About this Event
“Reimagine: Families”: An Intimate audience-led evening with Jessica Fern & David Cooley (Polysecure & Polywise)
7:00 - 9:30 PM
The Modern Family Institute (MFI) invites you to an intimate evening of community connection and conversation with Jessica Fern (Polysecure) and Restorative Justice expert David Cooley, co-authors of the newly released .
Advance registration is required, and space is limited.
Tickets* are on a sliding scale from $35 - $125. Recommended price: $55.
*All ticket sales will go directly to the Institute and help advance MFI's mission to ensure a safer, more inclusive society for all families and relationships to flourish.
Event:
7:00 - 7:30: Snacks, drinks, and book signing
7:30 - 7:40: Kickoff with Modern Family Institute co-founders Dr. Heath Schechinger and Dr. Lily Lamboy
7:40 - 8:30: “Ask Us Anything” with Jessica Fern and David Cooley
8:30 - 9:30: Auction, music, and opportunities for small-group connection with our guest speakers
About :
The monogamous nuclear family is rapidly evolving -- today, less than 20% of US households resemble this structure. Despite this, our legal, financial, housing, and social systems are still designed primarily for monogamous nuclear families, creating obstacles for forming, sustaining, and growing families that exist outside this structure. The Modern Family institute conducts research on the demographics and needs of diverse family and relationship structures in order to create major shifts in legal rights, social norms, policies, and clinical practices that help people build and sustain flourishing families. They also serve as subject matter experts in support of impactful, data-driven policy reform to foster a more inclusive and supportive environment for modern families and relationships.
About Jessica Fern
Jessica Fern is a Psychotherapist, Coach, and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. Jessica is the author of Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and NonMonomgamy, The Polyseucre Workbook: Healing Your Attachment and Creating Security in Loving Relationships, and Polywise: A Deeper Dive Into Navigating Open Relationships. In her international private practice, Jessica works with individuals, couples, and people in multiple-partner relationships who no longer want to be limited by their reactive patterns, cultural conditioning, insecure attachment styles, and past traumas, helping them to embody new possibilities in life and love. Learn more at JessicaFern.com.
About David Cooley
David Cooley is a professional Restorative Justice facilitator, diversity and privilege awareness trainer, and bilingual cultural broker. He is the creator of the Restorative Relationship Conversations model, a process that transforms interpersonal conflict into deeper connection, intimacy and repair. In his private practice, David specializes in working with non-monogamous and LGBTQ partnerships, incorporating a variety of modalities including trauma-informed care, attachment theory, somatic practices, narrative theory, and mindfulness-based techniques.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Location will be shared closer to the event, Oakland, United States
USD 55.00
