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ONLINE: Playing with Fear: Empowered Navigation of Thrills and Risks

Are you drawn to the thrills of fearplay, but unsure how to fully embrace the experience without causing harm? This two-hour workshop puts both bottoms and tops in the proverbial unmarked white van's driver's seat, offering an in-depth exploration of the unique needs, desires, and responses surrounding this kind of intense, edgeplay and delving into the diverse range of fear that can be created, from visceral phobic desperation to survival-based panic, awful dread, adrenaline-rush terror, and more!

We will explore how various fear responses can complicate communication and consent, consider worst-case scenarios and how to recover, discuss how to best handle possible responses and reactions from all sides, assess risk for tops and bottoms, and examine how to address the real trauma responses that may come up (sometimes on purpose)!

Drawing from case studies, research, and the expertise gained from vahavta's ten years of bottoming to intense fearplay and involvement/connections in the worlds of extreme haunts and immersive horror, this class aims to teach bottoms to better empower their tops with all the necessary information to create heart-pounding experiences, while helping tops learn to read subtle (and not-so-subtle) cues and craft or adjust scenes to provide the level of fear desired by all.

By thoroughly examining potential risks and providing comprehensive mitigation tactics, bottoms and tops alike will leave better prepared to create a thrilling yet controlled fearplay environment based on mutual experiencing, risk awareness, and care.

PRESENTER:

vahavta began her kink journey about a decade ago and has been grateful to get to teach, play, and learn in communities in North Carolina, Chicago, St. Louis, and internationally. Today, she serves her husband in a 24/7 CNC-based Total Power Exchange with heavy elements of emotional play and service. vahavta is disabled, Jewish, and femme, and believes in approaching kink with a firm understanding of intersectional context. As an educator, she aims to give honest and risk-aware information that applies to the realities of human behavior, focusing largely on the "how" and asking people to consider their personal capabilities, interests, and readiness. Passionate about community collaboration, vahavta is proud to run the Risk Evaluation Database (RED) and contribute regularly to kink blogs and her own Fetlife writing index. In all aspects of her life, she strives to be a work in progress.

TICKETING

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We offer a sliding scale, so cost is not a barrier to attendance.

The regular ticket is $30. This is what most people should pay.

The $20 ticket is offered for those for whom the $30 ticket would be a barrier to participation. Have a great salary? Feeling generous? Paying at the $40 level allows us to make the discounted tickets available to others who need it.

So, that's it! Choose the level you can comfortably afford.

No one turned away for lack of funds.

Patreon members at the VIP+ level may get discounted tickets for $10. Just see your Patreon membership emails for this month's discount code. Find out more at Patreon.com/WickedGrounds!

If cost is a barrier at any level, please use the "Volunteer List" to request a free scholarship ticket. We will award as many scholarship tickets as we can on a space-available basis.

ACCESS:

This will be a live, online class offered through Zoom. To participate, you may need to download the free, basic version of the Zoom app before the class! This class will not be recorded and is not available for later viewing.

Zoom now provides closed captioning, which will be available for this event.