Mothering Boys: Boundaries & Consent

A workshop for mothers bringing their whole wounds — and their whole hearts — to raising embodied, connected boys.

with Courtney LaCava and Stacey Ramsower

Saturday, May 16, 2026 @ 11am PT / 2pm ET

In this workshop we will:

• Talk about what your son’s nervous system actually needs — and why "gentle" isn't the answer. We'll look at what testosterone does to a boy's body and brain, why his bigness, loudness, and aggression aren't problems to fix, and how repression and shame create the very outcomes mothers are afraid of.
• Learn parallel co-regulation — the single most powerful tool for interrupting your son's isolation. You'll learn a simple, low-pressure daily practice that regulates his nervous system through yours, without needing him to talk, open up, or make eye contact. This is the antidote to screens, shutdown, and emotional withdrawal.
• Reframe consent and boundaries from fear-based rules to embodied, pleasure-positive skills. We'll untangle the overcorrection — the touch-aversion, the cancel culture, the overly complicated consent scripts — and replace it with something boys can actually feel and use: attunement to their own body and genuine awareness of others.
• Explore somatic practices you can bring home — for him and for yourself. Through guided group and body-based exercises, you'll practice tracking sensation, setting boundaries from the inside out, and helping your son learn to feel his aggression, his desire, and his discomfort without being consumed or shut down by them.
• Reckon honestly with your own wounds so they don't become his inheritance. We'll hold space for the reality that you are contending with your own history of boundary ruptures and male violence while trying to raise a boy. Uncoupling your trauma from his behavior is not optional — it's the work.
• Understand the impact of restoring your own yin — the grounding, nourishment, and stability that makes all of this possible. You cannot teach what you haven't embodied. We'll look at how collective yin depletion is at the root of the crisis, and how reclaiming connection to your body, to nature, and to each other is what creates the conditions for our collective to stabilize, and for your son to actually receive what you're trying to give him.