Presented by: Lucie Fielding, PhD, LPC, LMHC (she/they)
“The body,” as Susan Bordo suggests, “is a powerful symbolic form, a surface on which the central rules, hierarchies, and even metaphysical commitments of a culture are inscribed” and continually reinforced. Nowhere is this assertion more observable than in how the cultures in which we move seek to delimit and define our erotic lives and how we embody gender. Most insidiously, these dominant narratives seek to recruit us to do the work of our own erasure and teach us to to minimize, ignore, or outright fear the spark of the erotic in our embodied lives, or, as Audre Lorde put it in her essay The Uses of the Erotic, “the yes inside ourselves, our deepest cravings.” Over the course of this three-hour workshop, participants will be introduced to somatically-grounded and pleasure-centered frameworks and tools that will help them support trans, non-binary, and gender expansive clients nurturing trans erotic embodiment and in attuning to pleasure, desire, and the body’s erotic wisdom.
This course meets the criteria for the following Core Knowledge Content Areas: D
Join us via Zoom to view this training. Participants must register for class by 5pm the day before. In order to receive CEUs, you must complete the evaluation form that will be sent to you.
This program meets the requirements for the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 3 CE credits for each course. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT Certification and renewal of certification. South Shore Sexual Health Center, LLC, Provider #15-784-S. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT Certification. For further information please contact ce@aasect.org.