April 1-2nd: Sex Around the World Sexceptional Weekend
Sex Around the World: International sexuality & Trends Sexceptional Weekend!
Join SHA with International Superstar, Kinsey Institute Fellow, Dr. Justin Lehmiller alongside some BRILLIANT guest lecturers
Dr. Lehmiller is the sexy voice behind the popular Sex & Psychology Podcast, appeared as an expert on Netflix’s "Explained” and RECEIVED a certificate of excellence from Harvard!
Join SHA in this special Sex Around The World Sexceptional Weekend as we learn about Dutch, German, South America and other cultures in order to enhance their cultural sensitivity and global perspective.
If you’ve seen Dr. Justin Lehmiller before at our Sexceptional Weekends in person or online, you know this will be an incredible day learning from a Harvard Award Winning Educator and professor! He has over a decade of experience teaching sexuality courses in prestigious colleges and universities and has led 10+ Sexceptional Weekend Conferences for the Sexual Health Alliance.
Dr. Lehmiller will discuss the sexuality history, research and practices in Germany and the Netherlands. In addition to the Netherlands having the best sexual health outcomes in the world, the Dutch were among the first to legalize same-sex marriage, they have mandated comprehensive sex education, and they have decriminalized and regulated the sale of sex. Then we’ll learn about how sex ed has been mandatory in every German school since 1992. Germany also has a legal and government regulated system for sex work.
Next, with Dr. Jolene Brighten, we’ll dive into sexual health in Latin America. Learn about LGBTQ issues in Europe and South America and Puerto Rican sexuality and sex education We’ll discuss how Hormone Health and Endocrine Disruptors in People of Color as well as whether or not to Douche. We’ll understand why hispanic and Black women continue to have the highest rates of harmful hygiene practices as well as be able to counsel for harm reduction. counsel on best bedroom practices for vaginal ecology. Finally, SHA has organized a European Panel as well as several highly sough after speakers in Latin America to round out the weekend!
DATES FOR THIS CONFERENCE:
SATURDAY April 1st, 2023
SATURDAY April 2nd, 2023
ATTENDEE & REGISTRATION INFORMATION
16 LPC, LMFT, LCSW and AASECT* CEs for the Entire Weekend
Please note: Check with your board if they will accept SHA CEs or AASECT CEs.
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.
SHA STUDENTS: THIS WEEKEND CAN COUNT TOWARD CERTIFICATION
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!
Apply for A SCHOLARSHIP:
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.
MEET OUR PRESENTERS:
JUSTIN J. LEHMILLER, PH.D
Dr. Justin Lehmiller received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Purdue University. He is a Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute and author of the 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 50 academic works to date, including a textbook titled The Psychology of Human Sexuality (now in its second edition) 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 run the popular blog Sex and Psychology since 2011, and it now receives several million page views per year. He has been interviewed by numerous media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, CNN, 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 the Netflix series Sex, Explained, he has been on several episodes of the television program Taboo on the National Geographic Channel, and he has been a guest on Dr. Phil. Dr. Lehmiller has also appeared on numerous podcasts and radio shows, including the Savage Lovecast, the BBC’s Up All Night, and several NPR programs (1A, Radio Times, and Airtalk).
He is a popular freelance writer, penning columns and op-eds for major publications, including The Washington Post, Playboy, USA Today, VICE, Psychology Today, Men’s Health, Politico, 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, and Thought Catalog. He has also interviewed several prominent authors, journalists, and psychologists about their work for his blog and podcast, including Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Lisa Ling, Drs. John and Julie Gottman, and bestselling authors Christopher Ryan (Sex at Dawn) and Lisa Taddeo (Three Women).
Dr. Lehmiller has given talks around the world on sex, love, and relationships. He is available as an expert speaker and has experience consulting on legal cases, including taking the stand as an expert witness. Dr. Lehmiller has also worked with several major sexual health and wellness brands and is available as a spokesperson, as well as a media, marketing, and product development consultant.
Dr. Jolene Brighten
Dr. Jolene Brighten is a hormone expert, nutrition scientist, and thought leader in women’s medicine. She is board certified in naturopathic endocrinology and trained in clinical sexology. Dr. Brighten is the author of Is This Normal, a non-judgemental guide to creating hormone balance, eliminating unwanted symptoms, and building the sexual desire you crave. A fierce patient advocate and completely dedicated to uncovering the root cause of hormonal imbalances, Dr. Brighten empowers women worldwide to take control of their health and their hormones through her website and social medical channels. Dr. Brighten is an international speaker, clinical educator, and medical advisor within the tech community. Dr. Brighten is a SHA Alumni and attended SHA’s Full Certificate Training Program.
Dr. Fabiola Trejo
Fabiola Trejo is a Doctor in Social Psychology and sex educator. After meeting Betty Dodson in 2012, she decided to specialize in the study of sexual pleasure and founded Placer & Sexualidad Positiva.
Throughout her academic career she consolidated her research line on the study of sexual pleasure through the creation of a culturally relevant Psychosocial Model of Sexual Pleasure focused on the study of cultural messages around sexual behavior and its impact on the experience of sexual pleasure.
Today, she carries out critical feminist studies on sexual pleasure and shares her research findings around pleasure and masturbation, facilitating consciousness raising groups, workshops, classes, talks, conferences, therapy and Bodysex workshops to contribute to the processes of sexual autonomy of women.
She has been included in a variety of publications, collaborations and academic presentations in psychology and sexuality conferences at a national and international level and in digital and printed media; radio and television.
Dr. Trejo has also run Bodysex Workshops in Mexico City since 2015 and says, "I can’t see the rest of my life without sharing Betty’s life work nor without the support of the beautiful Bodysex community."
Website: www.drafabiolatrejo.com
Raffaella di Girolamo
Clinical psychologist with fifteen years of experience in individual, couples and sexuality therapy. One of her main works and investigations is in sexual assaults, abuses and psychological possession (PTSD with adult persons that have been abused) symptoms and improve overall their quality of life. CPT focuses on helping individuals understand and challenge their negative thoughts and beliefs related to their trauma.
She has worked both in the clinical field and in public policies, research, teaching and social communication. She is also the author of two books on identity, sexuality and pleasure. She has a Master’s in Public Policy and from that field she designed the Competencies for Citizenship educational program, whose main objective was the installation of Comprehensive Sexual Education (PESI) in the 24 establishments from 4 to 20 years students of the Municipality of Santiago (2009-2012). She has also worked in the field of social communication, on issues of comprehensive sexual, mental and emotional health, both on television and radio. She is a panelist for the program Café con Nata on radio Subela, where she created a space to inform and educate with a focus on social containment. She also conducted Viceversa, a radio program for the integration of migrants in the municipality of Santiago.
She is a dance body therapist that focusses on emotional biology at the Centre for Cognitive Body Integration created by Carmen Cordero and a Bodysex therapist (the only person certified in Chile). Bodysex is a practice designed by Betty Dodson (PhD) that aims to promote body learning with a focus on learning about orgasms so body, genitalia as emotional recognition from acceptance. It also allows the process of working in community, difficulties around sexual pleasure, healing ailments, shames, traumas and every experience in your life installed in the physical and emotional body, by getting in touch with your naked real body. She is also certified as a therapist in Sexual Stories Revealed (created by Dr Julianna Hauser), a narrative workshop designed to understand one’s own sexual history and its influence on your emotions, behaviors, pleasures and pains.
She is also a member of the Board in Odisex (Observatory of Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Sexuality for persons with disabilities) and of the professional team of ENSALUD (health gynecologists’ experts). She is the author and co-author of books: Sexuality Diario Íntimo (2013) and Salir del Closet: everything you need to know, along with Jaime Parada. In recent years he had the opportunity to resume her passion for dance, integrating the company of José Vidal, with whom she travel as an assistant and dancer to Hamburg, Germany, in 2022 to present the work Tramas, product of an international agreement with the cultural center Kampnagel.
Céline Manon
I'm Céline Manon a certified Bodysex® and Urban Tantra® facilitator based in Germany. I offer virtual one on one coaching in the Betty Dodson® method, in person Bodysex® workshops and Women’s Pleasure Retreats that combine Bodysex® and Urban Tantra®. Serving the Betty A. Dodson Foundation as a Board Member is a great honor for me.
I'm a pleasure-positive being! I am open-minded, highly compassionate, a lifelong learner, and an activist for a more caring world. I believe that we are our own expert. We are our own healer. What we need is a safe space and support to be able to create a life in pleasure and freedom.
I'm here to support you along the way. I was born in 1987 and grew up in a nontraditional, artist family. In my family the pursuit of pleasure had a high value. Growing up between the U.S.A and Germany, I experienced two very different cultures and their values. But I never belonged – I was an outsider.
I found Betty’s work at the age of 24. I had just begun my own journey to create a life worth living. Being highly sensitive in this world can be exhausting and scary. At the time I was at a crossroad in my life. I had hit rock bottom and was slowly picking up the million pieces I was scattered in.
When I was reading about the Bodysex® circles I had this vision of me leading a Bodysex circle. I felt I was called to become a Bodysex® leader. To be able to do this work, I knew that I had to choose pleasure in my own life and that I had to begin to walk the path of healing. And I did.
Sex is not seen as a skill in our society that is worth developing and refining. But the intimate relationship you have with yourself ripples out into all of your life. Betty Dodson said: ‘We are born with ourselves and we will die with ourselves. We therefore might as well be our best lover.’
The principle of Bodysex® is to share your own experience first person. How do you feel about your body and how do you feel about your orgasm. This principle drew my heart and attention instantly to Bodysex®. Experience pleasure on your own terms.
Independent orgasm.
Sexual freedom.
Equality.
Almudena M. Ferrer
I am a sexologist, and I am dedicated to education, communication and sexological counselling. I accompany all kinds of people to live with confidence and joy within their bodies.
For years I have studied Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) with the understanding that human behaviour can be modelled.
I am a member of these organisations:
Member of WAS (World Association for Sexual Health)
Bread and Sex is the brand I created in 2013 to capture the different research on sexuality and innovation around the world and since then I use it as a platform to share knowledge.
I participate in different media and since 2010 I collaborate with Cadena Ser doing a weekly show about sexuality.
And, if you want to know a bit more about me, apart from my professional career, I was born in Madrid, Spain. I love plants and the sea, and I enjoy doing sports.
Beatrice Bast
My passion is acquiring knowledge and sharing it with interested people, be it as a trained teacher, sex educator or soon to be Bodysex Coach according to Betty Dodson®.
The topic of sexuality has always fascinated and attracted me. I am currently teamed up with Céline and together we are Memamo-Coaching. We are dedicated to empower women, to love their bodies through self-love & acceptance. That they learn what gives them pleasure and are able to find passion and joy within themselves.
In my own journey of self-love, I discovered ropes and the beauty of tying and being tied. I practice Shibari on a regular basis as a model and as a rigger. I co-organize rope jams and I am teaching workshops.
Jessica Adams
Jessica Adams received her master’s in education from the University of Salzburg, Austria.
With 20 years of experience in the education system, she is currently working as a counselor
in the inclusion & diversity sector. In 2021 she became a certified Bodysex Facilitator, trained
in the Betty Dodson method, and is currently studying with SHA to become a Sexuality
Counselor. She sees herself as an advocate for pleasure and is consistently sharing
information on body anatomy and human sexuality in her practice and workshops. As her
final project for certification, she is working on a syllabus for sexuality training for 1 st level
university students.
Besides her passion for human sexuality and pleasure, she loves to cook, read and cuddle.
Her favorite place to be in this world – and soon to be home – is Cape Town, South Africa.
She is the mother of three beautiful boys and wife of a wonderful South African musician.
Jeff Mannes
Jeff Mannes (pronouns: he/him or they/them) is a social scientist, speaker, tour guide, and freelance writer born in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg and living in Berlin, Germany. Jeff studied sociology and gender studies, focusing on sexuality, queer studies, human-animal studies, and post-colonial studies at the universities of Trier, Göttingen, and Humboldt University in Berlin. Additionally, in May 2023, Jeff will finish their training to become a certified sex educator. Jeff has been working and volunteering for magazines such as SIEGESSÄULE (Berlin’s highest-circulating city magazine and Europe’s most-read LGBTIQ magazine), for non-profits such as the German AIDS Service Organization (Deutsche Aidshilfe), Luxembourg’s HIV-Berodung and Stop AIDS Now / ACCESS. Since 2018, he has been successfully hosting his critically acclaimed guided tour of Berlin’s History of Sex, supported by the Federal Foundation Magnus Hirschfeld. In 2021, they launched this tour in Augmented Reality – powered by the start-up ZAUBAR. In 2023, Jeff also launched his second and third guided tours about The Story of Berlin’s Clubs, as well as Berlin's Queer & Trans History.
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