Dragon Academy Relational Playground Agreement

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Dragon Academy Relational Playground Agreement
Informed Consent for Relational Edgework Practice

Website: https://www.dragonacademy.love/
Current online course: https://www.dragonacademy.love/online-course

Please take a few minutes to read and fill out this agreement carefully. It outlines how the Dragon Academy Relational Playground operates in practice, including the shared values, core principles, and participation agreements that support nervous-system safety, self-responsibility, and staying present with complexity across all Dragon Academy contexts.

Participation in the Relational Playground is always voluntary and choice-based. Participants are never required to engage in any practice, interaction, or level of intensity. Choosing to pause, opt out, or withdraw is always respected.

Dragon Academy is not therapy, medical treatment, or mental health care, and participation does not replace professional mental health support. Participants are responsible for assessing their own readiness, capacity, and support systems, and for tracking their experience, communicating limits and needs, pacing themselves, and using the shared language and practices for regulating intensity and maintaining consent described below.

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Your First and Last Name *

Your Phone Number *

How did you hear about Dragon Academy/who referred you? *

What is your level of experience with personal growth and development containers that involve interpersonal connection, such as Circling, Authentic Relating, etc.? How about more spicy offerings like sex-positive spaces, ISTA, BDSM, Shadow Work, etc? *

Orientation to the Work

Dragon Academy is a school of Relational Edgework. Our work explores power, desire, truth, intimacy, shadow, eros and agency through embodied relational practices.

We are oriented toward catalyzing lives of greater capacity, freedom, and range, including the ability to feel more, track more, and choose more.

We understand that this path involves ambiguity, intensity, and periods of destabilization as familiar patterns loosen and new capacities emerge.

We choose this path because we prioritize aliveness and presence over playing small or organizing life around comfort. We choose this path because we prioritize experiential discovery over conceptual understanding.

We practice this by training participants to orient to reality through lived experience before assigning meaning, recognizing that under pressure, premature interpretation can create a sense of safety while distorting perception and reducing capacity.

We understand integration to be a necessary complement to expansion, and that responsibility for integration is shared between Dragon Academy structures and participant self-stewardship.

Orientation Agreements

Please check each box to indicate your understanding and agreement.

I understand that this work often involves ambiguity, and that sensation, emotion, attraction, discomfort, or intensity may arise before meaning is clear.

I understand that this work aims to increase capacity, including the ability to feel more, track more, choose more, and stay present when heat rises.

I understand that expansion can be destabilizing, and that as familiar patterns loosen and new capacities emerge, periods of disorientation or emotional flux may arise.

I agree that Dragon Academy is an intentionally edgy space, and I take responsibility for working with my activation through awareness, communication, and integration rather than blame, fixed stories, or leakage outside the container.

I agree to speak about my Dragon Academy experience with sensitivity, including keeping identifying or personal information about other participants confidential unless I have their explicit consent to share it.

When appropriate, I agree to bring confusion, activation, or relational tension into the Dragon Academy container for clarity and growth rather than primarily processing it through triangulation or external narrative.

I agree to hold awareness of the collective container, including time, attention, and impact on others, and understand that Dragon Academy is not obligated to hold unlimited processing for individual relational crises or external relationship dynamics.

I understand that integration is an essential part of this work, and that while Dragon Academy offers practices and pacing to support integration, I am responsible for tracking my own capacity and resourcing my integration over time.

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Playground Structures and Tools

The following sections describe the principles, practices, and consent tools we use to support expansion, integration, and nervous-system safety, alongside each participant’s responsibility for tracking capacity, limits, and choice. These tools are intended to support presence, pacing, and conscious participation, not to escape discomfort, manage others, bypass experience, or prematurely resolve intensity.

Check each box as you read our Core Philosophy & Values. *

We believe humans have the capacity to experience both connection and disconnection and neither is inherently right or wrong. We prefer connection, so we choose to create that world for ourselves and inspire others to do the same.

We choose what is truthful and alive. We choose to exist here, on earth, in the space time continuum, and dance with others in the present moment, actively dispelling fantasy in favor of reality.

We care for the collective nervous system. We stay present to the impact we have on others and on a space, and we actively work to not cause harm non-consensually.

We strive to be of service to ourselves and our communities. We care about who Dragons will be when they return home to their home community. How will you be of service?

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Check each box as you read each Core Principle:

We are adults and can talk about anything.

AND this is not real life—it’s a relational gym!

We cultivate an environment to explore what is usually edgy and left unsaid.

This fosters deep growth and allows us to lean into the discomfort that often precedes transformation.

We engage in exercises that may induce an activated state to allow for somatic reprogramming.

We care for our nervous systems and interpersonal relationships by tending to dysregulation when it arises and staying present to the impact we have on others.

Our shared intention is to bloom each other into enlivened, inspired, seen, met, raw, joyful, and fully expressed versions of ourselves.

"Avocado" ALWAYS means STOP IMMEDIATELY. No exceptions.

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Safe Words

To maintain a safe and attuned environment, we use specific safe words to create clarity and immediate action when needed.

Avocado – This word is used to STOP whatever is happening immediately. Once "Avocado" is called, the exercise or interaction stops, and everyone involved disengages and physically separates (e.g., going into a different room). If this word is called during an exercise, it is OVER - no exceptions.

Pause – This word is used to PAUSE whatever is happening. It does not end an exercise but creates a hiatus, allowing for an adjustment if something feels off. It is particularly useful if someone is feeling yellow (slightly activated) and needs support or wants to provide feedback before continuing.

I read this and agree to learn and practice the safe words.

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Check each box as you read about The Color Check System: *

To maintain awareness and care of our nervous systems, we use a color check system.

Green – Regulated and present.

Chartreuse – Not green, but not yellow either.

Yellow – Somewhat activated, may need support.

Orange – Highly activated, immediate support required.

Red – Complete reactivity or collapse; this is a danger zone we aim to prevent through proactive use of the color system.

Blue – Dissociated or numb, may need support.

For example, you could say “yellow and the flavor is nervousness and excitement about what is going to happen during this session.”

If you notice yourself moving out of green, please name it out loud.

We take care of ourselves first by tracking our own color (interoception) and take care of others by asking if we notice they might be activated (attunement).

The facilitator's job is to not lose track of you. This helps create a safety net for you to explore difficult areas of your psyche.

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How skilled are you at tracking your nervous system and noticing when you are dysregulated? *

I have no idea what this question means

Beginner - I often do not notice I am dysregulated.

Medium - I sometimes get dysregulated without noticing.

Advanced - it is rare for me to get dysregulated without noticing.

Participation Conditions *

I understand that every exercise of these workshops is optional and that I am free to pass at any moment.

I understand that I am ultimately responsible for discerning when using a tool supports presence and integration for me, and when it may function as avoidance or bypass.

I understand that we may touch on topics or embody energies that are often considered taboo, such as "predatory" energy.

I understand that this is a coaching environment and have openness to being coached.

I understand that if I want give feedback to a facilitator in the container, the focus will be on me. If I want to give feedback and have it be about them, time will be made for that after/outside of the container.

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Container Boundaries

Dragon Academy is a developmental and relational container, not a sexual or play-party space.

Because this work involves real human complexity and intensity, it is not possible to name every scenario that may arise. Instead, Dragon Academy holds clear, non-negotiable container boundaries alongside structured ramps for pacing, consent, and escalation. When in doubt, participants are expected to orient toward the most conservative interpretation of these boundaries and seek clarification rather than assume permission.

This work may involve emotional intimacy, being seen, naming desire, or experiencing erotic charge, even though sexual action is not part of the container. Participants are responsible for honoring their existing relationship agreements and orienting partners to the nature of this work when relevant.

By checking each box below, you agree to the following container boundaries:

I understand that Dragon Academy is a developmental and relational container, not a sexual or play-party space.

I understand that within official Dragon Academy spaces and group calls, genitals remain covered and overt sexual activity, genital stimulation, or explicit sexual performance are not part of the container.

I understand that requests for sexual or intimate continuation are not made within group spaces and are handled privately, outside the Dragon Academy container.

I understand that exercises and interactions are time-bound and role-bound, and are expected to close cleanly when the structure ends.

I have informed relevant partner(s) about my participation in Dragon Academy and am responsible for honoring my existing relationship agreements as they intersect with this work.

I understand that participation in Dragon Academy may impact my relationships, and that Dragon Academy does not hold responsibility for partners’ emotional responses, destabilization, or relational processing outside the container.

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Relational Charge Agreements

The following agreements clarify how relational and erotic charge are understood and held within Dragon Academy, so that intensity can be met with awareness and integrated without being rushed into outcome, identity, or action.

I understand that Dragon Academy works with live relational charge, which may include attraction, desire, fear, anger, tenderness, devotion, aggression, or aliveness, and that the arising of relational charge is a possible consequence of the work, not a goal or requirement.

I understand that relational charge is treated as information rather than a directive, and that feeling attraction, desire, anger, or intensity does not imply obligation, consent to action, or future outcome.

I understand that relational and erotic charge inside the Dragon Academy container is held within clear roles, time limits, and structures, and that no ongoing relationship, identity, or real-world action is implied by what arises within an exercise.

I understand that erotic energy may arise as sensation, attraction, fantasy, curiosity, or aliveness, and that erotic charge is not synonymous with sexual action, consent to sexual behavior, or continuation beyond the structure of the container.

I understand that if relational charge creates confusion or lingers beyond an exercise, I may be asked to participate in a debrief or integration conversation, and that these conversations exist to support clarity, integration, and clean closure rather than assign blame or wrongdoing.

Media Policy: Dragon Academy sessions may be recorded or captured via screenshots for internal use. This includes sharing recordings with participants who were absent, facilitator review, training, content development, and future session planning.

We are attentive to context and sensitivity. We will not request consent to share neutral or non-revealing images, such as group photos of participants smiling or gathered together in a non-intimate moment.

We will always request explicit consent before sharing or publishing any media that includes emotional intensity, relational process, sexual or somatic content, power dynamics, confrontation, or vulnerability. For example, we would ask consent before sharing a video of you expressing strong emotion, engaging in conflict, or participating in a charged exercise.

You are welcome to request that your camera be turned off during your share or while participating in an exercise on the call.

Consent for media use may be withdrawn at any time prior to publication, and we will honor reasonable requests to remove content from public platforms.

I have read the media policy.

If I have special concerns about the media policy, I will bring them forward to Ali.

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While we agree to do our best to track and care for your nervous system, it is possible that you could have uncomfortable experiences and/or stimulate past trauma. By submitting this form, you agree that you have read and understood the container agreements set forth in this waiver, and release the organizers from any and all liability from potential damage - emotional, psychological, physical, or spiritual.

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