Bringing your best self to dating & relationships requires a resilient nervous system. We’ll show you how to get there with the right tools!

Ready to revolutionize your approach to dating? Join Dr. Marie Thouin in this engaging virtual workshop where you’ll explore her transformative 6-part framework for mindful dating. This is more than just theory—it’s a practical guide filled with real-life examples to help you date with intention, authenticity, and purpose.

Join us at Book Passage for an author event in celebration of Julie Krafchick and Yue Xu's new book How to be Dateable: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Person and Falling in Love! Joined in-conversation with Dr. Marie Thouin, Mindful Dating & Relationship Coach and expert on the topic of compersion (positive empathy).

Singles Nite at Temescal Brewing in Oakland! Mingle, connect, and explore opportunities for meaningful connections. Join for an interactive talk "How to Date Like a Buddhist" from our guest speaker, Marie Thouin, PhD.

Dating apps hold immense potential for meaningful connection—but let’s face it, most are designed to hook our attention and maximize profit from our longings, often leaving our self-esteem and well-being in the dust.

The good news? With an intentional mindset and strategy, we can reclaim our power and turn online dating into a tool for self-discovery, true empowerment, and authentic relating.

Join Marie Thouin, PhD as she covers her research and approaches to working with compersion and polyamory. Understand how Compersion works and what helps it show up in relationships. CEUs available for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, in California.

Sixteen speakers, including Marie, give 5 minute talks on sex, relationships, and other tremendously adult topics.

What’s an Ignite Talk? Each speaker gets just 5 minutes with 20 slides that automatically advance every 15 seconds, creating a fast-paced, engaging experience. But Ignite! After Dark turns up the heat, with topics that dive deep into sexuality, kink, the adult industry, psychedelics, and non-traditional relationship structures like non-monogamy.

Join us for a cozy and enriching evening of community discussion, breakout conversation designed to nourish authentic connection, and tea at The Center SF.

Whether you're polycurious, or living into your most vital poly-dreams, we welcome you to be in community with us.

In this training, Dr. Marie Thouin will offer CNM people and their therapists/counselors critical understandings and tools to improve relationship satisfaction, security, and positive empathy, based on her research-based model of compersion.

Look... dating apps are not designed with our well-being in mind. They're gamified to keep us hooked in, like a slot machine in a casino - by playing dirty tricks on our ego & self-esteem.

That said, they're an amazing technology, and the most popular way people meet.

Learning to outsmart the negatives of the apps can put you back in the driver's seat, help you practice authentic expression, and create amazing connections online without losing your mind in the process.