Polyaffectionate: Navigating Platonic Inclusive Non-Monogamy

Title of Event: Polyaffectionate: Navigating Platonic Inclusive Non-Monogamy

Description of Event:

Polyamory and non-monogamy challenge the idea that one romantic or sexual relationship should meet all our needs. But even these expanded frameworks often continue to center romance and sex, leaving platonic relationships underdefined, undervalued, or entirely outside the conversation.

What happens when we apply non-monogamy not just to romantic and sexual relationships, but to the full range of meaningful connections in our lives?

This workshop introduces polyaffectionate as a framework for recognizing and intentionally engaging with all significant relationships, whatever form they take. Drawing from Asexual and Aromantic frameworks, non-monogamy discourse, models of friendship, and Disability and Transformative Justice insights on care, participants will explore how connection, support, and intimacy can exist beyond both traditional relationship hierarchy and romance-centered non-monogamy.

Together, we will examine how social scripts shape our understanding of friendship, partnership, and commitment, and what becomes possible when we step outside of them.

Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Compare and contrast how hierarchical and nonhierarchical relationship structures organize connection and priority, and explain how a polyaffectionate framework reframes which relationships are centered within those structures.
2. Apply one relational tool (e.g., levels of closeness, pod mapping, or boundary/agreement distinctions) to analyze at least two relationships in their own lives.

Start Date: 03-18-2027

End Date: 03-18-2027

Time of Event: 12pm-2pm Pacific

Location: Online Synchronous

Presenter/Speaker: Aubri Lancaster

Main Contact Aubri Lancaster

Contact Email: aubrilancaster@gmail.com

Event Website PolyaffectionateMar2027.eventbrite.com

AASECT Approved CEs: 2