Yes! Every other first Saturday of the month we present to you: PlayCastle! Your bi-monthly fix of loving connection, community, inner growth, practical workshops, and conscious s*xuality ❤️
Whether you're new, experienced, nervous, excited, anxious, completely relaxed or everything at once, you're most welcome exactly the way you are.
What to expect
PlayCastle is a mini s*xpositive festival, where we build a conscious, sexpositive community with workshops, group and embodiment practices, and free play space.
Call us dreamers, but we believe and strive for a s*xpositive world, where intimacy and s*x are considered to be a healthy and joyous part of life.
During PlayCastle we practice and celebrate living in this kind of world. We offer a space where we can shed the s*xnegative culture, free ourselves from shame and unwanted beliefs, and grow together. Or just practice and play with whatever you learned at a workshop or wherever
And mostly: to enjoy our time here on this planet! ❤️
Every PlayCastle we start with s*xpositive community & consent practices, followed by workshops and afterwards we create space for a s*xpositive free flow; time and space to go freestyle. Nudity and sexuality are possible here, keeping your chill clothes on and going for that wholesome tea, cuddle and nap just as welcome. You can enjoy being with others in as many ways as you want.
🔥Every month we invite a different guest facilitator.🔥
This way we’ll offer two workshops to choose from, something for everyone no matter your level of experience, like a good mini-festival ought to do. (Check out the program below.)
This edition’s workshops
Workshop 1: The Non-Verbal-Speed-Meet workshop - By Coen Aerts
About the workshop:
In this workshop you meet people you didn't know before without talking. Five exercises will guide you through this collective experience and it seems to be the perfect 'ice-breaker' for any starting event.
About Coen Aerts:
The thing Coen Aerts likes to do most in life is playing with people. Sometimes through performing arts, taking on a variety of personas, other times by creating experiences or installations. You can find him at festivals, European Burns, and Queer spaces worldwide. In Amsterdam Coen built the Iamsexiality platform, a sex+ initiative with several events in the past.
Workshop 2: Conscious Domination - By Play Partners
Dominating is one thing. Consciously dominating is next level shit.
Working with domination can be a powerful experience for both the Dominant and the submissive (D/s). In this workshop, we will play with these dynamics consciously.
We combine essential teachings of tantra and BDSM to create a strong power dynamic while being fully present and connected with each other. You will learn how to create a clear container to play together and how to communicate desires and boundaries to increase safety and connection in the D/s power dynamic.
The exercises of the workshop slowly build up in intensity so that everybody can join how and when they want to. The exercises are playful, sometimes intense, but always from a loving place.
We will always switch roles, so you will gain experience in the role of the Dom as well as the sub. You can lead better if you know what it means to surrender, and vice versa.
Whether you’re new or experienced, this workshop is for you if you want to gain more tools and experience in the area of domination.
Furthermore, and we can’t stretch this enough: you are welcome just as you are. We welcome everybody from diverse cultural backgrounds, sexual preferences, gender identities, size, shape and colour. Whether you’re as introvert as an earthworm or as extravert as a skippyball, whether you want to meditate and watch on the side or you want to dance your f*cking legs off… You! are! welcome!
Celebrating freedom, expression and love together. And hopefully having some fun along the way 💫🌈
IMPORTANT: our workshops are all consent based. You only have to do things you feel a YES for (or not, if that’s your spiritual practice at this moment), and NEVER ever ever will we force you into doing anything you don’t want.
We have a team of spaceholders, in case you need some emotional support.
Community
Yes, we believe in building community. Play Partners is hosting PlayCastle events, but in the end we cocreate the magic together.
So we aspire to build a community where we don’t only teach about a desired Consent Culture, but where we carry the Consent Culture together, team members and participants. Together we create a field of community members that know how to navigate s*xpositive spaces consciously, set their boundaries, communicate their desires and are willing to talk to each other and the team if unsafety arises. We’d love for you to take part in this.❤️
What to bring
Don’t forget to bring the most useful thing a s*x-positive human being can have: a towel. Preferably a large one, or multiple. You can be naked on it, accidentally spill oil on it, dry yourself off with it, maybe even cuddle with it. (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy was right all along;)
Water bottle.
A nice lunch and/or dinner for yourself (don’t forget a plate and cutlery if you need them), and some easy snacks for the breaks. Make sure you have enough, days like these can be quite intense. \
Wear clothes that make you feel comfortable. For example yoga clothing, jogging pants, or anything else that makes you feel comfortable.
Bring your sexy outfit (or outfits? 😻) as well. Sexy outfit meaning: what do YOU feel sexy in? Whether that’s your pyjamas, your alter ego outfit, roleplay character outfit or your most sexy string and socks. There will be an opportunity to change clothes for the play party. We have a video about what to wear to a play party, feel free to watch it ✨
Whatever serves you in your s*xual expression. Anything from toys to your favorite brand of condoms.
Tip: Natural, clean scents are the best! Heavy parfume can be overwhelming for others.
Partner Agreements
If you are coming with your partner, make sure you have made agreements about what you expect from each other during the workshop and free flow of PlayCastle. Press the button below for a video in which Maxime explains all you need to know to prepare yourself regarding partner agreements ❤️ It takes 6 minutes of your life, and it can save hours of regret later 😉
Our Play Rules
Who are we?
Woops, we forgot to introduce ourselves. We are Joey, Maxime and Jeronimo, together we are Play Partners. Joey and Maxime are twin sisters, Jeronimo and Maxime are romantic partners, and all three of us are friends for life!
We are workshop facilitators, intimacy coaches and (tantric) sex workers. We practice non-monogamy and are passionate about personal growth, intimacy, sex, and relationships.
Want to know more about us? Check us out here
You can also check out more of our videos. They are a little outdated (Maxime unfortunately doesn’t have rainbow hair anymore 😅) and we’ll make new ones soon, but still the content stands:
If there are any questions feel free to ask, preferably using e-mail: connect@playpartners.nl.
We are super excited to see you there!!
Much love,
Maxime, Joey, Jeronimo
Program
Doors open 12:30. Doors close at 13:00.
Doors open again at 14:00 for those who are not first timers. Doors close at 14:30.
12:30 | Doors open
13:00 | Community Circle (Obligatory for first timers, fun & recommended for everyone)
13:20 | Consent Culture Practice (Obligatory for first timers, fun & recommended for everyone)
13:50| Sharing Pods
14:30 |★ Conscious Domination by Play Partners
★ Room 2: The Non-Verbal-Speed-Meet workshop
17:15 | Community Embedding (sharing circles)
16:45 | Early Dinner break & dress-up time
17:40 | Safer Sex Flight Attendants
18:00 | Sharing Pods
18:15 | Free Play (play party)
21:30 | Closing Circle & Cuddle Puddle Chill Out
Tickets
*Please note this is a substance free event. For more info on this policy check out our Terms & Conditions webpage.
*For our Cancellation Policy please check out the page below.