WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
With over 60 workshops presented during the event, we ensure that class size will be small and intimate and you will have plenty of one on one attention from instructors. Our sex educators, relationship experts, spiritual teachers, and BDSM masters will be sharing their experience and wisdom in a safe, interactive environment on a range of topics.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE NOW AVAILABLE
Check out the Schedule!
(Its always a draft … until it over!)
The 2026 draft workshop and special events schedule is ready. David and Anais, our programming directors, has done an amazing job. There is so much great stuff at this event you wont be able to decide what to see!
Scheduled Classes
As presenters are confirmed we will be adding workshop information below:
- Adoption Faire, Petting Zoo, and Veterinary Clinic
- Art of Feminine Dominance
- Baby’s First Suspension
- Body Care for Rope Bottoming
- Bonobo Hospitality Suite
- Bottoming for Pain and Pleasure in Impact Play: impossiblepain with Miriam Green
- Bound in Color (POC) Rope Jam
- Building Your Top
- Chair Bondage
- Cock Worship with Claire
- Coconut Rope
- Code of Eros
- Connective Rope: Tying Sensually
- Consent in the Wild
- Couldn’t Chair Less – Scening on Any Furniture for Fun and Accessibility
- CRACKing the Code: A Beginner’s Course on Whips, Quirts and Dragon Tails
- Crafting Creative Sharps Bondage & Predicament Scenes
- Demystifying Political Engagement. You Make Democracy.
- Diverse Desires: Sexuality Beyond Assumptions
- Ecstasy for Asexuals
- Emotional Labor & Kink: Knowing When to Hold Back, Give, or Walk Away
- Emotional Sadism & Masochism 101
- Erotic Worth: Reclaiming Your Desirability When Kink Spaces Don’t See You
- FemDomme Dynamics
- Femme in the Kink Scene: Bottoming and Topping
- Fisting for Freedom
- Flyer Geometry: The Triangle Suspension
- Futo Logic: Bent Leg Ties
- Get Your Flirt On
- Glory or Gone? We Need to Talk About Age
- Grappling for Brats
- How to (Actually) Be Good in Bed
- Improvised Harnesses
- Intro to Sharps
- Inversion Interface
- Just Say No! – A Polite Rejection Workshop
- Kink & Culture: BIPOC Perspectives in BDSM
- Kink in Poetry & Prose: Finding Your Voice Through Erotic Writing
- Kinking with Chronic Illness
- Kinky Connections: Making Friends & Play Partners
- Kinky Karaoke
- Kinky Speed Dating
- Kinky Truth or Dare
- Legal Protections for Expansive Family and Relationships
- Legal Stuff for Pro Dommes: Taxes, LLCs, & More!
- Men’s Discussion on Navigating Kink
- Microbondage
- Morning Meditation
- Mouth Torture
- Newcomer Orientation: Welcome to Dark Odyssey!
- No Good Deeds: Opening Night Performance Extravaganza
- Passivity in Rope
- POC Mixer
- PolyQuest: Power Dynamics in Polyamory
- Power Exchange for the Long Haul
- Primal Beyond Animals and Sex: Get Out of Your Head and Into the Moment
- Queer Mixer
- Queer Play Party
- Really Dirty Talk: The Perverse Allure of Verbal Degradation
- Recovery in the Lifestyle
- Rope Bottoms Roundtable
- Rope Lounge
- Rope Speed Friending
- Sapphic Social
- Service Submission
- Shame: A 360 degree exploration in shame and kink (201-level)
- Sharps Jam!
- SoJ Mixer
- Straight Razor Shaving (Supplies Required)
- Teaching Your Kink
- The D/s Tea Social
- The Exquisite Whip PART 1: Hands-on Flogging Training
- The Meet Rack
- TK Slut Club
- TNG Mixer
- Trampling and Boot Play
- Turn On Your Hottest Self
- Tying with Ties: Necktie Bondage for Total Beginners
- Use Your Words: Communication for Bottoms & Submissives
- Using TENS Boxes for Electro Play: Pain, Pleasure, and Predicaments
- What’s Leather Got To Do With It? Leather Fetish, Identity, and Soul
- Wicked Grounds Presents: SpankLab!
- Wild Jam at Surrender: Your First Taste of Primal Play
- You Should Be Afraid, Playing with Fears & Phobias (201-Level)
- Your Ordeal is My Thursday: Living a Life Others Consider Unusual or Extreme
Write to Programming@darkodyssey.com to contribute suggestions for upcoming Dark Odyssey events, including Surrender, Fusion, Summer Camp, and Winter Fire.
