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WORLD
POLYAMORY ASSOCIATION'S FACULTY MEMBERS
(IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
click on the links below to learn more about our
Teachers, Healers, Presenters &
Workshop Leaders
FACULTY INDEX
A , B, C, D
E, F, G, H
I, J, K, L
M, N, O, P
Q, R, S, T
U, V, W
X, Y, Z
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Cougar Brenneman |
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Ben Blue |
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Scott Catamas |
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Theodore Desmarais |
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H, L |
Marcus Brussel Jenkins |
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Tana Gallante |
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H, L |
Paul Brussel Gibbons |
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H, L |
Terry Brussel
Gibbons |
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A, B, H, L |
Dawn
Davidson |
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Devaka |
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H, L |
Dave Doleshal, Ph. D. |
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H, L |
Ed Jor-El Elkin, Ph. D. |
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Anastas Harris, Ph. D |
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Wilton Jones |
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Harold Kornylak, D.O., C.T.E. |
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A, H,
L, C, B |
Janet Kira Lessin, P.T.S. |
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A, H,
L, C, B |
Sasha Lessin, Ph. D. |
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H, L |
Donald Michael Kraig |
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Scott Longman |
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H, L |
Akien Maclain
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H, L |
Shama Malin |
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Les
Nuckles |
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Master Rex |
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Miss
Jane, M. Ed. |
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Amber Seitz |
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Barry Smiler |
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Catherine Karklyn |
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Ted Thomas
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Sophia Songhealer |
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Steven Vogue, D.C., N.D. |
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Leanna Wolfe, Ph. D. |
A = Art of Loving
Conference, Chicago, IL, September 30-October 2, 2005
B = Brym Mawr, PA Polyamory Conference, September
23-25, 2005
C - Chicago, IL Tantra Weekend - June 24-26, 2005
H = Harbin Hot Springs,CA Polyamory Conference - June
17-19, 2005
L = Laguna Beach. CA Polyamory Conference - October
22-24, 2004
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Ben Blue
MA, MFT
is a speaker, author of a best selling book featured in Elle and Shape
magazine, humorist, singer, & licensed therapist in
private practice. He keynotes conventions (National
Montessori), has many TV and Radio appearences, is an
authorized trainer for the international Center for
Nonviolent Communication, and has trained thousands in
the U.S., Europe and the Middle East.
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He lives a nontradition relationship lifestyle, was the
Keynote Speaker for the Loving More Conference 2004, and
has taught in the Zegg Commune in Germany.
He
trains, presents and consults with groups, corporations
(Tony Robbins, Paul Mitchell), churches (all flavors),
schools, (U.Cal.L.B, Body/Mind College), clubs and various
organizations.
Featured at these World Polyamory
Association Conferences:
Harbin Hot Springs, CA - June 17-19, 2005
Scott Catamas
Scott has been actively involved with exploring Sacred
Sexuality, Tantra and Alternative Lifestyles for over 25
years. He is an EMMY award winning writer and producer,
with a long list of credits. He has created hundreds of
hours of television programming for HBO, FOX, NBC, UPN,
SHOWTIME and national syndication. He wrote and
produced a popular feature film, entitled MEN IN LOVE,
that presented Sacred Sexuality and Homo-Erotic Passion
in a very positive way.
Scott
has a long history of combining his talents and
interests in communication, with themes that stretch
well beyond the mainstream. He has played a role in
introducing many new ideas, authors, visionaries,
teachers and concepts to the world via film, television,
theatre, and even web sites.
As
co-founder of THE LOVE TEMPLE in Bel Air, Scott hosted
many events, classes and workshops that explored greater
Sex, Love, Intimacy. He has worked with some of the
most popular teachers, authors and visionaries in these
fields. Most recently, Scott has completed a four hour
instructional video/DVD titled MARGOT ANAND's SECRET
KEYS TO THE ULTIMATE LOVE LIFE.
Scott
has been studying Nonviolent Communication (aka: NVC or
Compassionate Communication) for four years, and has
produced popular videos on the subject. He has been
working, playing and teaching in Marin County, Southern
California & Hawaii for the past 20 years.
Scott's contact Information:
BlueStarScott@aol.com, Phone: 415-902-6682
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Active in the San Francisco Bay Area poly community
since 1996, Dawn & Akien have been serving as
relationship coaches since 1998, mentoring others to
create extraordinary relationships with their partners
and with themselves. Akien and Dawn have conducted
workshops on relationship development (including at the
last three West Coast Loving More conferences), and have
created study groups on personal growth, safer sex, and
various poly issues. They have been interviewed for
television on the subject of polyamory, with segments
appearing in Los Angeles and Sweden, and are the hosts
of the San Leandro Poly Pool Party. They have been
married for approaching 15 years, have two amazing
children, and are dedicated to creating intentional
extended family and community.
Dawn Davidson had her first conscious poly experience in
Georgia in 1984, and has gone on to experience many
varieties and forms of poly-dating -relating and
-loving. She holds a bachelor's degree in Genetics from
UC Berkeley, has visited Japan to sing with her Early
Music quartet (with whom she has sung for more than 20
years) and enjoys canning, costuming and cats, among her
many other interests. Making connections among people
and being a clearinghouse for information is something
she does on the same level as breathing.
has been poly for more than 20 years,
though he only found out there was a name for it 10
years ago. His progress in this field has been a direct
result of marrying. Primarily self-educated, he's avidly
pursued learning in many less-traditional ways,
including workshops on relationships and
self-development with Landmark Education, Dan Millman
and Lori Starr. His
wide-ranging interests include neurochemistry,
comparative religion, relationships, history, and
broadsword fighting. He believes that we're all our own
best teachers.
Dawn & Akien: Featured at these World Polyamory
Association Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004,
Harbin Hot Springs, CA - June 17-19, 2005
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David Doleshal,
Ph. D.
has a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California,
Irvine. He has been studying innovative techniques for the
healing of emotional issues for more than 18 years. He is
currently the President of Prosearch, - a non-profit
organization that offers guidance and coaching in matters
related to career. He is also the director of Saturnia Regna, -
a Political Action Committee specifically organized for the
promotion of the cause of polyamory.
Dave is featured at these World Polyamory
Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
Harbin Hot Springs, CA - June 17-19, 2005
He has presented workshops at Bi-Sexual Conferences, at the
California Men's Gathering, and at Men's Retreats at Kalani
Honua on Big Island.
He has had both long-term and short-term relationships with
men and women, separately and together.
Dr. Elkin is a divorced father of a 31 year old daughter,
maintains a friendship with his ex-wife and is currently
living with his significant other near Hana on Maui.
Ed is featured at these World Polyamory Association
Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
Harbin Hot Springs, CA - June 17-19, 2005
Terry Brussel
Gibbons,
Paul Brussel Gibbons,
&
Marcus Brussel Jenkins
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Professional hypnotist
Terry Brussel Gibbons has been in private practice
since 1969 and is the director of Success Center in with
hypnotists now using her Seven Keys to Self Actualization
system throughout the United States and Canada. She and her
husbands Paul and Marcus have been involved in Multiply
committed relationships since the 70 s. They give
workshops for such groups as science fiction conventions,
Loving More, and Lifestyles. |
Terry is also a fourth generation matchmaker and
director of Marriage Minded Introductions. She, Paul and
Marcus coordinate Live the Dream, an education and support
group for those who, originally inspired by the writings of
such authors as Robert Heinlein, Robert Rimmer and Marion
Zimmer Bradley are now ready to LIVE such alternative
lifestyles as cooperative living, open relationships and
group marriage. Much of their personal belief system
is based on Stranger in a Strange Land. Live the Dream
is affiliated with Church of All Worlds, a real life
organization (since 1968) based on Heinlein's fictional one.
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Drs. Steven Vogue and Anastas Harris have been Tantra
teachers for 10 years and have had a Tantric, polyamorous
relationship for 19 years. They belong to a poly family of
beloveds, of about 26 individuals, who they meet with for
an extended weekend approximately every three months, usually at
their home. They present workshops on Tantra and Polyamory and
do private Tantric coaching with couples and singles.
Anastas and Steven teach the art of super-conscious, sacred sex,
by creating a Tantric relationship with their clients, and, if
they are a couple, bring them into Tantric relationship with
each other. They teach Tantric skills and awareness, including
Ejaculation Mastery, Full Body Orgasm and a sex that is based on
creating a union of the sexual and spiritual energies.
Their clients learn the art of running and transmitting life
force sexual energy, in the context of the Sacred Heart Space,
rather than friction sex. They assist their clients to
overcome their sexual challenges and experience extended bliss
in love-making. They are co-authoring a book on female orgasm.
Steven and Anastas teach out of their coastal, north San Diego,
California home where they have a Tantric bed and breakfast.
Couples who wish to do so can enjoy the Tantric bed and
breakfast service while taking a Tantric training. They are well
known for their Tantric workshop “The Intimacy Oil Experience”
and invite you to be on their mailing list for this and other
events. Anastas is also a psychological therapist
and Steven, a chiropractor and naturopath.
Poly Bio
Professional
Bio
Steven's Bio
Anastas's Bio
San Diego - North County, California
Phone: 760-929-9988
E-mail:
Sacredsex@TantraTurnOn.com
Web sites:
http://www.tantraturnon.com/,
http://www.thetantraexperience.com/
Anastas and Steve are featured at these World Polyamory
Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
Steven Vogue and Anastas Harris presented the Laguna Beach, 2004
Post-Conference, October 24, 2005:
Living Compersion: An Experiential and Tantric Workshop
Wilton Jones has been
taking intimate photographs of people since 1992. In his
newest work he is documenting the more intimate, normally
private, erotic side of people, as individuals, as couples, and
in extended poly families. He and his partner, Sue, have
had numerous poly relationships, owned a ranch, built two
software companies, spent time on a sailboat and raised three
children over the 30+ years they have been journeying together.
Wilton: Featured at these World Polyamory Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
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Harold Kornylak,
D.O.
has many years of experience as a healer, teacher and
therapist. Along with extensive training in
body-mind therapies, he is a Certified Tantra Educator
and has studied personally with some of the most
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Harold: Featured at these World Polyamory Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
Harbin Hot Springs, CA - June 17-19, 2005
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Donald Michael Kraig graduated
from UCLA with a degree in philosophy. He has also
studied public speaking and music (traditional and
experimental) on the university level. After a decade of
personal study and practice, he began ten years of
teaching courses in the Southern California area on such
topics as Kabalah, Tarot, Magic, Tantra, and Sex Magick.
He has been a member of many spiritual and magical groups
and is an initiated Tantric. Currently studying for a
doctorate in clinical hypnotherapy, Don has lectured all
over the U.S. and in Europe. His books include Modern
Sex Magick and Modern Magick, which has sold
over 125,000 copies worldwide. He has also contributed to
several books including Ecstasy Through Tantra. |
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Don
began a triad relationship while
still in college,
but it failed due to jealousies and
old-style thinking. He later moved to
San Diego where he became a part of the
Lifestyle. He soon became a regular
contributor to Friends and Lovers,
the leading Southern California
lifestyle paper of that time.
He moved to Minnesota and became
involved with several people in
undefined Poly relationships.
He traveled some, then settled in Venice
Beach, California, where he enjoys
loving relationships and exploring how
love can help relationships grow rather
than limiting individual’s potentials.
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Janet Kira Lessin,
P.T.S.,
Director & CEO of the World Polyamory
Association, the School of Tantra and the World
Peace Association leads seminars and
conferences with a focus on the the fields of
tantra, psychology, relationships, polyamory,
UFOlogy, ancient anthropology, alternative
realties, speculative theories, physics and
peace. Janet has devoted her life to the
healing of the planet. She realizes true
healing originates within each individual and
expands by the power of love till it envelopes
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She is convinced that
through workshops and conferences like the ones
she leads, conferences that focus on evolution
and spiritual growth ,combined with personal
introspection, reflection and a commitment by
individuals to take responsibility and heal,
humanity can transform and create a civilized
civilization that respects consciousness in all
its diversity. This new paradigm of a
conscious society honors individuality and
creative expression. The paradigm includes
creativity through relationships.
Relationships are a high spiritual path for
growth and transformation--unlike sexual
repression which leads to violence.
Humankind needs to honor individual choice in
regards to sex to evolve to its highest
potential, transcend violence and end war.
Polyamory is a positive, passionate path to
peace.
Janet and her husband, Sasha
are healers, teachers, relationship counselors
and psychotherapists. They've been married,
polyamorously since 1997. They've appeared in
seven television shows promoting polyamory:
Leeza Gibbons, Inside Edition,
Extra, Time Zone International, Talk or
Walk, John Walsh and Penn & Teller's Bullshit
and a documentary, Intimacy. They were
featured in Time, Hustler,
Honolulu Weekly and Playboy
and have appeared on numerous radio shows.
They live in Maui, Hawaii, have an active
therapy practice and school where they teach
tantra, counseling and relationships. They
travel frequently to reach a larger audience,
teach and help those in need.
Janet has written a personal account of her life
as a polyamorist,
Loving More: The Poly Tantric Lovestyle
(available in the author's edition) .
Maui, Hawaii
Phone: 808-244-4103
E-mail:
janetkiralessin@aol.com
Web sites:
www.schooloftantra.com,
www.worldpeaceassociation.com,
www.tantraconnection.com,
www.worldpolyamoryassociation.com
Janet Kira and Sasha: Featured at these World Polyamory
Association Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
Harbin Hot Springs, CA - June 17-19, 2005
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Sasha Lessin,
Ph. D.
(U.C.L.A.). A poly psychotherapist and
relationship counselor since the 1970s, Sasha and wife
Janet counsel relationship choice--making yourself the
chooser. The Lessins lead polyamory training
groups at conferences and their home in Maui, Hawaii.
Counseling, teaching in workshops and now, in their
book,
More Loving Loving More:
Synergistic Sacred Sex & Reverential Relationships for
Three or More Lovers, Sasha and Janet
share the tantric and psychospirital techniques they use
to create, nourish and celebrate poly pairs,
triads, moresomes, networks and lovenests.
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Maui, Hawaii
Phone: 808-244-4103
E-mail:
sashalessinphd@aol.com
Web sites:
www.schooloftantra.com,
www.worldpeaceassociation.com,
www.tantraconnection.com,
www.worldpolyamoryassociation.com
Janet Kira and Sasha are featured at these World Polyamory
Association Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
Harbin Hot Springs, CA - June 17-19, 2005
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Les Nuckles
is a trained and practicing sexual surrogate.
He has helped women overcome issues involving
lack of self esteem, poor body image, lack of
experience and trust issues. He has helped
them overcome issues that were holding them back
from enjoying richer, fuller, more robust sexual
relationships. He was featured in an interview
in the June 2003 issue of Psychology Today.
Les is also a professional massage therapist and
a Watsu Practioner. He lives and practices in
Southern California. |
Les, and his wife Jan, have been together for
over 5 years. They met at a poly potluck
in Southern California and have been together
ever since. Les has always felt poly even
before he became aware of the word. He has
always experienced feelings for a number of
people and wondered why it was "not alright" to
love more then one person. He discovered
the word Polyamory on the internet in 1999 and
has been openly practicing that lifestyle since
then.
Les and Jan live
in a clothing optional resort in southeast
Orange County in Southern California.
Les was featured at the World Polyamory
Conference,
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
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Master Rex
has been exploring the nature of relationship in
traditional and kink environments for a number of
decades. Influential thinkers include Harville
Hendrix, Marshall Rosenberg, Jan Spiller, Martha
Beck, Gerard Jampolski, Marianne Williamson and Ted
Thomas.
”Endeavoring to raise consciousness one thought at a
time.”
Master Rex includes keywords: polyamory, swinging,
acting ,music, trading, pisces, venture, capital,
communication, health, pleasure, joy, fun, peace,
spirit, comfort, internet, beach, grace, love,
transparency, ethics. |
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Miss
Jane,
M.Ed.,
is a person who likes stalking wild categories
and dangerous labels in their natural
habitats. Her eclectic professional
background includes practicing marriage and
family therapy, facilitating communication
skills training in Outward Bound -style
experiences and post-grad study in health
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She has led workshops
over the last 17 years on a variety of topics, including
parenting skills, healing through patterned breathing and
developing global consciousness. She is currently writing
a book about cultivating spiritual awareness through
sexuality, with an emphasis on insights earned from recent
immersion in the kink arena.
Jane has aligned
philosophically with the polyamorous lifestyle for almost
30 years. She lives ecstatically in a triad with her
husband of 11 years and a woman she has known for over 20
years. She also enjoys her ongoing spirit-expanding and
multi-dimensional relationship with Master Rex.
Master Rex & Miss Jane Featured at:
Harbin Hot Springs, CA - June 17-19,
2005
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Ted Thomas
appears in numerous books as an
investor and investor trainer. His
website
chronicles his pioneering work with
promoting personal as well as financial
growth.
His “Fred-ian” approach includes viewing
all feelings as valuable, creating body
metaphors or forms for emotional states,
resolving these forms by combining them,
and conducting the process in a
supportive Tribal environment.
His methods help re-frame fears as
productive resources on your emotional
control panel – and helps convert your
interpersonal conflicts into bases for
deeply satisfying intimacy.
Participants report beneficial results
in vocational and personal areas,
especially in relationships. Ed
holds degrees in Electrical Engineering
and Industrial Management from MIT,
lives on Lake Tahoe, is 58 years old and
plays the banjo. |
Ed: Featured at the World Polyamory Conference,
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
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Shama Malin,
CHt, CDC, TDE
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For more
than a decade, Shama has been a
dynamic force in the Los Angeles
community. As lecturer, writer and
media personality, she has brought a
renewed sense of potential for a
better life and world to all those
she touches. She has a successful
private practice working with
individuals and couples bettering
their lives and relationships
through her talents and training in
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Shama offers over 10 years of
experience as a hypnotherapist and
chemical dependency counselor. She
is also trained in Tantra, shamanic
psychology and various healing
techniques in energy and bodywork.
As an educator, group facilitator,
and counselor, she specializes in
sexual, chemical, and self-esteem
Issues and alternative lifestyles.
Click here for
Shama's Poly Bio and more pics
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Sophia Songhealer
Sophia, who calls herself a songhealer, has been
providing musical inspiration for countless
gatherings since the 60's. Her music
and her "voice of gold, full of power and love"
open the heart and help us connect with each
other, our Selves and our precious Mother
Earth.
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Since 1978, Sophia
has released ten powerful and hauntingly
beautiful recordings, extended musical
journeys featuring exquisite arrangements by
virtuoso musicians, which create a deep and
sacred tapestry of sound. She
dedicates her work to the embodiment of the
Goddess in all her many glorious forms,
and to the healing of our selves and our
world. A "cult" favorite among
healers, massage therapists, tantric yogis and
lovers, she is excited to join you!
Sophia: Featured at these World Polyamory
Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
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John Terry
John Terry is a
successful businessman and former conservative,
non-denominational ordained minister, teacher
and counselor. Having embraced polyamory, living
a ‘‘double-life’’ and subsequently leaving the
ministry, John draws upon the skills, hard
lessons and knowledge he’s gained from immersion
in both cultures over more than twenty years.
Through his combined experience of having lived
in opposite worlds, coupled with a strong sense
of compassion for those outside of his chosen
lifestyle, John brings fresh insights along with
a sober minded, yet light-hearted, understanding
of the human spirit. Those with an interest in
dealing with the delicate issues of being
‘‘out’’, or experienced the pain and loss of
having been ‘‘outed’’ will profit from his
presentation.
POLY HISTORY
John Terry’s Polyamorous lifestyle began in the
mid-1990s. He is presently living in a poly
household in the Bay Area of Northern California
with his wife of thirty years, a female
‘‘spice’’ and another male. Their quad has been
together for two years.
Featured at:
Harbin Hot Springs, CA - June 18,
2005
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Leanna Wolfe,
Ph.D.
is a social anthropologist and a
sexologist specializing in the dynamics of multiple
partner sexuality. She did her doctoral research on
"Jealousy and Transformation in Polyamorous
Relationships". She has been a professor of
anthropology for upwards of 20 years, designing
specialized courses including Gender, Sex & Culture and
Magic, Religion & Witchcraft.
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Her research has taken her to the
hinterlands of East Africa, the Highlands of Papua New Guinea,
Thailand, Cuba, Mexico and Bali. She has been featured widely on
TV, radio, and in print and is the author of Women Who May
Never Marry.
For more information on Leanna Wolfe's poly history read,
Adding a Co-Wife,
When One Lover is Not Enough and
As the Other Shoe Drops.
Education: see web page:
http://www.lavc.edu/anthr2lw/index.html
Credentials: Ph.D. Sexology 2003 Institute for Advanced Study of
Human Sexuality (San Francisco)
MA Anthropology 1980 New School for Social Research (New York
City)
BA Anthropology 1975 UC Berkeley
To see Leanna's extended bio, click
HERE.
Dr. Leanna Research
5105 Williams Place
Los Angeles, CA 90032
home: 323.223.1507
LAWolfe@aol.com
http://www.lavc.edu/anthr2lw/index.html
Leanna: Featured at these World Polyamory Association
Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
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