SPLF2025

Do you like service and want more? How do you ask to give or receive service? What are your “specialities?” This interactive presentation will show your strengths in your life and we will discuss how to conversate about your type of service and needs.

Those of us who live with our own mental health challenges are often labeled neurodivergent – meaning we process and respond to situations and information in ways that differ from the norm. For many of us, this divergence can create significant barriers to intimacy and our ability to connect to one another. In this class, Beast and Echo will talk about the way these barriers have impacted their relationship, and the tools and strategies they’ve developed that allow two neurodivergent individuals to create a NeuroConvergent dynamic

How many skills have you learned? How many skills do you believe you may need to learn? Our young community has developed a social context and knowledge management schemata which may come with emotional hazards. We're going to explore the darker side of our need to learn, our pursuit of better, best, more, to the detriment of ourselves and our relationships. Are we concentrically consumed or fully exploring vitality?

This thought-provoking presentation explores codependency in Power Exchange and kink. Codependency is a complex pattern of interaction that can occur in any type of relationship, but due to the power imbalance in Power Exchange and cultural context of the kink community, can be particularly difficult to navigate.

In a M/s dynamic it is often difficult for a Master to find the balance between control and compassion. Even in high-level authority exchange relationships there needs to be an understanding that "everything" can't fall on the shoulders of the slave, well, at least not for very long. How do we adjust roles and tasks to maximize quality time and balance.