Intro to Somatic Concentric Sex Therapy. August 22-23
Learning about sex/ual/ity and its importance in intimate relationships is missing in about 90% of general counseling or even couples therapy curriculum. As a result, many therapists risk perpetuating misinformation in their clinical work. This is a missed opportunity to provide a safe-enough, curious, and holistically informed space for your clients to create a more life-affirming and personally meaningful relationship with sexuality.
The Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy (S-CST) model offers an inclusive and trauma-informed model to guide you in working with clients' sexual issues with a method that integrates the body, the mind, the social self, and emotional attachment styles. With the foundation of Sex Therapy, Somatic Psychotherapy, and Dance/Movement Therapy, this experiential method engages the many layers of the somatic and social self to uncover the shame and misinformation that creates wounds, stalling mind-body integration so that you can support them in total body connectivity and a securely attached relationship with their sex/ual/ity.This learning experience is strength-based, emphasizing embodied consent to support moment to moment body autonomy and self-advocacy. It will show you how to assess and map out the exciting and easeful aspects of sexuality with the unconscious and fractured aspects, activating resilience to open exploration and discovery of a whole-bodied erotic self.
This course is the work of Melissa Walker, LPC, CST, R-DMT, the founder of Embodied Relationships Counseling Center in Colorado. Melissa has written an award winning book on the topic, Whole-Body Sex: Somatic Sex Therapy and the Lost Language of the Erotic Body. Her approach bridges the worlds of sex therapy with the somatic and movement practices of dance/movement therapy, thereby equipping therapists to more confidently and ethically hold space for embodied sexuality within the clinical space. 12 AASECT credits.
Interview with Melissa Walker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eQci5_9v2k
Registration here: https://embodiededucationinstituteofchicago.com/product/intro-somatic-concentric-sex-therapy-training-bellingham/
Kimberly Rothwell BC-DMT GLCMA
An Open Floor Movement Lab with Kelsey Maloney
Because “everything you love, you will lose.”
You don’t always know how long you’ll have—with someone special, a place you love.
Sometimes you’re out the door before the thing’s even begun.
Or you cling to the beginning as the end unravels closer. Sometimes you miss chunks of the middle because...well, because there are lots of reasons why we might miss the middle.
Sometimes, you savor the whole damn thing.
What’s it like for you in the
Beginning?
Middle?
End?
In this 3-part movement lab, we’ll lean into dance, story, and connection as we explore what Robert Bly called “the ritual ways to say hello and goodbye.” We’ll pay attention to the transitions in between, too, because inside every part of the story, there’s always something beginning and ending.
Beginning. Middle. End. An Open Floor Movement Workshop. — FIRE AND MOSS EMBODIMENT