Live The Dream

How to Make Loving Connections in the Poly Community - Happy (somewhat belated) Valentine's Day!
2022-02-19 11:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Led by 4th generation matchmaker Terry Brussel-Rogers
Live* 11am-4pm (Zoom 11am-12:30pm PST)
*Proof of Vaccination is required to attend all LIVE events. Bring your card!

ALL REGULAR LTD MEETINGS ARE NOW ALSO ON ZOOM!
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Poly People in A Variety of Relationships - Lovers, Family (Chosen & Blood), Community and More
2022-01-15 11:00 - 16:30 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Led by Paul Gibbons
Live* 11am-4pm (Zoom 11am-12:30pm PST)
*Proof of Vaccination is required to attend all LIVE events. Bring your card!

ALL REGULAR LTD MEETINGS ARE NOW ALSO ON ZOOM!
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World Naked Bike Ride
2021-09-18 10:00 - 15:00
Los Angeles
*(not a Live the Dream event, but supported by most of us)

PLAN B (the unofficial Burning Man event) and The Virtual 2021 Burning Man Event
2021-08-28 - 2021-09-07
Additional Details to come.

Harrad Experiment and Proposition 31 by Robert Rimmer:
2021-08-21 10:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Couple Meets Couple, They Fall in Love and Get Married.
ALL LTD MEETINGS ARE NOW LIVE & ON ZOOM!
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Zoom Hours: Zoom 11AM-1230PM
Live Hours listed below.

Finding Your Love(s) in a Pandemic: Post Valentine’s Day Assistance Led by Fourth Generation Matchmaker Terry Brussel-Rogers with Craig Brussel Rogers
2021-02-20 11:00 - 12:00
Did you spend Valentine’s Day with your primary partner? With some combination of spice and lovers? If you are single did you spend it on Zoom or in person with a potential love interest? Any of these are possible and positive (in some cases delicious!) in their own ways. If you spent it in social isolation, that may have been necessary in these dangerous times. Or not. Perhaps there are other safe options appropriate to your particular circumstances. We will discuss ways that can work to make your own present situation closer to the delights you actually want in your life…right now. Guided meditation for Attracting Your Special Someone(s) climaxes this event.
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Poly Possibilities: X Wife/X Husband or Lovers You Used to be Married To? Led by Paul and Athena Gibbons with Terry and Craig Brussel Rogers
2021-01-16 11:00 - 12:00
Paul and Terry were handfasted in 1993, married in 1994 and legally separated in 2008. They lived in LA. Terry and Paul remained platonic family by choice (water kin) for a couple of years before becoming lovers again. Paul married Athena in 2020 (with some on-the-spot help from Terry and Craig in putting the In Person & Zoom ceremony together) after a decade of living together—in Phoenix. Terry and Craig were married in 2018 and still live in LA. Paul and Athena visit Terry and Craig every month or two as Paul still has many ties in California. A couple times a year, Terry and Craig visit Paul and Athena in Phoenix. They take vacations together, spend holidays and birthdays together and All four are friends and water kin, but only Terry and Paul are lovers. It’s a hell of a lot better than permanently losing someone you loved enough to marry!
How does this work out for each of them? How might it work for YOU?
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Being Poly in a Covid 19 Environment (ZOOM Conference)
2020-04-18 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom Conference
Saturday April 18 11 am to 12:30
Being Poly in a Covid 19 Environment
A ZOOM conference led by Terry and Craig Brussel Rogers.
Zoom Website: https://zoom.us/
Zoom ID: 317-597-1626 Password: [REDACTED]
Are the isolation protocols of the current emergency a temporary or permanent life style
changer? How can we continue our multiple committed relationships in such an
environment? How can we make our connections with those we live with whether they be
housemates, lovers or spouses; not only tolerable, but joyous under these conditions? If we
are alone in our homes, does it have to stay that way or is there something we can do about
it—in this environment? This will be done with a discussion format with plenty of Q&A invited.

Live the Dream Passover Seder
2020-04-08 18:30 - 21:00 | Zoom Conference
Live the Dream Passover Seder
Wednesday April 8 6:30 Socializing 7-8:30 or 9 PM
Seder Lead By Craig Milo Brussel Gibbons and Terry Lee Brussel-Gibbons
Food provided by YOU at home as this Seder is VIRTUAL & FREE. Those of you who RSVP on Live the Dream hotline 818-886-0069 will be e-mailed a copy of the Hagada we are using for this event.
Zoom info: 4/8/20 6:30-9pm
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Meting ID # 978-999-299
Password: [REDACTED]

"Staying Connected for Poly Lovers"
2020-04-04 16:00 - 19:00
Join us at 4pm Saturday for the Zoom call
“Staying Connected for Poly Lovers”
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You sleep with everyone your partner has slept with!
Think about what this means as a poly lover in the midst of Covid19 outbreak.
Moderator: Terry Brussel-Rogers
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, life/business coach (since 1969) and poly relationship counselor for almost as long. Terry co-founded Live the Dream in 1987. It has had regular 3rd Saturday meetings and special occasion celebrations such as trips to Renaissance Pleasure Faire, Passover Seders, All Hallows Eve ritual/ parties and Winter Holiday parties, etc., for more than thirty years.
All of our in person activities are on hold for the duration of Shelter in Place. However, our Passover Seder will take place virtually this Wednesday April 8 at 6:30 pm! See last event listed below
Live the Dream is a Nest of Church of All Worlds– inspired by Heinlein’s book Stranger in a Strange Land it is the real life first Neo Pagan religion to be recognized in the USA.
For more info on Live the Dream , go to www.livethedream.org or call the
Live the Dream Hot Line 818-886-0069
Facilitator: David Beal
A life long non-monogamous lover, currently having two regularly seen lovers plus others. He has a recent background in Tantra, having studied with his late wife Shama Malin. And is currently Semi-retired doing property and financial management.
From David: With the threat from corona virus, staying connected with our friends and relatives is hard enough. For those of us in the poly community we have the unique challenge of staying connected with multiple people with whom we generally connect physically but do not physically live with. Join us for a frank discussion about how to navigate being poly in a social distancing environment, while staying connected to your lovers. Living with you or not there will be challenges to maintaining strong healthy relationships.
This will be an open discussion about ways in which we, are or would like to keep connected. Everyone being allowed to contribute their experiences and questions and ideas is my goal. I will be researching as much as I can to help keep this fact based, but I am not a professional so please keep that in mind.
Be sure to have the zoom app on your phone or computer and a free account created before the meeting.
Topic: Staying Connected for Poly Lovers
Time: Apr 4, 2020 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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ALSO OF INTEREST: COMMUNITY SUPPORT CALL ON POSITIVE STRESS MANAGEMENT AND A HEALTHY, EFFECTIVE IMMUNE SYSTEM Monday mornings at 8:15 AM PDT
This is a time when all of us can benefit from Positive Stress Management and a Healthy, Effective Immune System. Terry Brussel-Rogers and Glen Olson (paramedic for 30 years, Retired Fire Captain and long time member of the poly community) are offering a free Community Support Call for that purpose Monday mornings at 8:15 for the duration of California’s shelter in place ruling.
The phone number is 605-475-6720 access code [REDACTED]. Those who register at Terry’s website www.acesuccess.com by downloading her free Abundance meditation will also receive the free recorded guided meditation Positive Stress Management and a Healthy Immune System as well as other gifts to help them survive and even thrive despite this worldwide health emergency.
Please feel free to share this with your friends, lovers and those you care about. In this time of social distancing it is something you can do for them!
Live the Dream Passover Seder
Wednesday April 8 6:30 Socializing 7-8:30 or 9 PM
Seder Lead By Craig Milo Brussel Gibbons and Terry Lee Brussel-Gibbons
Food provided by YOU at home as this Seder is VIRTUAL & FREE. Those of you who RSVP on Live the Dream hotline 818-886-0069 will be e-mailed a copy of the Hagada we are using for this event.
Zoom info: 4/8/20 6:30-9pm
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/978999299?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meting ID # 978-999-299
Password: [REDACTED]

How to Make Loving Connections in the Poly Community
2020-02-15 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Led by 4th generation matchmaker Terry Brussel-Rogers, author of the book Choosing,
Finding and Attracting a Life Mate and guided meditation CD ‘Attract Your Special
Someone(s)’ Terry ran Marriage Minded Introductions for forty years. She still does poly
and monogamous relationship coaching.
Everyone attending will be given the poly supplement to the book.
Whether you are a single looking for the right partner for a primary relationship, a couple
seeking a third to make a triad, a couple looking to pair with another couple or any of these
looking for a group house or intimate network to join, this is the meeting to find out how…
We will conclude this part of our program with a Hypnotic Love Magnet Meditation to draw
to you the love(s) you desire…
1 pm – Pot Luck Lunch
What tempting dish would you feed to a much desired love interest
or to the delightful partner or partners you are already enjoying? Bring that to share! Fresh
fruit or something simple but delicious is fine, too.
2-3 pmBring your Laptops for a hands on lesson in how best to use the internet to find
your love(s).
3-4 pmSocializing in the Hot tub.

Hawthorne Business Expo
2020-01-29 14:30 - 18:30
Free to attend and offers a wealth of opportunity, advice, and information crucial for on-going business growth within a challenging economy. Stop by and visit us at our booth.

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Liberty & Lifestyles & Celebration of January Birthdays
2020-01-17 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Paul Gibbons has been involved in alternative lifestyles since he first came to California from Ohio for a Star Trek Convention in 1974 at age 20. He was introduced to Elysium (a clothing optional growth center) and Family Synergy later that year. He has been a libertarian and advocate of political change (to eliminate institutionalized violence) nearly as long. Paul has made a lot of changes and discoveries along the way. He will share with us how Liberty and Lifestyle go together and his own experiences with group living, group marriage, Love and Liberty over the years and into the present.

1 pm: Pot luck lunch and Paul’s 66th Birthday Celebration.
Let us know if YOU have a January birthday to celebrate with us.
2-4 pm: Jacuzzi, massage table set up in living room, and a relaxed afternoon together
Maybe a poly movie at 4 … Group decides.
6 pm: Filk Pot Luck dinner (different location)
7 pm: Filk Singing (different location)
Filk is songs of science fiction and the space age-from such outrageousness as Star Trek based Banned from Argo or Coed Naked Quidditch to the more solemn Ballad of Apollo 13

LTD WINTER HOLIDAY PARTY
2019-12-21 18:00 - 21:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Pot Luck Dinner Bring your favorite holiday dish from childhood (or now)—enough to share with 10 people.
A-F Your favorite Meat, cheese, nut, fish or other delicious protein dish
G-M Juices or fresh fruit
N-R Side dishes or Salads
S-Z Desserts and treats.
Latkes, Apple Sauce and Sour Cream provided by Live the Dream.
Bring stories/songs/poetry to share, wrapped science fiction, fantasy or magikal gift ($5-$10) for GIFT EXCHANGE.
Children welcome 6-9 pm ONLY. Children bring child gifts to exchange with each other. Bring your kids, grand kids and those who are family-by-choice! Sharing our holidays is part of what weaves the bonds of Family in a group like ours. Understanding what is important to each of us during this festive season and how we celebrate it is a way to grow closer and delight in our diversity.
We will sing songs about the Maccabees, dreidels, lighted up Christmas miniature houses, and a Winter
Solstice ritual. We’ll light the Hanukkah Menorah, though that holiday does not start until the 23rd this year.
Did we forget a ritual important to you? Tell us and we’ll add it…
Craig Brussel Rogers will provide live music of various holiday flavors.
Bring
Stories/songs/poetry to share.
Your favorite holiday dish for pot luck supper – (big enough for 10 to share.),
Wrapped science fiction, fantasy or magikal gift ($5-$10) for GIFT EXCHANGE.
Clothing optional Jacuzzi (with holiday music playing inside it!) available all evening–bring sandals and towels.
Cost $5 for paid members, $10.00 for non-members.

Chosen Family & How Science Fiction Has Affected Real Families
2019-12-21 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
We will discuss chosen families in real and fictional life. Tell us about yours!
Line Marriage: Multi-Generational Group Marriage, triads and other unusual alternatives are described in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. While some of the choices made in this example are influenced by the lack of females compared with males on Luna, some excellent examples “different kind of family” are offered here. Time Enough for Love’s Tersius colony Family features a large group marriage consisting of many of our favorite characters from Heinlein’s other stories. Their only absolute for being part of this marriage is that all adults pledge to support and to bring up with love all children produced by the Ladies in the marriage already born or in the womb— whoever put those babies in their wombs, co spice or not! This is happening on a planet where the government wouldn’t think of interfering in one’s marital choices and only your very advanced geneticist gets a vote on whom you make babies with. The water sharing ceremony in Stranger In a Strange Land is the best example of Family by choice and has effected families in reality probably more than any other of his books. Church of All Worlds and many other less formal groups including my own intimate friendship network have used this as a model for permanent committed relationships which may shift from lovers to friendship and back again multiple times during an ongoing relationship. Members of a Nest may live together or be “semi residential”. They may live nowhere near each other, but maintain their bonds through phone calls and visits (weekly, monthly, or perhaps a few times a year). The patterns are endless. The common denominator is long term loving commitment.
Which science fiction writings most affected the choices YOU have made regarding family and relationship structure?
Did you discover it’s possible to love more than one significant other by identifying with Michael and Jill and their NEST of water brothers from Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land? Did Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Forbidden Tower make you wonder if group marriage could work for you? Did Spider Robinson’s Star Dancers make you yearn to go beyond even that into the kind of group relationship possible for those connected in heart, mind and spirit? Many of us either built a lifestyle using a science fiction book as a model and/or got valuable ideas about working rules for human relationships by reading stories not limited by the present time line’s social prejudices and limitations. This event is for those already in multiply committed relationships and those who want to learn more about them. Some of us whose fantasies became realities will share how we did that…

LTD ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY follows at 6 pm

Poly Meet Point at Los Con LAX Marriott Hotel
2019-12-01 10:00 - 12:00 | Loscon at the LAX Hilton Hotel, 5711 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90045, United States
Join us in the Filk Room for Poly oriented Filk songs (including original ones and those based on such old standards as Tennessee Waltz and Why Not Take All of Me) Filk is songs of science fiction and
the space age. From silly Star Trek such as Banned From Argo to The Ballad of Apollo 13. You may
have read and been inspired by such books as Stranger in A Strang Land and Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Not all of us living the lifestyles of group marriage, group living and multiple committed relationships are in SF books! Come meet some kindred spirits. If you are living such lifestyles, share what you know. We’ll do Q&A and have a discussion of how YOU can Live the Lifestyle which will bring you Joy! For more info: https://loscon.org/46/

Spider Robinson’s Poly Primers
2019-09-21 11:00 - 18:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon introduces a group of people who support each other in handling their problems and celebrating their joys. In this and later books they go beyond this to actual group telepathic communication. In Callahan’s Keys they show their commitment to each other by all moving out-of- state together when local laws and the abuse of them prevented them from meeting together where they were. According to Spider’s biographical material, many of the metaphysical as well as the group related experiences come from his real-life ones with his expanded family and close friends in ‘60s in Haight Ashbury.
The Lady Callahan books are definitely Poly as committed couples share their partners’ with customers of this high class brothel/ international diplomacy center. The “artists” who work there have relationships with the Lady herself other artists (some of which include legal marriage), etc. Lady Callahan’s place could itself be considered a group house since the artists and some of their partners actually do live there. Spider’s Star Dance series features very unusually configured group marriages— combining extra-terrestrials with humans, gays with straights who share mental “intercourse” etc. Eventually his proposed intentional Family includes the whole human race past, present and future. Spider has written many other stories with incidental poly themes in fictional (?) worlds where it is assumed any choice of whom and how many you love is OK. How can we use this information in our own group living and multiple committed relationship efforts?
Filk Sing follows at same location with pot luck dinner at 6 pm. Filk is folk songs of science fiction and the space age from Ballad of Apollo 13 to Naked Co-Ed Quidditch.
Please note: 10 to 12 Sunday morning at Los Con, a science fiction convention which takes place Thanksgiving weekend at the LAX Marriott will feature a Poly

Casa Valentina: ATTENTION ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLERS: If We Do Not All Hang Together, We May All Hang Separately…
2019-08-17 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
If We Do Not All Hang Together, We May All Hang Separately…in the Catskills of the early 1960s or on Main Street USA TODAY
There is a play being presented at the Santa Paula Theater Center through July 28, 2019. It is extremely well-written and well-acted. It has a surprise around each corner—Fascinating!
See it! http://www.santapaulatheatercenter.org/event/a8074e39e36386de49b3d6b08ed319ac
I knew it was about a resort where men came to enjoy crossdressing with others of similar interests away from wives and family—mostly. It is run by one of them whose wife is his partner in managing the resort. I expected light comedy but found Pathos instead—serious drama with nuggets of laughter. The “girls”, as they call themselves, express their inner women in ways which strike me more as transgender than simply crossdressing. The conflict spins around whether they should become more public with their “Sorority” and whether these mainly heterosexual men should publicly disavow any connection with homosexuality. This takes place in a time when crossdressing or (Heavens!) homosexuality could cost a man his career, or even a well-earned pension.
Should polyamorists make sure “everyone knows” we are not into BDSM or swinging? Should nudists disavow any interest in alternative sexuality? Is it appropriate for homosexuals and Lesbians to attend poly gatherings? Is bisexuality ok in Poly or Gay groups? All of these topics have been brought up at poly organization board meetings, informal hot tub discussions, etc. Where do YOU stand on who you are and with whom you identify?

A Day at the Beach: Topanga Beach in Malibu
2019-07-21 10:00 - 15:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Come join us for a Day at Topanga Beach in Malibu (where Topanga Canyon meets PCH). Bring a picnic meal for yourself…with something extra to share with the group. We will leave from the Penfield House (8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka) at 10am and caravan to the beach. Those that want to meet us there at 11am, the address is Topanga Beach 18700 Pacific Coast Hwy, Malibu, CA 90265. Call Live the Dream Hotline day of trip 818-886-0069 will be forward to Terry’s cell.

WILL YOU MULTI MARRY ME?
2019-07-20 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Fiction authors such as Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson and Marion Zimmer Bradley have offered us marriage ceremonies for joining with more than one significant other. Terry did a very well attended workshop on this at the Heinlein Centennial Celebration in Kansas City in July 2007. We will discuss not only the ceremonies themselves, but the promises being made and the effect of the future of the relationships being committed to. In the real world, the Church of all Worlds, Loving More and others have created such vows & ceremonies for current use. We will have examples of those as well.
1 pm Pot Luck Lunch Bring something healthy and delicious to share
2-4 pm Sensitivity Exercises & Growing Closer—Verbal and non-Verbal. We may play a poly version of the UnGame… (Shaded hot tub also available)
For those that are going to Sunday’s Trip to the Beach and(or) want to spend the night, please RSVP by July 15. We have many Poly or SF themed movies available (or bring your favorite). Together we will pick out something wonderful to watch!
We will order out for dinner (pizza/Chinese/??? Group choice). Live the Dream will supply breakfast for those that spend the night.
Hot tub (clothing optional) available all evening.

SWINGING TO POLY—BLACK AND WHITE OR SHADES OF GRAY?
2019-06-15 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Marcus, currently in a triad with Terry and Craig Brussel Rogers, has been in two other long-term triads in his life including his first marriage. Sixty now, he has been poly all his adult life. He also attended his share of swing parties… He will be happy to answer any of your questions on the poly lifestyle.
Some poly people are former or “evolved” swingers. (YOU may even be at such a point in your life as a swinger.) Others may straddle both worlds as they attend poly gatherings and “permissive” parties. Hopefully these folks have read Bouquet of Lovers (please see full article on the CAW web site www.caw.org/content/?q=bouquet) and practice safe sex! At LifeStyles Conventions given by Wide World of Swingers from the 70s until 2011, hospitality was handled by a group of people who had known each other over many conventions. They had worked closely together on all the details of making a big convention successful for those giving it and those attending it. Some may have originally met at one of those parties which were frankly Swing parties, had sex and not asked their partner’s name. After working together for years, going to each other’s weddings and kids Bar Mitzvahs as well as social gatherings of all kinds for holidays, etc. any love making they do with each other is no longer casual and is certainly not anonymous. Even if they still call themselves swingers, they are probably poly by most definitions. Can going to swing parties be one way to introduce people to the poly life style while looking for potential love partners who may not yet know they are poly? Surprise! Some swingers think they are monogamous because they have sex but not LOVE with people at swing parties. That is why you might need the “I’m in a poly relationship” conversation as much with one of them as with someone who you (in an open committed relationship or even looking to be in one) are attracted to who has never stepped outside of monogamy.

RENAISSANCE PLEASURE FAIRE
2019-05-19 10:00 - 17:00 | Renaissance Pleasure Faire at the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area, 15501 E, Arrow Highway, Irwindale, CA, 91706, United States
JOIN US AT 10 AM for the OPENING PARADE
Location: Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area, which is at the Irwindale exit off the 210 Freeway, just east of where the 210 and 605 Freeways cross. BARDIC PLAYS, BAWDY SONGS, PAGEANTRY, UNUSUAL FOOD, SAUCY WENCHES & OTHER DELIGHTS. Opening Parade is at 10 am –Best to meet us there and it is fun.
Other Planned activities: May Pole for the May Day ceremony 11am Queen’s Show 3 pm
More on scheduling at Faire or by phone if you RSVP (PLEASE) at LTD HOT LINE 818-886-0069.
At faire you can reach Terry’s cell phone at 818-388-5612 to connect with us on site.

2150 AD by Thea Alexander-A POLY METAPHYSICAL FUTURE
2019-05-18 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Our hero travels at night in his dreams to a future society when people have clear memories of past lives and of the relationships they had in those lives with present friends and lovers. He brings back real and amazing metaphysical powers which completely change the lives of those he cares about. Learn how jealousy and other relationship issues are handled in such a society. Learn how macro contact (sparking spiritual powers such as telepathy and healing) can be achieved by love making when your vibrations match…Though the book is presented as science fiction, some very real psychic research has been inspired by the philosophy it discusses. The whole adventure may even have a basis in reality.
1 pm Pot Luck lunch: Bring something healthy and delicious to share
2 -4 pm Hot tubbing and socializing

Etiquette of Alternative Relationships
2019-04-20 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
What do you do when your wife brings her lover home for dinner? Who sleeps where if he offers (or is invited) to stay overnight? If your wife is sick on a night you’ve got a date, should you cancel and stay home with her? Should your girlfriend keep you company if you do stay home? Is it proper poly behavior to bring a lady home for dinner with your wife before taking her to bed or only if considering a serious long term relationship with her? Should a residential triad (one woman & two men for example) sleep all together or alternate between joining the lady in her bed? Emily Post did not cover this stuff, but we will!
Note: the real answer to all these questions is that they involve agreements between those involved in a couple, triad or larger group marriage. All of this is negotiable– preferably before the situation arises…Printed examples of such agreements will be available at this meeting.
1 pm Pot luck lunch Bring something healthy, delicious to share
2-3 pm Get to know each other through a poly type ungame featuring questions designed for quick and deep connection…
3-4 pm socialize in the hot tub.

Live The Dream Passover Seder Lead by Rob Milander
2019-04-19 19:00 - 23:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
RSVP Extended! Call by Wednesday Night to save your place!
This holiday commemorates the first time one People (the Jews) freed itself from bondage to another People (the Egyptians). We’ll do this with plenty of group participation! You don’t have to read Hebrew for this or even be Jewish. Whether you want to learn more about your own heritage, just share this special holiday with those you care about, or discover a cultural experience new to you, you are welcome! This is coordinated pot luck since it requires special foods. This event is FREE to one clean up coordinator, one serving coordinator, and the single or couple who volunteers to bring 5 pounds of lamb or 10 pounds of chicken. Cost: $8.00 with arranged food contribution and one bottle of kosher wine for each adult in your party, one bottle of grape juice for each child. $18 each without food contribution + bring beverage. Children under thirteen free with food, $5 without. You can arrive 6-7 pm to socialize and help with preparations. Seder itself starts at 7:00 pm.
Requested food contributions are:
Gefelta fish for 10 people
Vegetable Salad for 10 people
2 large bottles of Kosher Dill Pickles
Tsimis for 10 people
3 cans of Macaroons
Kuggel for 10 people
Choroseth
24 Hard boiled eggs
Parsely for 25 with red & white horse raddish
Call 818-886-0069 to make arrangements!

Dragon Riders of (Poly) Pern by Anne McCaffery
2019-03-16 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Led by Dreena Grace, avid SF fan who has been reading the Pern books since they came out. In a world protected from life destroying spores by genetically engineered fire breathing dragons bonded at their hatching to empathic human dragon riders, the social structure is an unusual one. Queen dragons are ridden by women, Browns and Bronzes by males. However, males as well as females can bond with and ride female fire breathing green dragons. When a rider’s dragon makes her mating flight, the passions of their dragons causes the riders to mate in their own way. In the Weyr caves which house dragons and their riders, sexual mores are different from those on the rest of the planet of Pern since dragons may not honor the current romantic commitments of their riders when mating. Since the Weyrs are group living arrangements in any case, children resulting from such liaisons are raised by the “village” with a foster mother and/or father doing the primary parenting.
1 pm Pot luck lunch—corn beef and cabbage provided by your host and hostess. Bring healthy and delicious dishes to share, please
2-3 pm Spring Equinox ritual. Flowers, joy… gratitude for the beauty and abundant fertility of Mother nature.
3-4 pm Hot tubbing and/or listening to Pern inspired music—tends to be pretty Celtic. Schooling on Pern is done by Harpers from the Harper’s Hall where musically inclined lads and lassies are apprenticed as early teens to become storytellers, singers, composers and musicians. More classic St. Patrick’s Day music such as Irish Rovers also available.

CHOOSING, FINDING AND ATTRACTING YOUR LIFEMATE(S)
2019-02-16 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Led by 4 th generation matchmaker & Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist Terry Brussel-Rogers with her Lifemates Craig Brussel Rogers and Marcus Brussel Jenkins.
Donation suggested for parties (not including Passover) and regular day time meetings: Ladies Free with pot luck dish. Gentlemen: Nonmembers $10 Members $5. Bring something healthy and delicious for the pot luck.

You are INVITED! To a 65th Birthday celebration (and meeting too)!
2019-01-19 11:00 - 16:00 | Arroyo Del Sol, 3139 Ridgeview Dr, Altadena, CA, 91101, United States
This Saturday 1/19/19 11am to 4pm come celebrate Paul Gibbons’ 65th Birthday
after his presentation:
Cooperative Living: from Family Synergy’s Allott House in the 70s to Live the Dream’s Penfield House 2019 for the January Live the Dream Meeting
and you are INVITED to come & join us.
Birthday celebration starts at 1pm, the meeting at 11am
See below for special location, (a Beautiful B&B with heated pool/Jacuzzi in Altadena), for this event!
Details on the presentation:
Paul will talk about his poly life and group living experiences from age 19 to present. He came from Cleveland to LA for a Star Trek Convention…and stayed. The Allott House was Family Synergy’s group living example as well as its meeting and party house in the late 70s. Terry and Paul met there when she and her first husband Richard brought their children to a Family Synergy Passover Seder led by group founder Hy Levy. The group went to concerts, movies and social gatherings together.
They had fun. There, Paul learned what it was like to have all the sex you could handle and what followed when there was time to build a RELATIONSHIP. Penfield House, bought by Terry and Paul (then in a triad with Marcus) in 2003, was in part an attempt to recreate some of that experience, lasting into the present. Though Paul now spends much of his time in Phoenix with his lifemate, Athena, they stay a part of the group house through frequent visits like this one…while Terry and Marcus share the home with Terry’s new husband, Craig. Polyamory and group living offer many options.
This event is at the beautiful Altadena home of Rolf & Cynthia 3139 Ridgeview Dr, Altadena, CA 91001. Beautiful heated pool, hot tub, yard and house: ALL clothing optional!
http://www.clothingoptionalhomenetwork.com/locations/california/pasadena-altadena/ for more pics or details on their nudist BNB
1-2pm Pot luck lunch
2-4pm Hot tub or pool as people wish.

Poly Meet Point: Live The Dream at LosCon!
2018-11-25 11:00 - 12:30 | Loscon at the LAX Hilton Hotel, 5711 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90045, United States
Come talk to some kindred spirits who have discovered it is possible to joyously love more than one special person in your life by being inclusive rather than exclusive. Some of us, originally inspired by such writers as Robert Heinlein, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Spider Robinson and Robert Rimmer, now LIVE such alternative lifestyles as group living, group marriage and open committed relationships. If you are among those people or just want to learn more about it, join
us for brunch!

POLY and BI?
2018-11-17 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Are you bi or bi curious or have a partner who is? Are you a male who has fantasies of making love with two delightful ladies who are also into each other? Surprise—some ladies have fantasies like that about two men. There is a whole fan fiction genre called Slash devoted to it. Perhaps you have always known you were bi or have even had a same sex lover, but have been embarrassed to discuss it with your straight partner.

If you are single and looking, should you mention your bisexuality in a personal ad or on a first date? What happens if you mention it in an on-line profile or on a dating site? Does being Bi really double your chances of a date on Saturday night?

Have you ever considered a family consisting of a triad with two bi men and a lady who wants kids? Or two couples who are all bi? If you are Poly, being bisensual or at least comfortable with touching another man may make more sense than discomfort with hugging your wife’s lover. It may be difficult to avoid touching him when he joins you and your wife in bed. If you are bi, polyamory makes more sense than monogamy for many reasons. You can have your cake and eat it, too…

We’ll discuss all of this and whatever YOUR particular questions are.

Pot luck lunch at 1 pm followed by clothing optional hot tubbing.
