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Anxiety is Not My Dom: service and surrender with an Anxious Brain

Having severe anxiety means constant overthinking, rethinking, questioning oneself and trying to hold together the last of one's control. Most of the time, this type of anxiety isn’t situational and thus doesn’t respond to situational coping mechanisms. One route for anxious coping is creative thinking and using anxiety as a tool in power exchange relationships. In this session, be prepared to think of anxiety, not as a problem, but as a skill to reevaluate and expand yourself. We will cover a variety of ways that make having anxiety useful in your ability to serve, to submit, and to surrender. We will start by reminding ourselves that anxiety is not in charge of us, even when it tries to push those boundaries. Through thought-provoking self-reflection and collective discussions we will explore what it means to release the controls and reevaluate who we are in addition to people with anxiety. Though this session is specifically catered to s-types, D-types may also find useful skills especially as supporters.

Autistic (Un)Masking: Power, Pain, & Pleasure

If masking is the coping mechanism that one uses to hide oneself and conform to a more “normal” behaviour, then it’s only natural that un-masking is about allowing oneself to be exposed and about re-setting the standards of “normality”. Join Echolynx, an autistic kinkster to discuss, discover, and delve into the land of masking behaviours. Together we will discuss how to use our masking (and un-masking) behaviours to our advantage, pairing power, pain, and pleasure in time-controlled scenes and in our relationships with ourselves and others. Be prepared to think about the types of masking you partake in and dive deep into how to make that a benefit in your life rather than a stray away from the norm. Let’s come together to expose ‘the big things’ that can be scary, fun, and pleasurable.

Disclosure: The When, Why, and How

Session Description

I’m Fed Up: Navigating the kink scene in ED recovery

If you’ve ever been to a play party, you have likely come into contact with the common theme that where there’s play, there’s also food and drink. Think back, have you ever been to a munch or other kink space without the expectation of food and drink being involved? It happens, yes; but rarely. ED here, refers to “Eating Disorder”. Disordered eating comes with a range of food-related anxieties and difficulties and poses a threat to engaging in kink spaces where food and eating are expectations. Together we will connect and converse about coping mechanisms, passing through the barriers to entrance, and learning to explore and express our boundaries related to food and eating in kink spaces.

Mental Illness = Superhero

co-taught with Connor Synuates

Our society tells us that when we live with mental “illnesses” that we are responsible for making sure that it doesn’t impact our day-to-day lives and especially that it’s not a part of our relationships. In kink spaces, especially, where RACK, SSC, and other acronyms are part of our ways to maintain safety within our personal spaces and local communities, we’re taught that mental illnesses have no place. Join Echo and Synuates as they flip the script to examine how it’s not only possible, but more inclusive and ultimately ideal to use mental illness diagnoses to create greater empowerment in kink spaces and relationships. In this participatory workshop, we recognize that there are a few more commonly accepted neurodiversities (Autism, ADHD, General Anxiety, etc.); as such we will be primarily focusing on the less commonly accepted neurodiversities.

Mobility-Aided Partner- and Self-Suspension

Session Description

Mobility-Aided Self-Suspension Demo

In this session, Echolynx will demonstrate self-tying and self-suspension as a person who uses mobility aids Covered as a part of the demo are methods, choice of materials, safety, going up, coming down, and problem pointers. Please note, this session is not to teach others how to do self- or partner suspension; rather it is about demonstrating what is possible.

Service Dogs in Kink

More and more frequently, dogs are showing up at BDSM oriented events, dungeons, and munches. Albeit those dogs are likely Service Dogs (SDs) and they’re accompanying their disabled handler, it can still be jarring to communities, especially for organizers whose job it is to make sure everyone is safe and included. How do BDSM organizers adhere to practices of inclusion around disability and service dogs without putting people at risk who might be allergic or scared; and want to be in a space that feels consensual. This question might be a “no-brainer” but it’s in fact one of the most common questions that organizers face in this regard. In this session, not just aimed at organizers, we will address some of the frequently asked questions about service dogs being in BDSM spaces. What do you do if a service dog is ‘watching’? What if you’re afraid or allergic to dogs, what can you ask about the dog? How do you respond if there are issues in the space, aggression from the dog, or if it relieves itself in an inappropriate way or location? These are all valid questions and answers in the moment are generally hard to come by. Join Echolynx and their retired Service Dog, Morgan, to answer some of these questions and to build spaces wherein disabled kinksters and their service dogs are not only accepted, but included.

So You Have a Kink For Training: Your Service Dog in Kink Spaces

This session is specifically for people who have service dogs and want to learn how to train their dog for kinky public access. This session is not about human assistants or service people who also engage in puppy play. If you’ve gotten this far, I take it you’re a disabled individual with a service animal and you don’t want to be in the situation of choosing between kinky play and your disability equipment. Most of our equipment isn’t alive, it doesn’t have biological or instinctual responses to fear, people screaming, sounds or physiological responses (such as an increased heart rate) to people being in distress. Yet, usually, when we engage in kink, those things are commonplace. Join Echolynx, a certified dog trainer and behaviouralist and their retired Service Dog, Morgan, in a frank conversation about the realities of having a service dog in your kink spaces. We will address training techniques, how to express patience and calm when your body is in distress, and how to navigate communities that historically and culturally don’t allow non-human animals into BDSM spaces.

Wheelchair Self-Suspension Demo

In this session, Echolynx will demonstrate self-tying and self-suspension as a person in a wheelchair. Covered as a part of the demo are methods, choice of materials, safety, going up, coming down, and problem pointers. Please note, this session is not to teach others how to do wheelchair self- or partner suspension; rather it is about demonstrating what is possible.

American-Centrism: Limiting geographical bias and a path to international inclusion

Session Description

Building a Capacity for Joy through Resilience

Frequently resiliency is defined by the traumas we experience within ourselves and our societies. Resilience does not need to solely be about learning to navigate a difficult world around us; rather it can be about teaching the world around us to recognize where resiliency comes from joy and exist side-by-side with those who are resilient. How can we build our own capacities to recognize not only where we’ve needed to be strong, but also where we’ve been able to be vulnerable to ourselves and within our communities; and how can we come together as members of marginalized or minoritized identities to build better BDSM communities that hold space to contribute to future equity? In this workshop we will explore our own multi-faceted, personal narratives of resilience. Participants will learn to incorporate strength with vulnerability from a broader perspective within the face of societal expectations that allows for individuals and communities alike to reflect upon experiences of joy in order to create a future societal outlet with a more positive experience of resiliency.

Kinky, With a Side of Poverty: Navigating Identity and Pleasure When Your Basic Needs are at Stake

When we think about being kinky, frequently we think about the ways we can express ourselves. As a community, we’re often more than just “in-the-bedroom” kinky; we go to munches and local events, we buy beautiful toys, sometimes we go to week/end kinky getaways in other parts of the country/world, we join online communities, and more. Without even thinking about it, our kink has become just one part of our lives and the ways in which we express our identities. Kinky expression; however, requires money, time, and wealth. By natural definition of how Leather/BDSM communities are created, being kinky is exclusionary to people experiencing poverty. Echolynx, who has experienced poverty (moderate and extreme), recognised then and now, the ways kink communities are frequently inaccessible to folks experiencing poverty. How can we, as kinksters, be more open and connective to folks who’re in those shoes, and how can we break down the barriers that kink has imposed that make access to our spaces more attainable? Join them in this deep and difficult conversation to get started in building more space for more inclusion into your own Leather/BDSM communities. This discussion will touch upon homelessness, lack of food access, and other topics that may be triggering or uncomfortable. Good news, poverty is not comfortable, so you’ll fit right in. But in reality, embrace those feelings, let them encourage you to be empathetic toward others, and let them guide you to think critically about your personal opinions of poverty. Only through a deep understanding of how this experience of life is, can we truly engage in meaningful conversations to build communities that are more inclusive of life experiences and less focused on financial gain.

Service Dogs in Kink

More and more frequently, dogs are showing up at BDSM oriented events, dungeons, and munches. Albeit those dogs are likely Service Dogs (SDs) and they’re accompanying their disabled handler, it can still be jarring to communities, especially for organizers whose job it is to make sure everyone is safe and included. How do BDSM organizers adhere to practices of inclusion around disability and service dogs without putting people at risk who might be allergic or scared; and want to be in a space that feels consensual. This question might be a “no-brainer” but it’s in fact one of the most common questions that organizers face in this regard. In this session, not just aimed at organizers, we will address some of the frequently asked questions about service dogs being in BDSM spaces. What do you do if a service dog is ‘watching’? What if you’re afraid or allergic to dogs, what can you ask about the dog? How do you respond if there are issues in the space, aggression from the dog, or if it relieves itself in an inappropriate way or location? These are all valid questions and answers in the moment are generally hard to come by. Join Echolynx and their retired Service Dog, Morgan, to answer some of these questions and to build spaces wherein disabled kinksters and their service dogs are not only accepted, but included.

Asexuality in Kink Spaces

(with use of the Cycle of Experience Model)

Session Description

Disclosure: The When, Why, and How

Session Description

Gender Inclusive Rope (Harnesses and harness building for folks with gender diverse bodies)

Session Description

Healing: The ‘After’ from Harm in Power Exchange Relationships.

As kinksters, we’re taught Risk Aware Consensual Kink, and hurt, don’t harm. In power dynamics, we give our whole selves (body, mind, soul) to our partners in ways that, without consent, would be considered abusive. However, on occasion harm still occurs in those relationships. Whether a difference of communication styles, an inability or lack of desire for respecting safe-words, or simply a clash of competing needs. Regardless of the reasoning, the onus is in the recipient to heal. Living in our world of call-out culture, it can seem that the only true way to survive and heal is to call out the people and the harm that have inflicted us. Together we will discuss the ways in which we can use kink experiences to work toward personal healing, develop tools to better see the red-flags of our past, and explore our power within dynamic relationships moving forward.

American-Centrism: Limiting geographical bias and a path to international inclusion

Session Description

Anxiety is Not My Dom: service and surrender with an Anxious Brain

Having severe anxiety means constant overthinking, rethinking, questioning oneself and trying to hold together the last of one's control. Most of the time, this type of anxiety isn’t situational and thus doesn’t respond to situational coping mechanisms. One route for anxious coping is creative thinking and using anxiety as a tool in power exchange relationships. In this session, be prepared to think of anxiety, not as a problem, but as a skill to reevaluate and expand yourself. We will cover a variety of ways that make having anxiety useful in your ability to serve, to submit, and to surrender. We will start by reminding ourselves that anxiety is not in charge of us, even when it tries to push those boundaries. Through thought-provoking self-reflection and collective discussions we will explore what it means to release the controls and reevaluate who we are in addition to people with anxiety. Though this session is specifically catered to s-types, D-types may also find useful skills especially as supporters.

Asexuality in Kink Spaces

(with use of the Cycle of Experience Model)

Session Description

Autistic (Un)Masking: Power, Pain, & Pleasure

If masking is the coping mechanism that one uses to hide oneself and conform to a more “normal” behaviour, then it’s only natural that un-masking is about allowing oneself to be exposed and about re-setting the standards of “normality”. Join Echolynx, an autistic kinkster to discuss, discover, and delve into the land of masking behaviours. Together we will discuss how to use our masking (and un-masking) behaviours to our advantage, pairing power, pain, and pleasure in time-controlled scenes and in our relationships with ourselves and others. Be prepared to think about the types of masking you partake in and dive deep into how to make that a benefit in your life rather than a stray away from the norm. Let’s come together to expose ‘the big things’ that can be scary, fun, and pleasurable.

Bight Me: On your face, in your mouth with rope

Co-taught with PandaPet

Have you ever considered what it would be like to tie someone’s hair, their tongue, their face? If you're a kinkster who's into playing with rope, you've likely gotten intimate with your bondage, but have you gotten so intimate you could taste it?This workshop will solely consist of ties from the neck up, covering from the sensual to the sadistic. Echo (they/them) and panda (it/they) will give some background on their relationships with rope, talk about the collaborative process of rope scenes, and then lead into paired demonstration and practice! If you plan on participating in the hands-on practice, please come with some understanding of the foundations of rope safety and some basic ties. If you have your own rope, please bring it; though primarily we will be working with much thinner ropes, thicker ropes are still welcome. Echo and panda will also provide a face, mouth, and head rope kit for folks who want one.

Bootblacking Basics

Co-taught with Connor Synuates

Join Echo and Connor in an introduction to the world of bootblacking! Bootblacking is the art of caring for leather goods including boots, floggers, harnesses, and more. It has a long (and pretty queer) history and is equal parts sexy and practical. Whether you are drawn to bootblacking because you enjoy giving\receiving service, find it hot being under a (freshly cleaned) boot, or just want to make sure your leather goods last a lifetime, we've got you. We'll cover bootblacking basics (materials and hands-on how to) as well as bootblacking culture, history, adding bootblacking into dynamics, and making bootblacking into a sexy scene.Please bring an item made of leather (to practice your skills on) and a towel/blanket you don't mind getting stained (to protect the floor.) Items should be made of real leather but could be anything: boots, a flogger, a vest\jacket, a harness, or even just a belt! If you own any leather care materials feel free to bring them too, but we will also have supplies available for everyone to share. Leather polishes can stain fabric sometimes, so please choose your outfit accordingly.
[best taught in person, online is possible, minimum 90 minutes]

Building a Capacity for Joy through Resilience

Frequently resiliency is defined by the traumas we experience within ourselves and our societies. Resilience does not need to solely be about learning to navigate a difficult world around us; rather it can be about teaching the world around us to recognize where resiliency comes from joy and exist side-by-side with those who are resilient. How can we build our own capacities to recognize not only where we’ve needed to be strong, but also where we’ve been able to be vulnerable to ourselves and within our communities; and how can we come together as members of marginalized or minoritized identities to build better BDSM communities that hold space to contribute to future equity? In this workshop we will explore our own multi-faceted, personal narratives of resilience. Participants will learn to incorporate strength with vulnerability from a broader perspective within the face of societal expectations that allows for individuals and communities alike to reflect upon experiences of joy in order to create a future societal outlet with a more positive experience of resiliency.

Disclosure: The When, Why, and How

Session Description

Gender Inclusive Rope (Harnesses and harness building for folks with gender diverse bodies)

Session Description

Healing: The ‘After’ from Harm in Power Exchange Relationships.

As kinksters, we’re taught Risk Aware Consensual Kink, and hurt, don’t harm. In power dynamics, we give our whole selves (body, mind, soul) to our partners in ways that, without consent, would be considered abusive. However, on occasion harm still occurs in those relationships. Whether a difference of communication styles, an inability or lack of desire for respecting safe-words, or simply a clash of competing needs. Regardless of the reasoning, the onus is in the recipient to heal. Living in our world of call-out culture, it can seem that the only true way to survive and heal is to call out the people and the harm that have inflicted us. Together we will discuss the ways in which we can use kink experiences to work toward personal healing, develop tools to better see the red-flags of our past, and explore our power within dynamic relationships moving forward.

I’m Fed Up: Navigating the kink scene in ED recovery

If you’ve ever been to a play party, you have likely come into contact with the common theme that where there’s play, there’s also food and drink. Think back, have you ever been to a munch or other kink space without the expectation of food and drink being involved? It happens, yes; but rarely. ED here, refers to “Eating Disorder”. Disordered eating comes with a range of food-related anxieties and difficulties and poses a threat to engaging in kink spaces where food and eating are expectations. Together we will connect and converse about coping mechanisms, passing through the barriers to entrance, and learning to explore and express our boundaries related to food and eating in kink spaces.

Kinky, With a Side of Poverty: Navigating Identity and Pleasure When Your Basic Needs are at Stake

When we think about being kinky, frequently we think about the ways we can express ourselves. As a community, we’re often more than just “in-the-bedroom” kinky; we go to munches and local events, we buy beautiful toys, sometimes we go to week/end kinky getaways in other parts of the country/world, we join online communities, and more. Without even thinking about it, our kink has become just one part of our lives and the ways in which we express our identities. Kinky expression; however, requires money, time, and wealth. By natural definition of how Leather/BDSM communities are created, being kinky is exclusionary to people experiencing poverty. Echolynx, who has experienced poverty (moderate and extreme), recognised then and now, the ways kink communities are frequently inaccessible to folks experiencing poverty. How can we, as kinksters, be more open and connective to folks who’re in those shoes, and how can we break down the barriers that kink has imposed that make access to our spaces more attainable? Join them in this deep and difficult conversation to get started in building more space for more inclusion into your own Leather/BDSM communities. This discussion will touch upon homelessness, lack of food access, and other topics that may be triggering or uncomfortable. Good news, poverty is not comfortable, so you’ll fit right in. But in reality, embrace those feelings, let them encourage you to be empathetic toward others, and let them guide you to think critically about your personal opinions of poverty. Only through a deep understanding of how this experience of life is, can we truly engage in meaningful conversations to build communities that are more inclusive of life experiences and less focused on financial gain.

Leather Love: A Leathercare Primer

this session can be taught either with a hands-on component or a demo, but not both

Session Description

Mental Illness = Superhero

co-taught with Connor Synuates

Our society tells us that when we live with mental “illnesses” that we are responsible for making sure that it doesn’t impact our day-to-day lives and especially that it’s not a part of our relationships. In kink spaces, especially, where RACK, SSC, and other acronyms are part of our ways to maintain safety within our personal spaces and local communities, we’re taught that mental illnesses have no place. Join Echo and Synuates as they flip the script to examine how it’s not only possible, but more inclusive and ultimately ideal to use mental illness diagnoses to create greater empowerment in kink spaces and relationships. In this participatory workshop, we recognize that there are a few more commonly accepted neurodiversities (Autism, ADHD, General Anxiety, etc.); as such we will be primarily focusing on the less commonly accepted neurodiversities.

Mobility-Aided Partner- and Self-Suspension

Session Description

Mobility-Aided Self-Suspension Demo

In this session, Echolynx will demonstrate self-tying and self-suspension as a person who uses mobility aids Covered as a part of the demo are methods, choice of materials, safety, going up, coming down, and problem pointers. Please note, this session is not to teach others how to do self- or partner suspension; rather it is about demonstrating what is possible.

Off Balance: A Partial Suspension Primer

Partial suspensions are not just the means to an end, a route to full suspension. In fact, they are their own kink; especially if you are resourceful and like playing with balance, you are likely to find partials an entrancing space wherein the possibilities are endless. Even more, partial suspensions don’t need a hard point, or suspension rig, to be classified as partials. In this session, partners (or solo-tiers) will gain insight on what constitutes a partial suspension, practice playing with balance, and learn how to look at almost anything as a partial suspension tool. Please plan to have 1-2 lengths of rope, safety shears, and something to sit on (such as a chair or stool).

Partial Suspension for Pleasure and Pain

Session Description

Self-Suspension Demo

In this session, Echolynx will demonstrate 1-2 methods of self-suspension. Methods are always up to the session organizer and/or attendees, but include wheelchair or mobility aided, single-point (via foot or leg), and inversions, transitions, and movement. Echo, who has been doing self-suspension for more than a decade, will share the importance of what and why they self-suspend, some safety tips for other self-tiers, and illustrate their art of self-suspension.

Service Dogs in Kink

More and more frequently, dogs are showing up at BDSM oriented events, dungeons, and munches. Albeit those dogs are likely Service Dogs (SDs) and they’re accompanying their disabled handler, it can still be jarring to communities, especially for organizers whose job it is to make sure everyone is safe and included. How do BDSM organizers adhere to practices of inclusion around disability and service dogs without putting people at risk who might be allergic or scared; and want to be in a space that feels consensual. This question might be a “no-brainer” but it’s in fact one of the most common questions that organizers face in this regard. In this session, not just aimed at organizers, we will address some of the frequently asked questions about service dogs being in BDSM spaces. What do you do if a service dog is ‘watching’? What if you’re afraid or allergic to dogs, what can you ask about the dog? How do you respond if there are issues in the space, aggression from the dog, or if it relieves itself in an inappropriate way or location? These are all valid questions and answers in the moment are generally hard to come by. Join Echolynx and their retired Service Dog, Morgan, to answer some of these questions and to build spaces wherein disabled kinksters and their service dogs are not only accepted, but included.

So You Have a Kink For Training: Your Service Dog in Kink Spaces

This session is specifically for people who have service dogs and want to learn how to train their dog for kinky public access. This session is not about human assistants or service people who also engage in puppy play. If you’ve gotten this far, I take it you’re a disabled individual with a service animal and you don’t want to be in the situation of choosing between kinky play and your disability equipment. Most of our equipment isn’t alive, it doesn’t have biological or instinctual responses to fear, people screaming, sounds or physiological responses (such as an increased heart rate) to people being in distress. Yet, usually, when we engage in kink, those things are commonplace. Join Echolynx, a certified dog trainer and behaviouralist and their retired Service Dog, Morgan, in a frank conversation about the realities of having a service dog in your kink spaces. We will address training techniques, how to express patience and calm when your body is in distress, and how to navigate communities that historically and culturally don’t allow non-human animals into BDSM spaces.

Solo Rope

Connection as a part of kink practices is just as important with others as it is with yourself. For this workshop, we focus on connecting with and tying oneself as a method of kink play. With just yourself and a few lengths of your favorite rope you can participate in a solo scene in which you get everything you want/need and don’t even need a partner to help you achieve it. Playing with solo rope, you can do almost anything; floor play, painful and difficult ties, sensation, learning new things, connective and distance play. You can even participate in partial and full suspensions (where equipment is available). Bring yourself, your rope, your creativity and enthusiasm for a fun technique that builds connection, self-confidence, and pleasure. [Participants should have some basic knowledge of rope ties and rope safety, but otherwise all levels are welcome.]

The Art of the Spit Shine

This session is highly recommended for 120 minutes to encompass deep conversation as well as demo and practice; this session cannot be held at less than 90 minutes.

Dirty boots, saddle soap, cotton shirt, Lincoln tin, shine brush, then tongue. What’s sexier than the person caring for your boots, than them doing it with their tongue? This session takes bootblacking a few boot-prints further than just the basic how-to’s. In this two part session, we will both discuss and experience. In the discussion portion be prepared for conversation topics such as why people lick boots, a history of leathercare in kink communities, culture and race relating to D/s bootblacking, and even safety facets for the licker. The hands-on portion of this session starts with a brief demo then invites participants to practice. Participants should have a basic knowledge of boot or leather care, come prepared with their own materials -including their leather. Participants can engage in this session solo or partnered and this session can be taught online or in-person.

Wheelchair Self-Suspension Demo

In this session, Echolynx will demonstrate self-tying and self-suspension as a person in a wheelchair. Covered as a part of the demo are methods, choice of materials, safety, going up, coming down, and problem pointers. Please note, this session is not to teach others how to do wheelchair self- or partner suspension; rather it is about demonstrating what is possible.

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