Bedroom Blueprints: What Intimacy Design and Relational Roleplay Can Teach Experience Professionals

Long before “experience design” was an industry, devoted lovers have practiced it.

Inside our closest relationships lives radical intelligence: everything from the way a partner keeps track of what their partner is longing for, to surprises for anniversaries and milestones, to the container crafted to meet the moment. This session asks what becomes possible when experience designers start treating intimacy as craft, teacher, and source material. The skills behind a great experience and a great relationship are similar and transferable.

This Campfire will be a space to learn about what experience design can look like when love is the animating logic. The presentation and conversation will draw from relational neuroscience and the choreography of intimate partnership to offer practices for designing experiences rooted in somatic and relational fields.

Grounded in evidence-based research and real-world facilitation, we can treat devotion and generosity as design variables, and scene and roleplay as structural tools. This Campfire explores what happens when the skills move in both directions – when loving well makes you a better designer, and designing well makes you a better lover.

You’ll embody and practice:

• How intimacy design translates directly into professional experience design.
• How relational neuroscience informs the way we can design for connection.
• How to apply the BRIDGE framework – bounded, responsive, invitational, devotional, generous & emergent – as practical design tools.
• Inspiration for fortifying and adding spark to your own sacred, beloved or intimate relationships.

About Amy Segreti:

Amy Segreti is the founder of Our Circuitries. She is an experience designer, relational artist, and intimacy mentor whose work lives at the intersection of relational dynamics and experience design. She has trained in-person with and received education from Esther Perel, John Wineland, Dr. Stan Tatkin, Odyssey Works, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Barbara Carrellas, Third Rail Productions, Alexandra Roxo, Authentic Relating International, Nicholas Janni and more. She has a talk on TED.com.

How to watch this Campfire:

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Timings:

Campfire #2 is suitable for those in the US or Europe, but everyone is welcome! Here’s when we kick off in your time zone:

• London: 17:55 – 19:25
• Paris: 18:55 – 20:25
• Los Angeles: 09:55 – 11:25
• Santa Fe: 10:55 – 12:25
• Chicago: 11:55 – 13:25
• New York: 12:55 – 14:25
• São Paulo, Santiago & Buenos Aires: 13:55 – 15:25