powerandintimacy

Power exchange is rooted in our positive, passionate desire to dominate and submit. Each person’s desire is different: we want different flavors of power exchange, for different reasons. Often we feel vulnerability and even shame around our desires, making it challenging to speak them aloud. Sometimes our desires feel confusing or contradictory, or we wonder whether they might be unethical or unhealthy.

We’ll create a safe and supportive environment in which to delve into our power exchange desires. We’ll improve our self-understanding, our ability to put the essence of what we want into words, and our ability to share that understanding with our partners.

To translate desire into reality requires inspiration, whether for power exchange scenes or for the specific rules or customs that will be part of an ongoing power dynamic. Then, even with mutual desire and an idea of what we’re going to do together, we still have to actually do it. Making the emotional transition from our workaday default state to feeling the immediate and tangible presence of control and surrender is a skill all its own.

We’ll explore how our desires and our partners’ desires can overlap and feed one another. We’ll share ideas for the concrete practice of power exchange, and learn how to create and maintain emotional energy for dominance and submission.

Power exchange is only one aspect of our multifaceted lives. There are always other interests, priorities and responsibilities competing for our attention, time and energy. It’s common to encounter conflicts between how much priority different partners want to give to power exchange, or between how we prioritize power exchange in our fantasies vs. how much attention we have to give it in our daily reality.

We’ll make an honest assessment of how we want to prioritize power exchange among the other important things in our lives, and learn ways to make more space to enjoy our dynamics by integrating them into our daily routine.