Want to be able to maintain multiple healthy relationships? Do you feel challenged by jealousy or unsure how to support your partner when they’re feeling jealous? Do you feel confident naming needs and negotiating agreements?
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Join sex and intimacy coach and educator Dr. Alison Ash of TurnON.love for this experiential workshop and you will:
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Empower yourself with the know-how and tools you need to have happy, secure, and fulfilling non-monogamous relationships.
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A suggested but not required precursor to this workshop
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“Dr. Aly’s approach to jealousy allowed me to explore it, along with other underlying emotions, as a call to action. Learning how to negotiate allowed me to connect with my and my partner's intentions for our explorations and how to structure them in a way that feels safe and accessible.” - D.G.
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"I am so glad I got to be in a room full of folks exploring alternative relationship styles. Concepts, communication and mindset associated with a non-monogamy can be applied to many relationships as triggers related to power dynamics, jealousy and boundary setting come up in all sorts of relationship dynamics." - S.R.
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“Dr. Aly was emotionally encouraging and answered all questions with care and grace. I left having discovered a new way of communicating my needs to my partners I hadn't had before. I can't recommend her class highly enough." - M.P.
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Dr. Alison Ash, aka Dr. Aly, is a trauma-informed intimacy coach and educator, Stanford University Lecturer, author, and founder of TurnON.love. As a sociologist with a PhD from Stanford, she has a comprehensive understanding of the complex societal challenges that often lead to unsatisfying and disempowering intimate experiences. She has helped pioneer research into the orgasm gap and has written on topics ranging from pleasure in heterosexual dynamics to queer and trans identities and experiences. She also draws on her extensive training in Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy, Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy Approach, and Somatica Method of sex and intimacy coaching to support her clients to radically explore and courageously express themselves. Dr. Aly designs workshops, courses, and retreats and offer individuals and couples coaching to give others the tools to be able to cultivate and sustain nourishing emotional and sexual intimacy. They invite you to TurnON pleasure, intimacy and love at www.TurnON.love and on Instagram.
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* Please take an at-home antigen test on the day of the workshop and take a photo of your results. Tests can also be purchased at the door for $10. If you are feeling unwell or develop symptoms, please stay home. Masks will be optional.
* I welcome folks of all genders, sexual orientations, relationship structures, ages, body types, races and ethnicities. The bathroom at this venue is not ADA accessible (may not be large enough for folks in wheelchairs).
* A limited number of volunteer and sliding scale tickets are available. Apply for a sliding scale ticket or send an email to coordinator@turnon.love to volunteer.
* Please note tickets are not refundable. You may transfer them to another pair of individuals but not to a future event.
For more info, visit www.TurnON.love
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