Mention SAMs or brats in the scene, and you’ll get either glees or groans, depending on your tolerance for antagonistic scenes and your level of formal dominance & submission. But there is a creative challenge to being just disobedient enough to entertain, divert, and involve a top in playful reactions ranging from a laugh to lighthearted punishment. Learn the basics of what it takes to walk that very fine line between being annoying or amusing; whiny or whimsical. This seminar may be given for bottoms only or for a mixed group.
Mistresses, masters and slaves, daddies and offspring, subs and doms; in a world that celebrates the erotic imagination, it's funny how limited our relationship models tend to be. Feel like you don't fit into someone else's definition? Wondering if there's a style that suits your desires and needs? Then explore relationship types from other sub-cultures, history, and even pure fantasy. Free yourself from the constraints and labels we already know so you can better describe who you are, what you want and where you want to take your kink. Participants will be encouraged to describe how they see themselves and their relationships and add to what will be an ongoing exploration of identity and self awareness.
They have dynamic, straightforward personalities. There’s nothing “submissive” about them except their willingness to obey your decisions. The can build pyramids, or drive themselves into the ground pursuing a successful outcome to your instructions. How does a Master manage a power slave? What is a power slave and how are they guided in a healthy and productive manner? How do you even know if you are a power slave? When is “power” transferred into pushing, or trying to take the lead, and what can be done to effectively re-align such behavior into something productive and beneficial? And what are the costs and the rewards to the harnessing of a power slave?
Master George and slave bren will share their insights on these questions, and offer some practical tools to help properly motivate and guide the power slave, as well as offer reflections on their own personal exploration of power slave dynamics—both the good, as well as the challenging.
The giving and accepting of Control has long been considered a pillar by which D/s and M/s relationships function. But is control an illusion? What does control truly look like, and does it have a direction? How is it applied, and when is it a hindrance to, rather than facilitation for, success? Is it truly the wings upon which an M/s or D/s relationship can flourish, or is it a trap? Master George and slave bren have wrestled with the questions of control for a decade as they have built their M/ dynamic from scratch. In doing so, they peeled back the levels of confusion that control concepts offer, and discovered that control has a big –but surprising – part to pay in the lifestyle of power exchange relationships.
Let’s take a good look at control and who has it, when it comes in necessary for growth but also when it becomes a burden to a relationship. We will look into inner control versus external control and when to apply these in an M/s dynamic. Can we really control anything but ourselves?
Master George and slave bren will share with you their perspectives, experiences, and discoveries about control, and how it’s used and misused, understood and misunderstood in them/s D/s world, and offer you tools on how to keep control under control – from both the Top perspective and the bottom perspective, and how to use control to attain balance.
When someone is raised in a free society and then enters into a formal M/s relationship, there are attending obligations for both the Master and the slave that change our perceptions and how we go about our daily lives. Perceived loss of freedom – from both the Master and slave perspective – can result in reactance.
Processing reactance and recognizing it is one of the most difficult and misunderstood elements of authority exchange relationships. It can often be the cause of the dissolution of a relationship and each party is completely unaware of it.
But what is reactance? Is it really rebellion or something totally different? Is it a loss of control, or an attempt to wrest control away? Or… is it both?
In this presentation we look into reactance and help others to recognize it as well. We help illustrate the nature of reactance is, and what it says about who we are. We examine if it is rare, or to be expected? And even if it is expected, is it something that we can avoid, or at least manage? This presentation requires all of us to look hard at ourselves, and ask ourselves how dedicated to our M/s relationships we are willing to be—and how to wrestle with deep seated social wiring that may set our motives at variance to one another.
Mmm sharp, shiny, swords, knives, nails, scalpels and anything else you can cut with!
By Flossie
Flagging is more than a fashion statement, it has a purpose. In this class we will teach the basic colors of flagging and the art of old school cruising as Sir David learned in the 70’s in San Francisco . This class is designed to teach the art form of cruising and hooking up without using a single word.
In some parts of the country, a trainer is easy to find, and in other parts of the country it is almost impossible. The class is a confidence boosting course for new puppies that are coming into the community or pups that are coming back after a break from the community. Discuss the puppy head space with a new handler, puppy handler dynamics, learning to talk with a new handler and seeing where it leads. Some handlers are interested in pup, but do not know how to interact with a pup, thus helping the pup and handler both have confidence of themselves to approach other pups and handlers.
- Puppy 201 - Training for the Advanced Puppy
- Over the Edge - Sensory Excess and Overload
- The Joys of Foot Fetishism and Pervdom
- Blood Lust
- Puppy 201 - Roles within the Puppy Community
- Puppy 201 - Obedience and Power Exchange
- Bacon Bites
- Spice It Up
- Mind Control - Off the Beaten Path
- Harmless Little Death Fantasies
- Leather History Slide Show
- Flogging 200 - Beyond the Basics
- Facets of Service