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.

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PRESENTATION DESCRIPTIONS FOR OCTOBER 5 - 7, 2007 (listing alphabetical by presenter's name) EROS AND GAIA, OR WHY POLY LOVE IS GOOD FOR THE PLANET  (Keynote)        Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio  Author and theorist Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio explains why poly 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. 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. POLYAMOROUS HYPNOFANTASY/HYPNOMASSAGE Terry and Paul Brussel-Gibbons 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... Paul & Terry with Tri-mate Marcus   Bios: Terry & Paul Brussel-Gibbons CREATING A FREELY LOVING COMMUNITY BASED ON THE SACRED MATRIX  Kelly Bryson, M.A. 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 THE ART OF APPRECIATION: Tools to Express Special-ness to each Sacred Partner        Dane Colby Please join me for this powerful class to strengthen what can be one of the weakest links in poly relationships: establishing the sacred value of each relationship. Monogamous couples receive an inherent compliment by being “the one.” Learn how to create that same feeling in an open relationship and have a great time boosting your energy as we practice appreciating our selves, asking for the appreciations we want, learning to generate infinite appreciations for our loved ones and the art of giving and receiving OUTRAGEOUS appreciations. Bio: Dane Colby POLY PLAYSHOP: EXERCISES IN AUTHENTIC LOVING Kamala Devi and Michael McClure 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: THE BI - POLY OPTION       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".   TRIADS        Dr. Danielle Harel, Ph.D & Celeste Hirschman, M.A. 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. 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. Danielle's Bio: Dr. Danielle Harel Celeste's Bio: Celeste Hirschman

LOVING BEYOND THE DYAD
      Dr. Harold Haridas Kornylak

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

Bio: Janet Kira Lessin, P.T.S. ICEBREAKERS & PODS FOR INTIMATE COMMUNITY        Sasha Lessin 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.  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.

Christophe Ceri GOD  & GODDESS PARTY: A TANTRIC/EROTIC CELEBRATION FOR POLYS

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.      Bio: Christophe Ceri

POWER EXCHANGE FOR POLY'S AND OTHER USEFUL SKILLS FROM THE KINK WORLD
Master Rex & Ms. Jane
 

This workshop deals with the skills and etiquette required for BDSM power exchange and how they are applied in the real world to make life a simple pleasure.  The approaches to negotiation and conflict resolution that are essential to successfully navigate the world of fetish and kink have direct benefits if properly and discretely applied in the world of relationship and business. With my submissive sex slave as a demo helper, I will cover all the basic tools that we can use as well as give a gentle and appetizing introduction to the world of Slaves and Masters. Fun and enjoyable.

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SEX, INTIMACY & POLYAMORY IN CHRONIC ILLNESS & DISABILITY
David Spero & Aisha Kassahoun

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.  David an Aisha lead role-play experientials to understand disabilty, and love through it and help others love when they meet illness or disability.

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