EDGE Session: Setting Rates & Negotiating: Value, Choice, and Sustainability

EDGE Session: Setting Rates & Negotiating: Value, Choice, and Sustainability

This session is part of EDGE — Educator Development & Growth Experience, a guided mentorship program for kink educators who are ready to refine their skills, strengthen their impact, and evolve their teaching practice with intention. EDGE is collaboratively designed and facilitated by Devyn Stone and IzzyOkay.

EDGE sessions are intentionally designed to support educators at multiple stages of growth. Each session blends practical skill-building, guided reflection, and shared learning, with an emphasis on helping participants integrate new insights directly into their teaching practice. Participants can expect EDGE sessions to prioritize clarity, intentionality, and real-world application, supporting both confidence and competence as kink educators.

Session description:

This session focuses on how kink educators can set rates that reflect their labor, values, and capacity—and negotiate from a place of clarity rather than scarcity. We’ll explore how to establish top and bottom lines, assess whether an offer is worth the time and energy involved, and approach negotiations with confidence and flexibility. Participants will examine common negotiation scenarios with organizations and conventions, including how to respond to offers, discuss compensation transparently, and advocate for themselves without undercutting others. The goal is to support educators in making intentional, informed decisions about when to negotiate, when to compromise, and when to walk away.

Facilitated by Devyn

Devyn Stone, ECIP-E (he/him) is a queer, neurodivergent, and disabled kink educator, author, and community organizer whose work centers trauma-informed, neuroinclusive, and equity-driven approaches to education and leadership. A Leatherman and dominant, Devyn has practiced authority transfer dynamics since 2004 and has been teaching and mentoring since 2014.

Devyn’s work focuses on helping people build sustainable, ethical practices that translate into real-world application. His teaching emphasizes clarity, accessibility, boundaries, compensation, and long-term viability. He is the author of The Affirming Handbook, Why I Don’t Own Them…Yet…, and the Quick Reference Rainbow series, which make complex concepts like protocol, consent, and relational ethics more accessible to neurodivergent learners and leaders.

Devyn is the founder of Pragmatically Kinking and the Executive Producer of THRIVE, a conference exploring the intersection of neurodivergence, mental health, and BDSM.

Learn more at DevynStone.com

Pricing:

EDGE sessions are offered on a sliding scale using the Green Bottle Method, which prioritizes access, sustainability, and shared responsibility. Participants choose the tier that reflects their current access to resources. Lower-tier tickets are limited to ensure availability for those with fewer resources, and participants are invited to choose higher tiers when able. No justification is required, and all tiers receive the same experience.