Creating and Maintaining Polyamorous Families

In celebration of the Week of Visibility for Non-monogamy, the Pincus Center is collaborating with Sheff Consulting to offer a workshop on creating and maintaining polyamorous families. We will discuss issues such as how people manage multiple partnerships, how to come out in various settings, where it makes sense to come out or not, how to raise children in poly homes, and legal issues facing polyamorous families.

Elisabeth Sheff, author of The Polyamorists Next Door, will present the results of her Longitudinal Polyamorous Family Study. Following this we will have an open discussion where questions from attendees are welcome.

Tamara Pincus is a licensed clinical social worker and AASECT certified sex therapist who runs The Pincus Center which offers therapy, coaching and sex education. She specializes in working with kinky, polyamorous and LGBTQ clients. Tamara has been working in the field of sex therapy since 2011 and since then has built a practice with a team of 11. Tamara is passionate about racial justice, fat justice and LGBTQ rights. She also co-authored a book titled "It's Called Polyamory: Coming Out About Your Non-Monogamous Relationships" with Rebecca Hiles. She lives in Virginia in a queer polyamorous household of chaos.

Dr. Eli Sheff is the foremost academic expert on polyamorous families with children, and has more than 25 years’ experience researching consensual nonmonogamies. Dr. Eli has a PhD in sociology and is a Certified Sexuality Educator who has written four books and 30+ academic articles on CNM and BDSM/kinky sex. She serves as a relationship coach, educator, and expert witness. She has appeared on hundreds of podcasts, television shows, and media interviews with outlets from NPR, National Geographic, and the New York Times, to Cosmopolitan and Savage Love. Dr. Eli blogs for Psychology Today and always wants to make friends with dogs.

The Pincus Center for Inclusive Treatment and Education specializes in working with queer, transgender/nonbinary, kinky, and ethically non-monogamous/polyamorous people. We value sex positivity (including asexuality), body positivity and fat liberation, and racial justice.

The Week of Visibility is a shared, movement-wide activity being coordinated by OPEN, a grassroots advocacy nonprofit working to advance rights and acceptance for non-monogamous families and relationships.

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