Presented by: Jennifer Skrukwa

Do you want to give yourself up to someone in an erotic sense? Do you want to surrender to a partner's wishes, orders, or demands? Learn how to fly in rope bondage, SM, or roleplay?

You'd like to learn some skills as a bottom, then? Excellent! Now let's make you a better play partner or perhaps a more sought-after one.

Whether you're looking for insights on bottoming for your first or hundredth time, this class will offer you new ways to look at how you present yourself both for play and to partners. Join me as I share with you the realism of making your bottoming fantasies become sexy realities. Learn to bottom from this bottom as we discuss the journey of bottoming from the mental self-recognition of our desires to presenting oneself for play to a Top.

Critical to a good bottoming experience is a good Top, and we'll discuss what makes one. For some, the journey of bottoming flows into submission and surrender over an evening or a long relationship, while for others, it becomes a way of life. Safewords, SM play, negotiation skills, conditioning of erotic responses, and many other needed topics for Bottoms will be addressed while still leaving time for Q & A at the end.

Presented by: John and Libby Warren

A BDSM relationship is, at its heart, first and foremost, a relationship. This interactive presentation, by John and Libby Warren, is about those kinds of relationships and how long-term couples maintain and renew themselves in the Scene. It examines the different ways couples relate in the Scene and how those can change over time with suggestions on how people can change and adapt to weather those changes.

Presented By: John Warren

Electricity is commonly seen as a kind of "edge" play, and it does carry significant risks. But, electrical toys vary widely in their intensities, uses and how people respond to them. There is both a quantitative and qualitative difference between such toys as the Acupuncture (piezoelectric) zapper or violet wand and telephone magnetos or stun guns. This presentation discusses both what the risks are with each type and the ways that these risks can be minimized.

Presented by: Libby Warren

Our BDSM organizations are the vehicle for meeting people, learning, and socializing within the Leather Community but they do not run themselves. Successful organizations have a leadership process that works for them including a development of "new blood" leaders. During this program we will investigate how effective leadership in BDSM organizations is developed and sustained. The skills needed for leaders of our organizations are determined by traditional wisdom and theories as well as the particular values and associated behaviors of the BDSM culture. We will look at leadership theories, leadership styles, skills needed for current and future BDSM leaders, interplay of group's purpose and leadership style and traits needed, founder's syndrome, and leadership training

Presented by: Jennifer Skrukwa

Meeting new prospective partners? Getting together with someone you've been talking to on the computer and via phone & web cam? Met someone new in the local fetish/SM scene?

In kink culture and community, it's often only after having seen a person naked that we learn their last name; or first. If you do not have a scope for what harm exists, whether as a Top or a Bottom, how can you keep yourself safe from danger, be it physical or emotional? Whether private or public, you need to be safe in your wild, rough, edgy, kinky sex life.

This workshop explores personal safety from the most important perspective, YOURS!

What rules and boundaries do you have to keep yourself safe? We'll explore these safety nets and discuss first meetings, safe calls, negotiating, safewords, and community ethics regarding safe public play. We'll also discuss when things go wrong, physical abuse, abuse of power, and the overuse of excuses.

Presented by: Catherine Gross

This class will discuss love, emotion, authority, command, the realities of M/s, structures and more. Bring questions to this exploratorium. We're going to go from A to Z and talk about all related subjects as time will allow.

Presented By:  Philip the Foole with Maddmonk and Teach Me Tonight

This workshop will feature a discussion and demonstration of the non-verbal, growling, snarling headspace that Teach and Maddmonk create when they co-top Philip the Foole. If you like things rough and growlie, come and join us.

Articles referencing this "primal play" phenomenon include: "Magicians, Queens, Predators and Fools!" by Cleo Dubois http://tinyurl.com/ybkrx5 and "Primal Energy and Play" by Ms Toy (with commentary by Philip the Foole) http://tinyurl.com/dkfly

Presented by: Catherine Gross

This is a class for submissives/bottoms/slaves who wish to refine your movement, stance and body control. It's also a class for tops to learn how to manage your bottoms. Your every movement communicates your disposition. Each movement is rift with nuance, discipline and sentiment. Learn the language of your craft and refine your hands, various forms of kneeling, types of crawling, your overall body movements and service. Learn how to be invisible or a show piece and discern when each is appropriate.

Presented By: Philip the Foole

For those who like to play "capture and tie up" games. This workshop will present some ways to perform erotic fantasy "rough takedown" scenes that don't end up in the emergency room (we hope.) Basic takedown and restraint techniques from wrestling, tai chi, judo, hojo-jitsu (capture bondage) and aikido will be taught. Audience participation is encouraged

Presented by: slave Rick

Despite cultural misperceptions that exist even with the leather community, individuals possessing “slave heart” are dominant, powerful beings who choose to be obedient.  Understanding why the greatest spiritual leaders throughout history often chose the archetypal role of slave or servant is vitally important for those called to a life of service at this pivotal time in the evolution of our planet.  Join slave Rick as he shares how trust, obedience and surrender in the context of a Master/slave relationship became for him spiritual practices that facilitated the opening of his slave heart, the discovery of his True Self, and the continuing revelation of his Divine purpose.

Presented by: Master Bob and slave jan

The erotic is about feeling deeply with all of our being--it's about living from our creative center and acting from the source of life itself; spirituality is the path we choose, the way we live day-to-day, to fulfill our desire for wholeness and connection. A healthy eroticism and a strong spiritual path will lead us to deeper and richer levels of wholeness within ourselves, and to life-giving connections on many levels with other people and the rest of nature. Come and join us in this workshop on Spirituality and Sexuality and discover ways to develop this richness.

Presented by: John Warren

Whether it is a dominant glorying in the control of the submissive and an appreciative and admiring audience or the submissive showing the intensity of his or her submission to the master's control, for many people, exhibitionism is part of the thrill of submission. This presentation is aimed at examining submission and how a reluctant exhibitionist can overcome psychological obstacles to learn to glory in this special freedom.

Presented by: T Douglas

Switching brings opportunities and obstacles to scenes and relationships. This workshop will provide tangible skills in navigating relationship issues, scene development, collaboration models in D/s and a clearer understanding of what turns you on and how to get it.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to start their “Kink Profile.” This personal investigative tool is especially helpful for switches, illuminating ways to combine roles and activities. T brings her own and other switches’ experiences of both success and failure, strategies to avoid pitfalls switches encounter, and the ecstasy of finding a match.

Maybe you’ve thought to yourself, “Who’s the Top? What’s a bottom? I Don’t Know’s the Dom! And I Don’t Give a Darn wants to sub!” Don’t slide past this workshop; you’ll miss all the insider information and fun.

Presented by: Catherine Gross

How do we pace our M/s relationships with the goal of a lasting, healthy, durable pairings? What are the options available to use to carve out a path that allows full knowledge, tight commitments, workable contracts, and collars that don't come off. Join Catherine Gross for this exploration of M/s relational possibilities.

Presented By: Master Skip Chasey

Who hasn’t been both attracted to—and frightened by—the crack of a single tail whip as it meets its intended target?  In recent years there has been a surge of interest in single tail scenes, but the tremendous exponential function of force to sensation, not to mention the potential for serious injury, requires a learned proficiency and a disciplined focus in order to safely use such a whip on another human being.  Equally important is a conscious understanding of the psycho-spiritual dynamics inherent in this intense percussive practice.  In this third in a series of “Shamanic SM” presentations, Master Skip will explore those dynamics and reveal the possibility for transcendence they offer.  Come discover how the mindful use of a single tail can facilitate a profound spiritual awakening, no matter which end of the whip you’re on!

Note:  This is not a workshop on single tail technique but rather on how to use this powerful SM practice as a tool for Self-realization.

Presented by: Master Skip Chasey and slave Rick

Because, as the Talmud teaches, “We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are,” relationships of all types are often rife with projection.  If such projection goes unrecognized and unaddressed, then alienation, isolation and, ultimately, dissolution of the relationship is the result.  In the case of a D/s relationship, the submissive projects his or her ideas, feelings and attitudes regarding authority figures onto the Dominant, and if that projection includes anger, fear, blame or guilt, the toll it takes on both the relationship and the Dominant’s self-esteem can be tremendous.  In this enlightening presentation, Master Skip will explore the underlying psycho-spiritual dynamics that make it possible for a Dominant to stand in the middle of a submissive’s projection without moving, neither accepting the projection nor rejecting it and, in doing so, facilitate the submissive’s awareness of the projection, the Dominant’s own sense of competency, and the realization of the true nature of the relationship for them both.