PLEASURE
As A Revolutionary Act
This gathering is a collective exploration of pleasure - not as distraction or indulgence, but as something vital.
October 6–10, 2025.
No hidden charges! When you register you get access to every video for free, as they drop, for 48 hours.
Here’s what to expect when you register for ~ Pleasure as a Revolutionary Act
15+ Pre-recorded interviews with one-of-a-kind practitioners – rich, honest, heart-led conversations.
Free to watch for 48 hours – catch as much goodness as you can in two days.
3–4 new recordings released each day – a steady flow you can actually enjoy.
Want more time? Upgrade for on-demand access and watch at your own pace.
“Today, to actually be a guardian of pleasure, a guardian of joy is really a work to also guard that for the future generations.
It is to guard sanity, to guard what we are part of here on planet Earth.”
Chameli Gad ~ Awakening Women
Across 18 extraordinary interviews, we ask the question: Is pleasure essential in becoming more human - to feeling the ache of the world without losing our capacity to love, create, and imagine?
Reclaiming Pleasure as Essential Medicine, Not Luxury
Together we consider the possibility that pleasure isn't frivolous self-indulgence but instead essential to our life force energy. These conversations explore what exactly connects us to what matters most. Learn why treating joy and sensory aliveness as necessities—not rewards you must earn—becomes revolutionary medicine for navigating life's hardest moments and creating sustainable wellbeing.
Transform Your Relationship with Your Body and Sexuality
Journey from shame and disconnection to sacred embodiment through trauma-informed practices that honor your body's wisdom. Explore how reclaiming sensual aliveness and "erotic innocence" becomes a pathway to wholeness, creative fire, and authentic self-expression beyond cultural conditioning.
Break Free from Toxic Productivity Culture
Learn how we can build a thriving life and business by following what feels like "being a kid in a candy store" rather than grinding yourself into burnout? Discover why women's bodies need oxytocin-producing activities over endless goal-chasing, and how softening into vulnerability actually gives you more power to create boundaries and change.
Develop Sustainable Creative Practice Through Joy
Flip the "tortured artist" myth and discover how gratitude, failure-embracing, and honoring your inner child's dreams fuel lasting creativity. Learn practical approaches to creating cosy environments and finding pleasure in the process - not just outcomes - whether you're making art, building businesses, or simply living.
Reconnect with Ancient Wisdom and Archetypal Healing
Access the "fierce inner loving mother" and other healing archetypes within yourself to break generational patterns around worthiness and self-care. Explore how mythological stories like Psyche and Eros offer maps for healing, while practices like drumming return you to your baseline while also bringing us into a collective beat.
Understand the Art of Receiving and Self-Led Living
Take charge of your own pleasure and fulfillment rather than waiting for external validation or perfect circumstances. Learn why receiving can feel harder than giving, how to start small with everyday asks, and discover that "seduction" actually means being self-led—trusting your magnetism and appetite for a fully alive life.
“Returning to the senses and movement recharges creativity. It connects you back to your body, back to dancing, back to stomping the feet, allowing yourself to be really free. ”
“One of the ways to survive and even find some possibility of thriving in a world falling apart is to become more clear and more committed to that which we love, to what we love, to who we love, and to how we love.”
— Michael Meade
Meet the Speakers
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Vive Oldham
HOST and CURATOR
Somatic educator, artist and BodyDreaming Facilitator in training
TOPIC: The Pleasure Rebellion
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Michael Meade
Renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology
TOPIC: The Return of Eros: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
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Chameli Gad
Founder of Awakening Women, a mystic and Goddess Wisdom Keeper
TOPIC: Guardians of Pleasure: Honouring the Whole of Life
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Leonie Dawson
Internationally best-selling author and multi-passionate entrepreneur
TOPIC: The courage to create a life outside of conventional "shoulds"
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Sil Read
Mother, grandmother, author, coach, psychotherapist, and teacher
TOPIC: She Who Delights: Pleasure, Soul, and the Fierce Inner Loving Mother
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Jocelyn Star Feather
Visibility & thought leadership coach for visionary entrepreneurs, spiritual alchemist, astrologer, & founder of Sacred Planet
TOPIC: Reweaving the Feminine Mysteries
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Kim Marie
Holistic Women's Empowerment and Spiritual Coach supporting women in the second half of life
TOPIC: Seduced by Life: Reclaiming Pleasure, Magnetism, and the Feminine Mystery
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Chris Skidmore
Psychotherapist, Craniosacral therapist, Storyteller
TOPIC: Wrestling with Lions: Myth, Edge, and the Animal Body
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Tayria Ward
Ph.D. and Depth psychologist, working in private practice offering dream analysis, psychological and spiritual guidance
TOPIC: Beyond the World of Thought, A Sensuous Relationship with the Natural World Awaits
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Uma Furman
Somatic Sex Educator and Director at the Institute of Somatic Sexology
TOPIC: Learning to Receive: Why Pleasure Feels Hard (and Why It Matters)
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Casey Beros
Award-winning health journalist, bestselling author, keynote speaker and one of Australia's leading medical MC's
TOPIC: Permission Slips and Couch Time: A Refreshingly Honest Take on Pleasure
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Sarah Connor
Artist, business woman, self-taught ceramicist and former graphic designer who describes herself as “a dingdong playin’ in clay”
TOPIC: Tracksuit Pants & Problem Solving: How to Be a Happy Artist (No Torturing Required)
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Lucy AitkenRead
Rewilding entrepreneurs, relational alchemist, unschooling mama & guide
TOPIC: Pleasure as Resistance: Why Joy, Generosity and Trust Are Not Optional Extras
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Libby Rose Waite
Mythopoetic therapist, embodiment guide and Dream Witch
TOPIC: Pleasure from the Ruins: Psyche and Eros
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Jonanthan Kay
“21st-century Fool” — a practitioner of Fooling (a form of improvised theatre) who performs and teaches worldwide
TOPIC: Being in Timelessness, Thin King and the Fool
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Molly Douglas
Founder of Lit From Within Mystery School, visionary artist, author, devoted modern-day priestess, and seasoned art therapist
TOPIC: The Priestess Codes: Erotic Wisdom for a Radiant Life
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Baki Binah
Art Therapist, Mum, Artist
TOPIC: The Well That Never Runs Dry: Pleasure, Purpose and African Drumming
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Joshua Tree (Thomason)
Multidisciplinary artist & musician
TOPIC: Life as Experiment: Weaving Dreams, Science, and Spirit
About the Curator
Vive Oldham
Vive is a somatic educator and practitioner in BodyDreaming. She helps women reconnect with the wisdom of their own bodies.
She is the creator of Everyday Rebellion, a nervous system-informed course that introduces “gift habits” for building capacity, creativity, and inner strength.
As curator of the global summit Pleasure as a Revolutionary Act, Vive explores the full spectrum of pleasure as a doorway to our own experience of aliveness.
The Complexity of Pleasure
I recognise that pleasure is not equally accessible to everyone. Safety is fundamental, and when people live with war, displacement, poverty, or domestic and sexual violence, pleasure can feel distant or even unsafe.
I acknowledge these realities and the systems—patriarchal, colonial, capitalist, and oppressive—that make pleasure harder to reach. This is not an individual failing.
Even so, I will continue to advocate for pleasure as a vital force for resilience and collective power. I hold space for grief and anger while creating environments where moments of connection, creativity, and pleasure can still emerge, working toward a world where pleasure is accessible for all.
what we love is the cure
— African Proverb
Vive & Co acknowledges that we work and create on the lands of the Pibelmun people of the Noongar Nation — one of the oldest living cultures in the world.
We pay our deepest respects to Elders past, present and emerging and honour their ongoing connection to Country, waters and community.
We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded and we commit ourselves to caring for Country and to walking alongside First Nations people in truth and reconciliation.