Oct. 25-26, 2024
11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. PT
$395
10 AASECT CEs + 10 EDSE CEs
REGISTER HERE
Dr. Bianca Laureano, PhD, MA, CSES, and I present this intensive, two-day training for practicing and emerging professionals especially those working with those in recovery.
Professional trainings about sex and substance use are rare, and those that exist often center clinical or legal perspectives that do not realistically reflect our clients’ varied relationships to drugs and alcohol. This Advanced Sexual Attitude Reassessment is designed to help clinicians, educators, and service professionals investigate their perceptions and biases of the various mind-altering substances present in our communities while expanding their understanding of the roles these substances might play in our clients’ (and our own) lives - especially our sex lives. In this SAR, we will use a harm-reduction framework to explore ideas, experiences, and attitudes about sobriety and recovery; how money, power, ableism, and white supremacy may inform our biases and judgments; and how frameworks like abolition, disability justice, liberation could shift and expand our perspectives.
This unique professional development training is designed to help attendees identify, challenge, and explore their perspectives, biases, knowledge gaps, and judgments about sex and substance use. We use multimedia, engaging small and large group discussion, introspective activities, and interactive exercises to allow participants to examine their feelings and values and process them with compassion.
This SAR will:
Expand ideas, perspectives, and attitudes about substance use beyond right/wrong, good/bad, legal/illegal, healthy/unhealthy binaries
Discuss substance use, sex, consent, and pleasure using a harm reduction lens
Feature perspectives and experiences that may challenge attendees’ feelings or values
Encourage clarity about professional values and limitations, and when to refer out
Discuss the medicalization of psychedelics for mental health treatment
This SAR will not:
Tell attendees how to think, feel, or talk about substance use, sex, and pleasure
Discuss substance use through the lens of addiction or abstinence
Instruct how to use substances to enhance sex or pleasure, or how to promote or discourage it with clients
Advocate for substance use
Advocate for sobriety or abstinence
An Advanced Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) is shorter SAR that dives deeper into a specific sexuality topic that traditional SARs can only briefly cover (if at all). It is a unique professional development experience that is recommended for any and every kind of service provider, whether you work in education, healthcare, mental health, social services, or in the sexuality field. SARs help attendees evaluate and examine their beliefs and value systems around sexuality, body autonomy, relationship dynamics, and more, and help facilitate an even more expansive view on the unique and diverse ways humans live and express themselves. When done with compassion and intention, an advanced SAR is an enlightening training and workshop for individuals who support clients in various ways in their work.
Additional details, including AASECT Core Knowledge Areas and learning outcomes, are available at the signup link.