7 Group Supervision Hours
(No CE Credit available – Supervision Hours Only)

This session will take place live/synchronously and will not be recorded. Open exclusively to members who are already under contract with a supervisor prior to registration.

Presenters

Neil “Nelly” Cannon, PhD, LMFT, CST, CST-S

Kimberly Castelo, LMFT-S and CST-S, CEFT-T  (she/her/hers)

Mesha Ellis, PhD, CST  (she/her/hers)

Aleece Fosnight, MSPAS, PA-C, CSC-S, CSE, NCMP, IF  (she/her/hers)

About this session

This is a virtual supervision session that offers clinical supervision in sex therapy and sexuality counseling. Group Supervision at the annual PreCon is a long-held AASECT Tradition. The aim is to provide folx on the certification path with an amazing, affordable and accessible supervision experience with some of our most senior AASECT Certified Supervisors. There are two scholarship spots available (see below).

The group supervision session is small and intimate. Space is limited to eight (8) supervisees who will be supported by four (4) AASECT Certified Supervisors (3 CST-S and 1 CSC-S). Each supervisor was carefully selected based on their safe and welcoming style, along with their unique specialties and vast experience. In addition to staffing specific cases, the supervisors will also provide you with processes and practical tools that will be available to you for a lifetime.

The supervisors have a broad variety of expertise covering a wide range of presenting concerns, including:

• Sexual desire discrepancy and libido issues
• Sexual functioning, pelvic pain and pleasure for penis and vulva owners from a medical, relational, and psychotherapy perspective
• Kink, BDSM & Fetishes
• Out of Control Sexual Behavior (OCSB)
• Ethical Non-Monogamy
• Transgender Non-Binary
• Care for LGBTQI+
• Couples counseling for sex therapy clients
• Infidelity and betrayal
• Trauma, abuse & bullying
• Zoophilia & Bestiality
• The above list are examples of the supervisor’s specialties. Let us help you with your most complex case.

Cost – $390 ($55 per hour)

Counts for 7 hours of group supervision (These hours do not count toward the maximum number of 6 supervision hours one is limited to in any given month). 

Eligibility

Prior to registration, participants must already have an AASECT Supervisor and be on a path toward certification.

Registration

To register please send an email to: conference@aasect.org. After your registration has been accepted, you will receive a supervision contract, a case consult form, and additional information from Dr. Cannon’s Practice Manager, Kashmira Pearcy.

DEI and Financial Need Scholarship Criteria

One of the two scholarships is available to a Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color (BIPOC). The second scholarship will be awarded based on financial need. Those interested in applying to the scholarship must meet the following criteria:

Prior to applying, participants must already be an AASECT Member in good standing, have an AASECT Supervisor, and be on a path toward certification.

Scholarship Funding

In an effort to create more opportunities and access to AASECT Certification, the supervisors have waived their honorarium for this event.

Scholarship Application

To apply please submit a personal statement up to 500 words, based on the criteria outlined above and include your commitment to pursuing a career in the field of human sexuality, sexuality education, sexuality counseling, sex therapy, sex research, or sexual health. Please submit your personal statement to conference@aasect.org. Incomplete or partial applications will not be accepted. The recipients of both scholarships will be confidential unless the recipients ask for the award to be announced. The deadline for applications for this scholarship is March 31, 2023.

This session will take place live/synchronously and will not be recorded.

Presenter

Midori  (she/her)

About this session

Midori is excited to share a new virtual education process and tool she developed in 2022.

First section: Using reinterpreted D&D strategies, this class helps people play more creatively, authentically, and fluidly in BDSM, while eschewing limiting beliefs, stereotypes, and misogyny often perpetuated in kink education.

Second section: Reframing BDSM terms, centering on recreational motives and use of Midori’s Appetite Grid.

Third section: Sharing curriculum development challenges and Q&A

CE Credit

4 AASECT CE Credits (AASECT CE Credits Only)

This session will take place live/synchronously and will not be recorded.

Presenter

Zelaika S. Hepworth Clarke MSW, MEd, PhD  (they/them; zie/zir; she/her)

About this session

African-centered sex therapy utilizes African-centered psychologies, pre-colonial African erotic wisdom, sexual epistemology, ontology, and spiritual systems to inform our understanding of human sexual behavior and sexual healing. This presentation will explore African-Centered therapeutic approaches, theories, and models that can be used in sex therapy to promote sexual wellness and liberation as well as African-centered pedagogies. Osunality or African Eroticism and sensualities will be highlighted containing rich constructs, narratives, and frameworks which can be an opportunity for sexuality professionals to increase their sexual multi epistemic literacy and critical thinking.

CE Credit

4 AASECT CE Credits (AASECT CE Credits Only)

This session will take place live/synchronously and will not be recorded.

This session will take place live/synchronously and will not be recorded.

Presenter

B Lourenco MA, LMHC  (she/her)

About this session

In the last few years, people have been making incredible discoveries about themselves, including the possibility that they may be Autistic: suddenly, so many things that didn’t make sense are now aligning, including differences in sex and relationships.

Learn how the Neurodiversity Affirming Paradigm shifts away from the stigmatizing medical model and allows for the self-identification of Autism, which has encouraged and allowed Autistic people to relate and connect with each other in ways that they previously could not.

CE Credit

4 AASECT CE Credits (AASECT CE Credits Only)

Tune into the virtual awards ceremony to honor the best and brightest in the field of sexuality! See the award categories >>

This session will take place live/synchronously and will not be recorded.

Presenter

Eric Garrison MAEd, DipLSHTM, CSC-S, FRSPH  (he/him/Eric)

About this session

As Sex Counseling – both in and outside of AASECT – continues to grow and as AASECT’s counselor certification applicant list expands to include not only medical and public health professionals, but also leaders in our religious communities vis-à-vis pastoral counseling, the need for a model that focuses on counseling (providing formal sexual health advice versus sex education or sex therapy) is apparent.

This workshop, open to all, will not only provide the history and structure of the PICARD model, but it will invite participants to move through its stages using case studies and roleplays as well as to see its various applications through a “Be IDEAL Justice” lens. Afterall, the model was created on one side of the proverbial Pond and refined ten years later on the other – all by engaging caring members of multiple, intersectional professional communities and their constituents.

CE Credit

4 AASECT CE Credits (AASECT CE Credits Only)

Presenters

Coltan J. Schoenike, MS, MFT-IT, LAMFT  (they/them)

Jeong Eun Park, MS, LMFT  (zie/he)

Alex Iantaffi, PhD, MS, SEP, CST, LMFT  (they/them)

Markie L. C. Twist, PhD, LMFT, LMHC, CSE-S  (they/she)

Requirements

Must have completed a previous AASECT SAR to participate.

CE Credit

8 AASECT CE Credits (AASECT CE Credits Only)

About the SAR

This Advanced SAR serves an important purpose in providing space for professionals who have already begun their reflective journey and done some of their own work in previous SARs where they can dig deeper. The growing visibility of relationships and families outside of the monogamous structure has led many practitioners and educators to seek more information so that they may become more culturally attuned with clients who are engaged or want to engage in consensual nonmonogamy.

SARs are instrumental in a sexuality educator, counselor, or therapist’s training because we know that all of the information in the world will only serve us to a point, if we have not looked within ourselves to understand our own biases and narratives as well. Noting the increased demand for information and training around consensual/ethical nonmonogamy and polyamory, this Advanced SAR serves a similar purpose by inviting participants to look within themselves to identify their own biases, values and beliefs. Through media viewing, reflective and experiential exercises, and small and large group discussions and dialogues, this space will get to the core of what we have been told about relationships and intimacy and how those messages might influence us when we work with our clients as educators, counselors or therapists.

We will explore what structures and systems have informed these narratives and how compulsory monogamy is pervasive in the overculture. As we critically examine these messages, we also hope to foster and facilitate imagination and autonomy as individuals and as a collective.

What do we want relationships to mean, rather than what we’ve been told?
What can partnership and commitment be, rather than what it’s looked like before?
Does ethical non-monogamy offer us new possibilities regardless of whether we intentionally choose monogamy or not?

Presenters

Coltan J. Schoenike, MS, MFT-IT, LAMFT  (they/them)

Jeong Eun Park, MS, LMFT  (zie/he)

Alex Iantaffi, PhD, MS, SEP, CST, LMFT  (they/them)

Markie L. C. Twist, PhD, LMFT, LMHC, CSE-S  (they/she)

Requirements

Must have completed a previous AASECT SAR to participate.

CE Credit

8 AASECT CE Credits (AASECT CE Credits Only)

About the SAR

This Advanced SAR serves an important purpose in providing space for professionals who have already begun their reflective journey and done some of their own work in previous SARs where they can dig deeper. The growing visibility of relationships and families outside of the monogamous structure has led many practitioners and educators to seek more information so that they may become more culturally attuned with clients who are engaged or want to engage in consensual nonmonogamy.

SARs are instrumental in a sexuality educator, counselor, or therapist’s training because we know that all of the information in the world will only serve us to a point, if we have not looked within ourselves to understand our own biases and narratives as well. Noting the increased demand for information and training around consensual/ethical nonmonogamy and polyamory, this Advanced SAR serves a similar purpose by inviting participants to look within themselves to identify their own biases, values and beliefs. Through media viewing, reflective and experiential exercises, and small and large group discussions and dialogues, this space will get to the core of what we have been told about relationships and intimacy and how those messages might influence us when we work with our clients as educators, counselors or therapists.

We will explore what structures and systems have informed these narratives and how compulsory monogamy is pervasive in the overculture. As we critically examine these messages, we also hope to foster and facilitate imagination and autonomy as individuals and as a collective.

What do we want relationships to mean, rather than what we’ve been told?
What can partnership and commitment be, rather than what it’s looked like before?
Does ethical non-monogamy offer us new possibilities regardless of whether we intentionally choose monogamy or not?

Presenter

Dr. Tracie Gilbert  (she/they)

About the Workshop

Part of forging community among diverse sex ed professionals is by addressing the barriers that keep it from being realized. IGD, or Intergroup Dialogues, is one strategy that serves to help overcome hurdles for emergent sexuality professionals at Widener University’s Center for Human Sexuality Studies. In this session, recent facilitators for CHSS’s IGD course will review basic philosophies behind intergroup dialogues, while sharing specific ways its strategies have made the course an impactful learning process for both students and faculty alike.

CE Credit

4 AASECT CE Credits (AASECT CE Credits Only)

Presenter:

Shemeka Thorpe, PhD (she/her)

About this Plenary:

Black feminism was created to uplift, empower, and center the voices of Black women by using their experiences to make meaning and create knowledge. Yet, so often Black women’s voices and stories regarding their sexual wellness and lived sexual experiences are silenced both within practice and community. This plenary will explore the ways in which Black women’s collective sexual wisdom is represented in sex research, while also providing implications for sexuality professionals that centers the voices of Black women.

Presenter

Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP

In-person Morning Mixer and Plenary Viewing

Let’s catch breakfast and a movie! In-person participants will mingle at breakfast and enjoy a viewing of Resmaa Menakem’s pre-recorded Schiller Plenary presentation followed by an informal discussion.

Virtual  Registration

For attendees unable to join us in San Francisco, you can register for access to of Resmaa Menakem’s pre-recorded Schiller Plenary presentation for $40. This recording can be watched asynchronously on your own time.

Additional details about this session coming soon!

Presenter

Dr. Kim Tallbear

About this Plenary

Coming soon!

More info coming soon!

Presenter

Bianca I Laureano, PhD, MA, CSE, CSES  Dr/she/Ella

About the Plenary

Coming soon

Presenter

Shanna K. Kattari, PhD, MEd, CSE, ACS  (They/Them/Theirs)

About the Plenary

Coming soon

More info coming soon!