POLYAMORY
MANY LOVES
 

LAGUNA BEACH, CALIFORNIA
PRESENTATIONS 
OCTOBER 22-24, 2004

ACCOMMODATIONS | CONFERENCE | INFORMATION | FACULTY | MAP | POST-CONFERENCE  
PRESENTATIONS | PRESENTER'S APPLICATION | REGISTRATION FORM | SCHEDULE  

Beyond the Dance of Two - Harold Kornylak
Bi-Poly Option for the 21st Century - Ed Jor-El Elkin & Janet Kira Lessin
Choreograph the Voices of Love - Sasha Lessin & Janet Kira Lessin
Hawkins' Cosmology, Polyamory & You - Anastas Harris & Steven Vogue
How To Enter An Established Poly Relationship Shama & Don Kraig
How We Do Poly - Janet Kira Lessin, Panel & Participants
Hypnofantasy & Hypnomassage - Terry & Paul Brussel-Gibbons & Marcus Brussel Jenkins
Intimate Erotic Photography & Poly Relationships - Wilton Jones
Live Compersion - Anastas Harris & Steven Vogue
Innovative and Rapid Techniques for Jealousy Management - Dave Doleshal
On Agreements - Dawn Davidson &  
Pair Bonding, Romantic Love & Multiple Partner Sexuality - Leanna Wolfe
Pods for Intimate Community - Sasha & Janet Kira Lessin
Resolve Poly Conflicts in a Tribe - Ted Thomas
Tantric Polyamory: The Art of Conscious Loving - Shama & Don Kraig
Touch With Intention - Les Nuckles

Hawkins' Cosmology of Human Consciousness, Polyamory & You  Anastas Harris, Ph.D. & Steven Vogue, D.C., N.D.

David Hawkins has developed a cosmology of human consciousness that takes us from the lowest to the highest levels of human consciousness.  He did this through research using applied kinesiology on hundreds and thousands of people over ten years time.   He found that regardless of race, culture, religion, nationality, class, personality, state of mental health or even personal beliefs, almost exactly the same cosmology emerged with each individual.  More than that when each state was rated for the level of life energy it represented, that too was, almost completely consistent across the board of the people tested.  

We'll take that cosmology and apply it to relationships to determine how each level impacts the possibility for polyamory. We've also looked at our own relationship from Hawkin's perspective.  We'll share this cosmology and our insights into it and give an example from our own relationship as it relates to the different levels. 

     Then you'll participate in a small group exploration of each person’s current challenge in polyamory from the perspective of the cosmology of human consciousness.  You'll have the opportunity to bring to the table a difficult or uncomfortable experience for you in the poly realm.  You'll reflect upon and discuss your experience.  You'll ask yourself where are you, where do you want to be?  What do you need to believe, know, do to be there?  

     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. If you're currently involved in poly relations and would like to be a part of the panel, email: janetkiralessin@aol.com

Intimate Erotic Photography & Poly Relationships - Wilton Jones

     This presentation is about four people who agreed to share a part of their intimate relationsihps with the world.  Using photographs taken earlier this year as a samples, we will discuss how this photo session helped a poly family incorporate and we partner in much less time than it might have taken in the past.  We'll also discuss how you can use photography to both enhance your relationships and create images that are erotic and sensual without being lewd.  

     There are many good ideas and effective techniques that can be used to manage jealousy. All of them work at least to some extent.  This workshop will include two others that are very powerful, easy to learn, but not yet widely known within the polyamory community.  These are the methods originally pioneered by psychologist Roger Callahan and methods invented by Dr. Edward Bach, a British Homeopathic physician.

Living Compersion: An Experiential and Tantric Workshop
Anastas Harris & Steven Vogue

Compersion is an experience where I am uplifted when my partner is uplifted through experiences that he or she shares with others, including when those experiences involve love and sexuality.  It is the acceptance that those you love can love others and the capacity to experience pleasure, and even joy and turn-on, when this occurs.  Compersion is essential to Polyamory.  Tantra is a spiritual path that is conducive to compersion and which, if truly lived, flows seamlessly into Polyamory.  In this workshop, we will begin by revealing how this is so.  Then, in twos, fours and small groups, we will move into compersion, Tantra and Poly in a dance that may be playful or soulful, mental or sensual, and that will either stretch boundaries or provide the opportunity to stretch into already extended boundaries with a variety of individuals or couples. We will place you in situations in which you will have the opportunity to experience or develop your compersionate nature in an enriching and supportive atmosphere. 

Featured at the World Polyamory Conference, Laguna Beach, CA - October 24, 2004

Pair Bonding, Romantic Love & Multiple Partner Sexuality - Leanna Wolfe, Ph.D.
       Is serial monogamy the normal human mating pattern? How then do we explain other patterns including polygamy, polyamory, and swinging? To address these questions, we'll examine cross-cultural research on romantic passion as well as the brain chemistry of romantic love. Next we'll compare how the cultures of dating singles, swingers and polyamorists engage pairbonding and romantic love. We'll consider how singles focus on the differences between how women and men fall in love and evaluate making a pairbonded commitment. 

     Next we'll look at how poly ideology mitigates against jealousy by celebrating compersion and maintaining relationship hierarchies and how swinging culture largely teases up sexual attraction while reinforcing the strength of the marital bond. Finally, we'll reconsider the idea that humans are truly serially monogamous. Perhaps what keeps people who engage in swinging, secret affairs, polygamy and polyamory happy are the many different kinds of love they are able to access simultaneously.

     We begin the Poly Conference with friendly, playful, non-verbal, then verbal encounters and flow into groups of six or so partners. These six are our pod partners.  Our pod--the group of six-- supports us, encourages us to find what we seek at the conference and in life. With our pod, we'll discuss our adventures thinking and living possibilities beyond choice-limiting assumptions, expectations and fears about polyamorous relating and sexualloving. 

To ready ourselves for experiences Shama, Don Kraig and Harold Kornylak give us today, we imagine one (or more) new lovers entering our existing relationship net or imagine we join already-established lovers. We fantasize and tell our ideals of polyamory that fulfill all concerned. 

      The second morning of the Poly Conference, we tell our pod partners how, so far, we've gotten what we wanted from our experience here.  We affirm each other getting what we want the rest of the conference.  

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