Upcoming Events!

Cooperative Living: from Family Synergy’s Allott House in the 70’s to Live the Dream’s Penfield House 2024 & Paul’s 70th Birthday Celebration!

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 70’s. Terry and Paul met there when […]

Choosing, Finding, and Attracting Your Poly Lifemates

Live the Dream Center 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, United States

Led by 4th generation matchmaker Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers, author of the book Choosing, Finding and Attracting a Life Mate and the guided meditation audio ‘Attract Your Special Someone(s)’. Everyone attending in person will be given the poly supplement to the book and the guided meditation recording “Attract Your Special Someone(s)”. Whether you are a single […]

Dragon Riders of (Poly) Pern by Anne McCaffery; also, Memories of Mark Merlino

Live the Dream Center 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, United States

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 […]

Alternative Dating & Poly Relationship Etiquette

Live the Dream Center 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 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 […]

Bi? Pansexual? Or?

This meeting is led by a trans woman and cis male both identifying as Pansexual and both unmarried at present. They have many years of experience in the poly lifestyle. When I (Terry) first heard the term Pansexual, I thought it was just a fancy name for Bisexual. Apparently not. That term refers to people […]

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon: Poly? Science Fiction/Fantasy?

Live and on Zoom 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, United States

Yes to all that. It is even Pagan, as time travel is accomplished by going Through the Stones -- best done at the time of Samhain. I have on my refrigerator a magnet which says “Not only was I a bigamist and an adulteress, I had enjoyed it.” Claire Frazier on her wedding night to […]

Group Living, Intentional Communities and Polyamory: How Can YOU Create the Group House or Intimate Network of Your Dreams?

Live and on Zoom 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, United States

Today we will discuss group living, its advantages/disadvantages, whether it would be right for you, and how you could put together a group house if that is your desire. Penfield House (about 3500 sq. feet) has been a group house since 2003. It actually got its start from an unintentional group house, bursting at the […]

Atlas Shrugged: What If Ayn Rand Had Made Her Characters As Poly as She Was?

Live and on Zoom 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, United States

Ayn Rand married Frank O’Connor in 1929. In 1954, she began a passionate relationship with Nathaniel Branden. It is widely reported that both Any Rand’s husband and Nathaniel Brandon’s wife approved of this affair; thus, it would now be considered a polyamorous relationship. In Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged, Dagny Taggart deeply loved three men […]

From Family Synergy to Live the Dream: Carrying the Torch

Live and on Zoom 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, United States

Live the Dream Founded in 1987 by Terry Brussel and Brian Gitt Based on the philosophy of Family Synergy, Founded 1971 by Hy Levy and Pat LaFollette THE BEGINNINGS OF SYNERGY: Multiply Committed Relationships, Group Living and Group Marriage Excerpt from Fifty Years of Polyamory In America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement by […]

Group Marriage/Group Living SF Samples

Live and on Zoom 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, United States

Saturday December 21, 2024 Live: 11 AM – 4 PM PST Zoom: 11-1 PST Group Marriage/Group Living SF Samples: Robert A. Heinlein (Future History), Spider Robinson (Callahan books) & S. M. Sterling’s Novels of the Change:Fantasy or reality? What aspects of these do we want in our own lives & how can we create them?

Winter Solstice Ritual and Holiday Party

Live the Dream Center 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, United States

6 PM: Pot Luck Dinner7:30 PM: Winter Solstice Ritual led by High Priestess Lillith Latkes (provided by Live the Dream, along with Apple Sauce and Sour Cream), songs about the Maccabees, dreidels, lighted up Christmas miniature houses, and a Winter Solstice ritual. Although Hanukkah doesn’t start until December 25th this year, we will still light […]

ALL REGULAR LTD MEETINGS ARE ALSO ON ZOOM!

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