The Ripples Framework: Navigating the Stages of ENM
This workshop is for anyone exploring Ethical Non-Monogamy. Whether you're one month in, one year in, or a decade deep, you'll leave with real tools for navigating the complexity that comes with alternative relationship structures.
Alternative relationships can be expansive, liberating and deeply fulfilling. They can also surface jealousy, insecurity, misalignment and unexpected complexity. This workshop is designed to meet you exactly where you are, and equip you with the tools to move forward with clarity and confidence.
Drawing on a combined 26 years of lived ENM experience, and a track record of guiding hundreds of individuals and couples, James and Tilly will share practical, field tested frameworks to help you strengthen and sustain your relationships over time.
At the heart of this workshop is the revolutionary Ripples of ENM Framework. This is a developmental map created by Non-Monogamy Co that explores the stages many people move through on their non-monogamous journey. This is way of learning how to navigate ENM that you will not find anywhere else.
We'll also cover:
Communication frameworks & techniques
Tools on how to navigate jealousy
Tools for fostering compersion and embracing your partner’s joy
How to build and refine agreements, rules, & boundaries
How to cultivate secure attachment
Whether you’re single, partnered, solo-poly, relationship anarchist, monogamish, or part of a multi-partner dynamic, this workshop will have something for you.
About Your Hosts
James Buckley is a Somatic Sex and Relationship Coach with over 18 years of lived experience in alternative relationships and over a decade in the kink scene. Trained at the Somatica Institute of Sex and Relationship Coaching in San Francisco, James has supported hundreds of individuals and couples through his work as a sex and relationship therapist.
Tilly Reid is the founder of The Open Circle and brings over seven years of lived experience in alternative relationship structures, alongside a strong background in community building and facilitation.
Together, James and Tilly run The Open Circle, FAR and regularly co-facilitate workshops and events for these communities.