Nina Love, Diva

My personal journey of self discovery and individuality in the kink lifestyle has inspired a new passion that combines my professional experience (corporate trainer/internal consultant) and my personal drive for individuality and self expression. All of my class offerings are focused on improving our quality of life in the areas that matter most: fashion, identity, confidence and self expression.

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Style & Fashion

Fashion Lounge ** NEW **

Fashion is one of the most effective tools used by kinksters to express themselves.  Yet it is often one of the most neglected areas of event programming.  The fashion lounge offers a hands-on approach to meeting the specific needs of your attendees by:

• *Offering convenient “lounge hours” throughout the course of the event (eliminating competition with scheduled classes) for attendees to stop by for advice, practice, and practical tips
• *Meeting the specific and varied needs of your attendees through workstations (makeup and hair, dressing for your body type, cross dressing, building your wardrobe, etc)
• *Promoting vending sales by working closely with vendors to cross promote products and services

Fashion tips for Kinky Girls & boys on a budget

This hands-on & fast paced workshop explores my 10 favorite tips and tools for looking my best from the dungeon to the dance floor, including: dressing for your body type, inspiration & emulation and taking advantage of your resources.

How to walk in high heels

This feet-on workshop covers heels and how to walk in them.  Bring your heels and get ready to strut your stuff. 

Bringing out your inner Diva

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Dressing for your body type

Your body is a canvas for self expression.  However, not everybody is blank slate.  We all start with our individual curves, shapes, and lines.  Learn the types of styles that will work best for your body and how to make it work for you instead of against you. 

Defining your style

Before we throw on some latex or leather and head out to the dungeon, let’s take a step back and explore how our clothing expresses so much more than our budget and the size of our closet.  This interactive class will help you define your personal style and make your fashion choices express your personality. 

Expression & Communication

Expressing Your Needs: Taking care of your relationships by taking care of yourself. **NEW**

This communication skills seminar takes a realistic and practical look at the cycle of self-care in non-monogamous relationships.  We will explore concepts such as jealousy, codependence, selfishness, and self-love. Through this exploration we will identify misconceptions about self-care and  apply tools for identifying and communicating our needs and wants.  Walk away with the practical tools and tips for communicating our needs to our partners and developing a cycle of mutually beneficial self-love. 

It's OK to be jealous....

…it’s not ok to let jealously control you.  Most of us were raised to accept jealousy as natural and unavoidable.  Now, in the midst of alternative relationship styles we are expected to abandon this embedded behavior and effortlessly embrace compersion in a matter of a few workshops and seminars.

Avoiding situational and emotional jealousy is often impossible when you live in an emotionally and sexually monogamous lifestyle.  Consider any of the multitudes of non-monogamy options available and jealousy is inevitable.   However, we are in control of our jealousy.  It is not in control of us. 
Join us as we explore jealousy, compersion and tools and techniques for bridging the gap between the two. 

Communication Skills for your BDSM Relationship

A million and one new experiences to taste; dynamic and exciting people to meet; the freedom to express our inner masochist (or sadist); the opportunity to build not one but several deep/meaningful relationships; a smorgasbord of sexual fetishes to indulge.

Communication is hard enough and it is vital to the success of any relationship.  Now, add any level of BDSM to the mix and effective communication becomes imperative!  This interactive class explores the role of communication in our BDSM relationships and provides practical tips for improving communication within those relationships, including tools for dealing with those hard to have conversations, managing jealousy, negotiating, dating in the lifestyle, changing behavior and saying no.  

SMART Contracts                   NEW              
Take a fresh look at D/s & M/s contracts for creating SMART goals, practical guidelines and reasonable expectations that work for every relationship from casual play partners, poly families to the most formal of BDSM relationships.  This hands on class will help you create SMART goals that meet your specific needs. 

Self Discovery: Finding individuality in a community of labels

What are you? Who are you?  Top, Master, switch, girl, gurl, boi, boy, submissive, slave, masochist, TG, CD, sissy, Dominant, sensualist, swinger, hedonist, furry, butch, dyke, Sir, Princess….that’s fine and dandy, but what does it mean really?  Is your definition of “Sir” the same as mine?  Of course not…we all know it, we all complain about it; but what do we do about it?  How do we maintain our individuality in a lifestyle that depends so heavily on terminology and protocol that is so ambiguous?

Join us for an intimate discussion of discovering one’s self and maintaining a sense of individuality in our rather structured alternative community.  This interactive class explores self evaluation techniques, communication skills, and practical tips for applying what we learn about ourselves to our kink relationships.

Presentation Skills: Transforming Personal Experience

This hands-on workshop explores a variety of training and public speaking tools for creating exceptional learning experiences.  Whether you are giving a presentation on the history of rope or a class on flogging; whether you are getting ready to give your first presentation or have been speaking in public for years; whether you despise speaking to large groups or love being the center of attention; this workshop has something for you.
Walk away from this workshop with a tool box of skills, tips, and tools to meet your individual needs, including: creating lesson plans, planning for time variations, dealing with aggressive or passive audiences, increasing transfer of learning and creating more useful hand outs. 

Presentation Skills: Abandoning Handouts

There is an unwritten rule that handouts are required part of BDSM education.   But dynamic presentations start and end with the presenter, not the handout.  This class explores the downsides of handouts and alternative methods for transfer of learning.  We will also explore top tips for captivating an audience.  

Sex & Sexuality

Let's Talk About Sex

Talking about sex may be one of the hardest things that we find ourselves doing.  It’s even harder than talking about, say – ick! – our FEELINGS!  But we like it, we love it, we need it and ummmm, want it – in order to get it – we probably need to talk about it!
This fast paced, interactive class explores sex and how we communicate:
Getting it:  “Nice shoes, wanna fuck?”
Having it:  “oh yeah, harder, harder, hurt me….ummmmm”
Making it better: “Oh my God, I came so hard when you stuck your finger up my ass, but I’m not sure I liked you how you told me you dream about fucking me and my sister – even if we are twins.  Let’s not do that again.  Maybe next time we could try…” 

Seems pretty simple, right?  Well then let’s do it!  Join us some hot sexual innercourse (ummm – I mean…) intercourse!!

I like to get drunk & hump things

Loss of control is a common thread among even the most vanilla role play fantasies.  This discussion explores the connections between loss of control, sexuality, psychology, role play and BDSM.  Among the concepts explored are rape, chemically induced loss of control, coercion, and surrender.

Express Yourself

Our words are one of the least effective tools we have in expressing who we are, how others see us, and what message we are sending.   Let’s forget about the spoken word for a few hours and explore the other tools available to express ourselves:  fashion, posture, sound, body language, props and more.  We will also take a look self-expression as a path to self-awareness and self-confidence.  Making a lasting impression, the impression you want to make, isn’t an accident – it’s very deliberate.  How do you express yourself?  What message are you sending? 

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