Thriving in Ethical Non-monogamy
Ethical non-monogamy can be a confusing buffet of emotions, boundaries, needs, values, dynamics, and relationship styles. How do we navigate our new found choices amid an ever changing landscape? And who can we look to for real-time support and encouragement on the fringes of society? This group is for people who are new or experienced in ethical non-monogamy who want to engage in a safe space to explore and discuss their experience with ethical non-monogamy. This weekly interpersonal process group will focus on interpersonal themes including but not limited to relationship styles, attachment styles, relationships by design, division of labor in relationships, jealousy, fear of abandonment, self-esteem, relationships with metamours, healthy communication, healthy conflict, toxic monogamy culture, sexuality, community building, allocating time and creating schedules, and parenting.
This group aims to assist its participants with:
● Increasing ability to show up more fully and authentically in relationships
● Destigmatizing ethical non-monogamy and normalizing relationship challenges through community support
● Developing insight and confidence to move through conflict and towards more meaningful connections
● Developing a deeper sense of yourself and your needs, boundaries, and values
● Learning to expand systems of support to better meet needs emotionally, monetarily, sexually, intellectually, creatively, and domestically
● Better navigating some of the challenging territory inherent in ethical non-monogamy
● Increasing self-awareness, empathy, motivation, self-regulation, and social skills
● Increasing communication skills grounded in empathic attunement
Wednesdays
6:00 till 7:30 PM
Virtual
Ambiguous Grief: A Process Group
Many of the losses we experience in life do not have clear endings, rituals, or language. We grieve the loss of identities, relationships, communities, imagined futures, political stability, and ways of life that quietly dissolve over time. Some of the deepest grief in human life comes from what never happened. We grieve childhoods that lacked love or safety, identities that took years to understand, relationships that never formed, communities that were never found, and futures that unfolded differently than we imagined. These experiences often fall into what is described as ambiguous grief—losses that are real but rarely recognized or supported by society, making them difficult to name or fully process.
This group is for individuals who are navigating significant life transitions, identity shifts, relational changes, childhood emotional neglect, the loss of a socially recognized partner or intimate companion, the loss of a socially unrecognized intimate companion (such as the death of a beloved pet or the loss of a non-primary partner in the context of non-monogamous relationships), the loss of a loved one to dementia, the sense of an unlived life, or existential grief and who are seeking a supportive space to explore these experiences in community. Together we will create a compassionate container where participants can reflect, share, and metabolize the emotional complexity that accompanies endings, uncertainty, and new beginnings.
This weekly interpersonal process group will focus on themes including but not limited to: ambiguous grief, identity transitions, trans grief, loss of community or belonging, changing relationships, spiritual or existential transitions, political and ecological grief, migration and displacement, aging and body changes, disenfranchised grief (such as pet loss, non-primary partner loss, or the gradual loss of a loved one through dementia), letting go of former selves, navigating uncertainty, and finding meaning within periods of transformation
This group aims to assist its participants with:
● Developing language for ambiguous and disenfranchised grief
● Increasing ability to process grief related to identity shifts and life transitions
● Reducing isolation by connecting with others navigating similar experiences
● Developing greater self-understanding around attachment, identity, and belonging
● Increasing capacity to sit with uncertainty, loss, and the “in-between” phases of life
● Developing compassion for grief related to childhood experiences, relational loneliness, or unlived life paths
● Building emotional awareness, resilience, and relational insight
● Increasing self-awareness, empathy, motivation, self-regulation, and social skills
● Strengthening communication skills grounded in empathic attunement
Date & Time TBD
Virtual
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