Dr. Timaree Schmit brings lessons from sex therapy into everyday relationships
Whether we’re looking to better connect with family, friends, or coworkers, we can take tips from both couples counseling sessions and from the polyamory community to build and sustain healthy relationships. In this talk, Timaree Schmit will explore the value of nurturing relationships, the interconnected and interdependent nature of human networks, and the use of self reflection to understand the origins of negative interactions with others. Event attendees will learn how to use conflict to deepen relationships through a team-based approach to resolution, as well as how to integrate the practices of sex therapists and the polyamory community into any relationship.
About the speaker
Sexologist Timaree Schmit earned a Ph.D. in Human Sexuality Education from Widener University, the culmination of a lifelong search for rational, sex-positive, empirically-based knowledge about sexuality. She now works as an adjunct professor, guest lecturer, writer and consultant.
As the founding Chair of HSEDSO, the Human Sexuality Education Student Organization, and founding Laureate Counselor of Gamma Eta Rho, the first national honor society for students of Human Sexuality, Timaree has worked diligently to promote factual, comprehensive sexuality education and to enable other emerging professionals in the field of sexuality to bring useful, helpful and supportive information to the curious world at large. She is also the co-founder of SEXx Interactive, an annual sex positive event that features TEDx style presentations, live performances and workshops.
Sex with Timaree podcasts cover a range of topics and feature amazing, entertaining guests whose lives and professions touch on sexuality. It was named one of the top sex podcasts by Daily Dot, Buzzfeed and iTunes. Her weekly column, Timaree’s Body, appears in Philadelphia Weekly and her sexuality advice column runs twice monthly at Philly.com.
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We choose the degree to which we invest in relationships.
Active listening is a two-way street.
The relationship escalator is that idea: we hopped on the escalator at the same time, we're all going to go at the same pace.
Let's say I want to live in New York, my partner wants to live in LA. The solution is not to move to Kansas. No one is happy. We all lose.
In a world with the relationship escalator and the expectation that monogamy is the only way to do things, we cultivate jealousy.
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Photographer Steve Weinik
Videographer Dan King
