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Role-Playing or Role-Being: Identity, Exploration, and Mental Health

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm CEST · LGBTQIA+ & Friends
VIRTUAL

Quick Info

When:
14. August 2025, 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm CEST
Where:
online
Format:
workshop
Constellation:
solo, paired, groups - all constellations welcome (everyone needs a ticket)
Language:
English
Recording:
Yes, the session is recorded and will be sent to all ticket holders after the class.
Questions:
Message us via info@karada-house.de

Tickets

Roleplaying is a powerful opportunity for evoking emotions and characters from inside us or invoking personas for an evening of fun. For a variety of individuals on mental health adventures, this amazing tool can be used for more than erotic naughtiness or delight or find themselves challenged by the journeys they take.

Individuals dancing with depression exploring roles that let them “fake it ‘til you make it.” People with dissociative identity disorder using an opportunity to have a personality “front” in an agreed upon space. Folks living with anxiety finding safety in pre-set roles where protection roles are at play. These are but a few places where role-playing… or role-being in certain cases… can be used.

In this class we will creatively brainstorm how individuals with an array of mental health challenges and differences can thrive using roles and personas in kink and roleplay contexts, while also acknowledging that things can also go wrong in roleplay because of our past trauma, triggers, and non-disclosed mental health realities. Let’s build understanding, help each other explore, and have partners look at their role in these opportunities for play and beyond.

What we will teach/do

  • Explore the definitions of Role-Playing compared to Role-Being
  • Find both minor and major differences between playing a role and sharing a part of ourselves in a roleplaying context
  • Discover ways to tap into these roles, parts of self, and identities, as well as how to exit those head spaces
  • Share tools for what to do if things go “sideways” and to reduce the likelihood of such concerns taking place
  • Consider systems of aftercare and connection that can aid in grounding concerning role-playing and role-being scenes.

 

Facilitator

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Lee Harrington (he/they)

Lee Harrington (he/him) is an internationally known spiritual and erotic authenticity educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist, and award-winning author and editor on erotic and sacred experience. He’s been traveling the globe teaching and talking about sexuality, psychology, faith, and desire, and believes you deserve passion and connection in your life. His books include “Playing Well With Oth...

Learn More

http://www.PassionAndSoul.com

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