The Course

Do you want to explore transformative justice and nonmonogamy, integrating abolitionist practices into your relationships?

Join us as we learn to build secure, accountable, and magical connections, inspired by ancestral wisdom and practical strategies.

Staring February 12, 2025!

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Meet your instructors

Nicole Castro
Co-Founder

Nick/Nicole T. Castro, MA (she/they) is a genderqueer, bisexual, biracial, polyam trans queerling who brings a lens of embodiment and mindfulness to study violence-used-as-communication. As a relational communication expert with @New.Worlds.Together, Nick helps individuals and groups align their intention & their impact in the world. They seek to make the revolution sustainable through co-created spaces that invite and teach people how to practice new, nonviolent forms of self-expression across their relationships and community organizing. In her rest time, she reads sci-fi & fantasy, practices Tai Chi, and rides her motorcycle, Ghost.

Emily Graham
Co-Founder

Emily, or Em, (they/them) is a white, nonbinary, queer, polyamorous, neurodivergent, abolitionist therapist living on occupied Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute, and Sioux land (a.k.a. Denver). Emily has a passion for learning and creating a better world for everyone, especially through their work with individuals and relationships in their therapy practice as a licensed clinical social worker at Seeds of Liberation Counseling. Emily is committed to liberation as their North Star in all things. When Em isn’t working with clients or creating badass courses, they enjoy spending their time learning, doing witchy things like practicing tarot, foraging for mushrooms, collecting cool rocks, and snuggling with their four cats and two nesting partners. @seedsofliberationcounseling

Course FAQ

  • This course is asynchronous in that you can access each module’s materials at your own pace, within the “drip” timing that will release a new module every 2 weeks. The Q&As (every two weeks) are instructor-led and occur live. Recordings will be available on this site after each Q&A for those who can’t attend.

  • We recommend setting aside 4-5 hours a week to consume the course content, depending on your personal learning styles and how much you want to discuss with your nonmonogamous constellation. This would be in addition to the bi-weekly Q&As (75 minutes each).

    That said, we will always encourage folk to come to the Q&As even if they are not “caught up” on material. These discussions are always powerfully insightful, with room to ask questions about the material as well as about examples from one’s individual experiences.

    There are no quizzes or assignments built into our course. Our pedagogical design uses Integration Exercises to help our cohorts find a deeper, more personal and embodied understanding of the material.

  • Yes! Our Q&As are a fantastic 75-minute space to share stories from nonmonogamy and abolitionist practice, as well as to ask questions about the course material or about examples from one’s own experiences.

    If the class cohort decides to, we offer a community Discord with light moderation. This is a great place to pick your peers’ minds about the course content or even how to navigate a real world experience. Not to mention sharing memes and pet pictures!

    If you need technical support or have questions about the course more broadly, someone from our team will get back to you by email or on Discord questions within 1-2 business days, often sooner.

  • Yes! Our entire course is accessible from all internet-capable devices. We also provide a print-copy of the workbook on request. You can either download the audio recordings or stream them through the website.

  • Yes! Our course was intentionally designed to support people with ocular disabilities, with the audio books, visual descriptions of discussion videos, and screen-reader compatible versions of the digital workbook.

  • Yes! Our course is available to anyone world-wide with an internet connection.

    Unfortunately, our work has not been translated yet beyond English. If there’s a language you’d like to see first, drop us an email!

  • A full refund is available prior to the beginning of the class. If the Welcome Ceremony has already taken place, we will work with you to find an equitable solution, including options of participating in a future cohort.

  • “I deeply appreciate the multiple small moments of being able to connect with others, explore my own experience in community and challenge the many monogamy 'is better' type of thoughts that arose throughout the course. I appreciated the chance to have someone else hold space and bring new ideas and experiences. It was a novel and deeply appreciated experience. Thank you to you both!” Dr. Jess Tiergyn

    “This Liberated Relationships course inspired me, challenged me, and provided real life ways to practice living in relationships that help make life worth living. I desire to have relationships that are free, connected, broad and deep. Something deep in my soul aches to break free from the legacy of my family and culture to embrace something beautiful, gritty and authentically real.” Emily Trujillo

    “This course is not about the ‘right’ way to do nonmonogamy, it’s about fundamentally rethinking relationships on every level; relationship to ourselves, to our partners, to the current world, and to the liberated abolitionist future world we are building together.” Alisha Roy

    As a nonmonogamy newbie, I cannot overstate how helpful this course has been in figuring out how to approach nonmonogamy in an intentional way. The amount of relief I found the Liberating Accountability module was one of the best moments for me. I’ve released a lot of fear & perfectionism knowing I now have the tools to engage in repair, for a real accountability process, rooted in abolition.” Robert Carter

    “The Liberated Relationships course reminded me that healing is possible, that change is possible and that these possibilities exist in community. Liberated Relationships presses deeply into how we can do better while honoring ourselves and those we love.” Sofia Ortega