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Clear & Confident
Negotiation
Advocating for Yourself with Clarity and Confidence

Negotiation isn’t about getting permission or convincing someone to say yes, it’s about knowing yourself well enough to speak clearly, honestly, and with care. In this interactive education event, we’ll explore how to have conversations that help you listen your needs while staying connected to others.

Together, we’ll break down what meaningful negotiation actually includes: naming desires, sharing intentions, discussing boundaries, and checking in on the feelings of everyone involved. We’ll talk about how to articulate what you want to experience (emotionally, physically, and relationally), how to identify and communicate pain points, and how to stay grounded when conversations feel vulnerable or charged.

We’ll also cover practical tools that support safer, clearer agreements, including:
● Red/yellow/green light frameworks, safe words, and check-ins
● Keeping negotiation trauma-informed
● Talking about limits, expanded conversation on hard and soft yeses
● How to notice when something shifts mid-experience and how to speak up

This class is designed to help you move away from guessing, people-pleasing, or silence, and toward confident self-advocacy rooted in consent, curiosity, and self-trust. Whether you’re new to negotiation or looking to deepen your skills, you’ll leave with language, structure, and a stronger sense of how to ask for what you want without losing yourself in the process.

Your Instructors: 

Robb_Snow (He/Him) has been involved in Japanese rope bondage as a student, teacher, and performer since 2013. Robb loves both tying and being tied and particularly enjoys the connection and intimacy that can be achieved through rope. Robb's tying style mixes sensuality and sadism, with a focus on creating a shared container to playfully explore vulnerability and desire.

Tattooed_N_Nerdy (she/her) is a total sex nerd, both personally and professionally. As an educator and sex therapist, she provides knowledge about kink, sexuality, consensual nonmonogamy, intimacy, desire, and navigating trauma recovery. From the classroom to the therapy room to the conference room to the play space, she is an intersectional and sex-positive provocateur hoping to instigate thoughtful dialogue and dispel shame related to all things kinky and sexy.

TheSwitchBunny (she/her) brings a grounded, consent-forward lens to everything she does. A switch who loves the electric energy of negotiation, she’s known for clear communication, thoughtful boundary-setting, and helping people speak up for what they want. Even in her day-to-day professional life, she's championing informed consent practices and staying risk aware. Kinky, connective, and deeply people-oriented, she is an integral part of Studio Friction’s Incident Response Team (IRT) and believes deeply in education, accountability, and community as foundations for safer, more connected kink spaces

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