Socio-cultural and familial factors

Title of Event: Couples in Conflict: Treatment Strategies That Work

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While every couple has conflict, only some know how to manage it. What do these successful couples do that we can teach other couples? Why do some couples periodically damage their relationship unnecessarily? How can we help all couples quarrel less often, less intensely, and less destructively?

We’ll look at how to transform couples’ conflict into a cooperative activity, complete with practical guidelines—including the role of curiosity in making conflict more productive.

Title of Event: Emotional Brain: Power, Pathology and Policing of Feelings

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Title of Event: Same Fight, Different Century: The History of Sex Education in America

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Sex education has been contested in American public schools since its earliest days. Drawing on her book The Fight for Sex Ed (Beacon Press, 2025), Margaret Grace Myers’s lecture traces the history of sexuality education in America — revealing that today’s battles over curriculum, parental rights, and school board politics are anything but new.

Start Date: 11-04-2026

End Date: 11-04-2026

Time of Event: 7-8 pm ET

Title of Event: Polyaffectionate: Navigating Platonic Inclusive Non-Monogamy

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Polyamory and non-monogamy challenge the idea that one romantic or sexual relationship should meet all our needs. But even these expanded frameworks often continue to center romance and sex, leaving platonic relationships underdefined, undervalued, or entirely outside the conversation.

What happens when we apply non-monogamy not just to romantic and sexual relationships, but to the full range of meaningful connections in our lives?

Title of Event: First Three Sessions: Sex Therapy

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Title of Event: Medical Issues Seminar: Low libido in women, vaginal health across the life-span, and peri and post-menopausal health.

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This 2-hour seminar is specifically designed for behavioral health providers and sex educators seeking enhanced understanding of the Gynecologic/medical management of common medical problems of AFAB clients.

Title of Event: The History & Culture of Bellydance

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Title of Event: Emotional Brain: Power, Pathology and the Policing of Feelings

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If you are aware of an emotion in your body & you ignore it, are you really ignoring it? Because you did become aware of its existence.

If you suppress the expression of an emotion you still feel the emotion.

Title of Workshop: Sex Therapy Certificate at CIIS

Date: Spring 2027 running for five weekends of instruction between February 5 – May 8, 2027; Priority Deadline & Priority Scholarship Deadline November 30; Final Deadline January 10

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Synchronous hours online via Zoom
Asynchronous hours online

Presenters: Zoe & Walt Sipe, Fiona O’Farrell, Estefania Smich, Juan Camarena, Bianca Laureano, Damon Constantinides

CE Provider:  California Institute of Integral Studies

Contact Name: Kyle De Medio                   

Title of Event: S-CST for Intimacy After Medical Events: Support Your Clients with a Somatic Approach to Creating an Inspiring Connection After Injury, Surgery, or Cancer

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