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Socio-cultural and familial factors

Moving Beyond Safety: Solidarity, Mutual Entanglement, and Erotic Embodiment

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.

Sweet Spot: (Re)Building Our Relational Home

Title of Event: Sweet Spot: (Re)Building Our Relational Home

Skills for safer, sweeter connections — the real work of keeping our bodies safe as home (3-Hour Deep Dive, Limited Scholarship Available, ASL Provided Upon Request Only, Will Not be Recorded)

Date and Time: October 23, 2025 | 5pm-8pm ET

Location: Online Synchronous

Presenters: Ignacio Rivera, MA and Aredvi Azad

CE Provider: ANTE UP! PD and heal sweet home

Contact Name: Bianca Laureano

Sexy Survivor: Consent Culture—Care or Cage?

Title of Event: Sexy Survivor: Consent Culture—Care or Cage? 

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.

Date and Time: September 18, 2025 | 1pm - 2:30pm ET

Location: Online Synchronous

Presenters: Ignacio Rivera, MA and Aredvi Azad

CE Provider: ANTE UP! PD and Heal Sweet Home

Contact Name: Bianca I Laureano

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

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.

Advanced Clinical Sexology Course

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.

Polyvagal Theory & KINK

Title of Event: Polyvagal Theory & KINK
 
Description of Event: This course is designed for both professional mental health workers AND individuals looking to establish safety and connection in their KINKY sex practices. We'll examine how incorporating the modern science of Interpersonal Neurobiology with KINK dynamics can allow for increased co-regulation and self-regulation skills so we can fully enjoy the ANXIETY and STRESS we intentionally invite into SEX.
 

Polyvagal Theory & KINK

Title of Event: Polyvagal Theory & KINK
 
Description of Event: This course is designed for both professional mental health workers AND individuals looking to establish safety and connection in their KINKY sex practices. We'll examine how incorporating the modern science of Interpersonal Neurobiology with KINK dynamics can allow for increased co-regulation and self-regulation skills so we can fully enjoy the ANXIETY and STRESS we intentionally invite into SEX.
 

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