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World Polyamory
Association Harbin PolyCon 11
PROGRAM
July 29 -31, 2011
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Noon - 2:15 PM Main
Rm
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REGISTRATION &
ORIENTATION
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Dr. Sasha Lessin
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Sasha Lessin orients
participants at the Upper Pool as they register.
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2:15 - 2:30 PM Main
Conf. Room
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ENERGY CIRCLE,
SHARE NAME & MOTION:
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Dr. Sasha Lessin
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Sasha Lessin opens
conference with group-circle,
energy-sharing. We each in turn share
our name and a motion which all mimic.
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2:30 - 2:45 PM Main
Conf. Room
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WPA LEADERS’
INTRODUCTIONS
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Dr. Sasha Lessin,
Janet Kira Lessin, Dr. Dave Doleshal
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Sasha introduces WPA
leaders Janet Lessin and Dr. Dave
Doleshal. Dave & Janet say a few words
of welcome.
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2:45 - 3:50 PM Main
Rm
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WHO’S HERE: LINEUPS
AND CALLS INTO THE CIRCLE
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Dr. Susan Campbell
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3:50 - 4:00 PM Break
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4:00 -5:30 PM Main
Conference Room
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GETTING REAL CARD
GAME
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Dr. Susan Campbell
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Dr. Susan Campbell
leads the Getting Real Game shows that
it's more fun to tell the truth than
lie, pretend, and conform to others'
expectations. As you play, we develop
truth skills that let us communicate
responsibly and compassionately. We
share self-talk, create our own "wild
cards," and communicate with the intent
to relate, not to control. Susan
Campbell has been a relationship and
open-relationship advisor for 40+ years.
She specializes in helping people use
their intimate encounters as a path to
healing and self-transformation.
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5:30 - 7:00 PM DINNER
Main Room
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Harbin Caterers Kevin
& Linda Meutsch
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MUSICAL INTERVALS
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Sunny Heartsong
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Sunny Heartsong
offers of love and celebration as
we get our meal.
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7:00 - 7:15 PM Main
Room
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HARBIN PROCEDURES
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Patrick Fitzgerald
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Patrick Fitzgerald
explains the parameters of poly-Harbin
harmony procedures
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7: 15 PM -8:45 PM
Main Room
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CONTACT, ICEBREAKING
&
LEARNING ABOUT EACH OTHER
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Terry Brussell
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A series of brief.
entertaining and playful encounters
where we share vital info for
friendships and more.
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8:45 - 9:00 PM Break
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9 - 10:30 PM Main
Room
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COMMUNITY CUDDLE.
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Dr. Dave Doleshal
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Dr. Dave Doleshal
directs delightful Community Cuddle
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| Saturday |
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7:30 -8:30AM
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YOGA
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Dr. Sasha Lessin
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Exercises to awaken
chakras, visualizations for the
Conference
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8:30 -9:45 AM
Breakfast Main Room
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9:45 - 10:00 AM Main
Room
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PREVIEWS
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Charles Cinnamon,
DeAnna Bennet, Stuart Mark Berlin & Terry Brussel
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Morning Presenters
Charles Cinnamon, DeAnna Bennett,
preview their workshops so we can decide
which to attend
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10:00 -11:30 AM Lower
Room
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MULTIPLYING + CYCLING
ENERGIES IN SOLO, PAIRS & MORESOMES
-Lower Conference Room
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Charles Cinnamon
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Embrace Divine
masculine, feminine & a entropy/chaos.
We experience solo energy connection and
cycling, paired, and poly exchanges of
sacred energy and bliss touching.
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10:00 -11:30 AM Lower
Room
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TANTRIC KABBALAH
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Stuart Mark Berlin
M.D.
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TANTRIC KABBALAH is a
path to Divine Unitary Consciousness
(what neurobiologists refer to as the
brain state mystics experience during
unio mystico), that integrates
evolutionary biology, quantum mechanics,
and neurobiology with sacred sexuality.
It is also a very powerful path to
expanded orgasms.
Dr. Berlin’s two books are titled
Everywoman a Goddess: Everyman a Hero in
Her Service, and Sexual Secrets of
Tantric Kabbalah: Making Love.
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11:30 - 11:45 AM
Break
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11:45 - 1:00 PM Main
Room
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POLY, TRANSGENDERISM,
SEXUALITY & BEYOND
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DeAnna Bennett
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Transgenderism +
sexuality + poly = Triple the pleasure
triple the fun? Overcome the myths,
transgenderism, omisexuality, and poly.
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11:30 - 1:00 PM
Lower Room
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EXPLORE POLYAMORY
WITH MYTHICAL & SCIENCE FICTION
CHARACTERS
LIVE YOUR DREAM.
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Terry Brussell
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Select the lifestyle
you feel you would enjoy most from
several options to be found in science
fiction from open relationships and
cooperative living to multi-generational
group marriage. Role playing improv
exercises let you get an advance taste
of what your chosen lovestyle would feel
like.
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1:00 - 2:15 PM LUNCH
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AFTERNOON PRESENTERS'
PREVIEWS
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Dane Colby, Alicia
Forester preview 3:15 workshop
alternatives
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2:15 - 3:15 PM Main
Room
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HOW WE DO POLY
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Janet Lessin
(moderator) & Dr. Sasha, Terry
Brussell, Sunny Heartsong
& Jessica Fergus, Dr. Tiki & Zeev Adler
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The Panel includes
polys of several varieties and all
participants who share how they get
polyamory working for them. The audience
questions and relates, so everyone's
included. Newbies get valuable answers
to begin their poly lives and those
already practicing polyamory expand
their possibilities.
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3:15 - 4:45 PM Main
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CO-CREATING CONSCIOUS
CHEMISTRY
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Dane Colby
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We examine the
question: How much of our chemistry is
innate and how much can be consciously
co-created. We practice inviting
whatever we want to receive that for a
peak experience. To come fully prepared
for this exercise consider three very
specific interactions that if anyone
wanted to share them with you would
result in a peak experience for you. .
Dane Colby wrote Co-Creating Conscious
Chemistry and Finding Love in a Mixed Up
World. For the past ten years he has
been exploring the science of
co-creating win/win relationships in a
variety of ways.
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3:15 -4:45 PM Lower Room |
POLY DISCUSSIONS |
Alicia Forester |
Alicia leads group discussions on poly
questions and concerns |
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4:45 - 5:00 BREAK
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5:00 - 6:30 PM
- Main Room
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EVOKING
POLYAMOROUS PASSION
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Evalena Rose
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Explore the ways we
approach others energetically and
discover what energetic connection. See
a variety of ways that you open to, or
avoid, deep intimacy and delve into
what's behind these patterns and how to
release them. Learn more about erotic
communication skills and how to ask for
what you want in ways that everyone gets
their needs met. Speaking "above
the line" and using "love
sandwiches" allows for the
requests and feedback to further passion
and eros. In dyads, we experience the
deep presence that Tantric exchanges
make possible as we practice erotic
communication while sharing sacred
touch.
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6:30 - 7:45 PM Dinner |
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Harbin Caterers
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MUSICAL INTERVALS
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Sunny Heartsong
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Sunny Heartsong
offers of love and celebration as
we get our meal.
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7:45 - 8:45 PM
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(Keynote)
NOURISHING POLY
RELATIONSHIPS
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Evalena Rose
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Evalena shares her wisdom about healthy
relationship skills that can create
nurturing and fulfilling connections
where every partner feels honored and
respected. Enjoy learning to "speak
above the line", and ways of making
requests and giving feedback that
increase the erotic charge and
connection. Feel the power of
negotiating skills that help everyone's
needs get met and learn more of what
fosters compersion, that delicious joy
in another's joy. With humor and
compassion, Evalena entertains and
informs as she invites us to connect,
and live, from the heart.
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8:45 - 10: 45 PM
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A TASTE OF HUMAN AWARENESS INSTITUTE
EXERCISES FOR POLYS
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Jason Weston
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Through a series of gentle exercises,
and in a room filled with love and
support for polyamory, Jason teaches us
tools so that we can pull strength from
within and learn to completely open up,
to ourselves and to others; learn to
listen and to really hear what others
are saying; connect (and reconnect) with
the people in our lives who matter most
and the new poly possibilities the
Conference offers |
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Sunday |
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7:30 -8:30AM |
YOGA |
Dr. Sasha Lessin |
Yoga exercises to awaken chakras,
visualizations for the Conference |
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8:30 - 9:45 AM BREAKFAST |
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Harbin Caterers
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9:45 - 10:00 AM Main Room |
PREVIEWS
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Dr. Sasha Lessin, Janet Kira Lessin, Dr.
Dave Doleshal. Sunday Morning
Presenters preview their workshops so we
can decided which to attend. |
10:00- 11:30 AM
Main Room
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CENTER YOURSELF CHOREOGRAPH INNER VOICES
CONCERNED WITH POLYAMORY
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Janet Kira & Dr. Sasha Lessin
Janet and Sasha
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Learn
and practice Voice Dialogue witnessing
and centering to recognize, accept and
coordinate meeting the needs of your
inner idealistic, practical, spiritual,
instinctual, critical, conforming,
rebellious, romantic, jealous, and
compersive voices as well as the bonding
patterns between you and your lovers.
Experientials and future-pacing readies
us should Jealousy raise its head. |
10 - 11:30 AM Lower Room
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QUICK WAYS TO MASTER JEALOUSY
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Dr. Dave Doleshal
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Effective techniques for polys to manage
jealousy. These easy-to-learn methods
pioneered by psychologist Roger Callahan
and Dr. Edward Bach.
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11:30 - 11:45 AM - BREAK |
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11:45 - 1:15 PM
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THE ART OF VERBAL APPRECATION
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Dane Colby
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The biggest variable for relationship
sustainability is the ratio between
criticism and praise, appreciation and
complaint. We practice several different
techniques for generating gratitude and
love by appreciating ourselves and those
we love. |
11:45 AM -1:15 PM
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CONSCIOUS TANTRIC TOUCH WORKSHOP FOR
POLYAMOROUS CONNECTING |
Dr. Tiki & Zeev Adler
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Learn how to communicate our most
intimate desires, explore total pleasure
and divine bliss with our partners, We
learn and practice spiritual, mental,
emotional and sexual techniques to give
and to receive conscious tantric touch.
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1:15 -2:15 PM
Lunch |
Final meal service |
Harbin Caterers
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2:15 - 3:45 PM
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EARLY DEPARTURE: THE RADIANT PARTING PUJA
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Evalena Rose
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Rotate and share delightfully with
various partners; synergize our
collective energy. Enjoy a playful &
deeply fulfilling experience of sharing
connection & joyous ritual with existing
and new partners and with your favorite
poly groupings. You'll be gently guided
in heart-centered interactions that let
you enjoy ecstatic and satisfying
connections with many delightful people.
Nurturing & often energizing, these
exchanges let receive blessings of deep
presence and intimate practice of erotic
and romantic arts, all within a sacred
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4:00 -5:30 PM
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SACRED SENSUAL CONNECTIONS FOR PLAYFUL
POLY PEOPLE |
Jessica Fergus
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In this playshop, we get in touch
with your sacred sensuality through
dance, song, music and playful
connections with our polyamorous
community
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5:30 - 7PM |
Eat on your own or at Harbin's food
places
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Harbin Restaurants or your own resources
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yum
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7 -7:30 PM
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THE PROMISE & PERILS OF TANTRA &
POLYAMORY
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Dr. Irving Katz
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Highly enjoyable embodied tantric
experientials, psychodrama and
Hypno-experiencese of the
psychospirirtual dimensions of polyamory
& tantra re responsible pleasuring.
Dr. Katz directs International
University of Professional Studies.
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7:30 -10:30 PM
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Free play
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If you wish to overnight at Harbin
tonight, pay Harbin office $35 and you
can stay till 10:30 August 1. |
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Create
& Enhance Conscious Polyamorous Relations
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Join us in an intensive, playful, entertaining, active,
respectful, informative participatory
sharing, learning opportunity for
networking and celebrating polyamorous
conclave consciousness for a weekend.
Friday, July 29, 2011 at 12:00pm - Sunday,
July 31, 2011 at 10:00pm
HARBIN HOT
SPRINGS CONFERENCE CENTER
Middleton, Northern California
www.harbin.org
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Play, share multi-lover interests: |
*Vet
potential lovers
*Experience
polygroup relationship negotiation &
lovemaking techniques
*Manage
jealousy
*Ponder polyactivism, group marriage, child
custody, group housing
*Enjoy poly-oriented music
*Participate in and react to panel
discussions
*Peruse poly films
*Join a poly-tantra ritual
* Commit to Your Poly Relationship in a
Ritual Before the Poly Community
*Celebrate the party of the year
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This year we move again into our
favorite venue, Harbin's Conference
Center. It's our private, gated,
sex-positive celebrative community,
complete with its own huge group
room, breakaway areas, two hot pools and
camping area. Harbin Caterers dish up
yummy food. Camp, sleep in a group room
or your RV.
See
Call harbin at
www.harbin.org if you wish to
upgrade your room.
Room
Reservations: 707-987-2477 (CA
toll-free 800-622-2477)
Click to learn
more about EVALENA
ROSE,
Keynoter, Puja & Workshop Leader
Driving Directions
Harbin's street address is 18424 Harbin
Springs Road, Middletown, CA 95461.
Click here to see our location using
MapQuest or
Google Maps.
Harbin Springs Road is a narrow, curving
road with no shoulders and poor
visibility. You may suddenly encounter
cattle, deer, other wildlife, walkers,
joggers or bicyclists, so please
drive slowly and carefully.
(Driving through Napa Valley, the
Lincoln Ave/CA-29 turnoff is in
Calistoga, NOT the Lincoln Ave exit in
Napa. Also, be aware that some onboard
navigation systems have lead those
driving through Cobb onto the unpaved
Bogg Mountain Springs fire road. Do not
attempt to access Harbin on this road.
If you find yourself on an unpaved road
on the way to Harbin, turn around.)
 TRAVEL
ADVISORY:
We have been advised that there may be
construction delays of
approx. 20 minutes on Highway 29 between
Calistoga and Middletown. The delays may
be encountered Monday to Friday, 8 AM to
4 PM, through September 2011. You can
check
http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi
or call 800-427-7623 for updates. But
even if no delays are mentioned, you may
want to leave extra time, especially if
you must arrive in advance of a massage
appointment.
COSTS FOR PARTICIPANTS
Pay
with
PAY PAL
or
GOOGLE
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Single Woman
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Single Man
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Pair
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Triad |
Quattrad |
Single
Day - Per Person |
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Before July 1
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$350
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$400
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$625
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$875 |
$1150 |
$150 |
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options
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Single Woman
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Single Man
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Pair
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Triad |
Quattrad |
Single
Day - Per Person |
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Before July
15 |
$375 |
$425 |
$650 |
$900 |
$1175 |
$165 |
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options
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Single Woman
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Single Man
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Pair
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Triad |
Quattrad |
Single
Day - Per Person |
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Before July 25
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$400
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$450
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$675
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$925 |
$1200 |
$175 |
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Click on
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options
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PAY CASH AT THE DOOR IF
REGISTERING AFTER JULY 25, 2011
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Single Woman
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Single Man
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Pair
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Triad |
Quattrad |
Single
Day - Per Person |
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July 26 & After
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$425
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$500
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$725
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$950 |
$1250 |
$200 |
If you
register as a group, please send the
names of each person in your party to us
at
worldpolyamory@aol.com.
Fee includes conference meals:
Friday dinner, Saturday breakfast, lunch
and dinner, Sunday breakfast and lunch.
No discount if you chose to eat
elsewhere.
If you are
registering after July 25, 2011, please
bring cash to make your payment at the door.
We expect a full house this year. So if we
are full, you may not be able to get in.
Call our cell at 808-214-3442 to confirm
availability before you
make the trip up to Harbin.
Mahalo.
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Celebrate this delightful,
informative, stimulating and growth-inducing conference at
Harbin Hot Springs, in Middletown, California
(2 hours north of San Francisco)
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PRESENTERS
PRESENT
AN
EXPERIENTIAL
at
the HARBIN (CA)
POLYAMORY CONFERENCE
July 29, Noon -July
31, 10PM, 2011
To become a presenter
write to us at
worldpolyamory@aol.com.
Presenters for the Harbin CA PolyCon11, Come aboard. July
29 -31.
Tell us about yourself, your presentation and send us a couple pictures of
yourself. Once approved (you will receive an email from us or call
808-244-4103 and ask to speak to Sasha) see fee chart below.
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Click on
drop down menu below to see
options
Prices go up so register early to save $$$$
Register before July 1, 2011 to save!
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SHARE WITH
OTHER POLYAMOROUS FOLKS:
* What Works for
You!
* What's Fun for You!
* What's New and Interesting in the
Poly world!
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Lead a discussion
* Present Tantra experiential
exercises geared to polys
* Demonstrate communication techniques
that facilitate polyamory
*Jealousy Management
* Negotiation methods
* Perform poly-oriented music or dance
or artistry
* Intimacy enhancement methods.
* Polyactism
* Explore what's worked and what
hasn't ...
... or whatever else your creative
brilliant mind can come up with that other polys might find fun,
illuminating, inspiring, uplifting, healing, fun, informative,
instructive, entertaining or fun. (Did we
mention FUN?)
Note: Lecture-style events or
abstract/theoretical presentations do NOT go over well, while audience participation/
interactive events are usually MUCH MORE popular.
All events should
directly relate to polyamory, polyfidelity, triading, sexual poding, open
relationships or other forms of
consensual non-monogamy.
Application
Deadline: Send your presenter application before May 15, 2011.
The organizing committee will get back to you within a few days later.
See a two-minute
video about the conference
on the link below:
http://video. google.com/ videoplay?
docid=4213542623 747936859& q=polyamory+
conference&total=55& start=0&num=
10&so=0&type= search&plindex= 1
In case you've never been there before, you'll love Harbin. 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.
Presenters who wish
are listed as Faculty of the World Polyamory Association. As one of our presenters,
your listing on our web site links to a your description of the
workshops you present for the WPA. Your presentation will be
archived and permanently listed on the WPA. Your listing includes a link to
your web site, your biography and a link to your products page on
your site.
Presenters
get:
*A partial waiver
of fees for the conference. We pay Harbin an Admin Fee per person and also
pay the Harbin caterer that
comes with the Conference Center a meals cost. Our presenters, as an act of
generosity for the polyamory movement, actually pay these fees to help the
poly movement. For the last 6 years we've collected less money than we spent
to put on the Harbin conferences. WPA charges as little as it can.
*Free space to sell
their products and display promotional literature.
*Free World
Polyamory Association Membership for one year.
Presentations are a
minimum of 1 hour. Workshops are usually 60-90 minutes.
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POLYAMOROUS POWOWS
by Sasha Lessin,
worldpolyamory@aol.com,
sashalessinphd@aol.com
Poly Conferences
provide participants perfect places to contact potential lovers. At conferences like the "Create and
Enhance Conscious Polyamorous Relationships" at Harbin Hot Springs
California this July 29-31, you can meet and quickly get to know people with whom
you might fall in love--or at least in attraction enough to know if you want
to consider as possible intimates.
Some polys get
together in these conferences every year with lovers from other parts of the country, meet new lovers,
learn techniques to make multiple intimacies ever-more satisfying.
Poly newbies learn
in the conferences from us old-timers what works well as wewean ourselves
from the monogamous matrix and find freedom and fulfillment with new soulmates and pod participants.
Some folks are
monogamous most of the year but celebrate polyamory at conference time. Others make contacts and make
arrangements to get together beyond the conference, even to create
polyfidelous families or ongoing poly pods.
The seminars at a
conference like the Harbin World Polyamory Conference offer structured relating exercises,
discussions of pair dating, open marriage, triad formation and maintenance, as well as
cuddle parties, group massage and yoga classes where you can talk to, touch
and interview like-minded folk who, like you, seek multiple
lovers and a community that supports the polyamorous lifestyles.
The seminars teach
you how to advertise yourselves on the internet, deal with
straight relatives, employers and
Sarah Palins.
Conferences like these, springing up
all over the U.S. and Europe, let you know you are not alone. You can love more
and have more love for yourself and enjoy your lovers loving more. You learn
there are techniques to keep loving more pleasurable and growthful and
transform potentially painful interaction
into ecstatic multi-person loving.
This year we move again into our favorite venue, Harbin's Conference
Center.
It's our private, gated, sex-positive celebrative
community, complete with its own huge group room, breakaway areas, two hot
pools and camping area. Harbin
Caterers dish up yummy food.
Camp, sleep in a group room or your
RV.
I’ll be there to welcome newbies, M.C. the program
and facilitate your experience living in this real-life poly community for
three days.
Sasha Lessin, Ph.D.
sashalessinphd@aol.com
Want to
help Janet with logistics? 808 244-4103
janetlessin@gmail.com.
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POLYAMORY ASSOCIATION
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