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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: Deepening D/s power dynamics **
In this two-day workshop, we will play with D/s dynamics. Playing with the polarity of Domination and submission can create a powerful space for pleasure, exploration, discovery, and healing. This workshop is designed to play with different flavors of this dynamic. Think of:
- D/s for the pleasure of the Dominant
- D/s for the journey of the submissive
- topping from the bottom
- different flavors of play, from bitchy, to playful, to being a princess (m/f/x)
- different forms of leading
- how submission is an active role, more than being a passive follower
Discover the wide variety of nuances and what they can bring to your play!
* This workshop does not focus on teaching impact play (Exploring Kink: Foundations does!), but may include it if that supports your journey and you know the basics
This is Exploring Kink: a weekend of exploring Kink in an intuitive, neo-tantric way. You will learn how the practices of kink, consent, and (neo)tantra are no opposites, but complementary pathways that can increase each other’s depth and effect.
FOR WHO IS THIS WEEKEND?
For this workshop, we recommend at least some experience with kink and Wilrieke’s way of teaching, e.g. through Exploring Kink: Foundations.
All our workshops are queer-centered and straight-friendly. That means, to us, that our workshops embrace diversity beyond the traditional cisgender, straight, slender, able, neurotypical, or young body.
This event welcomes folks from all walks of life. We are LGBTQIIA+ informed (Wilrieke and most of her team identify as such), slut-friendly, trauma-informed, and non-monogamy informed. White folks are overrepresented in our team and life experiences are coloured through that lens. We do come from different social backgrounds and have different life experiences when it comes to health, wealth, neurodiversity, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
We welcome folks with disabilities. We can adapt exercises so that they fit you. Where we can we will support you. If you have a person/animal that supports you in daily activities that you need to bring for your care, they can of course come with you without buying a ticket. Please reach out if you have special needs, and we will discuss how we can support you. In case we cannot comfort your needs, we will honestly let you know.
You can come alone (many people do), with your partner/s or friend/s. If you come with a partner you are welcome to stay together for the whole workshop, or play with others too.
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.
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 you are 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 THE PLAY PARTY / FREE FLOW
Towards the end of the weekend there is a (shorter) play party or free flow. This part of the program is meant as a designated time for you to choose your experience: practice what you have learned, meditate, massage, cuddle, journal, you name it.
What if you are nervous about the play party? Don’t worry! A lot of folks are. And a lot of folks come out of a play party saying things like ‘this was so much fun! Playing here felt so innocent. And watching all these people play, my gosh, so yummy!’. Remember that there is nothing you have to do. To watch, dance, cuddle, meditate, read a book or have a lovely chat is just fine!
SOME PRACTICAL INFORMATION
In the week before the event, you will receive an email with detailed information for this 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 seven days before the event (if you have unsubscribed from our newsletter, these emails cannot reach you!).
On this page you find elaborate information about play parties, and many frequently asked questions >>> www.exploringdeeper.com/FAQ
This is a page that speaks more explicitly about rules of conduct during our workshops >>>
https://www.exploringdeeper.com/conduct/
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 and lodging.
ACCESSIBILITY
This workshop space is called De Ruimte - we are in the room UPSTAIRS. Accessibility of this specific venue: there are steep stairs to access the building. There is no elevator. One inside, there are bathrooms on the workshop floor. the bathrooms are not specifically all-access. There are mattresses and you can lie down as much as you can. There is a separate room where bags etc can be stored, which can also be used as an outbreak room with minimalized stimuli.
There is a small fridge. There are no cooking/heating facilities. There are (shared) showers.
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If you are curious about our Guidelines for Team Members, feel free to check the full document out here:
http://exploringdeeper.com/ethics
For all events, Exploring Deeper's Terms and Conditions apply:
http://www.exploringdeeper.com/terms-and-conditions/.
To stay updated about workshops, and events and to read Wilrieke's blog (with hundreds of articles and videos about topics like non-monogamy, sexuality, and dealing with insecurities), check www.exploringdeeper.com and sign up for our newsletter!
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 zines and other free materials on e.g. accountability, abuse, and power dynamics in the intimacy and wellness communities.
More about Wilrieke:
www.wilriekesophia.com
www.exploringdeeper.com
www.redflagsinworkshops.com
www.cuddleworkshops.org
IG: @wilriekesophia
FB: Exploring Deeper with Wilrieke Sophia
YT: www.youtube.com/exploringdeeper
