Artificial Intimacy: Sex & Relationships in the Age of AI
Title of Event: Artificial Intimacy: Sex & Relationships in the Age of AI
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Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy Foundations Training
Title of Event: Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy Foundations Training
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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
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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: The Power of Kink: Why People Like It
Title of Event: Clinical Perspectives on Kink: The Power of Kink: Why People Like It
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Clinical Perspectives on Kink: Bias, Myths & Meaning Making
Title of Event: Clinical Perspectives on Kink: Bias, Myths & Meaning Making
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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.
Clinical Perspectives on Kink: Through the DSM: Depathologizing Kink
Title of Event: Clinical Perspectives on Kink: Through the DSM: Depathologizing Kink
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Clinical Perspectives on Kink A 5-Session Microcredential Course
Title of Event: Clinical Perspectives on Kink: A 5-Session Microcredential Course
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Talking the Talk: Guiding Parents in Age-Appropriate Conversations About Sexuality with Youth
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Talking the Talk: Guiding Parents in Age-Appropriate Conversations About Sexuality with Youth
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Osunic Pregnancy and Birth: Decolonial Pathways to Reproductive Wisdom
Title of Event: Osunic Pregnancy and Birth: Decolonial Pathways to Reproductive Wisdom
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This workshop explores pregnancy and birthing through the lens of Osunality—a decolonial, African-centered framework rooted in the sacred teachings of Oshun and the wisdom traditions of Ifá and Yoruba spirituality. Facilitated by Dr. Zelaika Hepworth Clarke, participants will engage with embodied practices, ancestral knowledge, and cultural concepts that honor the spiritual, sensual, and relational aspects of pregnancy and birth as sacred rites of passage.
Aesthetic Attraction: How Ace and Aro Folx Shatter the Mold
Title of Event: Aesthetic Attraction: How Ace and Aro Folx Shatter the Mold
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This workshop explores Aesthetic Attraction, Aesthetic Intimacy, and embodied Aesthetic Pleasure, moving beyond a narrow focus on visual beauty or sexualization. We will examine how aesthetics can include appearance, style, movement, voice, scent, texture, and atmosphere, and how these elements function as meaningful experiences without requiring sexual or romantic intent.