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Presenters, Harbin Hot Springs
PolyCon '07, Oct 5-7--alphabetically
(See below for content
of their presentations)
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Dr. Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio
Terry & Paul Brussell-Gibbons
Kelly
Bryson
Dane Colby
Anita DeFrancesco, M.A.
Kamala Devi
Dr. Dave Doleshal
Dossie Easton
Dr. Ed Jor-El Elkin
Alicia Forester
Paul Glassco
Dr. Danielle Harel
Celeste Hirschman, M.A.
Aisha Kassahoun
Dr. Harold Haridas Kornylak
Janet Kira Lessin
Dr. Sasha Lessin
Chris Luth
Master Rex & Miss Jane
Michael
McClure
Veronica Monet
Kirstin Rose
Amber Seitz
Taylor Shadburne
Gabriella Shannon
David Spero |
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Polys have a private,
two-pool sanctuary for weekend workshops and panels on
* Finding Potential Poly Partners at this
Conference
* Pair-dating
* Creating a Freely Loving Community Based on the Sacred Matrix
* Unlearning Jealousy
* Romantic Polyamorous Love
* Multiple-partner Sexuality
* The Dance of Poly Loving
* Tantra for Polys
* Triads
* Learning to Love in a Foursome
* Bisexual Polyamorous Group Marriage
* How You Do Poly
* Power Exchange & Kink-world Tools for Polys
We'll have panel discussions, jealousy management experiments,
fun party and opportunities to opportunities to network.
Camp, get a room, or sleep in the group area
Members click here to register
Non-Members click here to register
Become a Member of the World Polyamory Association
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PRESENTATION
DESCRIPTIONS
FOR OCTOBER 5 - 7, 2007
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EROS AND GAIA, OR WHY BI-POLY LOVE
IS GOOD FOR THE PLANET (Keynote)
Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio
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Author and theorist Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio explains why
bisexual polyamorous love's good for the planet. Today’s Polys, she says,
invented the tools of highly ecological lovestyles that'll
come in handy on a global scale when the creation of a new
politics of love that can save planet Earth from human-made
scarcity and self-destruction become necessary.
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Serena draws on her bi and poly lifestyle to focus on the
inner journey that made this awareness possible; she also
draws on science, spirituality, cinema, and community
studies for objective evidence. Her two books, Eros and
Gaia, represent the double helix of her life. One strand of
the helix recedes into the pre-modern, primitive, fetal,
enfleshed, matrilineal, vaginal; the other strand reaches to
the post-modern, high-tech, cyborgian, prosthetic and
phallic. This double helix points to our need to share
resources including partners to create abundance and joy out
of today’s fear and scarcity.
She reviews intentional communities in India and Italy where
living as if Gaia was a living organism is consistently
practiced.
Travel with Serena and the other polys at the Harbin PolyCon
to the futuristic, alien, and “other” to reinvent ourselves
and survive.
Bio:
Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, Ph.D.
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POLYAMOROUS HYPNOFANTASY/HYPNOMASSAGE
Terry and Paul
Brussel-Gibbons
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Slay the green eyed monster. Release sexual
inhibitions which are no longer serving
you. Learn how you can experience the
delights of sexualove combined with intense
spiritual connection. Grow Closer through
verbal and non verbal exercises. Finally,
bring your senses alive through guided
fantasy–-orchestrated Hypnomassage for
dyads, triads and loving groups. Romantic
music heightens the intimacy. Mmmm...
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Bio:
Terry Brussel-Gibbons
Paul Brussel Gibbons
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CREATING A FREELY LOVING COMMUNITY BASED ON THE SACRED
MATRIX
Kelly Bryson, M.A.
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The Sacred Matrix is the original,
trans-historical, non-alienated, cosmic, and divine
matrix of universal life. According to the plan of
Creation for the human being, we are to realize it on
earth. It is not a dream, but a deep, deep memory that
wells up inside of us when we touch the Sacred, and this
memory keeps re-creating our yearning. For the sake of
truth we cannot but find and follow the content of this
yearning in its entirety, for the yearning that is
recognized and not suppressed or sentimentalized is the
signpost that leads us to our sacred home. |
We will have a talk,
then an experience of the Sacred Matrix, then a
discussion.
Communities of the future and projects
for a new way of life can only function in the long term
if their members know and understand the principle of
free love, if they know that it is not in opposition to
an ethic of faithfulness and responsibility, and if they
know that one is allowed to follow it. In order for
this new force to develop, we need an encompassing
environment of freedom and community. All forms of
ideology or group pressure are counterproductive when it
comes to such deep changes in our core areas. This is
true for our erotic as well as for our mental and
spiritual sources.
Bio:
Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT
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THE ART OF APPRECIATION:
Tools to Express Special-ness to each Sacred Partner
Dane Colby
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Monogamous
couples
receive
an
inherent
compliment
by being
“the
chosen
one.”
Learn
how to
create
that
same
feeling
in every
relationship
and have
a great
time
boosting
your
energy
as we
practice
appreciating
our
selves,
asking
for the
appreciations
we want,
and the
art of
giving
and
receiving
OUTRAGEOUS
appreciations. |
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Bio:
Dane Colby |
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POLY PLAYSHOP: EXERCISES IN AUTHENTIC LOVING
Kamala Devi and Michael McClure
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This playful interactive puja-style playshop
opens your heart and helps you expand into your
deepest truths. It's a hands-on
exploration of authentic love to help reveal
your limiting beliefs and direct experiences. It
will use provocative inquiry and small group
games. |
Bio:
Kamala
Devi &
Michael
McClure
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UNLEARNING JEALOUSY
Dossie Easton
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Wherever you learned how to be jealous,
and whatever you have been taught about
how jealousy ought to be, you can
unlearn. The real secret of polyamory
is that jealousy is not carved in stone,
but amenable to growth and change.
Ethical Slut co-author Dossie Easton
leads exercises on communicating about
and working with whatever that complex
of emotions is for you that you call
jealousy. |
You can dig into and safely move into ownership of your jealousy while you learn to take care of yourself in a kindly and loving manner if you feel jealous. You can immediately apply the jealousy unlearning skills as you meet emotional challenges of new friendships at the conference.
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THE ETHICAL SLUT: VALUES, ETHICS AND
LOVE (Friday Night Keynote)
Dossie
Easton will speak about how our values
have evolved into communities, and the
many and wonderful ways in which ethical
sluts share love. |
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Bio: Dossie Easton |
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THE BI - POLY
OPTION
Ed Jor-El
Elkin, Ph. D. &
Janet
Kira Lessin
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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".
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Bios: Ed Jor-El Elkin
Janet Kira Lessin |
THE TEMPLE OF ORGASM
Paul Glassco
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Orgasm is nature's very pleasurable way of bringing
us moments of
trancendence and contact with the divine. It can be
a delightful way to stay
happy and healthy. The Temple of Orgasm is devoted
to supporting you in
sustained ecstatic consciousness. The Temple is a
sacred space to share
orgasms communally. |
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Bios: Paul Glassco
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TANTRA CEREMONY OF GREETING: A Puja to Love Everyone
Francoise
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Meet and greet
others in a rotating circle we form of
beautiful people, enjoying playful, sensual
exercises with sensitive guidance. This
ancient, nurturing art lets you discover how
easy it is to love everyone when possessed
by the tantric spirit.
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Bio: Franciose |
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TRIADS
Dr.
Danielle Harel, Ph.D & Celeste
Hirschman, M.A.
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Bringing a third person to
the relationship is one thing, but bringing them into
your bed is a different story. The option of finding
another partner and having a threesome often comes up as
a fun and exciting option. The truth is, lots of people
fantasize about having one, but making it sexy, safe and
satisfying for everyone can seem a bit challenging. |
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If you've ever thought about a ménage à trios or tried it
and it didn't quite work out, this workshop with Sex and
Intimacy Coaches Danielle Harel, Ph.D. and Celeste
Hirschman, M.A. the creators of the Become an
Extraordinary Lover Workshops, is for you.
You'll learn ways to make
sure everyone gets what they want, and, of course, hot
threesome sex tips. With these tools in hand, you'll be
able to turn your fantasies into amazing real-life
experiences. This workshop focuses on m/f couples, with
either male or female thirds.
Bios: Dr. Danielle Harel
Celeste Hirschman
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LOVING BEYOND THE DYAD
Dr.
Harold Haridas Kornylak
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An
enduring, fulfilling two person partnership is rare enough.
Even most animals tend to pair-bond. It’s totally
impractical to think of expanding beyond the dyad, perhaps to
3, or 4? In Beyond the Dance of Two, we explore the
unique dynamics when more than 2 relate. We explore how to
keep a triad from being a pair plus one. Gain insight into
your relating style and how compatible it is for going beyond
the dyad. (Discussion and experiential exercises). |
Bio: Dr. Harold Haridas Kornylak
HOW WE DO POLY
Janet Kira Lessin,
Panel & Participants
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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. |
Bio:
Janet Kira Lessin
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ICEBREAKERS &
PODS FOR INTIMATE COMMUNITY
Sasha
Lessin
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Friday, after dinner, mill around the big conference room,
shake each others' hands and gaze in one another's eyes.
Feel
attractions that arise. Then, based on attractions sit with six to twelve other folks.
The group you choose is your POD. It's the group you tell who
you are and what we want. Your pod's the sacred circle of
souls who encourage
you to get what you want at the conference and in life.
You talk now, and will talk Saturday morning and again Sunday, just
before the
conference ends. You share with your pod mates about what
you learn about yourselves as you explore poly loving.
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Pods, then, are small face-to-face primary groups for conference
integration. Your pod's a safe space to nourish community
consciousness, create intimate, relationships us and our podners––the people in
your pod––-can open-up, share what you
deeply value and, most importantly, experience loving
support for who you are and what you do.
Bio: Sasha Lessin, Ph.D
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SOULFUL COMMUNICATION:
Creating Radical Intimacy & Deep, Juicy Connection
Taylor
Shadburne, M.A.
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Honesty is
the best aphrodisiac. Not only is open, authentic communication vital for
the ethical and caring practice of polyamory (and to keep from making a
total mess of it!), but you can also use it to consciously create deep love
and passion. You can even use it to create a depth of intimacy and
connection which is truly transformational, as an interpersonal Tantric
meditation, which naturally integrates spirituality and sexuality.
You'll learn powerful ideas and skills for the creation of this
transformational intimacy, tools you take home with you. And we'll practice
together in real time, giving you an opportunity to actually savor a taste
of this delicious practice. Come with someone/s you love, or create some
love upon arrival! |
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Bio:
Taylor Shadburne
GODDESSES & GODS.....TANTRIC/EROTIC
CELEBRATION FOR POLYS
Chris Luth
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We start with a playful &
humorous introductory process. Then we use various
ancient Chinese Qi Gong internal energy exercises
to stimulate our vital chi energy to fully ground
us in our bodies. Next, we experience partnered
exercises which open our heart centers. With partners,
then as a group we gradually move from sensuality
to eroticism and, ultimately, to free-flow play with an
emphasis on frolic, fun and joy.
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POLY AS PATH TO PEACE
Veronica Monet
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For as long as there have
been humans to record
history, humans have
pondered solutions to
violence. Superstition,
taboos, rules, codes of
conduct and laws have been
variously employed and
enacted in an attempt to
curb what is often
considered one of our baser
“animal” instincts. Finally,
an established culture has
proven that we no longer
need to live with rape,
murder or war. So why
haven’t you heard about this
non-violent society and
their amazingly effective
blueprint for peace? No
doubt this information has
been suppressed because the
solution involves sex. It
might also be because the
culture in question is not
human. Come learn more about
the path to peace which you
share with your closest
living relatives and find
confirmation for what you
already knew - you can't
pick a fight while you are
having an orgasm.
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Veronica Monet |
THE MYTH OF HAVING A SEPARATE RELATIONSHIP
Kirsten Rose
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Polyamory is often defined as several separate
relationships going on simultaneously. However, an
alternative perspective, inspired by shamanism,
tantra and family systems theory, is to view
polyamory all as one single relationship that
encompasses multiple persons and multiple points of
responsibility. Viewing relationships this way
resolves a number of practical "problems" often
confronting people wishing to create and sustain
non-monogamous lifestyles. |
TANSU WITH THOSE WE HOLD
CLOSE
Amber Seitz
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Tansu's a bodywork experience to share with partners with whom
you can be close to in an intimate but noninvasive whole-body
holds. On the rug, wearing loose clothing, partners cuddle each
other between their legs and share deep connected breathing
which leads to multipersonal, a whole-body energetic activation |
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Bio: Amber Seitz
TANTRA
POLYAMOROUSLY: See the Beloved in Everyone ,
Dance to Unveil the Goddess Within
Gabriella Shannon
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I discuss
*the value of seeing the beloved in every
person,
*using our sexuality as the most effective
"love delivery system,"
*the discrepancy between values we hold in
our lives regarding freedom, inclusivity,
sharing, generosity and diversity and the
way we do relationships
*bridging the gap between neo tantra and
ancient Eastern tantrism so we can benefit
from both |
Then I teach basic
bellydancing and help you develop your own
goddess and god dance
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Bio:
Gabriella
Shannon
SEX, INTIMACY & POLYAMORY IN
CHRONIC ILLNESS & DISABILITY
David Spero &
Aisha Kassahoun
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David's lived 25 years twenty-five years with
multiple sclierosis; Aisha has been with him all that time. Changing
health caused them to move into polyamory to preserve and expand their
marriage. They discuss barriers to sexuality with illness and
disability; then share ways, including polyamory, to transcend the barriers.
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David an Aisha lead role-play experientials to understand disabilty, and
love through it and help others love when they meet illness or disability.
Bios: David Spero
Aisha Kassahoun
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Sunyata Satchitananda, Alorah Inanna, Triya Tarah
SACRED
SEXUALITY FOR POLYS
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This workshop presentation is a unique
opportunity to receive “what
works” from a triad of Tantrikas demonstrating principles and practices
which elevate sexuality into a sacred experience of transformation and
profound awakening. We discuss sacred sexuality unique to polyamorous
relationships including personal sovereignty invoking the power of “three”
(multiple partner sexuality) and sacred sexuality principles applied to a
poly relationship.
We share Sacred Sexuality principles and how/where they show up in a poly
relationship.
We demonstrate non-sexual practices that facilitate deep intimacy and sacred
sexuality. You experience guided exercises teaching these practices.
We welcome audience
questions and answers. |
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Harbin Hot Springs, CA near Middleton (two hours from
both San Francisco), nestles on 1200 acres of beautiful canyon land. It
offers natural healing waters (hot, warm and cold pools), miles of hiking
trails. The Poly Conference’s area is totally private within Harbin; in our
area, we can be openly affectionate and even sexual. Harbin is a
clothes-optional facility.
The Harbin Poly Conference includes interactive workshops on pair bonding,
romantic love, multiple-partner sexuality, bisexual loving, nonviolent
compassionate communication for plural lovers and choreographing the dance of
poly loving. There’s 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
build community as they move from experience to experience.
We at The World Polyamory Association (WPA) facilitate global healing. We
contribute to healing the world when we help individuals feel good about
themselves and honor their gender, relationship choices, sexual preferences
and sexual orientation.
Polyamory means loving more than one person in an intimate relationship
without deceit. We're all polyamorous, meaning we love more than one. Most
of us have intimate relationships in our lives; we love our families and
friends as well as our lovers. Intimates help us see and love ourselves,
share love and be loved. The media confounds polyamory–multiple loving with
poly-sex–sexual intercourse with contemporary multiple partners. While some
of us are poly-coital and some not, we all need to be polyamorous for the
intimacy that sustains us and the world. WPA supports love, amory and your
search for love through your freedom to choose the relationships that work
for you now, at this stage of your life.
The World Polyamory Association conferences strive to shift the planet into
a more loving space, to create a civilized civilization free of personal,
inter-personal and global strife. We play, enjoy song, dance, network and
also heal at our conferences with the help of our team of teachers from the
consciousness and free choice movement who present workshops, panel
discussions, seminars, dance, song, movement, massage experiences. We
feature workshops that simultaneously educate, let you play and create
networking opportunities for you.
We Polys have a private, two-pool sanctuary for the weekend for rapping
individually with the presenters, networking, vetting potential polymates,
panel discussions and partying. Our participatory workshops
include presentations on Pair-Dating, Compersion Training, Romantic
Polyamorous Love, Multiple-partner Sexuality, Dance of Poly Loving, Tantra
for Polyamorous People, Power Exchange & Kink World Tools for Polys,
Learning to Love in a Foursome, Bisexual Polyamorous Group Marriage, Finding
Potential Poly Partners.
Namaste and Shaloha,
Janet Kira Lessin,
President, World Polyamory Association janetkiralessin@aol.com
http://www.worldpolyamoryassociation.com/conferences.html for more
information or call 808-244-4103 (Janet & Sasha) or 415-577-6015 (Dave).
We'd love to chat with you and answer all your questions. We're very excited
to bring you these conferences.
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