Description

The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups challenges the idea that a relationship ending must be viewed as a failure, offering a thoughtful, compassionate approach to navigating breakups within polyamorous and consensually non-monogamous relationships. In this educational class, Board-Certified Sexologist and AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator Lilithfoxx examines the unique emotional, interpersonal, and logistical complexities of ending relationships when multiple partners, interconnected relationships, and shared communities are involved. From navigating difficult conversations and managing grief to redefining relationships and maintaining healthy boundaries, this class provides practical tools for approaching breakups with empathy, accountability, and respect for everyone affected.

Features:

• Understanding Breakups in Polyamorous Relationships: Examine the unique challenges of ending relationships within polyamorous networks, including overlapping partnerships, shared responsibilities, interconnected social circles, and the emotional impact on multiple people.
• Recognizing When a Relationship Needs to Change or End: Explore how to identify incompatibilities, unmet needs, shifting priorities, and unhealthy dynamics while distinguishing between challenges that may be addressed through communication and relationships that may no longer be sustainable.
• Navigating Compassionate Breakup Conversations: Learn strategies for communicating your decision with honesty, clarity, and care, including how to avoid unnecessary blame, acknowledge difficult emotions, and establish realistic expectations for the transition.
• Managing Grief and Emotional Processing: Understand how grief, guilt, jealousy, relief, and uncertainty can coexist during a breakup, and discover approaches to processing these emotions without minimizing your own experiences or those of others.
• Considering Metamours and the Broader Polycule: Examine how breakups can affect metamours, mutual partners, and shared communities while learning to navigate privacy, shifting dynamics, and the boundaries between offering support and becoming involved in someone else’s relationship conflict.
• Establishing Boundaries and Navigating Transitions: Develop practical strategies for managing contact, shared spaces, social events, and ongoing connections after a breakup, including how to negotiate changes without assuming that friendship or continued intimacy is always possible or appropriate.
• Redefining Relationships Beyond Romantic Partnership: Explore the possibilities and limitations of transitioning relationships into friendships, platonic partnerships, or other forms of connection while recognizing that separation and distance can also be healthy outcomes.
• Building Resilience and Moving Forward: Learn approaches to self-reflection, community support, emotional recovery, and personal growth that can help you process relationship endings and approach future connections with greater intention.

Whether you’re considering ending a relationship, navigating a recent breakup, supporting a partner through a separation, or simply hoping to develop healthier relationship skills, The Breakup Blueprint offers a compassionate framework for handling difficult transitions within polyamorous relationships. You’ll leave with practical tools for communicating honestly, maintaining boundaries, navigating interconnected relationships, and honoring the significance of a connection even when its romantic chapter comes to an end. Because a relationship doesn’t have to last forever to have been meaningful, and ending one with care can be just as intentional as beginning it.

This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and each session is approved for 1.5 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. However, completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT certification. For further information please contact Lilith@LilithFoxx.com.