EDGE: Educator Coaching Lab 2
Live Teaching, Feedback, and Refinement
Description
EDGE Session: Educator Coaching Lab: Live Teaching, Feedback, and Refinement
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 is a working lab, not a polished performance space. Three EDGE folks will teach short pieces of real, in-progress material and get live coaching from both facilitators, plus structured feedback from the room. We’re focusing on the stuff that actually matters in practice—clarity, pacing, accessibility, presence, flow—whatever shows up.
Observers aren’t just watching; you’ll be learning how to give useful feedback and how educators integrate it in real time.
Presenting spots are limited.
Facilitated by Devyn and Izzy
Devyn Stone
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
Izzy
Izzy (he/him) is a passionate educator in the kink community as well as a previous organizer and dungeon monitor. Informed by his previous career as a teacher, he now presents classes on impact play and public speaking for organizations like TES-NYC and Pragmatically Kinking. Through his involvement, Izzy is committed to empowering individuals, encouraging them to explore their interests while fostering a supportive community focused on personal and collective growth.
In his kink practice, Izzy enjoys both topping and bottoming, with interests spanning from impact, fear play, age play, power exchange, and blood play. He has recently embarked on his leather journey, deepening his skill in and commitment to the community. Outside of the kink world, Izzy is passionate about building and collecting Lego and leathercrafting. He often revisits familiar media, with favorites like Kotaro Lives Alone and Jenna Marbles’ content, while cuddling with his cats, West & Shadow.