Spotlight on Relationship Foundations:
Creating the Structure of Your Dynamic

Spotlights are focused time to learn about specialized areas. Spotlight on Relationships Foundations will take place on Friday in the River-Yuba room.

Many times, we start a power exchange relationship and have no idea how to talk about what we need, what our priorities are, or where our relationship is going. Over the course of four sessions, Master David and brynn will take you through a series of discussions and exercises to help you prepare for and create the foundation of a successful power exchange dynamic.

Our hope is that at the end of these sessions you will walk away with tools and tricks to move your relationship forward on a solid foundation.

Master David and slave brynn are an authority transfer-based Master/slave couple. Master David is curator of the Bar Card Project and the SW Regional Rep for MAsT: International. slave brynn serves as secretary of San Joaquin girls of Leather.  Together they are founding members of House of Dark Shadows and produced FLAME Conference. They are honored to be the 2019 International Master and slave.

Session 1 – Assessing Your Needs
9:00am - 10:30am

This interactive session on assessing your needs will initiate the spotlight series. We will discuss the role needs play in the foundation of your dynamic, and how to define, asses, and communicate them with your partner(s).

Session 2 – Setting Priorities
10:45am - 12:15pm

Following the needs assessment, we will discuss setting priorities for your dynamic to ensure that both you and your partner(s) are getting what you need. We will cover the importance of communication and teamwork, and explore practical strategies for prioritizing time, energy, and resources.

Session 3 – Building Protocols
1:15pm - 2:45pm

Together we will explore creating protocols that will work for your dynamic building upon what we discussed in the previous sessions. This includes creating protocols with intent and meaning, what to do when a protocol doesn’t work the way you wanted, and how to infuse your protocols into your everyday life.

Session 4 – The Contract Conversation
3:00pm - 4:30pm

In this final session we will take what we discussed in the previous sessions and have the contract conversation. This session will discuss everything from “Do I even need a Contract?” to “How do I write a contract that works for my dynamic?” We will go through a sample contract, talk about how we use ours, and give you tips and tricks that have worked for us.