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Socio-cultural and familial factors

Pleasure As Resistance: Reclaiming Joy and Intimacy in Marginalized Communities

Title of Event: Pleasure As Resistance: Reclaiming Joy and Intimacy in Marginalized Communities

Description of Event:

Pleasure has often been denied, pathologized, or politicized in marginalized communities due to systemic oppression, intergenerational trauma, and cultural stigma. This workshop explores how reclaiming sexual and intimate pleasure can serve as a radical act of resistance, healing, and legacy-building. Clinicians will learn frameworks and strategies to support clients in centering joy, pleasure, and intimacy as tools for resilience and liberation.

Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy Foundations Training

Title of Event: Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy Foundations Training

Description of Event:

There are numerous exciting and effective somatic modalities currently in the field. As a graduate of the Somatic Counseling Psychology Program at Naropa University (2009), I received training in many of the best: Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Therapy, Hakomi, Dance/Movement Therapy, the Moving Cycle, Body-Mind Centering, and Authentic Movement.

Queerplatonic: Constructing Intentional Kinship

Title of Event: Queerplatonic: Constructing Intentional Kinship

Description of Event:

​Join us to explore how people build meaningful, committed relationships outside of romantic and sexual scripts. Grounded in asexual and aromantic community language, this session introduces queerplatonic relationships, platonic life partners, and related terms as tools for naming significant, life-shaping bonds without centering romance.

Clinical Perspectives on Kink: Bias, Myths & Meaning Making

Title of Event: Clinical Perspectives on Kink: Bias, Myths & Meaning Making

Description of Event:

This workshop serves as an essential reorientation for clinicians, educators, and care providers working with individuals who practice or identify with kink. Kink refers to consensual sexual interests, fantasies, behaviors, or relational dynamics that fall outside culturally normative sexual practices, yet do not inherently involve distress, impairment, or non-consent.

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