Event Type Friday
Date
november
13nov15:0015:15Welcome & ArrivalAnastasia Lopez - IN VIENNA15:00 - 15:15
Time
13.11.2026 15:00 - 15:15 View in my time
Speaker
Anastasia Lopez, MA
Moderator, Journalist and Fact-Checker
Anastasia Lopez is an award-winning radio, TV and digital journalist, a freelance foreign correspondent for Ö1, and co-founder of BAIT, the first journalistic fact-checking channel on TikTok. Her work focuses on disinformation, digitalization, the climate crisis and gender equality.
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Many couples believe they have agreed on monogamy, but have they really talked about it? In this talk, psychotherapist and clinical sexologist Natascha Ditha Berger explores the unspoken
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Many couples believe they have agreed on monogamy, but have they really talked about it? In this talk, psychotherapist and clinical sexologist Natascha Ditha Berger explores the unspoken “relationship contracts” most of us live by, and why clear, honest agreements are the key to healthier relationships, whether monogamous or not.
Time
13.11.2026 15:15 - 16:00 View in my time
Speaker
Ing. Natascha Ditha Berger, MSc
Kink-Aware Professional, Psychotherapist, President of KAPA
Natascha Ditha Berger is a psychotherapist (Integrative Therapy), clinical sexologist (Sexocorporel) and internationally certified Brainspotting trauma therapist. She works with individuals, couples and groups, and is also a life and social counselor, NLP trainer and adult educator. Since 2014, her psychotherapy practice has been kink-aware and open to complex relationship structures such as consensual non-monogamy and polyamory. Natascha is a founding member and president of KAPA.
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Sexuality doesn't retire, but conversations about it often do. In this talk, Sabine Lex shares insights from Lust auf Reden, Aids Hilfe Wien's Austria-wide campaign, and its expert
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Sexuality doesn’t retire, but conversations about it often do. In this talk, Sabine Lex shares insights from Lust auf Reden, Aids Hilfe Wien’s Austria-wide campaign, and its expert forum Reife Lust. She explores why sexual health in later life is still a taboo, and how older people, partners and health professionals can talk about it more openly.
Time
13.11.2026 16:00 - 16:45 View in my time
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Mag.a (FH) Sabine Lex
Project Lead, Lust auf Reden – Austrian AIDS Service Organizations
Sabine Lex leads Lust auf Reden (“Up for Talking”), an Austria-wide campaign by Aids Hilfe Wien that helps people talk openly about sexual health – with partners, with doctors, at school, and in everyday life. She co-developed the campaign and its expert forums, including Reife Lust, a forum on sexual health in later life. At Aids Hilfe Wien, she also works with migrants and other vulnerable groups. She regularly presents at professional conferences in Austria, sharing practical tools and research findings, such as results from a patient survey on sexual health.
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In this talk, Mimi Schippers discusses how her research and her understanding of polyamorous intimacy have changed over the last decade. She maps how both her own evolving
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In this talk, Mimi Schippers discusses how her research and her understanding of polyamorous intimacy have changed over the last decade. She maps how both her own evolving understanding and new research on aromantic and non-sexual polyamorous kinship challenge the central role of sexual desire, sexual love and romantic feelings in how we define polyamory.
Time
13.11.2026 17:30 - 18:15 View in my time
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Prof. Dr. Mimi Schippers
Professor of Sociology, Gender & Sexuality Studies Researcher, Author of Beyond Monogamy
Mimi Schippers is Professor of Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She has been practicing CNM and polyamory for several decades and researching polyqueer sexualities for 15 years. She is author of Polyamory, Monogamy, and American Dreams:
The Stories We Tell about Poly Lives and the Cultural Production of Inequality
Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities
Rockin’ Out of the Box: Gender Maneuvering in Alternative Hard Rock
She is currently working on her 4th book tentatively titled:
Feeling Poly: The Affective Dimensions of Polyamory and the Politics of Belonging.
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In this session, Taylor Sparks brings 17 years of lived non-monogamy and a decade of coaching practice to the emotion every open relationship eventually meets: jealousy. She breaks
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In this session, Taylor Sparks brings 17 years of lived non-monogamy and a decade of coaching practice to the emotion every open relationship eventually meets: jealousy. She breaks down where jealousy actually comes from, the difference between disruptive and constructive responses to it, and a practical four-step framework – Stop, Observe, Strategize, Communicate – for working through it in real time, whether in a client relationship or your own. Participants leave with concrete language and tools for turning jealousy from a relationship-ending signal into one of the most useful sources of information a relationship can offer.
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Time
13.11.2026 18:15 - 19:00 View in my time
Speaker
Taylor K.Sparks
Speaker, Coach, Author, Founder
Taylor K. Sparks is an Ethical Non-Monogamy Coach and Holistic Sexual Wellness Educator based in Málaga, Spain. She is the founder of OrganicLoven.com, one of the largest BIPOC-owned intimacy retailers in the U.S.
Drawing on more than 17 years of lived ethical non-monogamy within a 25-year marriage and over a decade of professional coaching, Taylor guides individuals, couples and throuples through the conversations most people avoid – jealousy, boundaries, communication, and building relationships on their own terms.
She is the author of An African-American Guide to Ethical Non-Monogamy and its companion workbook, and the creator of the free ENM Quiz and the Ethical Non-Monogamy Companion App, the first AI coaching companion built specifically for the ENM community. Her work has been featured in more than 300 media articles, including in Cosmopolitan, Oprah Daily and Forbes, and on Bravo’s Married to Medicine.
13nov19:3020:15Inside Polyamory: Stories from My LifeReinhard Gaida-Leath - IN VIENNA19:30 - 20:15
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What does polyamory really look like from the inside? In this talk, Reinhard Gaida shares personal stories from his own non-monogamous life – the joyful
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What does polyamory really look like from the inside? In this talk, Reinhard Gaida shares personal stories from his own non-monogamous life – the joyful moments, the difficult conversations, the mistakes, and what he learned from them. Instead of theory, he offers an honest look at how love, jealousy, freedom and commitment play out in real life. A talk for anyone curious about open relationships, or anyone who has already opened theirs and wants to feel less alone on the journey.
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Time
13.11.2026 19:30 - 20:15 View in my time
Speaker
Reinhard Gaida-Leath, MSc
Coach, Speaker and Event Founder
Reinhard Gaida-Leath is a New York–based coach, speaker and event organizer. As the founder of Intimate Futures and Schwelle Festival, he creates conferences, festivals, retreats and workshops centered on relationships, sexuality and personal growth. As a coach and workshop leader, he helps people find clarity, self-determination and joy, drawing on more than 20 years of experience in breathwork, hypnosis, NLP and embodiment. He also developed Playfight, a format he has facilitated more than 450 times. His work bridges psychological expertise, body-oriented practices and conscious communication to support deep personal and relational transformation. He holds a Master of Science in Coaching from Sigmund Freud University Vienna and has completed extensive training in NLP, breathwork, hypnosis and counseling.
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How do our attachment patterns shape the way we love – especially when we love more than one person? In this talk, Jessica Fern, author of Polysecure, explores
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How do our attachment patterns shape the way we love – especially when we love more than one person? In this talk, Jessica Fern, author of Polysecure, explores how attachment theory applies to consensually non-monogamous relationships, and how self-leadership helps us build security from within rather than relying on any one partner to provide it.
Time
13.11.2026 20:15 - 21:00 View in my time
Speaker
Jessica Fern, MA
Best-Selling Author and Integrative Therapist
Jessica Fern is a best-selling author and integrative therapist with more than 25 years of experience supporting personal and relational transformation. Her work draws on conflict transformation, trauma therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic and narrative approaches, attachment theory, and spiritual and shamanic counseling traditions.
She is the internationally recognized author of Polysecure and co-author of Polywise and her newest book, Transforming the Shame Triangle.
Through her private practice and teaching, Jessica works with individuals, couples and multi-partner relationships to help them move beyond reactive patterns, cultural conditioning, insecure attachment and unresolved trauma – supporting greater self-leadership, emotional resilience and intimacy in life and love.
13nov21:0021:30Day One Wrap-UpAnastasia Lopez - IN VIENNA21:00 - 21:30
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As the first day comes to a close, we look back on the key ideas, questions and insights from today's talks and discussions – and take a moment
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As the first day comes to a close, we look back on the key ideas, questions and insights from today’s talks and discussions – and take a moment to reflect before we continue tomorrow.
Time
13.11.2026 21:00 - 21:30 View in my time
Speaker
Anastasia Lopez, MA
Moderator, Journalist and Fact-Checker
Anastasia Lopez is an award-winning radio, TV and digital journalist, a freelance foreign correspondent for Ö1, and co-founder of BAIT, the first journalistic fact-checking channel on TikTok. Her work focuses on disinformation, digitalization, the climate crisis and gender equality.