"Dive Into Power: Fornucopia 4-Class Intensive"
Fornucopia Weekend, October 5-6, 2024
Whether you are a single individual, closed relationship, or extended Leather family, this is your opportunity to explore rituals, intentionality, passion, service, and your own calling in power dynamics. Power exists everywhere, but this intensive you can work on building your own designer relationships anchored in authority, dominance, submission, and what lifts up everyone involved.
The first class of this intensive is open to all attendees, with intensive attendees then continuing on for the next 3 classes. This allows for camaraderie and connection between track attendees while allowing the weekend's work together to build on each course that came before.
This rich opportunity is yours to find your path or build on what you already have. New explorers and experienced journeyers both actively invited on this 4-class experience.
Rituals for Dominance and Submission (and Life at Large) [Open to all]
Rituals are a key part of any D/s relationship, whether acknowledged or otherwise. From casual kisses at the door to formal slave poses, ritual objects such as collars to slave contracts, the B-D-S-M world is rife with concepts of ritual – but what is a ritual? What are the levels of ritualistic interaction we have between one another? Let’s look at our rituals in day to day life (including how to get out of work or parent space), sacred time, intense connection, erotic play, solidifying relationships, changes within relationships, and the taboo subject of the devastating loss of a relationship or its natural end. From terminology to developing codes of ethical interaction, this class covers a bevy of styles and types of interpersonal reactions that can help everyone in a relationship examine what they are already doing, and what they want to build together.
Conscious Inequality, Dominance, and Submission [Track attendees only]
Power permeates our every interpersonal interaction, from how we interact with the grocery clerk to our k*nk in the bedroom, and there is a difference between unconscious and conscious power use. However, in a variety of alternative s*xuality and B-D-S-M populations, these concepts are eroticized, often glossing over the context where these consensual erotic power plays come from. Let’s examine where power arises unconsciously or through oppression in culture, various types of power exchange dynamics, and why people would want to engage in them (for an evening, a long-term connection or between lifetimes). This will include conscious and unconscious roles, bonding within relationships, and even destructive behaviors. Power is power, but inequality is not inequity, so let us look at this together with eyes wide open.
Service That Actually Serves US: Giving and Receiving What WE Really Want [Track attendees only]
Are you sick of being asked to scrub the toilet as if your partner expects you to cum each time you do it for them? Does having your Submissive shave their balls three times a day actually help you live a full and fulfilling life? Let’s get down and dirty – talking about and working through exercises on establishing what service we really want, what we are able to give, and what drives us in service from all sides. Is it about effort, quality of outcome, detailed delivery, results, our resources expended… or getting hard/wet? Service is not just provided by Slaves and Submissive or Surrendering individuals – Masters, Mistresses, Mommies, Daddies, Boys, Girls, Lovers, and Friends will also get a chance to look at their desires and see what actually gets them what they actually desire.
Spirituality and Intentionality in Power Dynamics [Track attendees only]
There are those of us who are called to power exchange and authority transfer because it is an erotic thrill… but for others it is more. It is a path to deep satisfaction of the spirit that guides our life’s work. It is a way to connect on a deeper level with a partner than we ever expected. It is a way to express our spiritual, sacred calling, or path in life. It might even be a conduit to the divine. Let’s explore these topics and find inspiration on our path forward.
4 Slide Decks and One Graph Handout