Poly Living Presenters 2010


Anita Wagner

Anita Wagner advocates for the interests of polyamorists with enthusiasm and determination, and loves to help them find joy and happiness by providing helpful info in her educational programs on subjects like poly and spirituality, jealousy and other pitfalls, poly/mono relationships, and poly for kinky people. She has presented programs at Good Vibrations, Sex 2.0, Dark Odyssey, Black Rose, Building Bridges, Free Spirit Alliance's Beltane Gathering and Fires of Venus, Florida Poly Retreat, Transcending Boundaries, Poly Living, and the Loving More© Conferences. She's a member of the Polyamory Leadership Network and serves as poly community advisor to CARAS. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Loving More© and Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness. She's a veteran community organizer and co-founder of an alternative relationships non-profit organization. Anita regularly works with members of the media and has been quoted in news articles on Newsweek.com, Salon.com, in the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Sun-Times, amongst others.


Darrell and Nancy Casey

Nancy and Darrell are retired professionals (Counselor-CSW and teachers with VRI training). They offer coaching in poly and other relationship issues. In addition they are certified in Tantra. Nancy is writing a book on how to grow through changes/challenges in your life. They have been in an open polyamorous relationship for over 25 years and can be reached at becomeloveinbliss@aol.com.


Eric Francis

Eric Francis is an artist, writer and counselor who has presented at Loving More on and off since 1997, and been out as poly since 1986. He writes the Planet Waves column, a morph of astrology, gender studies and politics; and is the author of Book of Blue, an ongoing literary-photojournalism project exploring his relationship to women and his own sexual identity. He lives in upstate New York. His websites are: PlanetWaves.net and BookofBlue.com.


Jens Wennberg

Jens Wennberg is a poly geezer! He is a retired Physician Assistant and spends half the year in Africa teaching about HIV / AIDS treatment. He and his wife/partner have had a responsible non-monogamous relationship for 33 years, and each have long-term relationships lasting over a decade.


Ken Haslem

Ken Haslem is a retired anesthesiologist and Polyamory Activist. He recently established the Kenneth R. Haslem Polyamory Collection at the Kinsey Institute of Indiana University. He has presented lectures, sermons, and workshops on polyamory, aging and sexuality at various conferences.


Lee Hencen

Lee has been actively poly for a long time and still has a lover that dates back to high school days! She specializes in a family style of polyamory, where she has had great success being involved with committed couples with an element of long distance. Lee has spent many years overcoming her own body issues and developed this workshop to continue her own path to freedom and perhaps help others along the way. She has presented at Poly Living, Loving More East Coast Retreat and Building Bridges.


Michael Rios

Michael has been creating and living alternative lifestyles and personal growth experiences for 40 years. His favorite social organization principles include guerrilla capitalism and responsible anarchy. He regularly organizes "New Culture" events aimed at creating a culture based on awareness, compassion and freedom rather than on fear and judgment.


Nancy Miller

Nancy Miller is a nurse midwife with years of professional and personal experience with women’s changing sexuality as they mature. Her own experience is that overall sex has gotten better over the years. We can “use it and not lose it” even as our bodies change. Her current career passion is international work especially involving Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV.


Robyn Trask

Robyn is the Executive Director and Editor of Loving More Non-Profit and Magazine since October 2004. She has been openly polyamorous for 20 years, a mom for 21 years, been a student of Tantra for 23 years, and Tantric teacher for 10 years. Robyn has been running poly support groups, teaching and facilitating relationship and sexuality workshop since 1999. She has done numerous interviews on polyamory for radio, television, newspapers and magazines articles including features in the Denver Post, the Hartford Current, Mom Logic, Boulder Dailey Camera, Baisden After Dark on TV One, the Montel Show and Christian Broadcast Network on the 700 Club. Robyn has worked with the media to bring awareness of polyamory as a viable alternative in today's changing styles of love relationships. She counsels individuals and couples using Sacred Sex techniques to improve intimacy, self awareness and appreciation of pleasure. She was the Keynote for the Florida Poly Retreat in 2007, featured speaker at Poly Pride in 2006, 2007 and 2008, presented at the 2006 and 2007 Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Western Conference, has done guest lectures at CU Boulder and Denver University and will be the Keynote for the Chicago Poly Conference in March. Robyn has dedicated the past five years of her life working as a full time volunteer for Loving More and the Polyamory Movement.


Sarah Taub

Sarah uses her training in cognitive science, group facilitation, and transformative practices, such as co-counseling and Nonviolent Communication, to create powerful experiences for human healing and growth. Her current koan: only when you let go of urgency can you be truly effective. She regularly organizes "New Culture" events aimed at creating a culture based on love and freedom.


Valerie White

A Humanist minister, Valerie White is also an attorney and serves as the executive director of the Sexual Freedom Legal Defense and Education Fund. She helped found Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness and still serves on its board. She's on the coordinating council for Family Tree. She has spoken about polyamory and related topics at Loving More conferences, True Colors, Transcending Boundaries, UU General Assembly, NY Poly Pride, KinkAware and the Boston Area Sex and Spirituality Network. Her articles on polyamory have been published in "Loving More" magazine and the "Humanist". Valerie's open triad has persisted for 15 years.


Victor and Elena

Victor and Elena are Contact Improvisors from Boulder, CO. Victor brings his bacground in somatic psychotherapy, theatre and theatre improvisation and group facilitation to his work/play with people exploring Contact Improv. Elena is passionate about re-creating culture by nurturing conscious intimacy and embodiment in relationship, family, community and the places we inhabit. Together we invite you to explore touch, connection and play!

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