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Apr
23
to Apr 24

ONLINE WORKSHOP: Kink for the Professional with Midori

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Get ready for two days of unique deep dives into the realities and challenges of BDSM as practiced by people today.

Friday, April 23rd - Saturday April 24th, 2021

Kink for the Professional

Presenter: Midori, Sexuality Educator, Author & Artist

8AM-4PM PST | 9AM-5PM MT | 10AM - 6PM CST | 11AM-7PM EST

16 STATE & AASECT CES AVAILABLE FOR TWO DAYS!

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About the Workshop:

Get ready for two days of unique deep dives into the realities and challenges of BDSM as practiced by people today. We will explore the existing tools, language, identity framework and strategies commonly used within the community. 

We will unpack the personal assumptions, unspoken expectations, general cultural stereotyping, and kink subcultures’ own mythologizing narratives. These biases may be held by clients as well as clinicians. For the clients, these may lead to unproductive, unfulfilling or even toxic sexual experiences or relationships. For clinicians, this course fills many gaps in therapy discourse of BDSM sexuality, where clients often go unserved.

Midori will introduce one practical framework around language of play and strategy navigation of desire using Midori’s “BDSM Appetite Grid.”  Become proficient in an effective model of sex and BDSM negotiation where mutuality and collaboration is emphasized. 

There will also be a section on Erotic Humiliation play. In this, Midori introduces a theory of constructive versus destructive play, the emotional function of constructive humiliation, and a useful conceptual model for the client to better understand and engage in the play. 

Midori’s presentation will be frank and we are encouraging everyone’s first person perspective discussions. Expect break out discussions, role playing conversations, lectures and Q&A.

Over these two days, you will dive into:

  • What BDSM practitioners are seeking and the challenges that they experience

  • Practical, judgement-free framework and language of BDSM

  •  Improving cultural proficiency of North American BDSM

  • Understanding how clients may use Midori’s “BDSM Appetite Grid” for better play and pleasure

  • Learning Midori’s method of collaborative and co-creative BDSM negotiation

  • Considering constructive versus destructive erotic humiliation play

  • Gaining working knowledge of a model to conceptualize and discuss humiliation play

  • Frank and illuminating discussion with a subject matter expert educator with decades of lived experience

Workshop Agenda (all times are Central Standard Time):

Friday, April 23rd, 2021, 10am - 6pm CST

10:00am - 1:00pm CST:

  • Welcome / Opening

  • Group discussion

  • Presenter intro

  • Weekend objective, expectations, agreements

  • Attendee intro

  • Attendee survey

  • BDSM lecture with discussion

1:00pm-2:00pm CST:

  • Lunch on your own with an activity to complete

2:00pm CST - 6:00pm CST:

  • Lecture, discussion, and breakout groups on consent, the Appetite Grid, therapy & BDSM, common pressures and challenges

  • Q&A / Wrap up

Saturday, April 24th, 2021, 10am - 6pm CST

10:00am - 1:00pm CST:

  • Check-in

  • Q&A

  • Group Discussion

  • Lecture on negotiation and historical overview

  • Collaborative negotiations

  • Role play       

1:00pm - 2:00pm CST:

  • Lunch on your own with an activity to complete

2:00pm - 6:00pm CST: 

  • Lecture & discussion on humiliation play

  • Conflicts

  • Theory & framework

  • Attendee survey

  • Breakout groups

  • Q & A

  • Review of takeaways


Attendee & Registration Information

*Cant attend live? No problem! This event will be recorded and made available within 7-10 business days. Make sure to purchase a ticket prior to the workshop as it will not be available to purchase after the workshop ends. Please note: If you purchased CEs, you will receive asynchronous credit.

16 LPC, LMFT, LCSW and AASECT* CEs for the Entire Weekend (Friday & Saturday)

8 LPC, LMFT, LCSW and AASECT* CEs for Friday Only or Saturday Only

For other professions needing CEs (psychologists, nurses, other health professionals), please check with Cassidy Seminars (link coming soon below)

Please note: CEs for Texas and Colorado licenses are included in the CE ticket(s) price options.

**FOR ALL OTHER STATE CEs outside of Colorado & Texas: Please purchase a ticket through Sexual Health Alliance AND use the link below to purchase your state CEs through Cassidy Seminars. You MUST purchase both to get access to the conference and obtain your specific state’s CEs.

CASSIDY LINKS 

Day 1

Whole Weekend - Day 1 & Day 2


NEED A SCHOLARSHIP FOR THIS WEEKEND CONFERENCE?

In collaboration with the BIPOC Collective, SHA donates two full weekend scholarship spots to every conference for BIPOC-identifying individuals.

APPLY HERE

*The BIPOC Collective's mission is to support the diverse community of BIPOC adult performers and sex-workers within the adult industry through mutual aid and advocacy with dignity and respect.


STUDENT DISCOUNTS

Are you a current college or graduate student? Email shacertifications@gmail.com with a copy of your student ID and current or next term’s course schedule to get each conference day for $99.

*Please note, this discount does not include CEs.


WANT TO BECOME SHA CERTIFIED?:

Want to stop paying for conferences one by one and gain hours towards AASECT Certification too? This program can also be registered for and included as part of SHA’s full Sexuality Educator/Counselor/Sex Therapy Certification & Sexuality Consultant Program. Apply HERE to become SHA Certified and to gain all the CEs you need to apply towards AASECT Certification. Take your sexuality education even further and become sexceptional.


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ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

MIDORI

Known as the “supernova of kink” according to Dan Savage, Midori emerged from the Sex Positive movement in San Francisco in the early 1990s and soon became one of the most highly regarded presenters on sexuality, personal fulfillment, and kinky adventures. 

Her reputation as an authority and leading expert on alternative pleasures stem not only from her unique and entertaining process of teaching concrete skills, but in her ability to deconstruct and distill complex matters of desire into surprisingly accessible lessons with eloquence and humanity. 

She’s known for tackling challenging topics with fresh and relevant insights. She calls this her “head-heart-hands” method to create a space where people are allowed individual self-exploration. Fundamentally, she is motivated by helping people to create authentic and intimate relationships while emphasizing self-actualization, shame reduction, acceptance, and justice.

Known for her ability to teach with equal parts expertise and heart, her intensives and pop-up classes are often booked months in advance. She is best known for her transformative small-group educational intensives, Rope Dojo and ForteFemme: Women’s Dominance Weekend Intensive.  

She is the author of The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage, Wild Side Sex, and Master Han’s Daughter. She has also contributed her expertise and voice in numerous articles, columns, works of fiction, and instructional books. 

When she’s not traveling and teaching, she’s creating provocative and haunting art and performances. For more information about Midori, visit her official website at https://www.fhp-inc.com.

Follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @PlanetMidori


AASECT CREDITS

*This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 16 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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