North Bay Babble On- Negotiating Your Kink

Tuesday April 1st 6:30pm Arlene Francis Center in Santa Rosa!

Join us to enhance your skills, knowledge, and enjoyment of kink scenes through effective negotiation!

Dive into the essentials of negotiating kink scenes with like-minded individuals.

Learn and share with experienced kinksters who will offer tips, techniques and experiences.

Participate in a judgment-free, respectful, and confidential setting to get what you deserve from your kink scenes and your kinky life.

Engage in role-playing exercises to practice negotiation skills.

Get your questions answered by seasoned kink practitioners of multiple levels and identities.

Access tried and true negotiation strategies, safety, and communication methods, and also hear what has not worked well for others.

Connect with others in the kink community and build supportive relationships and mentorships.

All experience levels, orientations, and identities are welcome.

Gain insights on setting boundaries, establishing consent, and ensuring mutual satisfaction.

Empowerment: Boost your confidence in negotiating scenes that meet your needs and desires.

With known partners

With strangers / pick-up play

With multiple partners

In public and private spaces…

Discuss what to do and say if/ when limits and boundaries invoke trauma response.

Personal Safewords and house/dungeon monitor safewords.

Choose what tools you want/ don’t want to use together, and how to set them up for your use in your scene. Our minds, bodies and spirits primary among them.

Naming your levels and types of pain: sharp, thuddy, mild to extreme.

What should I touch, lick, beat, penetrate, and with what, for how long, or NOT AT ALL?

What to look for in reading the body, facial expressions, verbal and nonverbal cues.

Using the green/yellow/ red light system. Plain spoken language works! You can just say NO!

How to bring your scene down and how to know when your partner and you are done.

Discuss techniques, needs, expectations and timeframes and for aftercare.