MONOGAMISH: FLEXIBLE RELATIONSHIPS WITH DR. ELISABETH SHEFF, DR. DAVID LEY AND TRISTAN TAORMINO!

Has a client or friend ever told you that they are in an open relationship, "monogamish," talk about threesomes, swinging or poly? Do you wish you understood these concepts better? Join the world renowned experts in the field for a Sexceptional Weekend to learn the basics and explore all the intricacies of what it means to be in a consensual non-monogamous relationship.

*Choose 1/2 day, full day or weekend!*

Up to 16 hours of LPC, LMFT, LCSW and AASECT CEUs*

This is a level 1 certificate toward full certification. (Must attend entire weekend) Gain CEUs towards your Consensual Non-Monogamy Certification provided by the Sexual Health Alliance and/or gain AASECT CEUs towards AASECT Sex Therapy Certification and more!

THIS SEXCEPTIONAL 2 DAY WEEKEND WILL OFFER 16 CEUS & 16 AASECT CES* PROGRAM APPROVED.

Remember to purchase state license CEUs separately here!

SKILLS FOR ANY CLINICIAN, SEX NERD OR CURIOUS PARTNER! OPEN TO EVERYONE, INVITE A FRIEND!

Press passes available for prominent companies/bloggers. Help us spread the word!

DR. ELISABETH SHEFF

Dr. Elisabeth “Eli” Sheff is the foremost academic expert on polyamorous families with children. With a PhD in Sociology, Dr. Sheff specializes in gender and sexual minority families, consensual non-monogamy, and kink/BDSM. Sheff’s first book, The Polyamorists Next Door (2014 hardback and ebook, 2015 paperback and audiobook), details the findings of the first 15 years of her research on polyamorous families with children. Her second book, Stories from the Polycule (2015), is an edited anthology of writings by polyamorous folks. When Someone You Love is Polyamorous (2016) is Sheff’s shortest book that guides family members and significant others who are trying to understand a polyamorous loved one.

Dr. David J. Ley is a world-renowned clinical psychologist, known for bringing scientifically-accurate and clinically sound information to discussions about modern sexuality.

He serves on the board of the Sexual Health Alliance as an expert advisor and is an internationally-recognized expert on issues related to sexuality, pornography and mental health.

He has appeared on television with Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric, Dr. Phil and others. He has been interviewed in publications ranging from the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times and the London Telegraph, to Playboy and Hustler magazines. Dr. Ley has published extensively in both the academic and “pop” realms of literature. His latest book, Ethical Porn for Dicks, A Man's Guide to Responsible Viewing Pleasure has endorsements from Dan Savage and Pornhub.com and is a humorous and provocative handbook for men who want to think more comprehensively about porn.

The Myth of Sex Addiction (2012) and Insatiable Wives (2009) were revolutionary explorations of sexual issues which blended a powerful client-centered narrative with a rich understanding of psychology, biology and sociology.

Tristan Taormino

Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, and sex educator. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with her Bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Wesleyan University in 1993. She is the author of True Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn and Perversion, Down and Dirty Sex Secrets, The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women and editor of the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology series Best Lesbian Erotica. Her popular Village Voice column “Pucker Up” is nationally syndicated. She runs her own adult film production company, Smart Ass Productions, and is currently an exclusive director for Vivid Entertainment. For Vivid, she directs a reality series called Chemistry, winner of several awards, including the 2007 AVN Award for Best Gonzo Release. She also helms Vivid’s sex education imprint, Vivid-Ed, for which she has written, produced and directed several titles. Tristan has been featured in over 250 publications including The New York Times, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly, Details, New York Magazine, Men’s Health, and Playboy. She has appeared on HBO’s Real Sex, The Howard Stern Show, Loveline, Ricki Lake, and on CNN, MTV, and The Discovery Channel. She lectures at top colleges and universities, where she speaks on gay and lesbian issues, sexuality and gender, alternative relationships, and feminism. She teaches sex and relationship workshops around the world. She lives in Upstate New York with her partner and their three dogs.

FULL TRAINING SCHEDULE:

Friday, October 11th, 9am - 5pm 

- Introduction to monogamish, open and poly relationships

- Therapeutic Issues in Consensual Non-Monogamy

- Resilience in Poly Families

- Legal Issues Facing Sexual and Gender Minorities

- Confronting Monogamy Bias in Psychotherapy

Saturday, October 12th, 9am - 5pm (*Sexceptional Lecture 1-5pm)

- NonMonogamy MisMatch

- Case Studies and Panel

- 31 Flavors of Non-Monogamy

- Communication and Negotiation in CNM: Setting Boundaries

THIS EVENT IS HELD AT DOUBLETREE BY HILTON, 6161 WEST CENTINELA AVENUE, CULVER CITY, CA 90230

Doubletree now offers guests attending events the option of self-parking in our lot directly across the street from the hotel or valet.

DR. ELISABETH SHEFF

Dr. Elisabeth “Eli” Sheff is the foremost academic expert on polyamorous families with children. With a PhD in Sociology, Dr. Sheff specializes in gender and sexual minority families, consensual non-monogamy, and kink/BDSM. Sheff’s written 3 books, The Polyamorists Next Door (2014), Stories from the Polycule (2015) and When Someone You Love is Polyamorous (2016) explore decades of research and stories from polyamorous people. Dr. Sheff is currently in her fourth wave of data collection for her 20+ year study of polyamorous families with children.

*This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for AASECT CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT certification. For further information please contact ce@aasect.org

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The Science of Fantasy & Desire with Dr. Justin Lehmiller with special guest Nicoletta Heidegger, LMFT

JOIN US FOR:  TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT. IT'S A PHRASE LOADED WITH PROMISE AND AMBIGUITY THAT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO SPARK BOTH EXCITEMENT AND FEAR. EXCEPT, WITH DR. JUSTIN LEHMILLER AS YOUR GUIDE, YOU WILL DISCOVER EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO LEAD A FULFILLING INTIMATE LIFE.

Open to ALL professionals, their partners, friends and anyone that wants to learn more!

*Choose 1/2 day, full day or weekend!* Up to 16 hours of LPC, LMFT, LCSW, APA and AASECT CEUs *

May 3rd and May 4th, 2019

TICKETS START AT $45!

THIS EVENT IS HELD AT DOUBLETREE BY HILTON, 6161 WEST CENTINELA AVENUE, CULVER CITY, CA 90230

We're so excited to announce this weekend training event! Best of all, it's open to everyone! **This training is already included in the fee for the 155 AASECT CE toward AASECT Sex Therapy Certification and SHA Sex Therapy Certification Training Program if you have already registered HERE. Worth 155 AASECT CEs!

Purchase CEUs for LPC, LMFT, LCSW and APA approved for Psychologists through Cassidy Seminars (8 CEUs for $20 and up): CLICK HERE for 2 day and HERE for 1 day

Are you getting what you want when it comes to sex? Odds are, probably not. Most of us have sexual fantasies that we wish were part of our sexual reality; however, few of us have shared these desires with our partners, let alone acted on them, because fear, shame, and embarrassment are holding us back.

We need to move past sexual shame and learn to communicate our desires in order to establish happy and healthy relationships. Sexual communication has a number of benefits, from establishing greater intimacy and closeness to keeping passion alive for the long haul.

FULL TRAINING SCHEDULE:

Friday, May 3rd, 10am - 6pm

- Sexual fantasy vs. sexual desire: What’s the difference?

- The who, what, when, where, and why of sexual fantasies

- How and why fantasies differ across gender, sexual orientation, and age

- The science of sexual fantasy: The most common fantasies, where they come from, and what they say about us

- Reconceptualizing paraphilias: Which sexual desires are truly uncommon and when does a sexual fantasy or desire become a cause for concern?  

- Special Guest: Nicoletta Heidegger, LMFT

Saturday, May 4th, 10am - 6pm

- Sexual communication: Tips and icebreakers that will allow you to confidently begin a dialogue

- Making the leap from fantasy to reality: What do you need to know?

- Monogamy vs. consensual non-monogamy: What are the unique benefits and challenges of each, and how do you figure out which approach is right for you?

- Discussing fantasies and desires with partners: Risk vs. reward

- The secrets to relationship success: Getting the sex life and relationship you want

- Sexceptional Lecture with Dr. Justin Lehmiller & Sex Nerd Trivia (Bring your friends, partners and anyone else that wants to learn!)

THIS EVENT IS HELD AT DOUBLETREE BY HILTON, 6161 WEST CENTINELA AVENUE, CULVER CITY, CA 90230

Friday’s Special Guest- Nicoletta Heidegger Presents: Treating Minor Attracted Adults. There is a lack of preventive treatment or support for those living with pedophilic desires; many of us as health care professionals will not even work with this population. The dearth of support and services offered for minor attracted adults only further puts our community and our children at risk. Join in a conversation about how to work with minor attracted clients so we can take preventive measures to support everyone in our communities and give this stigmatized population a fighting chance.

(THIS PROGRAM CAN ALSO BE REGISTERED INDIVIDUALLY OR AS PART OF OUR FULL SEX THERAPY CERTIFICATION PROGRAM FOR AASECT) REGISTER FOR THE FULL SEX THERAPY CERTIFICATION TOWARDS AASECT THAT ALREADY INCLUDES THIS WEEKEND CLICK HERE. 

Dr. Justin J. Lehmiller received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Purdue University and is a Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute. He is also author of the new, highly praised book Tell Me What You Want: The Science of Sexual Desire and How It Can Help You Improve Your Sex Life. Dr. Lehmiller is an award winning educator, having been honored three times with the Certificate of Teaching Excellence from Harvard University, where he taught for several years. He is also a prolific researcher and scholar who has published more than 40 pieces of academic writing to date, including a textbook entitled The Psychology of Human Sexuality (2nd edition released in 2017) that is used in college classrooms around the world. Dr. Lehmiller's research focuses on topics including casual sex, sexual fantasy, sexual health, and friends with benefits. His studies have appeared in all of the leading journals on human sexuality, including the Journal of Sex Research, Archives of Sexual Behavior, and The Journal of Sexual Medicine. 

Dr. Lehmiller has been interviewed by numerous media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, CNN.com, The Atlantic, The Globe and Mail, and The Sunday Times. He has been named one of 5 "Sexperts" You Need to Follow on Twitter by Men's Health and one of the "modern-day masters of sex" by Nerve.

Dr. Lehmiller has appeared on several episodes of the television program Taboo on the National Geographic Channel and is a frequent guest on podcast and radio shows, such as the Savage Lovecast and the NPR programs Radio Times and Airtalk. He is a popular freelance writer, penning columns and op-eds for several major publications, including Playboy, USA Today, VICE, Psychology Today, and New York Magazine. In addition, the articles he writes on Sex and Psychology have been syndicated on major websites, including Business Insider, Huffington Post, Men's Health, and Thought Catalog.

This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for AASECT CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT certification. For further information please contact ce@aasect.org 

Sexceptional Lecture on REBEL LOVE - New Rules for love and dating plus THE BRAND NEW, FIRST EVER SOMATIC SEX THERAPEUTIC TRAINING IN THE WORLD!

He's back by popular demand with a GROUNDBREAKING training! Loveline co-host alongside Amber Rose, TV personality and Certified Sex Therapist, Dr. Chris Donaghue will deliver a BRAND NEW PROGRAM for the Golden Coast! Dr. Donaghue will be joined by Jamila Dawson LMFT, Kayna Cassard, LMFT, and Moushumi Ghose LMFT.  

Sexceptional Lecture is titled: REBEL LOVE. Tickets start at $45!

REBEL LOVE - Sexceptional Lecture w/ Dr. Chris Donaghue!! (open to all friends, partners and general public!! 2pm-5pm) Includes Sex Nerd Trivia!

Multiple options available including California CEs & full AASECT Certification training for all educational hours

Join us on October 19th & 20th (up to 15 CEs) to learn about Embodied and Mindful body-centered practices and theory, to help clients learn to be in their bodies, as well as ways to enhance pleasure, tolerate more intimacy, heal simple sexual trauma, and reduce body and sex shame. The average person does not access or engage their full sexuality or sexual body and doesn’t know what fully integrated body or sexuality feels like. Most sex therapies keep us trapped in our heads and never help get us fully into our body or sexuality. Great sex and full intimacy is about letting go, surrendering to our whole body, and staying out of our heads.

The below video explains the part of the weekend that is on somatic sexuality!

The skills and theory of this training are somatic based, and focused on bodily events that shape the psyche and sexuality (sexual-relational exercises and touch work) for clients to do at home.  The work includes both Somatic sex therapy and mindfulness. 

We will focus on bottom-up processing (embodiment) and less on talking. The problem with standard “mindfulness” is it’s disembodied, and it keeps you in your head, because it's not a true body based practice.  Disembodied people doing mindfulness stay disembodied. Thus far mindfulness applied to sex doesn’t address or undue (sexual or body) shame or simple trauma either. 

This training is a trauma informed, intersectional, gender neutral, body and sex positive practice. 

SOMATIC WORK CAN HELP PEOPLE GAIN:

1. A better understanding of the sexual body, 2. Improved sexual and body communication skills, 3. Use of sex as a tool to connect, 4. Learning about your authentic sexual self, 5. Sexual and body confidence, 6. Removal of sexual anxieties, 7. Increased sexual pleasure, 8. Increased tolerance for intimacy.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1.     Describe the theory and purpose behind somatic sex therapy and bottom-up processing

2.     Assess the ways that disembodiment reduces sexual pleasure, maintains low levels of partner intimacy, and doesn’t allow sexual healing. 

3.     Discuss how touch and breath impact the nervous system and are a whole body tool for healing and reducing anxiety 

4.     Apply the tools and practices that break problematic sexual patterns, help clients get into their bodies, heal genital shame, engage authentic arousal patterns, and utilize their entire body sexually. 

5.     Explain mindful solo sex and partnered sex, embodied sexuality, and mindful porn use. 

We have THREE NEW SPEAKERS joining this comprehensive somatic sex therapy training! Moushumi Ghose LMFT, Jamila Dawson LMFT, and Kayna Cassard LMFT will now be presenting on October 19th and 20th!

Moushumi will be leading a journey through experiential breath work.

Jamila will lead a discussion on The Erotics of Sex Therapy: Navigating Desire and countertransference

Kayna will present Body-Based Resiliency: Using somatic psychotherapy for chronic pelvic pain and other sexual functioning issues.

**This seminar offers CE credits for many Psychologists APA, LCSW, MFT through R. Cassidy Seminars. You will be able to purchase your CE credits at the end of the seminar for $40 or right now HERE.**

This weekend program can be registered for separately OR as part of a full sex therapy certification training program for AASECT Credit. To register for the FULL program (which includes this weekend + 2 more + online program and more...) to gain all educational credits toward AASECT Certification, CLICK HERE.

FULL TRAINING SCHEDULE:

*BREAKS, SELF CARE TIME, AND EATING ARE ENCOURAGED AS NEEDED

Friday, Oct 19th, 9:30am - 5pm

- Introduction to Somatics and Sex Therapy

- Importance of Touch

- The Sex and Body Negativity Complex

- Pelvis, Breathing, Movement, Authenticity,

- Sex as Medicine- Sex Addiction and Dysfunctions

- Process Group and Clinical Discussion

Saturday, Oct 20th, 9am - 5pm

- Experiential Somatic Work

- The Nervous System

- Neurology- Sex, The BodyMind, and Touch

- The Practitioners Soma

- Mindful Masturbation

- Steps, Principles, Key Terms, Theory, and Treatment Goals

- Somatic Sex Therapy

- Process Group and Clinical Discussion

- REBEL LOVE - Sexceptional Lecture w/ Dr. Chris Donaghue!! (open to all friends, partners and general public!! 2pm-5pm) Includes Sex Nerd Trivia!

DR. DONAGHUE'S BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Chris Donaghue is a Doctor of Clinical Sexology and Human Sexuality, Doctoral trained in Clinical Psychology, Licensed Clinical Therapist, and a Certified Sex Therapist. Dr. Donaghue specializes in individual and couples sex and marital therapy, as well as sexual compulsivity, sexual anorexia, sexual dysfunctions, and non-traditional sexuality, identities, and relationships. Dr. Donaghue is a member of American Association of Sex Counselors, Educators, and Therapists (AASECT) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS). Chris is one out of only four hundred individuals who completed the extra training to receive his CST Credentials. 

Dr. Donaghue is the co-host of the new "Loveline Podcast with Amber Rose," a featured expert and guest co-host on CBS' "The Doctors" TV show, featured expert on VH1's "The Amber Rose Show." He has been featured on The Today Show, VICE, CNN, HLN, OWN, Nightline, Dr. Drew and featured in Newsweek, New York Times, Daily Beast, Men's Health, Cosmo, and National Geographic. Dr. Chris Donaghue is the author of “Sex Outside the Lines: Authentic Sexuality in a Sexually Dysfunctional Culture,” that is currently used in the curriculum as UCLA, Princeton, and USC. Order the book on Amazon here. 

This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for AASECT CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT certification.