Power and dominance can mean many things and be expressed in multiple ways. How can you find your personal path to having your wants, desires, and needs fore filled respecting your own boundaries and those of your play connection?
During this weekend intensive, each participant will be encouraged to take a personal journey to explore intention, responsibility, and desire, with the aim to find practical tools to play and embody your dominant self.
Using the depths of your commonly known archetypes and stereotypes you will be encouraged to delve into your inner characteristics to discover which of these energies can assist in enriching play dynamics, as well as, how these aspects can be accessed in everyday situations. Using the principles of boundary setting, role-play, physical movement, breathwork, and group exercises each of you will be invited to explore different aspects of yourself and how those aspects interact and interchange, to bring out the stronger, dominant, and commanding side of you.
Date & Time: August 13th, 2021: 7 pm -9.30 pm, August 14th & 15th, 2021: 11 am – 6 pm
Format: workshop / open space
Audience: LGBTQIA+ & Friends
Language: English
Minimum Knowledge Level: N/a
What to Bring: You are asked to bring comfortable clothing for all the days, as well as an outfit of your choosing that embodies the dominant role you wish to portray (for day 3). Bring a towel. Toys or items you wish to include in your play. Bring a totem item – an object you can fill with energetic meaning for yourself.
Solo or Partnered: solo (participant numbers are limited to 10)
What we will teach/offer you
Friday, Aug 13th: 7:00pm – 9:30pm
• Meditation
• Introduction
• Questions & Dialogue circle
• Self connection & reflection
Saturday, August 14th 11:00am – 18:00pm
• Meditation
• Ice breakers
• Finding ancestral energy
• Exploration of archetypes & principles
• What is dominance to you?
• Dominance creation – How does your dominance wish to manifest?
Sunday, August 15th 12:00pm – 18:00pm
• Meditation
• Connecting to dominance
• Experiencing your dominant side
• Feedback & Questions
• Closing
What else to know
This workshop is intended for those who wish to explore their desire to dominate or top with their play connections. This space is held with queer and marginalized folks at the forefront with friends welcomed and reminded not to consume space from this event’s intended audience. Additional instructions will be sent out to registered participants.
Who is this event for?
LGBTQIA+ describes the full spectrum of non-mainstream sexual orientation and/or gender identity, meaning: lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, genderqueer/fluid, queer, intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender.
Friends describes people of any and all kinds of gender and sexual identities who are aware and respectful of the necessity, needs, and boundaries of a queer safe(r) space and its marginalized community.
When you consider yourself a friend you show acknowledgment to and are respectful of everyone’s self-expression and do not assume, presume or project non-consensual ideas onto others. You actively request and use people’s chosen pronouns. You remain mindful of the fact that Karada House is first and foremost a space for queer people that you are also invited to attend. You have a genuine concern for the well-being of LGBTQIA+ people and remain in awareness of heterosexual and gender straight privileges.
Friends don’t have to be perfect. None of us are. We request that we all pro-actively work and strive to be good friends and allies to marginalized people.
