The Resilience of Love Online – A Sequence of Three Workshops

The Resilience of Love Online is a sequence of three online workshops designed to guide people into appreciating crises as opportunities for deep emotional change.

Opportunities for:

  • Making love the ecology of one’s life
  • Becoming a source of positive energies
  • Co-creating more health and happiness on a global scale

This synergistic creation by Dr. SerenaGaia brings together a wide range of elements to offer tools that can manifest deep transformation in one’s ability to appreciate crises as opportunities for positive evolutionary change.

Workshop # 1, Your Ecosystem, Yourself focuses on supporting people in co-creating a positive energy field in one’s inner ecosystem. This workshop is based on wisdoms and practices from the Tao, as taught by Tao Master Mantak Chia at Tao Garden, including the Inner Smile and the Water Wheel. It helps people envision their own body/mind/spirit as a personal ecosystem made of symbiotic elements connected with Earthly elements and planetary forces. By knowing and loving their own personal ecosystem, people they are empowered to generate more health and happiness for themselves.

This workshop can be done on Zoom. Participants will need an open space around themselves, to stand up and move their arms and legs.

Time requirement: 90 minutes to 2 hours.

Workshop # 2, Deep Listening and Empathic Circles, initiates people to the practice of Deep Listening while holding and participating in Empathic Circles. This workshop is based on wisdom and practices from Native American cultures, and in particular, the Circle Way, by Native American elder and New Age philosopher Manitonquat. The practice of deep listening really helps people stay emotionally connected, and, when combined with the Circle Way, it helps people feel equally present and respected, so they practice trusting and becoming expressed as they connect with their own deeper emotions and those of others.

This workshop can be done on Zoom. Participants will need a private space from where to share with others in the circle. A very stable connection and a digital device that enables good facial visualization are also important.

Time requirement: 90 minutes to 2 hours.

Workshop # 3, Exploring Your Online Erotic Consent, initiates people in the arts of consent, including connecting with their own boundaries, preferences, pleasures, and communicating in clear and considerate ways. This workshop is based on wisdom and practices from the Wheel of Consent, by renown North-American sex-positive educator Betty Martin. It references the four quadrants, the roles of giver, receiver, allower, and taker, the arts of negotiating agreements within the human realm. The workshop places these tools in the wider context of listening to, and becoming aware of how to practice consent with all forms of life on the living Earth. Participants attend online from different stations. Exercises emphasize sensual touch with favorite objects and oneself. They focus on visual and auditory pleasures, on exchanging gazes and vocal expressions. Participants are invited to consider the force of Eros generated by these consensual exchanges and how it may impact life at large beyond the human realm.

This workshop is designed for Zoom. Participants need a private space from where to connect and practice in consensual ways. They need a very stable connection and a digital device that supports good facial and body visualizations.

Time requirements: 90 minutes to 2 hours.

Notes:

  • Each workshop is a self-standing element, as the sequence also builds on each of its elements.
  • Workshop # 3 is recommended for people with some experience in sex-positive education.
  • SerenaGaia feels that her own wisdom and experience as a sex-positive educator are manifest in this sequence.
  • Elements in this series are also based on wisdoms and practices from significant traditions world-wide, including the Tao, the Circle Way, and North-American Sex-Positive education.
  • Teachers and sources are honored and acknowledged in the most considerate and respectful ways.

Interested in activating and co-creating this sequence and any single workshop per se, and/or as part of a project online? Please do not hesitate to contact us. We look forward to co-creating with you. Thank you!

Can we answer any questions? Please do not hesitate to contact us. We look forward to serving you in your journey of #EcosexualLove. Enjoy!

aka Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD
Erstwhile Professor of Humanities and Cinema at UPRM Convenor of Practices of Ecosexuality: A Symposium

Author of Multiple Books Website Serenagaia.org Contact: serena.anderlini@gmail.com, + 39 329 477 9406. Teacher of Humanities Online Series – Modern History for the Humanities and Love ResearchGate Profile

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When a Sex Positive World Is Coming to You – Save Your Dates: Oct 18, Nov 8, 15 – Thank you!

How can we transform this recurring crisis into a new amazing opportunity?
Thanks to SPW–Sex-Positive World–we can all do it together. The arts of love begin when we appreciate sensuality, sexuality, pleasure.
We offer a sequence of three successive appointments on Sundays, 19-21:30 CEST (that’s 10am-12:30pm PST–do the math if you’re in between and anywhere else, or ask google!)
We invite you to save the dates:
18 October, 8 and 15 Nov.
Stay tuned. All detailed info below.
Thank you!
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Hi Everyone–this is Karen Hery and Dr. SerenaGaia speaking to you!

At Sex Positive World we are excited about upcoming events that are probably of interest to you!

Thanks to our new friend Covid-19, people around the globe have become familiar with online conferencing–that is Zoom. Many of us already feel that our health and happiness get along better when we feel connected to a sex-positive community. Others might be ready to discover what all this is and become passionate about it. More time and more of a need to seek sex positive community connections are around us, as people’s availability, needs, and locations are shifting.

That’s where our offers come in!

We are super happy to be a part of helping all of us, wherever we live and wherever we each are in our sex positive journeys, to have options for caring and sharing and evolving. This alongside a wonderful opportunity to meet sex-positive people from around the world.

What is sex positivity? Well . . . to some of you it may sound as if it’s a bit like being positive for some strange disease. And, we can assure you, it’s NOT that. It’s actually a VERY GOOD THING. We mean, it’s good for you!

Event # 1, Oct 18, 19:00-21:30 CET. Orientation Time! To make everyone feel they can confidently step in, our kick-off offer is a Sex Positive World Universal Orientation. Join us and lots of other sex positive people from a number of SPW community chapters, for this Orientation tour. On Sunday, October 18.

Choose your own optional donation and sign up at this link: https://www.sexpositiveworld.com/event-details/orientation-2

The first hour will be an overview offered by our community leaders, a ride through who we all are together, why we choose sex-positivity and what it brings to our lives.

During the second hour people will connect with others in their countries and language regions, as a way to socialize together in smaller, more personal, breakout groups. As Dr. SerenaGaia, I’m delighted to host the social group based in  Europe. I am happy to run the conversation in whatever language(s) prevail in the group, and will welcome translation assistants. Please contact me.

Thank you!

Event # 2, Nov 8, 19:00-21:30 CET. Time for Boundaries! What’s a boundary and how will it help you to find yours from within? Boundaries are what  makes it possible for people to play it safe in life, and in amorous, romantic, and sexual relationships. Covid has brought new flavors to our sense of boundaries, creating more complexities and opening up some new possibilities.

Our International Covid-Informed Awesome Boundaries class is a space to gather in community to share and care about how to continually up our boundary seeing and setting skills. We had over 50 attendees the first time we offered it. We’re doing it all again and I am so happy to share the experience with you and anyone 21 and older that you’d like to invite. Healthy boundaries are great in all areas of life, so people can attend from inside and outside Sex Positive communities.

Choose your own optional donation and sign up at this link: https://www.sexpositiveworld.com/event-details/covid-informed-awesome-boundaries-2

Please share links to both Event # 1 and Event # 2 from the Sex Positive World website with people in your life you think will appreciate them.

Thank you!

Event # 3, Nov 15, 20:00-21:30 CET. Time for Erotic Moves and Grooves!

Yes, at SPW we find ways to make our online sex positive events connective, truly sexy and fun. It’s a challenge we love to meet. Our very first higher level will be Erotic Moves and Grooves – an All Gender Chair Dancing Class and Show with Java, a very talented world traveler.

Whether you’d be delighted to come primarily to dance or to watch . . . or a combination of the two . . . everyone is welcome to limber up together on the chair and we each choose our own adventure from there . . .

You might like to chair dance for private pleasure and/or for public display. Java will break down the finer points of chair dancing and teach a group routine you can choose to take home and play with. Or you can bust a groove on screen at the end for us all.

We celebrate consensual voyeurism as a valuable part of a sex positive life. While dance class is going on, there will also be a healthy voyeurism group empowered with tips from professional erotic dancers. What are good ways to share a respectful gaze? How can you become more aware of what visually pleases you and negotiate with others about this?

This event is open to people who have attended Event # 1 (Orientation), and Event # 2 (Boundaries), and to people who already are Level 2 in a Sex Positive community chapter.

So we recommend you join the entire sequence, starting with Event # 1, on October 18. If you’ve attended Boundaries and The Wheel of Consent in the Resilience of Love with Dr. SerenaGaia, please indicate and we will consider.

Thank you!

For Erotic Moves and Grooves, please RSVP here: https://www.sexpositiveworld.com/event-details/erotic-moves-and-grooves-level-2-spw-event. The event link will be sent once Sex Positive World has confirmed that you have met the pre-requisites.

Thank you!

In these pandemic times, everyone’s circumstances are unique. SPW events typically offer many options, so we can all be included in these sex positive journey together. Available options include: moneyless access, pay-what-you-can access, full-price ticket, and extra funder ticket. All good wishes in finding the options that work well for you!

Please get in touch with us you have any event questions. We also welcome ideas and suggestions on how to best keep us all connected during these changing and challenging times. Keep us posted and stay tuned!

Thank you!

Dr. SerenaGaia and Karen Hery, Director of SPW

dr.serenagaia@gmail.com, serena.anderlini@gmail.com, + 39 3294779406 (whatsapp), Serena Anderlini of Puerto Rico, on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Messenger, @serenagaia on Twitter. Thank you!

aka Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD
Erstwhile Professor of Humanities and Cinema at UPRM
Convenor of Practices of Ecosexuality: A Symposium
Author of Multiple Books
Contact: serena.anderlini@gmail.com, + 39 329 477 9406.
Academia.edu Profile
LinkedIn Profile
Fellow at the Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs (2012-13)
Project: “Amorous Visions: Ecosexual Perspectives on Italian Cinema”

The School of Ecosexual Love – A Work in Progress – Welcome!

The School of Ecosexual Love – A Work in Progress – Welcome!

The School of Ecosexual Love is a work-on-progress to which you’re invited to contribute. Are you wanting to expand and evolve your arts of love? This is a good place for you!

Welcome to our tentative description:

The School of Ecosexual Love is a school of love where life on Gaia in all its forms is the teacher, a teacher that inspires others to practice the arts of love in ways that are natural, ecological, sexy, amorous, diverse, and brave in envisioning new alignments between the health of the planet and the health of the world.

The School of Ecosexual Love offers a variety of educational journeys, including courses, retreats, workshops, and more. All journeys are opportunities for alchemic transformation and for evolution toward more symbiotic ways of being and relating. All offerings include practices that help participants maintain a positive energy field within and around themselves, thus enhancing the alignment of health and happiness in one’s personal and one’s ecosystemic realms.

Educational modalities include online, hybrid, and presential.

Existing courses in the curriculum now include:

The Resilience of Love is an online journey that has been activated at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and is currently active, with two parallel editions and weekly appointments, Wednesdays 9-11 PM Central EU time in Italian, and Thursday 9-11 PM Central EU time in English.

The Alchemy of Ecosexual Love is a presential introductory weekend that’s held on a yearly basis at Suncave Garden, a naturist retreat center in Cerveteri, about 30 kilometers from Rome, Italy. This retreat is now scheduled for August 28-30, 2020.

The Symbiosis of Ecosexual Love is a presential advanced course, which will be launched soon, and could have a beta edition at Suncave Garden starting on August 31, 2020.

The following course could become part of this curriculum:

The Humanities and Love, Part # 2, from 1500 to the present is a hybrid course that, in its original editions, was taught part presential and part online at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. It consists of nine one-hour lectures in English on world and planetary history, available online on the Serena Anderlini You Tube channel, and of a series of readings, visual presentations, and tests, available online in the LMS portal called Canvas by Instructure.

As a hybrid, the course was active until 2017, and it could be reactivated as an entirely online course. It could be of interest to universities and other institutions of higher learning open to teaching Western Civilization courses organized around the theme of love.

The School of Ecosexual Love operates under the aegis of the non-profit 3WayKiss. We are evolving and in particular, we are in the process of:

–Developing a full-fledged Mission and Vision for this school
–Connecting the school with other similar schools, academies, and universities
–Presenting its offerings more widely in venues open to its approaches
–Activating more courses
–Developing certificates and awards
–Recruiting and retaining interested collaborators, participants, and assistants
–Connecting w/ possible donors and funders

How does any and all of these areas inspire you? In what ways do you think you can participate and contribute? Please get in touch. We’d love to hear. Thank you!

Do you have friends who would appreciate this opportunity? Don’t hesitate to spread the news! Share this post please. Thanks!

For more information and for scheduling, contact Dr. SerenaGaia asfo

dr.serenagaia@gmail.com, serena.anderlini@gmail.com, + 39 3294779406 (whatsapp), Serena Anderlini of Puerto Rico, on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Messenger, @serenagaia on Twitter. Thank you!

aka Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD
Erstwhile Professor of Humanities and Cinema at UPRM
Convenor of Practices of Ecosexuality: A Symposium
Author of Multiple Books
Contact: serena.anderlini@gmail.com, + 39 329 477 9406.
Academia.edu Profile
LinkedIn Profile
Fellow at the Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs (2012-13)
Project: “Amorous Visions: Ecosexual Perspectives on Italian Cinema”