Dr Jorge Ferrer – Love and Freedom: Transcending Monogamy and Polyamory
Can we have both love and freedom in our intimate and romantic lives?
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In his talk, Jorge Ferrer will present a new paradigm for understanding intimate relationships, challenging the monogamy/polyamory binary and offering fresh possibilities for thinking about contemporary love, gender, and sexuality. In the same way that the transgender movement surmounted the gender binary, he will show how a parallel step can—and should—be taken with the relational style binary. After discussing relationship modes beyond monogamy and polyamory, he will also introduce the notion of “relational freedom” as the capability to choose one’s relational style free from biological, psychological, and sociocultural conditionings. Jorge will also offer practical tools to not only transform jealousy, but also enhance relational freedom while being aware of key issues of diversity and social justice. He will also present novel criteria to evaluate the success of intimate relationships, and will introduce a transformed vision of romantic love beyond both monocentrism and emerging polynormativities. This will be a lively dialogue.
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About the speaker:
Jorge N. Ferrer, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, author, and educator. He was a professor of psychology for more than 20 years at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, where he also served as chair of the Department of East–West Psychology. Jorge is the author of dozens of articles and several books on psychology, education, and religious studies, including Revisioning Transpersonal Theory: A Participatory Vision of Human Spirituality (SUNY Press, 2002) and Participation and the Mystery: Transpersonal Essays in Psychology, Education, and Religion (SUNY Press, 2017). His work on alternative intimate relationships has been featured in many podcasts and journals such as Sexuality and Culture and Psychology and Sexuality, and his book on transbinary relationship styles Love and Freedom: Transcending Monogamy and Polyamory (Rowman & Littlefield) appeared in 2021. In his international private practice, he offers professional counseling to individual and couples focused on the management of jealousy, infidelities, sexual incompatibilities, open relationships, and the design of more satisfactory intimate relationships. Jorge was a member of the Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory and Research and an advisor to the Religions for Peace organization at the United Nations. Learn more at www.jorgenferrer.com.
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Jorge N. FerrerClinical Psychologist, Author, EducatorJorge N. Ferrer, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, author, and educator. He was a professor of psychology for more than 20 years at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, where he also served as chair of the Department of East–West Psychology. Jorge is the author of dozens of articles and several books on psychology, education, and religious studies, including Revisioning Transpersonal Theory: A Participatory Vision of Human Spirituality (SUNY Press, 2002) and Participation and the Mystery: Transpersonal Essays in Psychology, Education, and Religion (SUNY Press, 2017). His work on alternative intimate relationships has been featured in many podcasts and journals such as Sexuality and Culture and Psychology and Sexuality, and his book on transbinary relationship styles Love and Freedom: Transcending Monogamy and Polyamory (Rowman & Littlefield) appeared in 2021. In his international private practice, he offers professional counseling to individual and couples focused on the management of jealousy, infidelities, sexual incompatibilities, open relationships, and the design of more satisfactory intimate relationships. Jorge was a member of the Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory and Research and an advisor to the Religions for Peace organization at the United Nations. Learn more at www.jorgenferrer.com.
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