ONLINE: Home for the Polydays: Holiday Planning for the Polyamorous

As a mom who has looked at a packed December family calendar and sobbed while knitting a gift with frosting from a sugar cookie on my nose, I can recognize that adding more partners seems like an extra stress on a time of year that can come with lots of expectations. This class presents common concerns and strategies for navigating the winter holiday season from Thanksgiving through Valentine’s Day for polyamorous folks, with special attention to:

• Planning additional time together when some folks in a polycule are not ‘out;’
• Working around schedules when there are various family traditions that run at the same time as one another;
• Deciding whom to give holiday gifts to and how to have the conversations around that;
• Differences in planning for kitchen table and parallel polycules;
• +1 event strategies including holiday parties, but also applicable to weddings and year-round events;
• “One day” holiday feelings and holding space for different partners’ emotions about them;
• Creating seasonal traditions not distinctly based on holiday dates.

This class helps give you tools and strategies to use the idea of building customized expectations based on mutual joy and not fear - fear of missing out, fear of not meeting cultural standards, fear of under-capitalisming the season, whatever - to lead you into a version of the season that brightens the fact that these are the shortest days of the year.

PRESENTER:

Laura Boyle is a writer, polyamorist, and educator who has been teaching classes on polyamory, sexuality, boundaries, kink, and the intersection of those on a local level and at conventions since 2018. She is the author of Ready for Polyamory: A Pragmatic Guide to Consensual Non-Monogamy. After more than 15 years in consensually non-monogamous relationships, in polycules that have ranged from temporarily closed Vs to constellations whose shapes are increasingly indescribable depending on which relationships folks consider worth including, she loves to share practical information learned from years of fixing her own mistakes and missteps.

TICKETING:

$15 - $35 in advance. Please pay at the level you can comfortably afford.

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ACCESS:

This will be a live, online class offered through Zoom. To participate, you may need to download the free, basic version of the Zoom app before the class! This class will be recorded and is available for later viewing.

Zoom now provides closed captioning which will be available for this event.