Dr. Eli Sheff is an Educational Consultant and Expert Witness Serving Sexual and Gender Minorities.
The fantastic folks over at the always scintillating Multiamory podcast interviewed me again to check in on the emerging findings from my ongoing study of polyamorous families with children. You can find my interview and many others that would definitely be worth a listen on their site at https://www.multiamory.com/
In my newest blog on Psychology Today I introduce Jillian Deri's term polyagony and briefly summarize Deri's findings that she published in her book Love's Refraction. Then I detail five of the ways that the people who have participated in my research report experiencing polyagony. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201805/polyagony-when-polyamory-goes-really-wrong The image is a photograph of a weathered gray... Continue Reading →
Practical NonMonogamy: An empirical guide to relationship diversity and kinky sex with Dr. Eli Sheff Workshop Tour 2018 This May I will embark on an 11 city, three month road trip in the United States to provide educational and interactive workshops about polyamory and kinky sex. See the schedule below for dates in a city... Continue Reading →
A colleague is conducting research on compersion. Please consider participating if you match the study criteria Have you ever experienced joy (rather than jealousy) when your partner(s) found love with another partner, in the context of a committed, consensually nonmonogamous relationship? If you are 21 years old or over, speak English and answered yes to... Continue Reading →
Southwest Love Fest April 6-8, 2018 Tucson, AZ The Southwest Love Fest is a conference on consensual non-monogamy with opportunities to learn, share and connect with other like minded people. It's an open space to find community and learn from others' diverse relationship experiences. It's going to be thought-provoking, transformative and all happening in a great... Continue Reading →
Roy Waidler, previously with Outlands Community, has recently begun posting their most popular interviews on Academia.edu You can find the one he did with me here. https://www.academia.edu/35932014/Ten_Questions_for_Dr._Eli_Sheff.pdf
Doctoral candidate and Principle Investigator of the Hear My Voice Study, De'Shay Tomas at Arizona State University is seeking women who identify as Black/African American and LGBTQ+ and have experienced mental distress to participate in research. If you participate, you get a $25 gift card for the 1 to 2 hour interview via Skype, telephone,... Continue Reading →
In my most recent Psychology Today blog I use fresh longitudinal data to explore the absence of jealousy and how some people who had never felt it before encounter a situation that triggers jealousy, even after years of being in CNM relationships without jealousy. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201711/some-people-truly-don-t-feel-jealousy Image is of three colorful birds sitting on... Continue Reading →
Over the years I have spoken to the AASECT community of educators, counselors, and therapists in Atlanta several times. Their delightful local leader Natalie Elliot of the Atlanta Counseling Institute has written me a letter of recommendation, see below. To Whom It May Concern, I would like to enthusiastically endorse Dr. Eli Sheff. She... Continue Reading →
Sheff’s television appearances include CNN, and the National Geographic, and she has given more than 20 radio, podcast, print, and television interviews with sources from Radio Slovenia to National Public Radio, the Sunday London Times to the Boston Globe and Newsweek.
