Regular ticket: €488 — Includes full festival access & meals from Thursday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, plus a camping spot (camping gear not provided)

Low Income ticket: €399 — Reserved for folks with reduced financial accessibility. We have limited availability for these spots as they're calculated to include a smaller share of the overall festival costs, so please be mindful when applying for one.

No Labor ticket: An invitation to contribute financially instead of taking on 3 hours of supporting the festival's operations. This helps offset our investment in Low Income tickets and covers a greater portion of the festival costs. We really value the communal element of co-creating the festival under a participatory structure and only have limited spots we can allocate to "no labor" — please be mindful here too.

As part of registration, you'll pay an advance of €111 for your ticket — this starts your process of joining the festival. We ask for this advance as a show of commitment and it's non-refundable unless we're unable or choose not to accept your registration.

Once you've completed the form, we'll typically get to your registration within 2 days and respond via email. If your registration is confirmed, we'll invite you to pay the remainder of your ticket and join our Telegram community group.

There's no physical ticket or barcode to present when you arrive.

First, check your spam/promo folders for a message from creatures@consciousplayfest.com.

Another possibility is that we haven't received your registration in full. If you paid your deposit via SEPA transfer, you might have accidentally navigated out of the registration form without submitting it. Return to consciousplayfest.com/tickets — if you see an unsubmitted form, navigate to the end and click "submit".

If you're not sure, contact creatures@consciousplayfest.com and the Creature Crew will help you out.

Yes! The Seminarhaus Neue Spitzmuhle has 17 bedrooms (mostly doubles and some quads). Since it can't house the entire festival, and rooms cost more than camping, we've made it possible to upgrade to a shared hotel room for €111. Due to limited space, we can't offer private rooms. The upgrade includes a bed in either a quad or a double room.

All payments are final. When budgeting for the festival, our top priority was to provide an abundant experience that's as financially accessible as possible, while ensuring compensation for some of the key roles in making the festival happen. This means we've saved on admin hours by making all payments final.

If you can't join the festival, we'll do our best to support you in transferring your ticket to someone else.

Our festival operates on the principle that every participant also takes on some work — becoming a co-creator and co-owner of the experience. This builds community and shared responsibility for our collective experience.

Every day there will be a designated "crew hour" (usually after breakfast) where some of the work happens without any workshops or offerings at the same time — so we can work as a community together without missing out on anything. Some crews will also work during other times depending on their specialization, but we've scheduled spaciously so folks aren't missing out on content or break time.

During signup, you'll be asked for your preference around which crew you'd like to join. We'll do our best to consider your request in the assignment process (or as we call it, the Creature Matrix! :)

Initial crew assignments will be published on May 20th and will be sent to your email.

Yes! We've made one of the workshop spaces available for community offerings, where you can invite folks to join and experience your work/specialty/what you bring to the festival. More information will be available on the festival Telegram group and at the festival itself.

Arrival times:

General arrival window: Thursday, June 12th, 2025 — between 10:00 and 14:00

Build Crew: By 14:00 on Wednesday

Welcome Crew: 9:00am on Thursday

Faculty: 10:00am on Thursday

Your specific arrival window may be determined by which crew you're joining. More information will be available after May 20th.

Departure: Our final gathering — a closing celebration with everyone — will wrap up by 17:00 on Sunday. That's the earliest we recommend planning your departure.

Strike crew departure: 21:00 with optional stay till Monday. Please check in with your crew lead.

The full schedule — with details of workshops, rituals, sound journeys, and play spaces — will be published soon on the program page. But here’s a taste of the rhythm and flow you can expect over our four days together:

Thursday (Arrival Day)
After check-in and a light lunch, we gather the whole festival community for our opening circle — a chance to land together and begin weaving the collective field.
From there, we move into (Dis)agreements, a co-creative ritual where we explore how we want to show up for each other over the weekend — clarifying boundaries, intentions, and shared values.
Dinner follows, then an array of gentle offerings to ease into the space.

Friday
We start the day with a kinky morning practice for those who want to awaken their senses. After breakfast, we gather as a whole community for check-ins and crew time, then get into our bodies with ecstatic dance.

Friday afternoon holds a selection of sessions — workshops, rituals, somatic explorations — followed by dinner and a round of juicy evening offerings.

Saturday
We begin slow, with a luxurious brunch to nourish after the night before. The morning invites rest, integration, sauna time, connection by the lake — space to just be.
Later, we gather again as a collective, before diving into another round of curated sessions. After dinner, our play spaces open for those ready to explore into the night.

Sunday (Departure Day)
We close gently, with a morning session and breakfast, time for reflection, and a final crew hour. A few final offerings will be available before our closing circle and conscious goodbyes.

Throughout the weekend, we invite you to move at your own pace — engaging as much or as little as feels right. The program is an open container: you choose how to play inside it.

We view consent as a nuanced and fluid practice rather than a single transactional moment. We embrace the definition from "The Ethical Slut":

"Consent is an active collaboration for the pleasure and well-being of all concerned."

This means going far beyond simply "asking and getting a yes" – we encourage everyone to remain aware of their own and each other's consent situation in an ongoing manner. Consent is alive, dynamic, and requires continuous care and attention from all parties involved. We see it as a practice that evolves moment to moment, requiring presence, awareness, and clear communication throughout any interaction.

Everyone whom we've invited to join Conscious Play Fest has some experience in navigating consent in sex-positive environments. We consider everyone an adult who can act with sovereignty and self-responsibility, practicing clear communication, naming their desires, and caring for their boundaries. We trust participants to engage thoughtfully with consent practices and to remain attentive to the wellbeing of themselves and others throughout all interactions. This includes noticing non-verbal cues, checking in regularly during interactions, and being willing to adapt or stop when something isn't working for anyone involved.

Consent doesn’t always look clean or obvious. People miss signals, carry different communication styles, or land in moments that feel off despite good intentions. When that happens, we invite curiosity, care, and generosity — not to minimize impact, but to stay connected while tending to complexity.

We encourage naming what happened clearly and holding space for the possibility that no harm was intended. Instead of rushing to blame, we ask: What else might be true here? What support do I need? What wants to be repaired, clarified, or simply acknowledged?

Our Care Team is here for exactly this -to support when things get confusing, crunchy, or uncomfortable. You don’t have to navigate it alone. Whether you’re seeking reflection, intervention, or just a space to feel what’s true for you, we’re here to help - no shame, no drama, just real human support.

We encourage people to give each other the benefit of the doubt while simultaneously taking care of themselves and their boundaries. This isn't a binary situation – there are layers of complexity in human interaction that we acknowledge and honor.

Our Care Team is available throughout the festival to provide support. If you experience something that doesn't feel right, please reach out – we're here to support everyone's wellbeing and to help navigate these situations with care and respect for all involved.

Power dynamics exist in every interaction - and rather than trying to eliminate or flatten them, we invite you to name them, feel into them, and navigate them with care.

We don’t enforce blanket rules about who can or can’t connect based on their roles at the festival. While roles (like facilitator, organizer, or support crew) can influence the field of consent, they represent just one piece of a much larger puzzle.

Rather than making assumptions or rules about how power operates, we invite everyone to bring these dynamics into conscious awareness. That means pausing to ask:

What might be influencing my yes or no here?

Do I feel free to change my mind?

Am I naming what's at play -including attraction to someone's role, admiration, or even the desire to please?

You're always welcome to opt out of an interaction if something feels imbalanced - and you're just as welcome to explore it, with clarity, communication, and care. We trust you to choose how you want to engage. Let’s bring power into the light, not hide it behind politeness or rules.

Some common sources of power dynamics include:

Roles in the space: facilitator, organizer, performer, crew member, etc.

Social visibility: how known or central someone feels in the community or event.

Experience: someone being more familiar with play spaces, practices, or the festival culture.

Charisma or confidence: presence, communication style, charm.

Embodiment: how someone moves through the world based on body size, ability, gender expression, perceived beauty, or sexual expression.

Resources in the moment: being well-fed, well-rested, regulated, emotionally resourced, or feeling grounded and safe.

Cultural or systemic influences: race, class, language, neurodivergence, queerness, migration background, etc.

We don’t expect you to track every nuance perfectly - but we encourage you to stay in conversation with what might be at play in each moment. The more we attune to the subtle and not-so-subtle forces shaping our choices, the more room we make for truly mutual, liberated connection.

We ask for your sobriety as an essential aspect of the "conscious" in our name. We believe that being fully present allows for deeper connections and more authentic experiences.

That said, we understand substances exist in festival contexts, and we approach this with nuance rather than rigid enforcement. We don't plan to heavily police or enforce a strict no-substance rule, but we do ask that no substances are brought or used on the festival grounds as a community standard we aspire to.

For us, sobriety extends beyond just abstaining from substances. It's about presence and awareness. Many states can take us away from being fully present – fatigue, hunger, emotional dysregulation, being absorbed in your phone, physical pain, or intense emotional processing. We invite everyone to practice awareness of their own state of presence and to be transparent with others about it. This expanded view of "sobriety" is about mindfulness and taking responsibility for how your state affects your interactions with others. If you notice you're not in a state of presence for whatever reason, take care of yourself first and communicate clearly with those around you.

Our ability to clearly navigate consent is directly connected to our state of consciousness. When we're not sober – whether from substances, exhaustion, or emotional overwhelm – our capacity to communicate boundaries, read others' cues, and make informed choices becomes compromised. If your state of consciousness is altered for any reason, we ask that you:

Refrain from attending workshops

Be transparent about your state with anyone you're interacting with

Limit intimate interactions until you return to a more present state

Seek support if needed – our Care Crew is here to help, not to judge

We believe that responsible self-awareness around your state of consciousness is fundamental to the consent culture we cultivate at Conscious Play Fest. Taking care of your own presence is a way of taking care of the community as a whole.