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💜 Exploring Kink: Foundations is the perfect place to start your kinky journey - or to add heart and consent to your existing play. It's a playful, lighthearted workshop focusing on consent, pleasure, joy, and exploration.
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➡️ EVENT SOLD OUT? QUESTIONS ABOUT PRACTICALITIES? THE FAQ TELLS YOU WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO GO: www.exploringdeeper.com/faq.
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The Exploring Kink Series is a range of workshops designed to invite you to (deepen your) play with kink and BDSM aspects. Exploring Kink is a way to add spice, depth, and presence to all your relationships. In these workshops, we combine principles of consent and (neo-)tantra with the magical realms of kink.
The Exploring Kink series consists of these workshops that can be taken as a series or stand-alone workshops:
- 'Foundations'. Beginner-friendly with a focus on the basics of power dynamics, basics of impact play, and setting up a scene.
- 'Deepening D/s Dynamics'. Diving into the nuances of power play and the different qualities of those. Relatively beginner-friendly, but some experience (like Foundations) is recommended.
- 'Edges'. Bringing forms of edgy play like breathplay and consensual non-consent into your play. Not for beginners (at least one of these three recommended: Foundations, Deepening D/s dynamics, or Kinky Tantra).
- 'Therapeutic Kink': using BDSM and kink for healing and transformative processes. Not for beginners (at least one of these three recommended: Foundations, Deepening D/s dynamics, or Kinky Tantra).
** EXPLORING KINK: FOUNDATIONS **
(This workshop was formerly known as Exploring Kink: Step 1)
Foundations is a kink workshop suited for beginners or well-experienced kinksters who are looking for a place that integrates the heart and consent into kinky practices.
This workshop includes opportunities to:
- learn how to set up a scene
- practice impeccable consent – and how it brings safety to any kind of play
- learn cool skills like spanking, flogging, and caning
- learn some surprising sexy hacks that change and intensify your play
- improve communication skills for your current and future relationships
- experience your Inner Navigation System and how it tells you what to do
- get to know amazing like-minded people in the best way!
This is Exploring Kink - Foundations: a weekend of exploring Kink in an intuitive, neo-tantric way. You will learn how the practices of kink, consent, and (neo)tantra are not opposites, but complementary pathways that can increase each other’s depth and effect.
You can come alone (many people do), with your partner/s or friend/s. Couples may choose to stay together. This event welcomes all levels of play. Some experience with workshops in intimacy (tantra, kink, cuddling, massage) is recommended but not obligatory.
WHAT THE EVENT LOOKS LIKE:
This event is designed as a full-on two-day deep dive into the world of kink. The first day is an intensive day. After a welcome and introductions, we start playing with tuning into your body as an Inner Navigation System. Always get to know where the breaks are before we speed up! We will play with the polarities of Domination and surrender, leading and following. In the second part of the day, you will get to know different ways of playing with impact. You will get to know your hands as amazing tools for impact play, and you have the opportunity to try different impact play tools like floggers, canes and paddles.
On the second day, we will take time sharing about our experiences and learn from each other. Then we will bring in some new elements into your play, working with different senses. The second part of this day is designed as a Play Party where you can practice with amazing people, supported by Wilrieke and her amazing team. If you want to practice specific things, ask questions (we love to geek out!), have us look over your shoulder, or dance and integrate – there’s space for it all!
The weekend consists of exercises that you can do on your own, in two’s, or in larger groups. There will be sharings in smaller groups and in the whole group. Towards the end of the weekend, there is a short play party: a contained amount of time where you get to practice what you’ve learned freely with our support and guidance.
As in all of our workshops, you are encouraged to sit out of anything. Witnessing is valid participation. If you come with a partner, you are welcome to stay together for the whole workshop, or play with others too.
This is a RED event, which means that during some parts of the event full nudity and sexual play are possible (this will mainly be during the play party), although sexuality is not the focus of this event. It is mainly allowed when it would support the healing and growth in a scene. At no point during this weekend are you required or pushed to be naked or sexual. You can participate in the full weekend while being dressed and without touching anyone. We do ask you to be comfortable with nudity and sexuality in the room.
👋 ABOUT WILRIEKE SOPHIA
Wilrieke Sophia (they/them) is a sex & intimacy educator, (TEDx) speaker, advisor & coach for creative makers and scientists, author, and founder of Exploring Deeper and Cuddle Workshops International.
The main focus of their work is empowerment through self-knowledge and understanding, radical self-inclusion, the embodied experiencing of boundaries and desires, and an extensive practice of consent – all based on a foundation of trauma awareness and neuroscience, embedded in experiential spaces based on interpersonal connective practices. They collaborate with artists and scientists, and are a supervisor and mentor.
With their project Red Flags in Workshops, Wilrieke creates free materials on e.g. accountability, abuse, and power dynamics in the intimacy and wellness communities.
www.exploringdeeper.com
www.redflagsinworkshops.com
www.wilriekesophia.com
Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Fetlife: @WilriekeSophia
SOME PRACTICAL INFORMATION
The week before the event, you will receive an email with detailed information for the day, including the address and what to bring. Make sure you sign up with the email address that you use. Check your spam filter if you did not receive an email five days before the event (if you have unsubscribed from our newsletter, these emails cannot reach you!).
Timings:
Saturday: 10.00h – 18.00h (doors open at 9.30h)
Sunday: 10.00h – 18.00h (doors open at 9.30h)
We will provide snacks, you will provide your own meals (potluck style), and lodging.
➡️ Make sure to have a decent sheet well before the play party. Check the FAQ for tips and recommendations.
ACCESSIBILITY
This workshop space is called De Ruimte - we are in the room DOWNSTAIRS. The specific venue for this weekend is located on the ground floor of a building. There is a height difference to enter the venue through the front door that may cause problems for wheelchairs. There is a backdoor without height differences. There is a bathroom that is not a specific all-access bathroom, but that is fairly spacious and private. There are stairs to reach the kitchen area. There are mattresses, and you can lie down as much as you want.
There is a small fridge. There are no cooking/heating facilities. There are (shared) showers.
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➡️ EVENT SOLD OUT? QUESTIONS ABOUT PRACTICALITIES? THE FAQ TELLS YOU WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO GO: www.exploringdeeper.com/faq.
If you do not find your answer there, feel free to message us via the Hipsy website!
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Our Terms and Conditions apply to all our events:
http://www.exploringdeeper.com/terms-and-conditions/.
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