Love, Sex, & Relationships
Instead of Marriage: Write Your Own Relationship Contract
INSTEAD OF MARRIAGE:
WRITE YOUR OWN RELATIONSHIP CONTRACT
Are you in an on-going interpersonal relationship?
Would your relationship benefit from clarification
of the basic implicit priniples by which it has been operating?
This EXCO seminar will be an opportunity for committed couples, triples, etc.
to discuss 28 open-ended Questions
that should be asked and answered in any on-going relationship.
These 28 basic Questions are embedded in the Internet outline
of the book we will use for this seminar:
Designer Marriage: Write Your Own Relationship Contract:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/RC.html
This link also allows you to read
the beginning of the default Answer to each Question.
If you allow society to answer the Questions for you,
you will have a conventional marriage.
But if you make up your own Answers,
you might create a relationship so different from conventional marriage
that you might decide not to get officially married.
Here is the comprehensive course description:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/D-RC.html
This outlines the basic areas of discussion for this seminar.
Details about the book are also available,
including a buy-back option for EXCO participants.
Imprinted Sexual Fantasies: A New Key for Sexology
IMPRINTED SEXUAL FANTASIES:
A NEW KEY FOR SEXOLOGY
Facilitator:
James Park, existential philosopher
E-mail:
[email protected]
Phone:
612-871-7275
Course description:
We will read and discuss a book of the same name:
Imprinted Sexual Fantasies: A New Key for Sexology.
ISF offers a new explanation of human sexuality:
Each person is imprinted with specific sex-scripts
or sexual fantasies during our first 20 years of life.
Our first sexual responses are created not by nature,
not by nurture, but by mental imprinting.
If this hypothesis proves substantially correct,
it could revolutionize modern sexology.
Is this seminar for you?
Ten teasers from the text might help you decide.
Eleven chapters will be discussed in 5 sessions:
Session 1:
I. INTRODUCING THE SEX-SCRIPT HYPOTHESIS
This chapter is available free of charge on the Internet:
See the table of contents.
Participants in this class should read these 16 pages
before the first session.
After we introduce the class and the participants,
we will discuss this first chapter.
Copies of the printed book will be available in class
for the wholesale price: $25.
Session 2:
II. THE EVOLUTIONARY BACKGROUND OF HUMAN SEX-SCRIPTS
III. SEXUAL IMPRINTING AT CRITICAL PERIODS IN PSYCHO-SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT
Session 3:
IV. THREE LEVELS OF SEX-SCRIPTS
V. VARIETIES OF SEX-SCRIPTS
Session 4:
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New Ways of Loving: How Authenticity Transforms Relationships
NEW WAYS OF LOVING:
HOW AUTHENTICITY TRANSFORMS RELATIONSHIPS
Name of facilitator: James Park
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 612-871-7275
Course description:
Explore new perspectives for creating
more open, free, and growing relationships.
In five sessions we will explore 8 themes:
Session 1:
Meeting the other men and women of the group.
Introducing all the themes and distributing books.
Session 2:
(Ch. 1) recovering from romantic illusions;
(Ch. 2) becoming more Authentic;
Session 3:
(Ch. 3) maintaining freedom in love;
(Ch. 4) transcending pre-existing needs;
Session 4:
(Ch. 5) preventing jealousy by becoming unique;
(Ch. 6) opening to loving more than one person;
Session 5:
(Ch. 7) reinventing sex;
(Ch. 8) outgrowing masculinity and femininity.
Our resource for this seminar is: New Ways of Loving:
How Authenticity Transforms Relationships by James Park.
Click here for more information about the text.
Over 60 pages are available on the Internet.
These 8 chapters will be available in class for $20
Or you can buy the complete book in the sixth edition, 2007, for $35.
See options for buying these chapters.
James Park is an existential philosopher and the leader of this seminar.
A comprehensive course description appears here:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/D-NWL.html.
Class Time:
The Spring 2013 class has now been completed.
One additional meeting was added at the request of the participants,
which discussed the rest of the chapters in the book.
This course description remains on the EXCO website because New Ways of Loving is likely to be repeated in the summer of 2013.
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