2025-01-26 –, Zoom room #1
Have you ever been asked what your likes and limits are when negotiating a scene only for your brain to turn into a giant question mark that’s giving you the finger? Ever feel yucky after an interaction, only to realize in hindsight that a limit had been crossed without your even noticing it in the moment? Ever gone into a conversation feeling super prepared to assert your limits and boundaries, only to realize you aren’t quite sure what they even are, exactly?
Think of this class as something like a prologue or companion to your typical consent 101. When we think of consent, we often think of it as an ongoing back-and-forth between ourselves and whoever we are with. But in order to be able to assert your limits and boundaries with others, you need to know what they are, first! Even as those things constantly change as we learn and grow, this class will help introduce you to some of the basic tools and understandings that can help to:
-Understand the nature of what boundaries are and how they are maintained
-Begin and/or complement your own exploration of your values, boundaries, and agency
-Apply these understandings to interpersonal relationships, especially kinky ones!
-Understand how hypnotic play presents its own unique risks and opportunities in our understandings of our boundaries
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Incurably silly and, as they say, "mischievously compliant", the Official Moose of Canada (or just "Moose") has been on the hypnokink scene for about 4 years and has dabbled in sexual health education on and off for the past 2-ish decades. They feel strongly enough about folks having the tools and agency to live their values to make it their day job, and the switchy side of them wants to make sure everyone knows how to "use your words." You may have caught them presenting about mindfulness and mindlessness, safewords, or indulging their trancehibitionist side to demo bottom for Hypno 101!