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INTEGRATIVE GENDER & SEXUALITY:
A Somatic Perspective

Register NOW to receive the early bird discount – that's $60 off! Choose early bird pricing at checkout. Members receive an additional $60 off. This special member code was emailed directly to our members. You can become a member or renew your membership (if it expires before 9/21) HERE and the code will be sent to you in your membership confirmation email.

FOR ONE INCREDIBLE DAY…

 

The diversity of gender- and sexuality-expansive communities is flourishing. Healing and helping professionals need to learn from experts and each other how to better support their LGBTQ+ clients and embrace intersectional perspectives. Join us in conversation and exploration!

This one-day, virtual conference is designed for practitioners, clinicians, bodyworkers, and other professionals serving a diverse client base. It will feature an incredible keynote by the author, playwright, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, as well as presentations led by key thinkers and leaders from the SE community. Topics range from non-binary identity and gender dysphoria, to LGBTQ+ youth, non-monogamy–and so much more!

With speakers like Alex Iantaffi, Dedeker Winston, Zaza Sakhat, and many others, you won't want to miss out!

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Why Attend?

  • Gain valuable insights into the impact of gender and sexuality on your clients' lives, and learn new techniques and approaches to address these complex issues effectively.
  • Learn ways to create a safe and inclusive space for your clients to explore their relationship with gender and sexuality.
  • Understand best practices in the field to be better equipped to offer your clients the support and guidance they need.
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Who Should Attend?

  • Anyone interested in gender and sexuality from a SE lens!
  • Mental Health Professionals: psychologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, expressive arts therapists, etc.
  • Medical and Alternative Medicine Professionals: medical doctors, nurses and nurse practitioners, occupational therapists, physical therapists, chiropractors, emergency medical workers, surgeons, obstetricians, midwives, acupuncturists, naturopathic doctors, etc.

2023 Gender & Sexuality Conference

Live Online – Recordings will be available to all registrants

Secure your spot today – just $189 for members and $249 for non-members!

Early Bird Pricing: $189 for non-members and $129 for members!

 

Thursday September 21, 2023

9am – 4pm MT

speakers

Hear from Emily Jaworski Koriath, Grabriela Gomez, Coral Short, and other experts in the field!

 

Schedule

Keynotes, discussions, and presentations covering a myriad of essential topics in gender and sexuality.

Register

Just $189 for members and $249 for non-members. Early Bird pricing: $129 for members and $189 for non-members for a full day of presentations, discussions, and chances to connect with your colleagues!

SPEAKERS

Dedeker Winston

Dedeker Winston is a Somatic Experiencing practitioner, relationship coach, author, podcast host, and outspoken advocate for polyamory and non-traditional relationships. She is the co-creator of the Multiamory podcast, a research-backed relationship advice show with over 400 episodes. She is the author of The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory: Everything You Need to Know about Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Alternative Love, as well as Multiamory: Essential Tools for Modern Relationships. Her work has been featured in NPR, Oprah Daily, BBC News, Vice, and more. She has written on non-monogamy for the Gottman Institute blog and has presented on non-monogamy in the workplace at the Google campus in Seattle.

Emily Jaworski Koriath

Emily Jaworski Koriath (DMA, RYT-200, PSEP) is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In her private practice, she combines her training in Somatic Experiencing with body awareness and functional pedagogy to help artists find more joy and creativity in their work and in their lives. Prior to her appointment at UAB, she taught diction, vocal pedagogy, and conducted mainstage musicals at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire.

Through her work as a Unitarian Universalist music minister, she has completed training in Systems Theory, Ethics, Multicultural Competency, and Examining White Supremacy Culture. She participated in “Undoing Racism for Community Organizers” presented by the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond in New Orleans. During her doctoral coursework at Boston University, she worked closely with choral conductor and human rights activist Andre de Quadros, studying his method of Empowering Song for choral organizations and disenfranchised populations, teaching music to incarcerated youth in Massachusetts. 

Emily is the editor and primary author of “Trauma and the Voice: A guide for singers, teachers, and other practitioners,” published by Rowman & Littlefield in conjunction with the National Association of Teachers of Singing and scheduled for release in September 2023.

Coral Short

Coral Short is a non binary white settler. They completed their SEP in February 2023 with Dea Parsanishi. Their specialities are LGBTI, recovery, creativity, and radical sexuality. They are a graduated Community Dharma Teacher at True North Insight in Montréal, Tiohtià:ke, and co-lead Queer Sangha. Coral has also worked with the Stretch Festival in Berlin for several years at the Somatische Akademie Berlin. They run anti-racist courses and groups for their meditation, somatic, and queer communities. They have been an international queer organizer, activist, and artist for the last two decades.

Rebecca Christ

Rebecca Christ, LMSW, MPA, is passionate about supporting health professionals and those they serve in building a holistic,
trauma-informed approach to well-being. She has worked in the field for 15 years in direct practice and community advocacy
positions and macro-level work in the federal government and higher education sectors. As faculty at Arizona State University’s School of Social Work, she has taught and developed coursework for the Integrative Health Initiative since 2014. Rebecca also founded Be ThySelf, LLC, which provides holistic wellness and mindful embodiment skills training.

Sarah Smith

Sarah Smith, LCSW, MS is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Willow Center for Integrative
Health PLLC. She is a therapist who specializes in exploring gender and sexuality as well as helping family
systems and couples navigate how identity and trauma can impact the system. Sarah provides individual,
couples/relational, and family therapy, and somatic experiencing. She also engages in training and
consulting in schools, churches, and organizations around gender and sexuality, trauma, and
neurodivergence.

Gabriela Gomez

Gabriela Gomez is a queer Latinx femme, a healing practitioner and facilitator who holds a Master’s in Educational Psychology and has completed her advanced level training in Somatic Experiencing. Her training has taken place largely in community settings that center youth and the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities. She has particular expertise in the migrant experience, intergenerational trauma, gender identity development and diverse sexuality. She is consistently amazed and inspired by the wisdom and intelligence of the body and nervous system, and deeply honored to guide her clients in becoming more aware of their innate capacities and gifts through somatic exploration.

Alex Iantaffi

Alex Iantaffi, PhD, MS, SEP, CST, LMFT (they/them) is a family therapist, WPATH certified gender specialist and mentor, AASECT certified sex therapist and supervisor, Somatic ExperiencingⓇ practitioner, AAMFT approved clinical supervisor, and author. Alex is a Founding Member and Past Chair of the Trans and Queer interest network of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and the current President of the Minnesota Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (MAMFT). They have researched, presented and published extensively on gender, disability, sexuality, relationships, and HIV. They are a trans masculine, nonbinary, bi queer, polyamorous, disabled, Italian immigrant and parent who has been living on Dakota and Anishinaabe territories, currently known as Minnesota since 2008. Alex is the author of award-winning book “Gender Trauma: healing cultural, social, and historical gendered trauma” and co-author of the books “How to UnderstandYour Gender: a practical guide for exploring who you are”, “Life Isn’t Binary”, “How To Understand Your Sexuality”, and “Hell Yeah Self-Care: a Trauma-Informed Workbook”. They also host the podcast Gender Stories.

Victoria Giles-Vazquez

Victoria Giles-Vazquez, LPC, RYT is a licensed professional counselor and owns her private practice, Calma Counseling and
Wellness LLC, in Denver, Colorado. She loves working with individuals and families across the lifespan. Victoria focuses on
implementing culturally relevant skills for the LGBTQ+ and Latin/e and other BIPOC communities.She is a trainer for
Envision: You, a non-profit focused on addressing health disparities in the LGBTQ+ community. Victoria teaches behavioral
health professionals culturally relevant skills when working with LGBTQ+ identified individuals. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of Denver, where she teaches within the Department of Counseling Psychology.

Zaza Sakhat

Zaza Sakhat (she/her), LICSW, SEP is the founder and owner of Chrysalis Therapy & Wellness,
a psychotherapy private practice that provides integrative, holistic clinical treatment for
promoting child, adolescent, and family mental health and well-being since 2015 in Worcester,
MA. The mission of the practice is to foster the healing process of children, adolescents, and
families as they transform through experiencing safe and therapeutic relationships to overcome
adversity, trauma, and maladaptive behaviors. The practice provides effective
psychotherapeutic treatment models needed for clients to achieve their goals through accessing
individual, group, and family therapy.

Why Somatic Experiencing?

“I have patients who are off all of their medications….who no longer suffer from panic attacks….who are no longer haunted by traumatic visions. SE is the only method I have found that consistently helps people reorganize their nervous systems and greatly reduce, if not completely erase, trauma symptoms. Although I understand that the SE™ techniques are grounded in biology, the results are nothing short of miraculous.”

Shirley Impellizzeri, PhD

SEP, Psychologist, Author

“I’ve found SE to be the most fundamental work I do with clients. I’m a clinical psychotherapist, dance therapist, Craniosacral therapist, pre- and perinatal practitioner and I have two masters degrees. But what SE offered me has worked more than any other skill I’ve been trained in. It’s so basic, intuitively supportive and safe for clients. No matter what happens I know I can resort to slowing down and resourcing. SE is wonderful work.”

Nadia Natali

SEP, Dance Psychotherapist

“SE provides the basic natural healing and core nervous system skills for all the work I do, and its natural mindfulness as well. It helps clients attune to what's happening in their bodies, slow down and pause fast energies, wake up and balance sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. These basic and natural SE practices and tools help clients re-enter a traumatized or dissociated body slowly, at their own pace, and gradually (for some) more safely.”

Craniosacral Therapist

Huntington Beach, CA USA

Schedule

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We are still building the schedule. Check back soon for more details!

     

    REGISTER TODAY

    Thursday September 21, 2023

    9am – 4pm MT