Consent, Power, Sobriety
Consent, Power & Personal Sovereignty
We honor each participant as a sovereign adult.
Consent here is not a checklist or a protocol — it's an ongoing process of:
Inner awareness
Clear communication
Power-awareness
Contextual sensitivity
Informed choice
It’s about moment-to-moment presence and co-created clarity.
Power Dynamics
We don’t flatten or avoid power dynamics — we bring them into awareness.
We don’t ban certain types of connection (e.g. between participants and facilitators). Instead, we ask you to remain aware of what might influence your choices, including roles, visibility, confidence, or cultural and systemic factors.
You're invited to pause, reflect, speak, and stay in conversation with your body, your desires, and your boundaries.
See FAQ for the full breakdown on how we approach this.
The (dis)Agreements Session
Rather than enforcing rules in advance, we gather early in the festival to make our shared agreements together.
This session is playful, spacious, and relational. We use it to surface needs, expectations, hopes, and limits — and to attune to one another with nuance and care.
It's one of the most shaping moments of the weekend — and we hope you’ll be there.
Sobriety
This is a sober space.
We believe that responsible self-awareness around your state of consciousness is fundamental to the consent culture we cultivate at Play Fest.
For us, sobriety extends beyond just abstaining from substances.
It's about presence and awareness.
There's so much that can take us out of being present that when we talk about a sobriety oriented space, this is an important highlight and reminder. Opting out of "substances" still leaves all of us exposed to the influence of fatigue, dysregulation, exhaustion, overstimulation...
We invite everyone to awareness of our state of presence and to be transparent with others about it, as well as deep attunement to our resourcing and self care as a collective practice.
Nudity & Sexual Expression
Nudity is welcome across the venue.
We ask that you keep sexual play indoors, away from public view — this helps protect our agreements with the venue, the hosts, and the natural surroundings.
