Role-Playing or Role-Being: Identity, Exploration, and Mental Health
- Passion And Soul Patreon
- Saturday, May 16th5 PM - 7 PM
- Get tickets
- Organized by Passion & Soul Presents
Role-Playing or Role-Being: Identity, Exploration, and Mental Health - Saturday May 16th
For some people role-playing is a chance for non-serious fun and delight, while for others what looks like role-playing is anything but. For many on diverse mental health journeys, these practices can become supportive tools: a depressed mind trying on confidence, a dissociative system choosing who fronts in a negotiated space, or an anxious heart finding calm in clear roles and protective structure. In this class, we’ll explore how roles and personas can help us thrive in kink and play contexts while honoring the truth that past trauma, triggers, and unspoken struggles can shape these experiences. Together we will name the differences between playing a part and revealing a piece of ourselves, learn how to enter and exit these headspaces with intention, and gather strategies for when scenes drift sideways. Along the way, we’ll weave in approaches to aftercare, grounding, and connection so that these journeys - whether playful or profound - are held with care.
About the Presenter:
Lee Harrington (he/they) is a spiritual and erotic authenticity educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist, and award-winning author and editor on erotic and sacred experience. He brings a combination of playful engagement and thoughtful academic dialogue to a broad audience, and they believe we are each beautifully complex ecosystems who deserve to examine the human experience from that lens. They have been traveling the globe teaching and talking about sexuality, psychology, faith, and desire, and believe you deserve passion and connection in your life. His books include “Traversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Realities,” “Become Your Own Beloved: A Guide to Delighting In Self Connection,” and “Playing Well With Others: Your Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Negotiating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities (with Mollena Williams),” amongst many others. Lee has been a passion instigator, academic, world class identity adventurer, outspoken philosopher, authenticity coach, and has been blogging about sex and spirit since 1998. Read more about Lee at PassionAndSoul.com.
Class details:
Discussion is taking place on grid-format Zoom with the recording shared to Patreon supporters at the Spirit, Soul, and Eye-to-Eye supporters. PowerPoint slide deck will be available to all live attendees. If you do not want to be identifiable, please change your name/profile details in advance. Auto-generated closed captioning will be available. Zoom link will be posted on Patreon a week+ in advance of the class.