Advanced SAR: Sex and Drugs

Title of Event: Advanced SAR: Sex and Drugs

Description of Event: Bianca Laureano, PhD, MA, CSE, CSES, and Anne Hodder-Shipp, CSE, present this intensive, two-day training for practicing and emerging professionals especially those working with those in recovery.
Professional trainings about sex and substance use are rare, and those that exist often center clinical or legal perspectives that do not realistically reflect our clients’ varied relationships to drugs and alcohol. This SAR is designed to help clinicians, educators, and service professionals investigate their perceptions and biases of the various mind-altering substances present in our communities while expanding their understanding of the roles these substances might play in our clients’ (and our own) lives – especially our sex lives. In this SAR, we will use a harm-reduction framework to explore ideas, experiences, and attitudes about sobriety and recovery; how money, power, ableism, and white supremacy may inform our biases and judgments; and how frameworks like abolition, disability justice, liberation could shift and expand our perspectives.
This unique professional development training is designed to help attendees identify, challenge, and explore their perspectives, biases, knowledge gaps, and judgments about sex and substance use. We use multimedia, engaging small and large group discussion, introspective activities, and interactive exercises to allow participants to examine their feelings and values and process them with compassion. This SAR’s dynamic, open-minded learning and unlearning space is maintained and supported by Dr. Bianca Laureano and Anne Hodder-Shipp, two highly experienced group facilitators.

Date of Event:  April 15 - 16, 2025
Time of Event:  11am - 430pm PT
Location:  virtual synchronous

Presenter/Speaker: Bianca I Laureano and Anne Hodder-Shipp
Company/Organization Sponsor: (If any) ANTE UP! PD
Contact Name: Bianca I Laureano
Contact Telephone Number: (347) 948-8904
Contact Email: anteuppd@gmail.com

Event Website: https://www.anteuppd.com/event/advanced-ante-up-sar-sex-drugs-2/
AASECT Approved CEs: 10