Bi-Poly Option for the 21st Century - Ed Jor-El Elkin & Janet Kira Lessin
Choreograph the Voices of Love - Sasha Lessin & Janet Kira Lessin
Hawkins' Cosmology, Polyamory & You - Anastas Harris & Steven Vogue
How To Enter An Established Poly Relationship Shama & Don Kraig
How We Do Poly - Janet Kira Lessin, Panel & Participants
Hypnofantasy & Hypnomassage - Terry & Paul Brussel-Gibbons & Marcus Brussel Jenkins
Innovative and Rapid Techniques for Jealousy Management - Dave Doleshal
Intimate Erotic Photography & Poly Relationships - Wilton Jones
Live Compersion - Anastas Harris & Steven Vogue
Loving Beyond the Dyad - Harold Kornylak
On Agreements - Dawn Davidson &  
Orienting to Polyamory  Dave Doleshal & Janet Kira Lessin
Pair Bonding, Romantic Love & Multiple Partner Sexuality - Leanna Wolfe
Pods for Intimate Community - Sasha Lessin
Resolve Poly Conflicts in a Tribe - Ed Seykota
Tantric Polyamory: The Art of Conscious Loving - Shama & Don Kraig
Tantra Ritual for Polys - Sophia Songhealer
Touch With Intention - Les Nuckles

The Bi - Poly Option for the 21st Century - Ed Jor-El Elkin, Ph. D. & Janet Kira Lessin

Explore bi-sexual polyamorous relationship in a safe and supportive environment. This workshop is for all levels of interest, especially for the bi-Curious as well as the bisexually experienced.  A theoretical and experiential guide to the bi-poly option with guided imagery, pair and multiple partner exercises. Using movement and dance, transformational theater and role-playing exercises with opposite sex and same sex partners, we explore the bi-poly option in fantasy and in "reality".

Choreograph The Voices of Love Sasha Lessin, Ph.D. & Janet Kira Lessin, P.T.S.

Centering ourselves, we recognize, accept, coordinate and synergize our own varied inner voices that react to relationships and love. We share vulnerable voices, converting interactions from sour to sweet. We see aspects of other people sour us because they resonate our own underexpressed voices.  As we accept these voices in us, we simultaneously enjoy their appearance in others. Accepting our varied inner selves helps us celebrate diversity in others and builds our cohesiveness. 

Hawkins' Cosmology of Human Consciousness, Polyamory & You  
Anastas Harris, Ph.D. & Steven Vogue, D.C., N.D.

David Hawkins has developed a cosmology of human consciousness that takes us from the lowest to the highest levels of human consciousness.  He did this through research using applied kinesiology on hundreds and thousands of people over ten years time.   He found that regardless of race, culture, religion, nationality, class, personality, state of mental health or even personal beliefs, almost exactly the same cosmology emerged with each individual.  More than that when each state was rated for the level of life energy it represented, that too was, almost completely consistent across the board of the people tested.  

We'll take that cosmology and apply it to relationships to determine how each level impacts the possibility for polyamory. We've also looked at our own relationship from Hawkin's perspective.  We'll share this cosmology and our insights into it and give an example from our own relationship as it relates to the different levels. 

Then you'll participate in a small group exploration of each person’s current challenge in polyamory from the perspective of the cosmology of human consciousness.  You'll have the opportunity to bring to the table a difficult or uncomfortable experience for you in the poly realm.  You'll reflect upon and discuss your experience.  You'll ask yourself where are you, where do you want to be?  What do you need to believe, know, do to be there? 
 
Steve and Anastas present the post Laguna Beach, 2004 Post-Conference, October 24, 2005: 
Living Compersion: An Experiential and Tantric Workshop

How To Enter An Established Poly Relationship Shama & Don Kraig

Learn to be a successful third, fourth, or fifth wheel!  Navigating the waters smoothly when entering an established relationship can be rough.  Shama & Don reveal important pointers that make the journey easier. You learn the most important aspects of how to deal with exciting dynamics a new person brings; the wonders and the potential pitfalls. Learn to create balance and harmony in triads and beyond.  Explore practical skills including communication tools that can be used immediately to enhance and expand the quality of all your relationships

How We Do Poly - Janet Kira Lessin, Panel & Participants

This is a very popular format and often the favorite part of the conference for many.  The panel is led by Janet Kira Lessin and includes polys of several varieties and everyone else who wishes to share how they make polyamory work for them.  The audience gets to ask question, so everyone's included.  Newbies get valuable answers to begin their poly lives. If you're currently involved in poly relations and would like to be a part of the panel, email: janetkiralessin@aol.com

Hypnofantasy/Hypnomassage - Terry and Paul Brussel-Gibbons with Marcus Brussel Jenkins

Hypnosis demonstration shows you how to slay the green eyed monster, release sexual inhibitions which are no longer serving you, and how to share full body multiple orgasms with your partners. Bring your senses alive through guided fantasy, experience the delights of sensual/spiritual connection through orchestrated hypnomassage --for singles, dyads, triads and loving groups. Romantic music heightens the intimacy. 

Intimate Erotic Photography & Poly Relationships - Wilton Jones

This presentation is about four people who agreed to share a part of their intimate relationships with the world.  Using photographs taken earlier this year as a samples, we will discuss how this photo session helped a poly family incorporate and partner in much less time than it might have taken in the past.  We'll also discuss how you can use photography to both enhance your relationships and create images that are erotic and sensual without being lewd. 
 

Innovative and Rapid Techniques for Jealousy Management - Dave Doleshal, Ph.D.

There are many good ideas and effective techniques that can be used to manage jealousy. All of them work at least to some extent.  This workshop will include two others that are very powerful, easy to learn, but not yet widely known within the polyamory community.  These are the methods originally pioneered by psychologist Roger Callahan and methods invented by Dr. Edward Bach, a British Homeopathic physician.

Living Compersion: An Experiential and Tantric Workshop  Anastas Harris & Steven Vogue

Compersion is an experience where I am uplifted when my partner is uplifted through experiences that he or she shares with others, including when those experiences involve love and sexuality.  It is the acceptance that those you love can love others and the capacity to experience pleasure, and even joy and turn-on, when this occurs.  Compersion is essential to Polyamory.  

Tantra is a spiritual path that is conducive to compersion and which, if truly lived, flows seamlessly into Polyamory. 

In this workshop, we will begin by revealing how this is so.  Then, in twos, fours and small groups, we will move into compersion, Tantra and Poly in a dance that may be playful or soulful, mental or sensual, and that will either stretch boundaries or provide the opportunity to stretch into already extended boundaries with a variety of individuals or couples. We will place you in situations in which you will have the opportunity to experience or develop your compersionate nature in an enriching and supportive atmosphere. 

Click here for a longer description of this workshop.

On Agreements -  Dawn Davidson &  

"Safer" agreements are one of the cornerstones of successful relating, in all aspects of our lives. We'll cover how to make more successful agreements, what should and shouldn't be in a safer sex agreement, and how to make agreements regarding emotional safety. We'll also discuss the agreements in our lives we're usually not even aware of. We will cover why agreements fail, and how to help insure their success. We'll also discuss how to recover when they fail. We'll be spending out time together in a combination of lecture, interactive discussion, and exercises.

Janet and Dave orient all to the conference. They, oldtimers and newcomers question each other and share experiences.  

Pair Bonding, Romantic Love & Multiple Partner Sexuality - Leanna Wolfe, Ph.D.

Is serial monogamy the normal human mating pattern? How then do we explain other patterns including polygamy, polyamory, and swinging? To address these questions, we examine cross-cultural research on romantic passion as well as the brain chemistry of romantic love.  Next we compare how the cultures of dating singles, swingers and polyamorists engage pairbonding and romantic love. We consider how singles focus on the differences between how women and men fall in love and evaluate making a pairbonded commitment. Next we see how polyamory mitigates against jealousy by celebrating compersion and maintaining relationship hierarchies. We notice how swinging culture teases up sexual attraction while reinforcing the strength of the marital bond. We reconsider the idea humans are serially monogamous. What keeps people swinging, or practicing open marriage, polygyny, polyandry and polyamory happy are the many different kinds of love they access simultaneously.

Pods for Intimate Community - Sasha Lessin, Ph.D. & Janet Kira Lessin, P.T.S.
 

We play–first wordlessly. Then we talk and join small (6 -12 person) groups. Our group is our pod. Our pod supports us getting what we want at the conference and in life. Throughout the weekend, we talk with our pod mates about what we learn about poly loving.  We imagine taking new lovers into our net.  We roleplay joining established lovers. 
 

Resolve poly Conflicts in a Tribe - Ed Seykota

Ed Seykota shares his powerful method of re-framing and combining your emotional forms to enhance intimacy. Ed shows you how to use sending and receiving to convert “problems” such as jealousy and insecurity into positive elements on your emotional control panel.  Ed likes to use examples from the audience, so this is a participatory lab course.  For more information on the method, see www.tradingtribe.com 

See http://www.seykota.com/tribe/TT_Process/index.htm for description of the process.

Tantric Polyamory: The Art of Conscious Loving - Shama & Don Kraig

We frequently hear in the media how sex in relationships eventually becomes boring. Even some people in poly relationships often find themselves in a rut, doing the same old thing while getting lesser results. It doesn’t have to be that way!  

Through Tantra, you can experience NOW how to resurrect the passion and ecstasy in every aspect of your life as you expand your passion, your pleasure, and the depth of your intimacy beyond your wildest dreams!  Step into a new paradigm of love, of sex and of living.  Shama and Don Kraig guide you on this amazing exploration of awakening, consciousness and bliss.

Tantra Ritual for Polys

Sophia's ceremonial songs move us through energy exchanges that uplift and support all-chakra connecting–meeting each other at the levels of our inner Children, Sexual Adults, Warriors, Lovers, Communicators, Visionaries and Spirits.

Touch With Intention - Les Nuckles

This presentation teaches people to touch and/or be present using focus and intention.  There's some lecture with lots of hands-on time.  This workshop prepares attendees to get more from the workshops that follow and to be better able to connect with others.