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Howdy kinksters – It was such a blast this week to host the first events at Stopgap, a new San Francisco popup kink venue in a historic SOMA location. Thanks to everyone who came out to our classes and playshops this week and checked out the space! Thanks, too, to the many people who joined us for the Dom/ sub Dynamics Virtual Summit this year. I had a great time getting to meet new folks and hang out with fellow kink educators for some truly juicy discussions. The weather is starting to get nice, and it’s time to get out and play. This Saturday, catch San Francisco’s Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District for Play on the Plaza, an afternoon of play, kink vendors, and entertainment. And then next Saturday (4/20), Wicked Grounds will be at the SF Fetish Flea along with a wide range of other kink artisans and vendors. Hope to see you there! Read on for an update on this week’s events! Events Roundup! Thinking ahead We have two multi-week workshops in the works for May and June, and now is the time to sign up! In May, we’ll meet with kink educators and aspiring kink educators weekly for our Kink Class Incubator to better understand our unique student niches, develop new class ideas, and handle everything from class development and marketing to how to fit all your different class ideas together into one coherent whole. Learn more here! Queer folks! Join us in June for Stepping Into Pride a six-week online workshop for the LGBTQ+ community. In a world bordered on one side by culture wars and internalized shame and on the other by rainbow capitalism and community expectations, what does it mean to plot a course for ourselves as queer folks? Let’s find out! Friday, April 12 No live classes today, but we have some excellent classes recorded and available for purchase online. Check out Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Kink Desires or Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo and Distance Play. Sunday, April 14 Four seats left!!! Join our favorite leather PuppyDog on Sunday for an all day workshop for Adult First Aid/CPR/AED plus Bloodborne Pathogens Certification. Whether you need this certification for your profession or want to learn life-saving first aid knowledge as a Good Samaritan in the dungeon, this class will provide crucial skills and information to help out in an emergency situation. This class is strongly recommended for party hosts, venue owners, dungeon monitors and others who want to provide critical care and might have questions best addressed by a kink-aware instructor. Successful students will receive a certificate for Bloodborne Pathogens Training valid for one year AND a certificate for Adult First Aid/CPR/AED valid for two years through the American Red Cross. Details & ticketing for this all day workshop here. Monday, April 15 Negotiating is a key skill for BDSM scenes and everything else we do in relationships and our community. But’s it’s not always a skill that comes naturally. Join Wicked Ground’s Miriam Green for BDSM Negotiation Basics, a two hour online workshop covering the basics of negotiation and consent, critical negotiation questions, strategies for asking, and even the neuropsychology of a scene and how that impacts communication throughout. Get tickets for this 6pm Pacific online workshop here. Tuesday, April 16 Curious about our BDSM & kink coaching, but not sure if it’s right for you? Today, I’ll offer a series of free 10-minute calls to talk through your questions and see if it makes sense for us to collaborate on a longer coaching session or series. Book ten minutes with me at no cost, right here! Wednesday, April 17 Interested in learning more about erotic hypnosis? Join us for Drop “For Me”: Dominance, Submission and Hypnosis with HypnoStory and PandaPet online starting at 6pm Pacific. We’ll cover the basics of erotic hypnosis and how to use it in a D/s context. Details & ticketing here. Thursday, April 18 Calling all demo bottoms! Does your top do all the teaching when you demo together? Of course not! Take pride in your role and learn some new skills in Teaching From the Bottom: Skill Building for New And Practiced Demo Bottoms with Gwyndolyn. Join us online at 6pm Pacific. Details & ticketing here. Saturday, April 20 Join Wicked Grounds at the SF Fetish Flea. We’ll have a table of Wicked Grounds and other gear alongside many other kink artisans and vendors at Transform 1060. Learn more and RSVP here! Sunday, April 21 Join us at 2pm at Mukunda Studio for Lap Dancing 201 with Click Your Heels. Space is extremely limited, so be sure to get your advance tickets here! Support. Follow. Share. Want to invest in your kink education? Join our new class pass program here! Join our Patreon for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available! Use our Venmo for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets. Book with us for coaching and consulting time with Mir. Warmly,Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team (Do you find this weekly roundup helpful? If this newsletter has saved you time, or given you a great idea, feel free to leave a little something in our tip jar)

Hi there! If you’re seeing this post, it’s because you visited the new WickedGrounds.com between 3/13 – 3/25/24. We are currently getting the final touches on our new site, and we’re glad you’re here. We know that change is a lot, and the site might not work perfectly while we work in the kinks. 😉 So: here’s a discount for you! Any time between now and 3/24, use code BETTAFISH at checkout to get 35% off your order. Find anything working wacky? Please email OrderFulfillment@WickedGrounds.com and Mir@WickedGrounds.com and we’ll get that on our testing list to resolve! xoxo Your friends at Wicked Grounds

Wicked Grounds Presents: Kink Class Incubator w/ Miriam Green A FIVE WEEK INTENSIVE 5/1 – 5/29 via Teachable More information & ticketing here. And RSVP here on FetLife to let your students know you’re part of this program! Wicked Grounds’ Kink Class Incubator is back with a new five-week format to improve existing classes & generate new ones. Are you ready to take charge of your curriculum? Since 2019, Wicked Grounds Annex has provided resources for our instructors and would-be instructors to develop stronger, more impactful, more engaging classes — along with strategies to find, engage, and build communities with the best students for their content. We can help you change kink culture for the better by refining your course ideas and optimizing your marketing approach. This course will improve classes and marketing for experienced and new instructors alike. Our approach In this class, you’ll learn what you need to get a basic start teaching in kink, polyamory, fetish, magick — or any other peer-taught subject. Of course, we’d be delighted if you plan to teach with Wicked Grounds, but our goal is to create great teachers who can teach anywhere. Throughout May 2024, you will learn to: How we’ll engage Starting Wednesday, May 1, we’ll engage in four major sections of work as you refine your concept, discover your audience, and take your class from concept to outline. You’ll use the same approach that Miriam Green — a retired marketing consultant — uses to develop, market, and continually improve their classes. This course will include four full weeks of self-directed coursework (which you may complete at your schedule and repeat as many times as you need) along with four or five 75-minute live sessions each Wednesday evening from May 1 – May 29. Students who join without a prior description and outline should plan to attend starting Wednesday, May 1. More advanced students are welcome to join May 1 but can opt to start May 8. All live sessions will be recorded for those who cannot attend live or wish to review the session. You may also book additional consulting time with Mir as an add-on, which may be completed during or after the class period. Ticketing & Registration Find the full set of class information here. Our pricing structure is designed to recognize and compensate the level of work you have already put into developing your classes and teaching skills. If you are already a Wicked Grounds instructor, please check in with Nick or Mir before booking — we have discount and comp codes available for our current instructors.

Want to get started with your BDSM education, on your terms? Wicked Grounds is building a set of video classes and digital downloads to get you started from anywhere, any time. This year, we’ll release a new video class every month or so, and we already have a few to get you started! This week, explore any digital download from WickedGroundsAnnex.com for 35% off with code ANYTIME at checkout. This includes: This class is to watch and learn anytime, but this sale won’t last forever. Get your downloads by Sunday, March 17th to make the most of this 35% off sale!

Read on below for a wide variety of classes and educational resources from Wicked Grounds! Need personal coaching & guidance for those sticky issues around sex, kink and relationships? You can always reach out for one-time or ongoing coaching sessions at WickedGroundsAnnex.com The Roundup! Multi-week Intensives May 2024: Kink Class Incubator (ticket link in next update!) June 2024: Stepping into Pride: Owning Your Kink Power for Queer Folks (ticket link in next update!) July – August 2024: Wisdom & Understanding: A Tarot Journey (ticket link in next update!) October – November 2024: Diving Deep: Discovering & Voicing Your Erotic Desires (ticket link in next update!) Self-Directed Digital Downloads Diving Deep (video class) Private Joy: Sadomasochism for Solo & Distance Play (video class) Kink Self-Discovery Workbook (self-directed template) S/m & the physical side of play 3/13 7pm PDT: Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab (SF) 3/14 6pm PDT: First Contact: Electro With Body Contact Cables w/ Carmen PanDiego (ONLINE) 3/25 6pm PDT: Needle Play 101: Easy with Those Pricks w/ Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) 4/9 7pm PDT: FlogLab w/ Reika Minxie (SF) 4/10 7pm PST: Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab (SF) Bondage & Fetish NEW: 4/4 7pm PDT: Wicked Rope Jam (SF) NEW: 5/27 6pm PDT: Quick Bondage for Subduing your Play Partner with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) Sexy times NEW: 4/7 2pm PDT: Lap Dancing 101 w/ Click Your Heels (SF) NEW: 4/21 2pm PDT: Lap Dancing 201 w/ Click Your Heels (SF) NEW: 5/12 1pm PDT: Fisting for Femmes, Faggots, and Freaks with Jamie Joy (SF) NEW: 5/12 4pm PDT: The More the Merrier: Group Sex 101 with Jamie Joy (SF) D/s & the mental side of play 3/21 6pm PDT: CTRL: Online Submission with d20domme (ONLINE) 3/27 6pm PDT: Creating Containers for Kink w/ HG Wyndell (ONLINE) 4/2 6pm PDT: Advanced BDSM Negotiations – Relationships, Dynamics & Contracts w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW: 4/7 11:30am PDT: Submissives in Solidary: A Submissives Discussion & Support Group (SF) 4/9 6pm PDT: Sir! No, Sir! Saying No In D/s Dynamics with Ev Evnen (ONLINE) 4/16 6:30pm PDT: Setting the Scene with Psychokitty Ryan (SF) 4/22 6pm PDT: The Art of Tease and Denial with Miss Mackenzee (ONLINE) NEW: 5/28 6pm PDT: Art of Ownership with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) NEW: 5/29 6pm PDT: Polyamory and Power Exchange with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) Erotic Hypnosis 3/16 2pm PDT: This Mind Intentionally Left Blank with HypnoStory & PandaPet (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 4/17 6pm PDT: Drop “For Me”- Dominance, Submission and Hypnosis with HypnoStory and PandaPet (ONLINE) Polyamory & ethical non-monogamy 4/9 6pm PDT: Polyamory 101 w/ Laura Boyle of Ready for Polyamory (ONLINE) 5/6 6pm PDT: Relationship Anarchy Applied with Laura Boyle of Ready for Polyamory (ONLINE) NEW: 5/16 6pm PDT: Love Languages for Alternative Sexuality Communities with Lee Harrington (ONLINE) NEW: 5/23 6pm PDT: Unfuck Your Relationship Escalator: (Re)Building Healthy Relationship Foundations with Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) NEW: 5/29 6pm PDT: Polyamory and Power Exchange with Laura Boyle (ONLINE) Self-knowledge, negotiation & consent 3/18 6pm PDT: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) 3/23 2pm PDT: From Gender Dysphoria to Gender Euphoria with Lee Harrington (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 3/26 6pm PDT: Writing Spicy with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) 4/3 6pm PDT: Demystifying Asexuality with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 4/6 2:30pm PDT: Negotiation Improv with Wiley (SF) 4/15 6pm PDT: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics w/ Miriam Green (ONLINE) 4/24 6pm PDT: Ritual to Explore and Honor Our Boundaries with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) NEW: 5/4 2:30pm PDT: Negotiation Improv with Wiley (SF) NEW: 5/16 6pm PDT: Love Languages for Alternative Sexuality Communities with Lee Harrington (ONLINE) NEW: 5/20 6pm PDT: Kink 101: BDSM Negotiation Basics with Miriam Green (ONLINE) NEW: 5/23 6pm PDT: Unfuck Your Relationship Escalator: (Re)Building Healthy Relationship Foundations with Lilith Foxx (ONLINE) Community: Friends, dating, relationships & kink culture! 4/3 6pm PDT: Demystifying Asexuality with Nyx Lunaea (ONLINE) 4/6 Noon PDT: Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green (SF) 4/23 6pm PDT: The Sexual Politics of Kink with Sinclair Sexsmith (ONLINE) NEW: 5/4 Noon PDT: Welcome to the SF Bay Area Scene with Miriam Green (SF) Life Stuff, wellness & adulting for kinksters 3/10 2pm PDT: Flexibility 4 Life with Click Your Heels (SF) 3/19 7pm PDT: The Dapper Guide for the New Gentleman with Psychokitty Ryan (SF & ONLINE) NEW: 4/7 2pm PDT: Lap Dancing 101 w/ Click Your Heels (SF) 4/14 11am – 5pm PDT: Adult First Aid/CPR/AED plus Bloodborne Pathogens Certification with Puppy Dog (SF) NEW: 4/21 2pm PDT: Lap Dancing 201 w/ Click Your Heels (SF) Magick & Occult (with Magickal Crossroads) 3/13 6pm PDT: Tarot for Kinky Folks – Using Cards to Negotiate Scenes with Diana Rajchel (ONLINE) 3/24 2pm PDT: Sex Magick for Kinksters w/ Miriam BatAsherah Green (ONLINE – EMEA friendly timings!) 4/10 6pm PDT: Inner Spring Cleaning with Energy Work with Diana Rajchel (ONLINE) 5/22 6pm PDT: Spicy Tarot with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) 4/24 6pm PDT: Ritual to Explore and Honor Our Boundaries with HG Wyndell (ONLINE) NEW: 5/8 6pm PDT: Alternative Fertility Magick with Diana Rajchel (ONLINE)