No Creative Title Because I'm Sick & A Little Grumpy
Note: While this is a G-Rated Newsletter, it does talk about sex, sexuality, kink, and non-monogamy in an educational context. Consider yourself warned.
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Hello lovely humans! Gonna keep this brief because I am currently battling sickness that makes my head feel like it weighs a hundred pounds. I promise to be more fun next time!
I did want to point out that I really enjoyed Neil Gaiman in conversation with Rabbi Ruttenberg: In Celebration of the paperback release of "On Repentance and Repair". I love Rabbi Ruttenberg’s thoughtfulness around how we go about creating repair and repentance when we’ve caused harm, her book has informed my work as a consent educator. It’s on Facebook, so I think you need to have an account there, but it’s a worthwhile watch.
If you need to get in touch for any reason, please drop me an email darren@learngrowrepeat.ca.
Upcoming October Events!
Lots of educational and community opportunities coming up in the next while! If you’ve missed any of my previous workshops, did you know that you can buy recordings through my shop on Gumroad?
Continuing Our New Online Queer, Neurodivergent Community Space!
Last month we had great attendance and I’m so excited that we’ll be continuing my partnership with Blue Sky Learning to create Rainbow Skies, a free monthly online space for 2SLGBTQIA+ identifying folks and neurodivergent community members to provide a safe space for neuroqueer discussion, reflection and collective care. Kim and I are so excited to be sharing space with folks to create connection and community around these important identities!
We’ll be meeting on the third Thursday of every month, with the next meeting October 19th! Register here if you would like to attend! (Note that registering on Eventbrite will result in you being emailed to sign up through Jane App. Sorry this process is a little convoluted right now, growing pains!)
Workshops for Everyone
October 5th I will be running a free workshop online, New To Non-Monogamy. This is a great introduction to exploring non-monogamy, with lots of time for questions and comments from participants. And for a small cost you can get access to the recording after the fact. Non-monogamy can be really intimidating and I’d love to support you and your partners, friends, or family in understanding this relationship approach and how to explore all the available options! If you’ve got friends in your life that are newer to exploration, please put this workshop on their radar!
Workshops for Kinksters
For Kinksters, I have a full line-up of workshops coming up in October & November!
In late October, we’ll have 2 kink-related workshops! On October 23rd, we’ll be talking about the myths and realities of adding discipline, rewards, and punishment to Dominant/submissive relationships in my Reward & Punishment in D/s Dynamics workshop. And on the 26th I’ll be providing bottoms and their partners tools and tricks to communicate more effectively in and out of the scene in my workshop Powerful Bottoming: Communication For Kick-Ass Bottoms.
In November, I’ll be hosting 3 workshops!
November 2nd will be Pick-Up D/s: Power Exchange on the Fly, which is a great workshop for kinksters who are interested in playing with power exchange with new partners and dynamics. We’ll give you the building blocks for how to be more intentional in creating these kinds of connections.
November 23rd I’ll be offering my Creating Personal Protocols workshop, which is always well-attended. In this workshop we talk about how to add elements of protocol to our relationships and play.
And finally on November 30th, I’ll be teaching my Getting A Little Dirty workshop, which is a workshop on age-based roleplay, which is often referred to as ageplay in the kink community. Note that ageplay describes roleplay between consenting adults and does not involve any discussions of interacting with minor children.
Support & Connection
If you would like to connect with me for coaching please do. Sliding scale is available and I am happy to have a free consultation prior to beginning our work together.
As always, I appreciate your donations toward my educational & community work.
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