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The
World Polyamory Association's Northern California
Conference, Perfecting the Polyamory Paradigm, will be at
Harbin Hot Springs, CA (June 17-19, 2005) in
Middleton, located about two hours from both San
Francisco and Sacramento. Harbin's located on
1200 acres of beautiful canyon land. It offers natural
healing waters (hot, warm and cold pools), miles of
hiking trails, and a variety of workshops, classes and
events every week. Harbin is a clothes-optional
facility.
The
Harbin poly conference
includes interactive workshops on pair bonding,
romantic love, multiple-partner sexuality and
choreographing the dance of poly loving. There will be
panel discussions, jealousy management experiments,
opportunities for networking, a fun party and a many
opportunities to experience living compersion–empathy for
others' love-joy. Participants will move from
experience to experience together, in plenary sessions
orchestrated to build community.
Presenters include Kelly Bryson, Shama Malin, Donald Michael Kraig,
Dave Doleshal, Sasha and Janet Kira Lessin, Harold Kornylak, Amber
Seitz, Cougar Brenneman, Tana Gallante, Scott Catamas, Master Rex, Dawn
Davidson,
Akien MacLain, Scott Longewell, Scott Catamas, Terry & Paul Brussel-Gibbons
& Marcus
Brussel-Jenkins, Ed Jor-El Elkin, Cathy & Barry Smiler and
more. If you'd like to present too, email us; we're open to more. We'd
especially like a presentation on the interface between paganism and
polyamory.
The
theme of this conference is Perfecting the Polyamory Paradigm. Here
we gather to celebrate diversity, creativity, freedom of
expression and relationship choice. We honor each person's
right to chose love, follow their hearts and be who they truly
are and not try to be what society dictates.
Polyamorous
folks are quite diverse in how we express our
love. We have a wide variety of relationship
expressions: polyfidelity, polyandry, polygamy, open
marriage, open marriage, vee relationships, group
marriage, extended family, tribes, triads, foursomes,
moresomes, intimate networks, community, poly-tantra,
poly-swing, poly-pagan and on and on.
All
are honored as we gather as one to celebrate the
individual and their need to group as they chose.
We
explore our choices at the 2005
Northwest Regional Polyamory Conference, Celebrate
Relationship Choice. Join us in Harbin Hot Springs on June
17-19, 2005 as we create new paradigms for relationship choice to re-shape
and heal the world.
We continue at the Art of
Loving Conference, September 30, October 1 & 2, 2005 in
Chicago as we add additional forms of loving,
relationships, spirituality, expansion and connection by
diversifying our types of presentations and broadening
our horizons to include more love.
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World-Class Presenters share
profound hands-on secrets that empower you
for success in love, life, work and play.
You'll enjoy progressive, provocative,
cutting-edge mind, body, spirit
presentations and workshops that are fun,
intimate, exciting, educational, healing and
entertaining. You'll network with
like-minded people, enjoy moving and comical
entertainment, develop close friendships,
find new loves, dance and celebrate till
dawn and create fond memories you'll never
forget.
This conference is dedicated to people like
you, a network of individuals with diverse
talents and interests whose coming together
with us, the WTA, WPA, World Peace
Association, School of Tantra along with the
Chicago Commmunity of cultural creatives,
and sharing our life force, ideas, energy
and love helps make the world a better
place.
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CONFERENCE INCLUDES |
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THREE-DAY CONFERENCE
with approximately 30-40 different
presentations, lectures, panels and
forms, Presenter's Saturday Night
Banquet dinner with
music, entertainment, song and dance.
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MEETING POLICIES |
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Badges must be worn at
all times. Workshop tickets must
be turned in at each Workhop.
Please complete an evaluation form for
each presentation. Presenters
and workshop leaders are responsible
for collecting the workshop tickets
and evaluation forms. Presenters
get paid based on the number of their
workshop tickets they turn in to the
WPA at the end of the conference.
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TAPE RECORDING, PHOTOGRAPHY &
VIDEO/DVD TAPING |
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No personal tape
recording is permitted. Photos and
videos are routinely taken at the
conference for broadcast, documentary
and promotional purposes.
Attendence at this conference will be
deemed as consent to use your image.
We understand that many of you may not
wish to be photograped or filmed, so
please stay behind the videographer
and/or photographer and/or go to the
side of the conference center which is
not being recorded. Filming and
photography will be focused on the
Presenters in the front of the room.
If you wish to be
interviewed for our documentaries, please contact us at
janetkiralessin@aol.com or call
808-244-4103 so you can get a release
form and are scheduled for your
interview.
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PRESENTERS &
WORKSHOP FACILITATORS |
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We're collecting
applications for Presenters and/or Workshop
Facilitators for this conference
until July 1,
2005. If you wish to present, please complete
CHICAGO APPLICATIONS FOR PRESENTERS
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BECOME A MEMBER
OF THE WPA & SAVE |
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Become a Member and save on conference fees. Sign up as a World Polyamory Association
Member first before registering for the conference to get the discounted rates.
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We're no longer taking applications for
presenters for this conference. If you wish to present
at one of our future conferences, Go to
CONFERENCES and follow the links to the
Presenter's application for the conference you wish to
attend.
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World Polyamory Association 
