2024 Pre-Conference Schedule
Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) Program & Pre-Conference Workshops
These offerings are optional add-ons to the general conference program and require an additional registration fee.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2024
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The Embodied SAR: Reassessing the Role of Embodiment in Sexuality (Part 1)
Presenters
Rafaella Smith-Fiallo, LCSW, CSE
De-Andrea Blaylock-Solar, LCSW-S, CST (she/her)
Intended Audience
All Audiences
Session Description
The Embodied SAR is an experiential, group-based process that facilitates participants in expanding their awareness of how various aspects of their sexual attitudes, beliefs, values, and practices both influence and are influenced by one’s experience of and relationship to their body. Rationale: Embodiment involves awareness of somatic feeling, body movements, and the relationship of one’s own body to other bodies. When individuals become disembodied they are likely to lose their connection to their sexual selves. In order to work effectively with sexual concerns, professionals must examine the connection between interpersonal context, social identity and its impact on sexuality. It is intended that after participating in this SAR, attendees will:
- Identify relevant frameworks that are relevant to professional growth and development.
- Explore methods of applying relevant frameworks to one’s personal and professional practice.
- Examine various experiences of embodiment and implications on sexuality.
- Recognize how identity and social perception may contribute to body disconnection.
- Develop practical components of embodiment for individual and clinical use.
- Demonstrate an increased awareness of personal attitudes, values, feelings and beliefs about an array of sexual and social identities.
- Develop greater comfort when addressing and discussing sexual identity topics.
- Discuss how their sexual feelings, values, reactions, and beliefs may be impacting their ability to work with multicultural groups in professional settings.
- Describe at least three (3) examples of ways intersectionality is relevant to sexuality professions.
- Examine the relationship between dominant social narratives and the maintenance of sexual ethics, normalcy, and sexual politics.
- Articulate the ways in which one’s personal sexological worldview has developed over time; compare and contrast the unique components of one’s own sexological worldview to those of other professionals within the field;
- Recognize how discomfort with diverse sexual practices may contribute to barriers in the delivery of educational, health, social, and behavioral health services.
- Recognize how internalized stereotypes influence our perception of sexual health, wellness, identity, and behavior.
- Clarify the aspects of sexual knowledge and self-awareness that present areas for further professional exploration.
- Develop practice perspectives that promote understanding and respectful interactions with individuals who hold different and possibly competing worldviews.
Registration
In-Person: The Sexuality Attitude Reassessment (SAR) is an optional add-on to the general conference program, requiring an additional registration fee. Registration is limited to 30 participants.
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
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The Embodied SAR: Reassessing the Role of Embodiment in Sexuality (Part 2)
Presenters
Rafaella Smith-Fiallo, LCSW, CSE
De-Andrea Blaylock-Solar, LCSW-S, CST (she/her)
Intended Audience
All Audiences
Session Description
The Embodied SAR is an experiential, group-based process that facilitates participants in expanding their awareness of how various aspects of their sexual attitudes, beliefs, values, and practices both influence and are influenced by one’s experience of and relationship to their body. Rationale: Embodiment involves awareness of somatic feeling, body movements, and the relationship of one’s own body to other bodies. When individuals become disembodied they are likely to lose their connection to their sexual selves. In order to work effectively with sexual concerns, professionals must examine the connection between interpersonal context, social identity and its impact on sexuality. It is intended that after participating in this SAR, attendees will:
- Identify relevant frameworks that are relevant to professional growth and development.
- Explore methods of applying relevant frameworks to one’s personal and professional practice.
- Examine various experiences of embodiment and implications on sexuality.
- Recognize how identity and social perception may contribute to body disconnection.
- Develop practical components of embodiment for individual and clinical use.
- Demonstrate an increased awareness of personal attitudes, values, feelings and beliefs about an array of sexual and social identities.
- Develop greater comfort when addressing and discussing sexual identity topics.
- Discuss how their sexual feelings, values, reactions, and beliefs may be impacting their ability to work with multicultural groups in professional settings.
- Describe at least three (3) examples of ways intersectionality is relevant to sexuality professions.
- Examine the relationship between dominant social narratives and the maintenance of sexual ethics, normalcy, and sexual politics.
- Articulate the ways in which one’s personal sexological worldview has developed over time; compare and contrast the unique components of one’s own sexological worldview to those of other professionals within the field;
- Recognize how discomfort with diverse sexual practices may contribute to barriers in the delivery of educational, health, social, and behavioral health services.
- Recognize how internalized stereotypes influence our perception of sexual health, wellness, identity, and behavior.
- Clarify the aspects of sexual knowledge and self-awareness that present areas for further professional exploration.
- Develop practice perspectives that promote understanding and respectful interactions with individuals who hold different and possibly competing worldviews.
Registration
In-Person: The Sexuality Attitude Reassessment (SAR) is an optional add-on to the general conference program, requiring an additional registration fee. Registration is limited to 30 participants.
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Boundaries in Eight Dimensions: A Framework in Service of Consent
Presenters
Anne Thompson, LPC (she/they)
Intended Audience
All Audiences
Session Description
The Eight Dimensions of Boundaries is a tool to make the invisible visible, a strategy for communication as an act of exchange. The tool highlights that all individuals are part of intersecting groups, communities and institutions, simultaneously offering opportunities to reinforce personal sovereignty, including as it relates to relational dynamics, gender, sexuality and pleasure. Through highlighting the overlap of boundaries’ psychological and concrete nature, the framework is a response to dominant social constructs of what constitutes a ‘healthy’ boundary.
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Ethical Debate & Restorative Justice: Community, Compromise & Repairing Harm for Adolescents
Presenters
Wendy Maskin
Intended Audience
All Audiences
Session Description
Use your voice to have a live ethical debate. Participants will discover and choose viewpoints of a debatable issue, then engage in that debate with each other in a guided format. Experience learning and discourse with others, then build compromise together. Following compromise building, a participant-driven restorative circle format will be used to talk through sensitive issues and team build with others. Then participants will discuss the thinking behind these formats: how and why do they work.
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Sexuality Educator Antiracist Training (SEAT)
Presenters
Crystal Ellis, MPH, CSE (she/her)
Michelle Linschoten (she/her)
Intended Audience
Educators, Supervisors
Session Description
The Sexuality Educator Anti-racist Training (SEAT) empowers sexuality educators with skills to confront, interrupt, de-construct, and challenge racism in sexuality attitudes and education. SEAT is an answer to the question, ‘What do I do when a racist incident happens under my supervision- whether I or someone else was the source of harm?’ This training offers an experiential approach from a pluralistic viewpoint that goes beyond centering whiteness.
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What Every Sex Therapist Needs to Know about Pelvic Dysfunction
Presenters
Jessica Kruckeberg, LMFT, CST (she/they)
Intended Audience
Counselors, Therapists, Supervisors, and Medical Professionals
Session Description
Most sex therapy training do not go in-depth into working with pelvic pain/dysfunction clients leaving a sex therapist feeling helpless and stuck, resulting in these clients being referred out to pelvic pain physical therapy as the one and only solution. In this workshop, we will help you understand more about pelvic dysfunction through a detailed discussion of the anatomy of the pelvic bowl, the various other body systems chronic pelvic dysfunction can impact, detailed look at the comorbidity diagnosis, the importance of talking to clients about their menstrual cycles, the penis and pelvic floor, and the impact pelvic pain has relationships.