Nicole Thompson

She/Her

Psychedelic Pleasure

The Erotic Set and Setting of Liberation

Sunday, August 23rd

12:45 pm

Room: Long's Peak

This presentation invites participants to experience non-monogamous sex and relating through the lens of psychedelic wisdom. Drawing on her work as a clinical psychotherapist in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, Dr. Nicole shows how classic psychedelic frameworks can help design intentional erotic containers for sex, play, and non-monogamous connection.

She'll guide participants in exploring how "erotic set and setting" shapes jealousy, compersion, desire, and safety, and offer pleasure-centered integration practices that translate big emotional or altered-state moments into concrete shifts in boundaries, communication, and agreements.

Throughout, Dr. Nicole frames psychedelics, pleasure, and non-monogamy as political, liberatory practices that challenge ownership-based models of love — inviting more honest, caring, and autonomous ways of relating.

Dr. Nicole Thompson, PsyD is a queer Sex and Relationship Psychotherapist providing Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy and host of Modern Anarchy Podcast. She is the author of The Psychedelic Jealousy Guide: Crafting Secure Non-Monogamous Relationships and published the first research study on Relationship Anarchy. As one of the leading theorists on non-monogamy and sexuality, Dr. Nicole bridges academic research with embodied, pleasure-centered strategies to help individuals navigate intimacy, relationships, and desire. She is also the founder of The Pleasure Practice, where she supports individuals in crafting expansive sex lives and intimate relationships.