100% Online Conference
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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:
Explore the Complexities of Kink, Culture, and Communication with Midori
Join Midori for an engaging and practical training that examines the hidden narratives shaping our understanding of kink and BDSM. Together, we’ll explore how personal beliefs, cultural norms, and community-driven myths can shape — and sometimes distort — the experiences of both clients and clinicians. These internalized messages can influence everything from relationship dynamics to communication patterns and sexual satisfaction.
This session offers a much-needed deep dive into areas of kink and BDSM often overlooked in traditional therapeutic training. You’ll learn a user-friendly framework for discussing desire and navigating play, along with a collaborative negotiation model that emphasizes mutual respect and clear boundaries.
Midori’s teaching style is immersive and direct. Come ready to engage through breakout groups, interactive role-plays, rich discussion, and open Q&A. Participants are encouraged to bring their full selves and speak from lived experience as we work toward more inclusive, informed, and affirming therapeutic practices.
DATES FOR THIS Online CONFERENCE:
SATURDAY AUG 9TH, 2025, 10AM - 6PM CST
SATURDAY AUGUST 10TH, 2025, 10AM - 6PM CST
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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.
MORE PRESENTERS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!
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.
Amanda jepson
Amanda Jepson (she/her) is one of the co-founders of Respark Foundation—a 501(c)(3) non-profit serving survivors of sexual harm, a Clinical Therapist at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Veterans Health and Trauma Clinic at the Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience, and an adjunct lecturer for the University of Colorado-Denver. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Approved Clinical Supervisor, AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist, and a Board-Certified Sexologist. Amanda has been a therapist for over a decade; she specializes in working with active duty and veteran military service members and first responders on issues such as combat trauma, physical or sexual abuse, sexual assault, and vicarious trauma. Additionally, her specialized training means she is skilled in helping clients navigate issues and interests related to sex, sexuality, consensual nonmonogamy, and kink from an intersectional and inclusive lens. Amanda utilizes a variety of interventions, including EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), mindfulness, CPT (Cognitive Processing Therapy), Narrative Therapy, Sensate Focus, DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), and Motivational Interviewing. She is passionate about empowering her clients as they reclaim their whole selves, providing consultation to both seasoned and new providers, and being a sex-positive provocateur in clinical and educational spaces.
Liam Wignall
Liam Wignall is a senior lecturer in Psychology at the University of Brighton. His research explores the overlap between sexuality, kink, and technology, focusing on how people construct and navigate kink identities. He has published on this in his book, Kinky in the Digital Age. He has also helped further this research strand in his co-edited book, The Power of BDSM, with Brandy Simula and Robin Bauer.
Liam is co-editor of the journal Psychology & Sexuality, and the Oxford University Press book series on Sexuality, Identity and Society, both with Professor Phil Hammack. His current research strands are: developing a tool to measure one's kink orientation (leading to the development of www.thekinkscale.com); exploring the overlap between neurodiversity and kink from qualitative and quantitative perspectives; and understanding more about high risk sexual activities (with the current focus being fisting).
Sexual Health Alliance has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7730. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Sexual Health Alliance is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
This event is eligible for a maximum of 14 CE hours.
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Enroll in SHA’s Sexuality Educator/Counselor/Therapist Certification Program to earn AASECT hours and all necessary CEs in one program. Apply HERE to become SHA Certified and advance your sexuality education.
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Yes, this event is eligible for a maximum of 14 CE hours. Please email shacertifications@gmail.com if you are interested in receiving these credits.
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Yes! You don’t have to be a SHA student or alumni to attend one of our events. We welcome anyone who is passionate about sexual health to attend our events and/or purchase the event recording.
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