. However—and this isn’t intended to scare you, nor is it an exaggeration—your life will change and there’s no going back.
We will spend the first half of the program on consent concepts. The second half will focus on business which will include digging into some stuff around your relationship with money. We will talk about finding your voice in your work, what you want to offer, how to have boundaries with your work, and engaging in marketing and branding and social media in a way that feels sustainable and authentic to you, while avoiding burnout.
This is a business program. It’s to help you start, develop, or restructure your business using concepts of consent and boundaries in a trauma-informed way. My goal is to help you make more money.
Tough shit comes up in here. Old stuff gets the dust kicked off of it. Trauma can come up. I (or the guest teacher) am the only facilitator in the room so we cannot come support on an individual basis. You will have time in Class 1 to develop your care plan.
I am invested in restorative justice practices which means that I am deeply opposed to cancellation. This includes how cancellation happens online as well as how we participate in such things internally. We don’t police people in these classes. We meet people where they’re at and we assume good intentions. When (not if) harm is caused, we tend to it with care for all parties, typically outside of class time. I believe that people learn through osmosis and exposure and this requires patience from me and you.
I prioritize connection which requires me to expand my tolerance for activation. I run classes with this at the forefront of my mind.
I prioritize vulnerable sharing over the need to give a content warning. You will have time to develop your own care plan on day 1, and I trust you to use it, to manage your own feelings and needs as they come up, and to take care of yourself as needed.
I am a white, queer, neurodivergent, trans nonbinary, chronically ill anti-Zionist practicing Jew with a college degree. I speak from my own experience and no one else’s.

If you’d prefer to send video or audio answers to the questions below, please email your responses to mia@sharetheloadinc.com with the subject: Teaching Artist Program Application.