Choosing Your Story: Heartbreak, Sexuality, and Creativity

A Dialogue with Lea Roth, Nastassja Schmiedt and Travis Newbill

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What You’ll Learn:

  • Hear Lea and Nastassja’s talk about how heartbreak isn’t separate from their love story
  • Explore the ways community, connection, and collaboration affect our relationships
  • Navigate the creative process of relationships (and learn a practice to help)

About Nastassja and Lea

Nastassja Schmiedt and Lea Roth are cultivating an evolution in millennial consciousness. The couple use their book Millennial Sex (Education) to facilitate story-based consent, gender, and sexuality education. Their social enterprise Spring Up offers narrative-based leadership development and organizational consulting in diversity, inclusion, and coalition building. They have given two TEDx talks: “Cultivating a Culture of Consent,” and “Millennials On The Brink,” and appeared on stage with Lady Gaga at the 2016 Oscars. Their activism and personal stories are featured in the moving anthology “We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out,” the award-winning 2015 documentary “The Hunting Ground” and the forthcoming “Silent U.”

Learn more about Nastassja & Lea and participate in their free 5-day Consent Challenge by visiting their website here. Check out their TEDx talk here and get a copy of Millennial Sex! The youth educational version of their book is currently available for free download. You can join Nastassja & Lea’s community on Patreon to get advance access to their latest creative projects!

About Travis Newbill

Travis Newbill is a student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition, an MFA student in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, and a student of Ikebana under Alexandra Shenpen, Sensei in both the Kalapa and Sogetsu schools. Singer-songwriter, poet/writer, and fan of the band Phish, Travis resides in Boulder, CO with his partner Heather.

You can check out his website here.

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