100% Online Conference
JOIN INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTAR - MIDORI FOR THIS Online KINKY SEXCEPTIONAL WEEKEND WITH SHA IN FEBRUARY!
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.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
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 as well as help you become proficient in an effective model of sex and BDSM negotiation where mutuality and collaboration is emphasized.
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
DATES FOR THIS Online CONFERENCE:
SATURDAY FEB 24TH, 2023, 10AM - 6PM CST
SATURDAY FEB 25TH, 2023, 10AM - 6PM CST
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
Please note: CEs for AASECT, Texas, Colorado and other state licenses are included in the CE ticket(s) price options. For all states and licenses, check with your board if they will accept SHA CEs or AASECT CEs.
SHA STUDENTS: THIS WEEKEND CAN COUNT TOWARD CERTIFICATION
BECOME AASECT CERTIFIED AND 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 Coach and 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.
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 your student rate!
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.
*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.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
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.
Sunny Megatron
Sunny Megatron is sexuality & kink educator and media personality. She’s the host and executive producer of the Showtime original television series, SEX with Sunny Megatron, plus co-hosts the AASECT Award-winning American Sex Podcast and Open Deeply Podcast. Sunny is a Certified Relationship Coach and American College of Sexologists International Certified Sex Educator plus was voted XBIZ 2021 Sexpert of the Year and Kinkly’s Sex Blogging Superhero of 2017. She’s been featured by outlets like Cosmo, Playboy, Buzzfeed, and CNN, plus is a contributing editor of XBIZ Premiere Magazine and a regular columnist for Sexual Health Magazine. Her first book, Customizable Kink: A Strategic Guide to Erotic Play will be released in 2022. In her sell-out sex and kink workshops, Sunny’s unique brand of “edutainment” seamlessly combines her humorous lecturing style, interactive exercises, and the latest sexuality research. Sunny’s passion is helping people become their authentic, sexual selves by learning to overcome shame and shed inhibitions. As a lifestyle BDSM enthusiast, her work focuses on demystifying non-normative sexual practices, amplifying erotic intelligence, and ending stigma.
Ley David Elliette Cray, PhD (she/they)
Ley David Elliette Cray, PhD (she/they) is an author, educator, coach and consultant specializing in gender, sexuality, and relationship diversity. She is the co-facilitator of the Kink Informed Certification program through the Sexual Health Alliance, affiliate sexologist at Wild Geese Counseling Collective, dialectical programming coordinator at Growth Thru Change, and the founder of Transentience Coaching. Ley currently teaches at New Mexico State University and lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico with her cats.
Lee Harrington
(he/him) is an internationally known spiritual and erotic authenticity educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist, and award-winning author and editor on erotic and sacred experience. He has been teaching and talking about sexuality, psychology, faith, desire, and more, and brings a combination of playful engagement and thoughtful academic dialogue to a broad audience. A nice guy with a disarmingly down to earth approach to the fact that we are each beautifully complex ecosystems, he examines the human experience from that lens. Lee has been a passion instigator, delighted academic, world class sexual adventurer, outspoken philosopher, and has been blogging about sex and spirit since 1998.
Lee's books include “Traversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Realities,” “Playing Well With Others: Your Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Negotiating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities” (with Mollena Williams), “Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond,” “Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé,” “More Shibari You Can Use: Passionate Rope Bondage and Intimate Connection,” the “Toybag Guide to Age Play,” and “Shed Skins: Journeying in Self-Portraits.” He has also worked as an anthology editor for “Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries,” “Rope, Bondage, and Power” and “Spirit of Desire: Personal Explorations of Sacred Kink,” while contributing actively to other anthologies, magazines, blogs and collaborations. Check out Lee's work, as well as his podcast, event schedule, free essays, videos and more over at PassionAndSoul.com.
Joe Zarate-Sanderlin
Joe Zarate-Sanderlin (pronouns: they/them) has a BA and an MA in English from St. John’s University in Jamaica, NY, and an MA in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis on Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Montecito, CA. They are a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and they have a private practice in San Francisco—though currently all telehealth--where they specialize in working with relationships, specifically in the LGBT community and alternative sexuality communities. Since September 2017, they have been working as an EAP counselor serving companies in the Bay Area.
They teach Therapeutic Communication and Counseling Skills, Human Sexuality, and Principles of Couple and Family Therapy at Golden Gate University as well as presenting trainings to therapists about Talking to Clients about Sex, Gender in Psychotherapy, Open Relationships, and BDSM Relationships and they provides consultation on these and other topics. In addition to private practice, their clinical experience includes volunteering at a Catholic elementary school for three years, a continuation high school for one year, and at a low fee clinic for four years. They also worked for the Burning Man Emergency Services Department for ten years, both in the Nevada desert and in the streets of San Francisco. In their spare time, they ski, coach and referee soccer, brew kombucha, and parent 9 year old twins. You can find them at www.jzsmft.com
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.