Boundaries, Feeling, and Consent: Working with Survivors & Other Miracles

Title: Boundaries, Feeling, and Consent: Working with Survivors & Other Miracles

Date: June 2, 2023, 12:30pm MST - 2:30pm MST

Location: online synchronous 

Description:
In this trauma-sensitive space, we will gather to explore ways to help our clients respect and care for themselves, including developing their ability to feel and learning to express consent, make requests, and set boundaries. Using a combination of somatic exercises, journaling, and group discussion, we will examine what it means to return home to our bodies and create safety and connection. Participants will leave with a sense of possible paths forward, and concrete tools they can use. Special attention will be paid to queer and trans clients and relationships.

Learning Objectives:
•Define why feeling matters for trauma survivors and how to help clients reengage their felt sense.
•Use three new somatic practices with their clients to help them understand and practice consent.
•Use three new practices to help themselves and their clients regulate their nervous systems and return to center.

Core Knowledge Areas: A, C, D, E, F, J
Sex Therapy Training Areas: A, C, E, F
 
Presenter: Jacks McNamara
Jacks McNamara is a trauma healing coach, facilitator, educator, writer and artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Jacks has been in private practice for 11 years, with a specialty in supporting queer and trans trauma survivors, and in mentoring new queer and trans healing practitioners. They have been peer counseling, facilitating support groups, teaching art and writing classes, and leading workshops around radical mental health since 2004. Jacks is a member of the Generative Somatics Politicized Healers Network and a graduate of the gs Somatics and Trauma practitioner training program. In 2002 Jacks co-founded The Icarus Project, now known as the Fireweed Collective, an international support network and participatory adventure in mutual aid and healing justice. Co-author of Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness, their life and work are the subject of the poetic documentary Crooked Beauty. Jacks also hosts the podcast So Many Wings, a series of conversations at the intersection of social justice and transformative mental health. You can find them on the web at https://jacksmcnamara.net.

Contact: Molly Adler

TEL: 505-916-1081

Email: molly@sextherapynm.com

Website: https://app.ce-go.com/boundaries-feeling-and-consent-working-with-surviv...
 
AASECT approved for: 2 CEs
(AASECT CE Credits 60 minutes = 1 CE Credit)