30/08/2024
Hey folks,
Thanks for your interest in Curious Creatures.
Over the course of ~12 years, I've taught up to 20 different workshops at a time, with >20,000 enrolments, guest presenters, interstate and international activities, as well as writing articles, doing public speaking, and running a podcast (itself having >20,000 listeners). The core messages have been around communication, relationship skills, s*x-positivity, and self-awareness.
It has been wild. It has been an honour to hold space for so many of you, and I am very proud of us all. I have a solid sense of satisfaction, and I know from feedback that it's brought a lot of benefit.
It's also been a supremely challenging sector to be a leader in; in this age of polarised social media politics and separatism, it's become almost a sport to take down leaders, especially s*xuality leaders, and especially ones that present like me. I don't choose that life for myself anymore, so I'm going to be finding different things to do, and do them in different ways.
To that end, I finished up my workshops earlier this year. For the moment, there's still a few ancillary things (the Consent Cards, recordings) on the old website. I've sold 'The Practice Lab' - the event that looks like a play-party, but is actually about community and self development - and we're getting towards the final stages of handover as at the time of writing.
I will be continuing my podcast, Curious Conversations About S*x, at least for the time being. I may do an episode soon with more detail around why I'm stepping down.
I won't be doing anything commercial in this same sector going forwards, but if I do things that might be relevant, I'll notify those of you on my mailing list.
In due course, I'll close this page completely, although I might make occasional courtesy posts in the meanwhile about The Practice Lab.
Again, thanks for your support and interest over the years. It has been a spectacularly interesting world to share with you, and I'm so glad that a friend and I took that first step, 12 years ago, to offer to share a few things we'd learned. It was the best kind of slippery slope from there.
Love, Rog.