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 the specific territory where embodiment, intimacy, and queer experience meet. I know how to read a room, build a container that holds, and 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 — festival programmers, retreat organisers, and facilitators developing their own practice.
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 offer workshops and experiences at festivals and events — particularly those serving queer communities, or working at the edges of embodiment, intimacy, and transformation.
I'm at home in contexts where people are encountering this work for the first time, and in more specialist settings. I can hold workshops that touch on kink, intimacy, consent and sexuality — and I know how to do that in ways that feel safe and alive, not cold or overly careful.
Residential retreats I take on more selectively — these tend to grow from longer conversations. If you're in that territory, I'm always open to talking.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Embodiment & somatic awareness
Conscious kink & power dynamics
Bringing people out of their heads and into their bodies — through movement, breath, sensation and presence.
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
Facilitation Mentorship
For people developing their own practice
Over the years, many facilitators have come to me. Some are new, while others are experienced but want to explore deeper topics like kink, power, and queer community. I help them learn how to create a safe space for intimate topics and find their own voice and style.
I'm now offering this as one-to-one mentorship — for facilitators at any stage, working in embodiment, intimacy, kink, or queer community spaces. This is not supervision or therapy. It is honest, supportive conversation about your work, what is happening in the room and how to keep developing without losing yourself.
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 is one-to-one, through conversation and reflection. There may also be opportunities to assist at events — something we can discuss depending on what you're looking for.
Let’s have a conversation first
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.