Upcoming Events

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Practical Polyamory Series

The Practical Polyamory class series goes beyond the common ethical non-monogamy 101 topics like jealousy and vocabulary, offering ENM love and life skills in a warm, inclusive, irreverent atmosphere taught by relationship educator and coach and lifelong polyamorist Rebecca Rose Vassy, it’s perfect for those new to ENM who want the tools to succeed. It’s also great for those more experienced in the polyamory/ENM worlds who want to dive deeper into skill-building or find solutions to thorny problems. Drop in on just the sessions that interest you (see the full series), or sign up for all six. Missed sessions you were interested in? Purchase the recordings and receive the notes and resources.

Banging Beyond The Binary Trans Sex 101 with Jamie Joy
Online Event
Friday, November 8, 2024 from 12 PM – 2 PM
$80 for workshop with CEUs (sliding scale available)

Come learn and play with certified sex educator Jamie Joy in an explorative and engaging workshop on gender affirming sex! Whether you identify as gender expansive or play with someone under the trans umbrella, or work with clients in this situation this space is for you. Learn how to enhance pleasure in your body, approach your partner(s) with an open mind, work through trauma related to gender, and gain tools to help you experience the magic of trans sex! Topics will include: language, communication & negotiation, trans-specific techniques, toy demos, decentering genitals, kink/BDSM, role play, and more! This workshop is geared towards clinicians but open to all genders, sexualities, and experience levels.

They Must Hate Me: Living with Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
Online Event
Wednesday, January 15, 2024 from 7 PM – 8:30 PM
$40 for non-CEU tickets (sliding scale available), $80 for workshop with CEUs

RSD causes intense pain for neurodivergent folks. In this virtual workshop with a licensed therapist, learn what it is and how to handle it. You got an email from a coworker, saying “I found an error in your part of the project. Please call me.” Their words seemed neutral enough, but you found yourself on the verge of tears, flooded with shame and certain that they think you’re incompetent.

Was it painful just to read that paragraph, remembering experiences like that? You might experience Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria.

Many neurodiverse folks (especially those with ADHD), as well as people with a variety of mood and personality disorders, live with the pain of RSD. It’s marked by an emotional inability to handle rejection, real or assumed, and intense embarrassment, shame, pain that can even include physical pain, and discomfort in the face of others’ disapproval or silence. It can make emotional regulation difficult and secure relationships challenging to form.

Practical Polyamory #9: Navigating Your Polyamorous Dating Life
Online Event
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 from 7 PM – 9:00 PM
$40 for non-CEU tickets (sliding scale available), $80 for workshop with CEUs

Miscommunications, double-booked dates, and mixed-up birthdays might be hilarious in a sex farce, but that kind of mismanagement could spell doom for your polyamorous/nonmonogamous love life! Learning to navigate the joys and struggles of dating multiple partners can feel overwhelming, but the effort is absolutely rewarding.

Join polyamory educator and coach Rebecca Rose Vassy for a workshop that gives you the tools to succeed in your NM dating life. We’ll talk about some of the most common challenges and pitfalls as well as some of the unique pleasures of consensually dating multiple people.

Crowd Pleasers: Play Parties, Threesomes and Group Encounters
Online Event
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from 7 PM – 9:00 PM
$40 for non-CEU tickets (sliding scale available), $80 for workshop with CEUs

Ever dreamed about having a three-way or joining an orgy? You’re not alone– studies suggest that more than 90% of adults have fantasized about it at some point. It’s a completely normal and harmless desire…and it’s surprisingly possible, if you really want to make it a reality.

But facing the actual experience can feel awkward, confusing, or even terrifying. How do you start? What’s appropriate behavior in a group encounter? What if you’re the wallflower at the play party? Is there etiquette?? WHAT DO I DO??

Relax and breathe– help is here! Whether group fun is a distant dream or the big star on your calendar next week, you’ll benefit from sex educator Rebecca Rose Vassy’s frank, practical advice and guidance for how to handle moresomes with thoughtfulness, openness, and savvy.

Podcast:

Leading Edge Love – Tamara Pincus, Licensed Social Worker, Sex Therapist, Author

This week, her guest is Tamara Pincus, Licensed Social Worker, Sex Therapist & Author (www.tamarapincus.com).  Sumati Sparks, The Open Relationship Coach, (www.SumatiSparks.com) offers coaching sessions via video conferencing, telephone or in person in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The Swingset invites Tamara Pincus and Rebecca Hiles, authors of the new book “It’s Called Polyamory” onto the show to discuss the many things people both new and experienced to nonmonogamy, specifically, polyamory, may encounter. They join Dylan Thomas, Dr. Liz Powell, and Chris Pent.

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Polyamory is the practice, desire, or acceptance of having more than one intimate partner.

As a certified sex therapist and psychotherapist, who has also made her own journey through the sexual exploration and acceptance, I am able to bring a unique perspective…

For a lay audience, I have offered classes called “Ask the Sex Therapist” where people can find out what they need to know about sexual functioning, BDSM, Sexual Orientation gender identity and ethical non-monogamy.

I have spoken at such events as the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit, AASECT, Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work, SSSS, Catalyst Con, Lotus Blooms and the University of Maryland

In the past I have given talks on: How to be a poly friendly therapist Ethics in psychotherapy

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Past Events

Making Love to the Whole Body
Saturday, January 4th, 2020

Bring in the new year with a chance to get into your body and learn how to engage your whole self in your sexual expression. This workshop will teach you the basics of sacred sexuality in a comfortable space where consent is valued. We will start with the breath and then move on to some hands on exercises with partners. You can bring a partner or pair up with someone else in the workshop. We will start at the top of the head and work all the way down to the toes. Clothes will remain on. This workshop is open to people of all genders and sexual orientations. Partial and complete scholarships available.

Poly Millennium Dallas Workshop July 13-15
Coming out as poly, a clinicians perspective

Coming out as poly can move the polyamory movement forward and create more acceptance in the greater culture, however it comes with a variety of risks. This interactive workshop will give us the opportunity to learn from each other about various factors impacting coming out experiences including cultural and religious factors as well as personal identity with regards to race, gender and sexual orientation. We will also discuss strategies we can use to make coming out as poly a smoother experience. We will discuss whether and how to come out in a variety of settings analyzing advantages and disadvantages along the way. The presenter will then share some of the expertise she has gleaned working with clients and others in the community around their coming out process as well as on a book about coming out as poly. This will include some of her own personal coming out experiences.