Title of Event: Moving Beyond Safety: Solidarity, Mutual Entanglement, and Erotic Embodiment
Many of us may want desperately to explore erotic embodiment and have mind-blowing sexual/sensual/kink experiences, but actually doing so can feel tremendously edgy and risky—particularly given that most of us hold various forms of trauma in our bodies.
Title of Event: Rejecting Mandated Reporting
Rejecting Mandated Reporting explores the harm embedded in mandated reporting practices by examining the social work, psychotherapy and colonial mental health systems. Participants will critically examine the role of diagnostic authority, the distinction between neglect vs unmet need and the parallels between involuntary hospitalization and incarceration. The workshop will also introduce concrete alternatives and community-centered approaches that support client safety without surveillance.
Title of Event: When Harm Hits Home: Resourcing Collective Repair
Meeting harm with care, not punishment; reclaiming home as a place of repair. (ASL Provided)
When Harm Hits Home asks us to get real: consent alone won’t keep all harm away — so how do we reclaim our bodies and minds as home when harm happens anyway?
Join all 3 sessions of the Fall Series: Sexy Survivor: Consent Culture -- Care or Cage?, Sweet Spot: (Re)Building Our Relational Home, and When Harm Hits Home:Resourcing Collective Repair
Sexy Survivor: Consent Culture—Care or Cage? (Sept 18, 1-2:30pm ET): Unpack the promises and limits of consent culture and explore what safety and connection actually mean for you.
Title of Event: Advanced Clinical Sexology Course
This course fills in all the holes left from a graduate education that ignored the need for a solid basic education in clinical sexology for the health provider. Our clients/patients come to us expecting that we know these basics and assume we've been trained - but the vast majority of us have not. We, like them, not only did not receive comprehensive sex education when we grew up, but our graduate education, at best provided us with one or two very limited courses in sexuality.