The Alternative Spirit Conference provides an Interfaith/Interspiritual education, skills development, and discussion forum around topics pertaining to the intersection of spirituality/spiritual practice, faith communities, and Alternative or “Alt” identifying populations. Alternative is a broad term encompassing people in diverse non-mainstream relationships, lifestyles, and family/kinship constellations, and/or whose sex, sexuality, sexual practices, and gender expressions are non stereotypical or non-conforming. Alternative populations include, but are not limited to, Kink, BDSM, Leather, Fetish, Polyamory, Consensual Non Monogamy, Consensual Power Exchange, Chosen Families, Queer, Genderqueer and Nonconforming, LGBTQAI2+, and beyond.
The Alternative Spirit Conference aims to provide information, raise awareness, foster perspective, promote spiritual and faith community affirmation for Alt populations, and invite diverse points of view within an environment of respect, support, validation, and kindness for all participants.