Late but not too late: Loving More 2009 conference

When I heard about Loving More in the fall of 1997, the news came as a great relief: there were other people in the world who were practicing committed, nonmonogaous relationships. A girlfriend named Sister Pam (she had a nun thing going on) handed me the magazine; I saw that there was a conference coming up less than two weeks later, just an hour’s drive from where I was living. I managed not only to get into the conference but to be a presenter. I’ve attended and presented at more than a dozen Loving More conferences since then.

The East Coast conference takes place the weekend of Sept. 11-14 at the Easton Mountain resort near Saratoga, New York (close to Albany). It’s a small conference, with only about 75 people attending. The crowd is a bit older — I am on the younger side, though the youngins have committed to bringing more people to the event. The facility is really nice, the food is great and the weekend is cheap, as conferences come. For anyone worried about the thing being ‘too wild’ rest assured, I’m usually the wildest thing there.

Loving More’s conference is relationship oriented, with lots of communication about communication, trust, feelings, family and all the good stuff you wish you could talk openly to your lover about and maybe you’re fortunate enough to be able to. I’ll be co-presenting two workshops, one called Let’s Talk About Sex and the other being my traditional (if you can call it that, but it does seem to be a tradition) communal selflove-in on Saturday night.

Robyn, the facilitator and magazine’s editor (who happens to be a competent professional astrologer as well) emailed me and said there is still some housing available. Here is the conference website. For any readers in the New York or Boston areas who would like to get together, this is an opportunity.

We’ve got some things to talk about, here beside the rising tide.