Trauma and Kink Roundtable

Trauma, Power, and Play:
An Online Roundtable on Kink & Healing

What happens when power, consent, and vulnerability come together in the same space?

Join us for a facilitated online roundtable exploring the complex and often-misunderstood relationship between trauma and kink. This is not an introductory workshop. It’s a reflective, multi-perspective conversation about what it means to engage with trauma histories through (not just in spite of) kink.

This discussion will be co-facilitated by:

  • Aidan Sunassee, a kink researcher and consultant with a background in community-based and academic work

  • Dani Tut Bar, Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie with clinical experience supporting trauma survivors.

Together, they’ll guide a space that is structured, collaborative, and open, inviting meaningful dialogue while ensuring grounding and safety.

The roundtable is intended to bring together:

  • Kink practitioners with lived experience navigating trauma

  • Educators, peer support workers, and writers shifting the narratives around kink

  • Clinicians and researchers focused on trauma, healing, and attachment

  • Anyone asking: Can kink be part of a trauma recovery journey?

Topics may include:

  • The distinction between retraumatization and trauma play

  • How traditional trauma frameworks often overlook what kink brings to light

  • Avoiding both pathologization and romanticization in community settings

  • Ritual, power, and meaning-making within scenes

  • Ethical questions around who defines “healing,” and on what terms

Important note:
This event will allow for open dialogue, including the possibility that participants may share personal or traumatic experiences. We ask that attendees come with a grounded presence, emotional maturity, and respect for others' boundaries. Please join only if you feel comfortable holding space for complex, sometimes intense discussions around trauma, consensual power exchange, and healing.

This event will take place online, with facilitated discussion and space for participant Q&A.

We’re keeping it small: Spots are limited to foster a meaningful exchange.
Please register below; a link will be sent before the event.