Catherine Gross
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Catherine Gross' is a speaker, sex educator, BDSM
aficionado, and certified PCC personal life coach. She runs seminars that focus on physical skills, master–slave relationships, dominance and submission, improving the sex life, personal development, house management, service and keeping relationships healthy. She lives in the United States on Long Island, New York.
She is the co-producer of Southeast Leatherfest
, in Atlanta, Georgia.
She has also written a safety manual in use by more than a dozen organizations from coast to coast.
She created Servant's Retreat, a weekend for those who serve, which focuses on the internal issues of submission and service. It is the first weekend of it's kind in the country. In addition, her Nine Fold Path Seminar is a workshop on M/s and D/s relationship health. Servant's Retreat was first held in Isle of Palm, South Carolina, in 2000. Servant's Retreat II was created in 2008.
She created Fetish Auctioneer, an auction site which offers adult pleasure items from sellers around the country and sold the company in October 2010..
BDSM
BDSM is an erotic preference and a form of sexual expression involving the consensual use of restraint, intense sensory stimulation, and fantasy power role-play. The compound acronym BDSM is derived from the terms bondage and discipline , dominance and submission , and sadism and masochism...
aficionado, and certified PCC personal life coach. She runs seminars that focus on physical skills, master–slave relationships, dominance and submission, improving the sex life, personal development, house management, service and keeping relationships healthy. She lives in the United States on Long Island, New York.
She is the co-producer of Southeast Leatherfest
Southeast leatherfest
Southeast Leatherfest is an annual adult fetish event for the BDSM, leather and kink communities based in the United States' Southeast and centered in Georgia with regional and smaller related events held throughout the year....
, in Atlanta, Georgia.
She has also written a safety manual in use by more than a dozen organizations from coast to coast.
She created Servant's Retreat, a weekend for those who serve, which focuses on the internal issues of submission and service. It is the first weekend of it's kind in the country. In addition, her Nine Fold Path Seminar is a workshop on M/s and D/s relationship health. Servant's Retreat was first held in Isle of Palm, South Carolina, in 2000. Servant's Retreat II was created in 2008.
She created Fetish Auctioneer, an auction site which offers adult pleasure items from sellers around the country and sold the company in October 2010..
Coaching accomplishments
She has designed Prospectives Program, Creation Challenge, and Lifelong Service. Programs focused on improving lives, personal discovery, and transformation. Through control and multiplication.Awards and certifications
- Presented with Black Rose'sBlack Rose (BDSM organization)Black Rose is a contemporary BDSM organization based in Washington, D.C.. It was founded in June 1987 as a support group for the BD/SM, TS and other alternative sexuality communities in the Washington, DC area. The Black Rose hosts, among other things, educational classes addressing BDSM...
Vaughn Keith National Educator Award in 2002 - Pantheon of LeatherLeatherLeather is a durable and flexible material created via the tanning of putrescible animal rawhide and skin, primarily cattlehide. It can be produced through different manufacturing processes, ranging from cottage industry to heavy industry.-Forms:...
Southeast Region Service Award 2006 - Her auction website FetishSexual fetishismSexual fetishism, or erotic fetishism, is the sexual arousal a person receives from a physical object, or from a specific situation. The object or situation of interest is called the fetish, the person a fetishist who has a fetish for that object/situation. Sexual fetishism may be regarded, e.g...
Auctioneer won Pantheon of Leather's Business of the Year Award 2006. - Certified by the International Federation of Coaches as an ACC, CECG, CUCG, and PCC. She holds a BCC from the Center for Credentialing & Education.
- Member of LICA and the International Association of Coaches
See also
- V M Johnson
- Gloria BrameGloria BrameGloria Glickstein Brame is a U.S. writer and sex therapist based in Athens, Georgia. A member of the American College of Sexologists, and certified clinical sexologist, Brame earned a PHD and MPH in Human Sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality , and an M.A. in English...
- BDSMBDSMBDSM is an erotic preference and a form of sexual expression involving the consensual use of restraint, intense sensory stimulation, and fantasy power role-play. The compound acronym BDSM is derived from the terms bondage and discipline , dominance and submission , and sadism and masochism...
- Dominance & submission (BDSM)Domination and submission (BDSM)Dominance and submission is a set of behaviors, customs and rituals involving the giving by one individual to another individual of control over them in an erotic episode or as a lifestyle....
- Servitude (BDSM)Servitude (BDSM)In BDSM, servitude refers to performing personal tasks for their dominant partner, as part of their submissive role in a BDSM relationship.In domestic servitude roles, the submissive can receive pleasure and satisfaction from performing personal services for their dominant, such as serving as a...
- Life coaching
Further reading
- Interview with Sensuous Sadie
- Article published in Queer Ramblings Magazine
- Passing on Debt in Leather Journey Magazine
- Heartbreak and Our Truth
- The Southern Voice
- Informed Consent
- 1997 NYU Interview