Beyond Monogamy: Discussion and Connection Salon

humhum is partnering with Dr. Marie Thouin to bring you a Discussion and Connection Salon to celebrate the launch of Marie's book, What Is Compersion?: Understanding Positive Empathy in Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships.

Pre-order the book here, and email your receipt to support@humhum.space for a free ticket to this event!

This event is also free to humhum members. Join as a member here.

Event Format:

• Moderated Q+A with Dr. Marie about her book What is Comepersion?
• Connection breakout rounds facilitated by humhum with guided prompts, active listening, and mindfulness

What is compersion? Is it the “opposite” of jealousy, as it is usually believed? Is it an emotion or a behavior? What causes it to arise and bloom? Can we “learn” compersion, or at least invite more of it into our lives?

Based on her seminal research with consensually non-monogamous (CNM) individuals, Dr. Marie Thouin unravels these questions and more in the first ever book to offer a comprehensive model of compersion and a practical roadmap to cultivating it. Indispensable for CNM individuals, therapists, counselors, and scholars, each chapter features compelling stories from real CNM people, making this scholarly book a captivating, relatable, and highly applicable read.

In addition, Marie addresses the broader social context, explaining how understanding compersion is a groundbreaking step toward a world that supports relational diversity and freedom. By disrupting the idea that jealousy is the only valid response to intimacy beyond monogamy, the existence and practice of compersion builds the foundation for a completely new paradigm of loving relationships. This book and its conclusions has profound implications for many fields of study and practice including psychology, sexuality studies, philosophy and ethics, and the law.

While the content of this book is mostly geared toward readers interested in CNM and polyamory, it is also invaluable for monogamous people and anyone curious to learn about positive empathy, intentional relationships, and radical love.

About Your Guides

​humhum is a community and dating app that centers personal growth, well-being, and human connection. humhum members can attend this event freely.

​About Dr. Marie Thouin

​Dr. Marie Thouin (she/her) is the founder of Love Insight Dating, a mindful dating coaching practice where she supports growth-minded people of all ages, genders, orientations, and relationship styles to create soulful relationships. She holds a PhD in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, where her research focused on intentional intimate relationships and consensual non-monogamy.⁠ @love_insight_dating

​In collaborating, we invite folks to learn, and get clear on how you want to show up to dating with Dr. Marie, and practice directly, in an intentional container, with humhum.

​About Alexandra Ballensweig

​Alexandra Ballensweig is the founder and CEO of humhum, a community-first, intentional dating app that fosters authentic connection, personal-growth, and wellbeing. After 8+ years as a facilitator; first in design thinking and innovation at BCG Digital Ventures, then consulting with startups in product and design, and also as a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor, humhum emerged at the intersection of Alexandra's passions for experience design, facilitated connection, and transformational experiences that foster well-being.