"Revitalizing the Soul of the Healer: Sex-Positivity and Embodiment Practices - On Zoom"

"Revitalizing the Soul of the Healer: Sex-Positivity and Embodiment Practices" with Jacqueline Mendez, MFT, CST Note:  Presented on Zoom. Join us in bringing in the new year with our first meeting of the year. We hope to bring back out Annual Experiential Event soon! Sunday, January 9, 2022 Revitalizing the Soul of the Healer Change happens by giving clients a new experience of themselves in the moment. Often, therapists hesitate to bring experiential work into the room and hesitate to bring up themes related to pleasure and sexuality. This workshop discusses theories of body-oriented psychotherapy, pleasure-focused techniques, sex therapy perspectives and their application to therapy. The presenter teaches skills and exercises for getting clients connected to the body and its sensations and discusses guided visualizations, movement, and mindful interventions. Recently, clinicians and their clients have been facing endless cycles of stress, chaos, and loss. Because humans are evolutionarily wired to unconsciously and automatically respond with certain somatic behaviors to protect themselves, including fleeing, bracing, stiffening, and collapsing, it is important to find ways that support healing in ways that involve experiencing the body in different ways. Pleasure is also a form of activism. Feeling good is not frivolous. It is freedom and an essential part of self-care and self-love. What the focus is here is the wisdom of the body and how it relates to healing and integration beyond the use of language and linear thinking. For those of us in the healing arts, it is vital that we are aware of our own discomforts and of our own body’s messages. Movement and integration of body, heart, mind and spirit assist clinicians to be able to better help their clients in examining the role of spirituality, religion, and belief systems and the ways these cultural institutions intersect with sexuality by going beyond language, religion, and ability, one can begin the journey of healing. It is about assisting others to value their embodied sense of knowing. Educational goals include: To develop the basics of a mindfulness embodiment practice To increase capacity for somatic awareness (awareness of bodily sensations) To increase capacity to use pleasure for healing express their widest range of feelings and thoughts, and to explore their emotional and somatic experience To enhance each participant’s awareness to learn from burnout while honoring our own needs and experience. Learning Objectives In successfully completing and attending this presentation, participants will be able to: Identify and practice 3 skills drawn from embodiment practice to revitalize the soul of the clinician. Describe 5 interventions and promote creative, pleasured-centered outcomes for self and in order to improve clinical problem solving. Identify and practice 3 skills drawn from sex-positive and body-centered techniques to teach clients how they can regulate emotions in order to improve clinical issues surrounding sex and sexuality. Presenter:

Jacqueline Mendez, LMFT, CST  is an AASECT certified sex therapist and sex therapist supervisor. She provides sex therapy supervision virtually to clinicians nationally and internationally. She is the founder of The Center for Relationship and Intimacy Well-Being that serves clients throughout California as well as Latinx Sex Therapy that supports sex education and sex therapy resources to the greater Latinx community. Jacqueline is integrative and holistic in her approach weaving spiritual practices, multi-cultural rituals, and body-focused techniques with more traditional therapy modalities. She is a fierce advocate of sex positivity and is determined to make it easier for others to talk more about sex, pleasure, and relationships, no matter where one starts. Jacqueline also believes in the importance of revitalizing the soul of the healer—helping mental health clinicians in the practice of self-care. She is a regular contributor to various media outlets and podcasts such as the New York Times, Univision, Telemundo, Refinery 29, Well + Good and NPR among others. A dynamic speaker, Jacqueline has spoken at various platforms including the annual AASECT Conference and the Motion Picture Television Fund’s Deal With It Conference and has co-led week-long workshops at Esalen Institute, Big Sur. She is currently working on her first book on Latinx Sex Therapy.

Sponsored by: When: Sunday, January 9, 2022 Time: 9am-9:15am Check-In* 9:15am-10am Chapter Announcements/Chapter                         Awards/Financial Report* 10am-11:30am CEU/Speaker Presentation No Member Announcements, Opportunity Drawing, Board Meeting. This course is intended for beginning to advanced mental health professionals. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. CEU completion certificates will be awarded when participants complete the course evaluation after speaker presentation. * = non CEU portion of course Place: Online via Zoom (Link to Zoom meeting will be sent in confirmation email upon registration). Price: SFV-CAMFT chapter members $15 (online until day of) Non chapter members $25 (online until day of) Student $20 (online until day of) Email us for Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley, and Santa Clarita Valley chapter reciprocity. To Register:  Please click on the register button at the top-left.  At the completion of (and paying for the event), you will receive the link in a confirmation e-mail.  If you are not logged in yet and are a member of our chapter, please be sure to log in here first. Questions?  Contact our VP of Membership here   Grievances?  Contact our President here  Accommodations?  Contact our Hospitality Chair here   Policies:  View a list of our policies here CAMFT-approved Continuing Education Provider #62281 SFV-CAMFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for MFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. SFV-CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

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