Ms. Catherine Gross

Ms. Catherine Gross, Catherine is an educator and a PCC certified life success coach. She offers classes and focused weekend seminars on a wide variety of subjects. She’s logged 4000+ education hours teaching Servant’s Retreat alone. She has served on both local and national boards, judged contests, staffed conferences in a variety of positions, and emceed and produced events/fundraisers. She is currently the co-producer of SouthEast LeatherFest in Atlanta, GA, a board member of Community Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities (CARAS.ws), and a board member of Leather Archives & Museum (LA&M).

Catherine enjoys both having the opportunity to interact with large groups as well as the one-on-one contact that smaller events offer. She has presented classes at Frolicon, Black Rose, South Plains LeatherFest, Living In Leather by NLA-I, San Diego Leatherfest, Southwest Leather Conference, Leather University, Boys Camp, International Ms. Leather, Leather Leadership Conference, Pantheon, TES, Folsom Fringe, Orlando Bash, Great Lakes Leather Alliance, Tribal Fire, Leather Reign, Floating World to name a few of the hundreds of events she’s been privileged to staff. She was presented with Black Rose's Vaughn Keith National Educator Award in 2002 and Pantheon of Leather Southeast Region Service Award 2006. She has also written a safety manual in use by more than a dozen organizations scattered from coast to coast. You can download a copy at BDSMClasses.com where the handbook is listed under articles.

Catherine created Servant's Retreat I in 2001 which was the first non-tangible skills weekend intensive for slaves/ submissives/ bottoms. She offers SRII, Nine Fold Path Seminar, and Foundations in Mastery from coast to coast. She is known for life changing weekend seminars. She received the Pantheon of Leather Business of the Year award in 2006.