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2008 WORLD POLYAMORY CONFERENCE
Celebrate
Sacred Sexuality & Relationship Choice
September 12-14, 2008
Harbin Conference Center
(Click) Sept.
11 PRE-CONFERENCE, with Veronica Monet, Dr. Sasha & Janet Kira Lessin
CONFERENCE
PROGRAM
Locales are abbreviated as follows Conference Center = CC;
Lower Pool = LP; Upper Pool = UP; Back Patio = BP, LL = Lower Lounge
Note: Schedule is tentative, subject to
change.
Friday
September
12 All events in CC today.
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Noon - 2PM |
Registration Janet Kira Lessin
& Kirsten Rose BP
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Orienting
Circle -
Terry Gibbons
&
Dave Doleshal
CC
Terry, Dave and oldtimers gather in a corner of the conference room.
oldtimers and newcomers question each other and share experiences. This
orientation is especially designed for those new to polyamory and/or for
those attending their first polyamory conference, - but all are welcome.
It's a good place to begin getting your burning questions answered, get
your feet wet and begin to get to know your fellow participants at the
conference.
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2 - 2:15PM |
Musical Interlude
- Taber Shadburne
CC
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2:15 - 2:30PM
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Welcome, Logistics,
Schedule -
Janet Kira Lessin,
Dave
Doleshal
CC
Etiquette of contact, nudity, quiet areas in Harbin, areas
where noise and sexuality's ok, no smoking or fires, signup
for cups,
Carolina identified as Conference Angel, available to
consult,
etc. outlined.
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2:30
- 3:45PM
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Icebreakers & Pods
for Intimate Community
(Part 1)-
Sasha and Janet Kira Lessin
CC
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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 you 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 you and
your 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.
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4
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The
Sacred Intimate: Agent of Love and Light
Sunyata Satchitananda and Kali Devi
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Today's Sacred Intimates bridge the worlds of Spirit and Sex, creating a
safe and sacred space for healing, releasing blocked energies, and opening
to a higher possibility of eros and sensuality in one's life. Join
Sunyata and Kali as they reveal essential aspects of sexual healing,
spiritual-sexual integration, and expanded awareness in love-making. Sunyata
and Kali illuminate common desires for, and benefits of, sessions with a
Sacred Intimate and reveal principles and techniques they share with their
clients. |
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5:30-7PM
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DINNER
Music for the
Dinner Line -
Taber Shadburne
CC
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7 -8PM |
A Filmmaker's Perspective on Polyamory
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Moses Ma
CC
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In the process of developing and producing an indie film about
the book "The Ethical Slut", realizations about the nature of
relationships, evolution in the lives of the filmmakers and
participants, and even around the art of transformational
filmmaking were enabled. This is about the lessons learned, so
far, in this emerging and ongoing experimental film project. |
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8:00 - 9:30PM |
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Poly-Tantra
Compersion Puja
Dr.
Sasha & Janet Kira Lessin
CC
You, as an individual, pair or moresome
ritually chant, send, receive and blend with seven other individuals, pairs
or moresomes (or do all seven rites with an individual, pair or moresome of
your choice). The rites enhance your empathy for your own inner voices
and also for love others feel for each other (compersion).
Each rite flows from the sounds of the Bija Mantra, where a
sound for each energy center (chakra) awakens it. Vulnerability, sensuality,
power, love, communication, insight and spirituality–the chakras--each
rouses as you perform an activating rite for it. Then you return to your
initial partner(s) and with him/her/them, chant the entire Bija Mantra, now
charged from the seven rites you completed.
Expand your consciousness to one shared with your partner(s),
then expand you self-sense to an awareness of everyone at the conference, so
you experience the whole community as a loving being with you as one its
parts.
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SATURDAY,
September 13
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6:45-7:50AM |
Naked Yoga
- Carolina Fleishman
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8 - 9AM |
Breakfast
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9 - 9:30AM |
Declarations (Pods:
Intimate
Community, Part 2)
-
Sasha Lessin,
Janet Kira Lessin
Say your name,
share a motion; whole conference imitates. Rjoin your pod (or shift pods) and review
what you wanted to get out of this
conference, what's happened so far, how
you're doing getting what you said you
wanted, what you want now and what steps you
can take today to get what you want.
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9:30 - 10:30AM
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World Polyamory Association 
