Emotional Storms: Building Scenes and Dynamics to Haunt your Dreams
with Lucie Fielding
Unforgettable, emotionally transformative scenes—the kinds that haunt our dreams, ride us like nightmares (pace Jeanette Winterson), become lore we gush to one another about on long, winter evenings, and pull us from past versions of ourselves into spaces of emergence–ask a lot of us. They ask us, in the words of the psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou, “[to dare] to risk the excitement of danger, to tread into places that scare yet thrill us.” They ask us to give ourselves over to experiences, to our scene partners, to the shadowy realms in ourselves. And they ask us to do all of that while yielding control and leaning into risk and uncertainty.
But how might this happen? Under what (pre-)conditions or frameworks might we turn toward, embrace, and meet each other during, and after, transformative experiences, and in the face of risk, discomfort, and uncertainty?
Over the course of this all-day event and through didactic instruction, small and large group discussion, and experiential/reflective activities, we will consider:
Problematizing and re-visioning discourses of safety to move beyond an individualistic, risk-phobic model to one steeped in co-creation, solidarity, and relationality;
Principles of solidarity and mutual entanglement in kink; and
How to build and negotiate trusting, intense, and potentially emotionally transformative scenes and dynamics.
Note:
Doors will open 15 minutes before 11am and the class will start promptly on the hour. Please make every effort to arrive on time as late arrivals will disrupt the setting of this container. There will be a one hour break for lunch (on your own) and a couple of breaks interspersed throughout the day.
This class is not for anyone who is new to kink/BDSM/rope. It is designed for participants who already have a working knowledge of negotiation, consent frameworks, and basic scene construction, and who want to take dynamics and scene-craft to the next level. You are welcome to contact Lucie if you have questions as to experience level.
While this class will include didactic instruction and a thorough introduction to certain concepts/frameworks (e.g., safety and solidarity), it is designed to also provide numerous opportunities for small and large group discussion, experiential activities, as well as reflective and integrative activities.
This class will require advance preparation, including short reading selections and a reflective/journaling activity or two.
This class is not a “how to” class per se. That is, the purpose is not to come away with a discrete set of skills or a recipe/manual for engaging in dynamics and scenes steeped in solidarity and mutual entanglement. Rather, the objective is for participants to emerge from this workshop conceiving of the ways they play—or what is possible through play—more expansively, dynamically, and creatively.
Facilitator Bio:
Lucie Fielding, PhD, LMHC, LPC (she/they) is a white, queer, trans misogyny-affected femme, and a therapist licensed in Virginia and Washington State. She received her MA in Counseling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute (2018). They also hold a PhD in French from Northwestern University (2008), where she specialized in histories of sexualities and erotic literature. Their background in literature and history attunes them to the many ways that image, metaphor, and cultural scripts shape the narratives we carry with us as we move through the world as well as how these narratives inscribe themselves on our bodies and (in)form how we erotically embody. In addition to their work as a therapist, Lucie is a sex and kink educator and a workshop facilitator. She is the author of the book Trans Sex: Nurturing Trans Erotic Embodiment and Gender-Pleasure (2nd Ed, 2026). The first edition of Trans Sex (2021) was shortlisted for a 2022 Lambda Literary Award in the Transgender-Nonfiction category and was awarded the 2022 AASECT Book Award (Book for Sexuality Professionals), the 2024 SSTAR Health Professionals Book Award, and the 2024 APA Division 44 Distinguished Book Award.
You can find out more about Lucie at: https://luciefielding.com or follow them on Instagram (@sexbeyondbinaries) or BlueSky (@sexbeyondbinaries.bsky.social).
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