About

Sex @ Work focuses on the unconscious contributions, both instinctual and inspirational to your experience of work. Sex @ Work champions the idea that awareness of the unconscious aspects of our beings can make our collaborations more ethical, powerful, and human.

Couldn’t it be called something else?

No.

Thesis

The conscious, professional self has a narrow operating margin. The more of the unconscious we are aware of, the wider our operating margin. As unconscious dynamics come into view, new options for behavior become possible. This enables a richer contribution to the cultures you are part of.

Awareness of the unconsciousness is a core competency of the future; a world undergoing profound technological and cultural transition.

Minimizing the extent of our unconscious (both its transcendent and animal aspects) perpetuates confusion, burnout, disengagement, violation, and disassociation.

Increasing awareness of the extent of our unconscious (both its transcendent and animal aspects) perpetuates clarity, potency, ethical leadership, and the emergence of new potentialities.

Why Now

The technological thrust of this moment is the development of AI-powered systems that intend, among other things, to replace nearly all forms of human work. Whether or not this vision is realized, its pursuit is destabilizing: there are almost no governance and societal safeguards in place for navigating such a profound shift.

A hope is that the principles and practices in Sex @ Work may support increased collective coherence in a disassociated world. Starting with a form of internally-sourced stability for the reader. The technological trajectory includes the dissolution of market-defined roles (jobs). This project proposes we orient toward a broader concept of our human function; the ongoing composition of all the ways we relate and create; our individual and collective Body of Work.

The raw material of the unconscious can be repurposed into a resource employed stability, creativity, and leadership.

Sex @ Work

  • Reframes Sex

    as the full spectrum of human relational energy for joining and creating; not a physical act.

  • 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.

  • Offers Ideas

    for becoming available to your body of work; the broader cultural contribution you are uniquely positioned to make.

  • Attunes Collectively

    in service to shared truth, coherence, stability, and innovation during what may be the most collectively destabilizing transition of our lifetime.

  • Honors Contribution

    as role, market, and tech/governance disruption-independent; inherent in all forms of relating and creating.

  • Sees Innocence

    in the messiness of humanity; the pain and pleasure involved in our attempts to join with one another in collaborations that include, but extend beyond us.

Forms

Book:

A NSFW employee handbook for orientation to a world where role-based identities are dissolving. In the same way a business wants high profit margin so that it is more stable during shocks and is resourced to innovate, Sex @ Work sees a widening identity margin as inherently profitable. The larger our sense of identity, individually and collectively, the more stable we are during shocks, and the more resourced we are for innovation within the creation of possible futures. The book won’t require sequential, linear reading or completion and it is designed to quickly

  • illuminate more clearly the unconscious patterns that are operative in our work.

  • give language for the range of our experience at work; from violating to transcendent.

  • extend the idea that increasing awareness of the unconscious is a core professional (and human) competency.

  • increase capacity for collective joining, for the emergence of new potentialities in general and within the context of a largely ungoverned transitioned into an AI-fueled world.

Ongoing Research: Tastes from the test kitchen:

Partners, Interviews, Media, Other Forms of Expression:

  • interested, open

Sample Frames for Unconscious Patterns

  • Stamina

    an animal signal of leadership capacity with practical validity. How to turn the dial up on stamina so that people feel more safe and inspired to follow you.

  • Circle Jerks

    when the Slack channel or 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 being in approval of the unconscious pleasure that people experience from all the stimulation.

  • Strip Clubs

    the interaction on witnessing and revealing via metaphor of patron and dancer. How to experience more discretionary effort or more safety and flow. For the enjoyment of all involved.

  • Penetration

    increasing the power and beneficence of your thrust. How to potently give your gifts to a world that wants them and than experiences something even better than what they knew they wanted.

  • Pu$$y Pricing

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

  • Shadow Pleasures

    based on the work of Carl Jung and Carolyn Elliott. How to transform patterns you don’t like in your life by finding the unconscious pleasure in them.

  • Erection

    applied to body language and beyond. How to increase your energetic readiness and carry it in a way that inspires magnetism and receptivity in others, not bracing.

  • Wetness

    produced by the foreplay of attuned interaction. How to increase your own and others’ availability for satisfying collaboration.

  • Sex Parties

    the desire for highly nontraditional, intimate, surrendered, or bold collaborations within a group calls for a secure perimeter and a serious bounder. How to have a better bouncer to serve the exploration within a group.

  • 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.

  • Intero Discernment

    interospective awareness of bodily signals so that you can make better decisions with less external data. How to increase your leadership, reception, and creativity through body-based decision-making.

  • Violation

    from subtle, like a fake smile or holding your bladder, to the highly traumatic; violation produces disassociation. How to recognize violation do less overriding of your body and others’ bodies so that you are more available to inspiration.

Re AI Usage: LLM development is the most comprehensive intellectual theft in human history. AI-powered synthetic biology, nanotechnology, robotics, and general intelligence applications will deeply serve humanity. And, in the words of Mustafa Suleyman, now CEO of Microsoft AI, “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 likely be used extensively within Sex @ Work to facilitate rapid spread, training on its content, accessibility of its themes, and availability of its human contributors. One intention of AI use in this project is to bring awareness to the 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.