About Sex @ Work

Awareness of the unconscious aspects of our beings makes our collaborations more ethical, powerful, and human.

Couldn’t it be called something else?

No.

Thesis

Minimizing the unconscious perpetuates confusion, burnout, disengagement, violation, and disassociation.

Awareness of the unconscious facilitates clarity, potency, ethical leadership, and the emergence of new potentialities.

Why Now

The technological thrust of this moment includes replacing human work. Whether or not this vision is realized, its pursuit is destabilizing. Particularly without governance and societal safeguards in place for navigating such a profound shift.

Sex @ Work

  • Utilizes "Sex"

    as an example of unconscious drivers and as a metaphor the full spectrum of human relational energy.

  • Reveals Dynamics

    that govern teams, leadership, creativity, and conflict without conscious awareness.

  • Emphasizes Desire

    as a directional intelligence in your work, life, and leadership.

  • Reorients Leadership

    as primarily a somatic experience and responsibility.

Sample Frames

  • Predator / Prey

    prey-signaling behavior activates predation. How to recognize unconscious prey-signaling and consciously replace it with the embodiment of a being who is less of a target for insult or attack.

  • Circle Jerks

    when the reply-all goes off in frantic panicking over a problem that turned out…didn’t exist. How to recognize a circle jerk and choose not to engage, while remaining connected.

  • Pu$$y Pricing

    somatic availability applied to negotiation. How to be more wet and gushy for what you say you want.

  • Shadow Pleasure

    based on the work of Carl Jung and Carolyn Elliott. How to transform patterns by finding the unconscious pleasure in them.

Upcoming Book

A NSFW field guide for a world in which role-based identities are dissolving. The book intends to illuminate more clearly the unconscious patterns that are operative in our relating and creating. It proposes that awareness of the unconscious is a core human competency, especially in an AI-accelerating world.

About AI Usage: LLM development is the most comprehensive intellectual theft in human history. And, AI-based tech has the potential to profoundly serve humanity. As Mustafa Suleyman, now CEO of Microsoft AI said, “that doesn’t mean that it isn’t going to be the most scary transition we’ve ever been through as a species.”

AI will be used extensively within this project. One intention of its use is to explore aspects of resistance to AI use that are not integrity-based, but classist.

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Sex @ Work is currently stewarded by Emma Garrett as a project within Body of Work.