WORLD POLYAMORY
ASSOCIATION'S FACULTY MEMBERS
(IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
Teachers, Healers, Presenters & Workshop Leaders Click on the links below to learn more about our
Presenters.
(Example: for Presenters whose last names begin with A, B, C
or D click on
A , B, C, D
below)
Moses Ma is attempting to live
the life of a modern Taoist.
Over the years, he's enjoyed
various professional
incarnations, including a career
as a bestselling videogame
designer, an artist, a
technology visionary, an
entrepreneur, a venture
capitalist, a photographer, a
poet, a scientist and a
physicist, a Buddhist and a
Taoist, and a martial artist to
boot. But above all else, he is
an emerging filmmaker.
During his life, he has
participated in many exciting
intellectual adventures -
everything from digging ditches
near the Grand Canyon with the
noted astro-geologist Gene
Shoemaker, to attending the
lectures of the Nobel prizing
winning physicist Richard
Feynman, to investigating
sensory isolation with John
Lilly. Later in life, he
traveled to Asia to study
meditation and psychic
phenomena, designed two of the
world's best selling computer
games - including the world's
first commercially successful
Internet multi-player game,
built an uncapitalized high tech
startup into a Top 100 US
software publisher, co-developed
Internet standards with IBM, and
has been noted as an Internet
visionary by Time Magazine and
the New York Times. Currently,
he is an innovation consultant
and runs a boutique venture
incubator in San Francisco, and
on the side, is learning the art
of filmmaking - with several
exciting projects in production.
One venture is The
Spirituality Network - a new
Internet portal that aims to
deliver transformational
education to the New Age market.
Also, he has studied many
systems of meditation, but
closest to his heart is the
Complete Reality School of
classical Taoism, into which he
was initiated in 1981. His love
of Taoism, meditation, martial
arts and tantra has infused his
entire life. Therefore, his is a
Taoist approach to polyamory.
His philosophy is simple: "if
you can form a connection to a
higher state of awareness within
ourselves and with the
benevolent universal energy that
surrounds us, I believe that it
is possible for all of us to tap
into the 'suchness' and beauty
of the present moment... when
the mind becomes still and we
can finally see a core of bliss
within the diamond of this
moment. If our livelihood, our
relationships, and our moment to
moment lives can draw strength
from this source of
wisdom/energy, then an amazing
life will flow. Only ecstasy can
heal."
Polyamory Bio
On the scale of polyamorous
desire, rated from 0 to 6 (just
like Kinsey's scale), I have
desired, lived and survived from
0 to 6. I've been semi-open as a
poly for the last ten years.
Active in the San Francisco Bay Area poly community
since 1996, Dawn & Akien have been serving as
relationship coaches since 1998, mentoring others to
create extraordinary relationships with their partners
and with themselves. Akien and Dawn have conducted
workshops on relationship development (including at the
last three West Coast Loving More conferences), and have
created study groups on personal growth, safer sex, and
various poly issues. They have been interviewed for
television on the subject of polyamory, with segments
appearing in Los Angeles and Sweden, and are the hosts
of the San Leandro Poly Pool Party. They have been
married for approaching 15 years, have two amazing
children, and are dedicated to creating intentional
extended family and community.
Dawn Davidson had her first conscious poly experience in
Georgia in 1984, and has gone on to experience many
varieties and forms of poly-dating -relating and
-loving. She holds a bachelor's degree in Genetics from
UC Berkeley, has visited Japan to sing with her Early
Music quartet (with whom she has sung for more than 20
years) and enjoys canning, costuming and cats, among her
many other interests. Making connections among people
and being a clearinghouse for information is something
she does on the same level as breathing.
has been poly for more than 20 years,
though he only found out there was a name for it 10
years ago. His progress in this field has been a direct
result of marrying. Primarily self-educated, he's avidly
pursued learning in many less-traditional ways,
including workshops on relationships and
self-development with Landmark Education, Dan Millman
and Lori Starr. His
wide-ranging interests include neurochemistry,
comparative religion, relationships, history, and
broadsword fighting. He believes that we're all our own
best teachers.
Veronica Monet is a Certified Sexologist and
Sex Educator. She can help you change the
channel on your love life! Whether you want
out of a failing marriage or to enjoy more
meaningful sex with your mate, Veronica
knows what is required to achieve measurable
change in your life. Her extensive media
credits include CNN, A&E, ABC's 20/20, FOX
News, Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect and
The New York Times.
Veronica offers workshops and lectures as
well as professional advice on sex, romance,
relationships and love. Her book, Sex
Secrets of Escorts - Tips from a Pro (Alpha
Books 2005), is available in most major
bookstores as well as online. Tune into
Veronica's new radio program, The Shame Free
Zone, to ask anonymous questions about sex
and dating for free: www.bbsradio.com/theshamefreezone.
To find out what Veronica can do for you,
visit her website: www.sexwithoutshame.com
or call toll free at 888.903.0050.mics.
You are welcome to contact her at
veronica@veronicamonet.com
or 888.903.0050 and be sure to visit her websites:
Les Nuckles
is a trained and practicing sexual surrogate.
He has helped women overcome issues involving
lack of self esteem, poor body image, lack of
experience and trust issues. He has helped
them overcome issues that were holding them back
from enjoying richer, fuller, more robust sexual
relationships. He was featured in an interview
in the June 2003 issue of Psychology Today.
Les is also a professional massage therapist and
a Watsu Practioner. He lives and practices in
Southern California.
Les, and his wife Jan, have been together for
over 5 years. They met at a poly potluck
in Southern California and have been together
ever since. Les has always felt poly even
before he became aware of the word. He has
always experienced feelings for a number of
people and wondered why it was "not alright" to
love more then one person. He discovered
the word Polyamory on the internet in 1999 and
has been openly practicing that lifestyle since
then.
Les and Jan live
in a clothing optional resort in southeast
Orange County in Southern California.
Master Rex
has been exploring the nature of relationship in
traditional and kink environments for a number of
decades. Influential thinkers include Harville
Hendrix, Marshall Rosenberg, Jan Spiller, Martha
Beck, Gerard Jampolski, Marianne Williamson and Ed
Seykota.
”Endeavoring to raise consciousness one thought at a
time.”
Master Rex includes keywords: polyamory, swinging,
acting ,music, trading, pisces, venture, capital,
communication, health, pleasure, joy, fun, peace,
spirit, comfort, internet, beach, grace, love,
transparency, ethics.
Miss
Jane,
M.Ed.,
is a person who likes stalking wild categories
and dangerous labels in their natural
habitats. Her eclectic professional
background includes practicing marriage and
family therapy, facilitating communication
skills training in Outward Bound -style
experiences and post-grad study in health
promotion and public policy
She has led workshops
over the last 17 years on a variety of topics, including
parenting skills, healing through patterned breathing and
developing global consciousness. She is currently writing
a book about cultivating spiritual awareness through
sexuality, with an emphasis on insights earned from recent
immersion in the kink arena.
Jane has aligned
philosophically with the polyamorous lifestyle for almost
30 years. She lives ecstatically in a triad with her
husband of 11 years and a woman she has known for over 20
years. She also enjoys her ongoing spirit-expanding and
multi-dimensional relationship with Master Rex.
For more
than a decade, Shama has been a
dynamic force in the Los Angeles
community. As lecturer, writer and
media personality, she has brought a
renewed sense of potential for a
better life and world to all those
she touches. She has a successful
private practice working with
individuals and couples bettering
their lives and relationships
through her talents and training in
many different counseling and
healing modalities.
Shama offers over 10 years of
experience as a hypnotherapist and
chemical dependency counselor. She
is also trained in Tantra, shamanic
psychology and various healing
techniques in energy and bodywork.
As an educator, group facilitator,
and counselor, she specializes in
sexual, chemical, and self-esteem
Issues and alternative lifestyles.
Paul Plamondon has done personal
growth workshops for the past 10
years. He is a passionate man whose
zest for life has brought many
smiles. He currently lives in Arizona.
His mission is to create a
world of everyone's dreams through
inclusion and communication.
Interested persons may learn more about
Paul at
http://www.myspace.com/heemes.
We're very proud of our Faculty: talented, educated,
professional and experienced in their field.
Faculty Members must be registered as a
World Polyamory
Association Member in good standing in order to be
featured on the World Polyamory Association web site. If
you wish to be considered to be a member of our faculty,
please fill out this form:
Presenter/Workshop Facilitator Application
World Polyamory Association 
