CARAS Webinar: Gender as “Elaborate Sex Toy": Supporting Trans Erotic Embodiment. Saturday, July 17, 2021
CARAS Webinar: Gender as “Elaborate Sex Toy": Supporting Trans Erotic Embodiment
Date: Saturday, July 17, 2021
Time: 12 noon Pacific / 3 pm Eastern / 9 pm Central Europe
Length: 2 hours
The webinar registration form is here.
Presenter: Lucie Fielding, MA
The late writer Xan West once provocatively suggested that gender can be an “elaborate sex toy.” This highly-interactive, activity-rich workshop will help participants support clients, cis and trans, in playing with that toy so as to move toward embodied ecstasy. Through lecture, discussion, and experiential activities, this workshop will provide participants with “Intimate Justice”-informed strategies and tools to eschew pathologizing, overly medicalized visions of sexual function; enliven clinical practice; and engage their clients’ imaginative capacities for mystifying and “Re-Visioning” their embodied-sexual-selves.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Describe at least three (3) ways sexual and relational diversity show up in clinical work with trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming clients.
2. Demonstrate an increased level of comfort and confidence in addressing sexual health concerns with trans, non-binary, and gender expansive folx within clinical settings.
3. Apply and deploy 2-3 somatic, trauma-informed, and pleasure-centered techniques or interventions presented in this workshop within one's clinical practice to help clients come into passionate relationship with their embodied sexual selves.
About the Presenter:
Lucie Fielding, MA (she/they) is a white, queer, non-binary femme, and a Resident in Counseling, practicing in Charlottesville, VA. She received her Master’s in Counseling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute (2018). Lucie also holds a PhD in French from Northwestern University (2008), where she specialized in eighteenth-century literature, histories of sexualities, and erotic literature. Her background in literature and history attunes her to the many ways that image, metaphor, and cultural scripts shape and inform the narratives we carry with us as we move through the world as well as how these narratives inscribe themselves on our bodies. She is the author of Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments (Routledge, May 2021).
Website: https://luciefielding.com
To register for the webinar, please visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfY06KcESrbx7VBcpjzgun2A_Fj7znnaoBXgXM-F7ERTVbjNg/viewform
For more information about the CARAS Webinar Series, please visit: https://www.carasresearch.org/apa-continuing-education