Vanguard Workshops:

 

 

 

Get What You Really Want


This workshop will guide you through asking hard questions of yourself. As a community, we often talk about the abundance of choices we have available in the kinky, leather, poly lifestyle and how our self-aware communication is the path toward our hearts desires. But, are you getting what you want out of YOUR life? What is it that you really want in your heart? In this workshop, we will help you explore your passions, desires, and wants while we individually create maps for our future that are easily attainable and sustainable.

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Yielding to Brutality: Punching and Kicking with Love
 

Have you ever wanted to give into your own sadism? Yield to your masochism? This class is all about enjoying the ride of intimate sadism and masochism. It is about punching, kicking, hitting and NOT fighting back. That's right, ignoring our instinct to defend and oppose brutality. Come for a discussion and demonstration of close contact, hands-on SM.

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7 Touchstones for Getting and Keeping Passionate Relationships
 

We can all have long term, passionate relationships, but they don't get or stay that way by chance. This class explores 7 key tools to get and sustain the relationships of our dreams. As we walk the path of lover, Master, girl, or any other framework of relationship we are all seeking passion and harmony, these touchstones will give you a path to find what you seek. We will share information, personal reflection, and hands-on skill building while we figure out where we want to be, and how to get there.

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Archetypes: Accessing and integrating your Sovereign, Lover, Magician and Warrior
 

It is often useful to think about facets of self which we are using the idea of archetypes and your own internal relationship with them. Who are you as a lover? A ruler? A magician? A warrior? As we learn how to recognize, access, and utilize these parts of our self, we can put them to use in our day-to-day life. Join us for this intense hands-on, interactive session where we will work to discover, and get to know our personal archetypes.

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Creating and Receiving Service
 

The service of one we respect is an honor. How can we bring our best, deliver the most, and set the recipient at ease all while enjoying ourselves in the process? Come participate in a class that focuses on creating successful service interactions, relationships, and dynamics. We believe there are innate challenges on both sides of the service dynamic and we have ideas, direction, and support to facilitate the best of service to be given and received.
 

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Playing Well with Others: Group Scenes and Cameos
 

This class will focus on how to craft a dynamic group scene that allows both the Tops and the bottoms to have their desires fulfilled; we will explore how to develop a collaborative experience where meeting individual needs is tantamount. We will address the following questions: How do you identify what your needs are in a scene, as opposed to what activities you are negotiating? What is your vision and desired outcome? How do you know a scene went well? What are your markers of success, feelings of joy, and musts for a ‘great scene’? Our goal is to help you develop tools that can help you identify what you really want, develop flow with others, and assist you with the skill set to create scenes where everyone's needs are met.

Playing Well with Others: Live Action

Everyone who participated in the Group Scene class is invited, if they desire, to put their new skills into practice. Collectively we will make the magic of a group scene happen after facilitated negotiation and planning.
 

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Authenticity: Living in Your Power
 

This workshop is presented by a charismatic, dynamic, ‘piece of human property’ who believes serving from a place of power and leadership creates an authentic life. This workshop will challenge the idea that to be submissive--to serve--requires relinquishing one's power and leadership. Instead, we will discuss the power that rests in constructing an authentic life where you emanate your true self and where others recognize you for who you really are. The workshop will focus on how to build authentic relationships (with yourself and others) and the rewards that come from being true to your nature and living in your own power.
 

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Fostering & Establishing Leather Families
 

A workshop focused on constructing leather families that are intentionally designed and supported for longevity. Developing the chosen family that reinforces each member individually and collectively. We will look at types of structures, hierarchical, familial, and other variations comparing and contrasting style and preference so that you may design or enhance the family you already have or have been dreaming of.

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Self-Deception: When We Do Not Honor Our Values
 

This workshop focuses our attention on who we are as individuals, where our ethics and values align within us and in relation to others and what happens when we violate our own integrity.

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Altering Your State: From the Inside Out

 

Have you ever experienced extreme joy? Do you know how to recreate that feeling anytime?  Working within D/s and play relationships we are able to influence our self and those we interact with; enabling us to shift our emotional state.  This workshop will discuss the 4 points that influence how we feel and when directed create an empowering state.

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D/s Training that Really WORKS! ...
 

Establishing a training regime that is specialized to your style using an approach that works for you as the trainer and is in a language and manner in which the trainee maximizes the learning experience. Create a compelling vision that targets your desired outcome. Can be used with 24/7 and casual service or D/s relationships.

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Beyond Enigma: How to Play with Music When You Play
 

Have you ever been in the dungeon and wanted to throw the flogger at the speaker? Or have you been canning someone and just had the tempo flow from you?  This workshop will explore the use of music as an integral part of your scene, not just the background noise.

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Your Leather Paradigm: Fostering Your Personal Identity
 

Cultivating your own identity within leather/kink.  Understanding the limitations of labels and the freedom of personalized definitions. Unlock the inner you and help others find their calling.

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Averting Scene Burn Out
 

This workshop is focused on how to get everyone’s needs met. We will be talking about both perspectives, the needs of the volunteer, presenter, producer, bottom or service submissive as well as how the producer, coordinator or Dominant can aid in this process of fulfillment. Come to this workshop if you ever help or ever ask anyone to help you! We are here to dialogue and create a successful frame work for getting what you need.

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Mind the Gap
 

Examining the space between where you are and where you want to be in your life. An interactive workshop that walks through the process of all the aspects of our lives, relationships, work, play, spirituality, money, sex and so much more. Creating a vision for where you really want to be.

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Structure vs. Formality
 

How to create dynamic tension in a leather/kink relationship. Ever wanted to develop a relationship that was built to last? Develop something more than just protocols and rituals? Build in success with creativity and individuality allowing all parties to feel joyful and well met in relationship.

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Elemental D/s


An exploration of power driven relationships; roles, titles, structure and style.  This is a D/s 101 class taught by an Owner/property relationship dynamic of over 10 years. We will discuss the possibilities and choices we have as we reach into the cauldron of Dominant/submissive relationships. Come ready to explore and learn about yourself and others.

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Integrating Hot D/s Sex into Scenes
 

The concept of using the inherent authority and surrender of Dominance and submission to create powerfully driven sexual experiences; D/s sex that is either directive or reciprocal based on the desires of the dynamic.  Lady Hilary, a Femme Top and The Marine, a Butch Owned Dominant, will demonstrate and discuss receptive sex while maintaining power and using their D/s relationship to illustrate with many examples of the power of such sex.

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