(Gender) Queering Sexualities: Re-Visioning Eroticism for Every Body, Feb 3
Warm Greetings Counseling Psychology Community,
The next webinar of the 2021-2022 Counseling Psychology Community Webinar Series is (Gender) Queering Sexualities: Re-Visioning Eroticism for Every Body on Thursday, February 3rd from 6:00-9:00pm PT.
The Counseling Community Webinar Series provides an opportunity for students, alumni and faculty to engage in rich and meaningful conversation. These events will not be recorded. Please note the Zoom details for the February 3rdwebinar:
Topic: (Gender) Queering Sexualities: Re-Visioning Eroticism for Every Body
Date & Time: Thursday, February 3, 2022 from 6:00-9:00pm PT
Link: https://zoom.us/j/97741623804?pwd=REpKSlBXcnZKN3RPUFp3TUVDeHhUUT09
Meeting ID: 977 4162 3804
Passcode: 078541
Lucie Fielding (she/they; elle/iel) is a white, queer, non-binary trans femme, and a therapist practicing in Charlottesville, VA and Seattle, WA. She received her MA in Counseling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute (2018). Lucie also holds a PhD in French from Northwestern University (2008), where she specialized in histories of sexualities and erotic literature. Their background in literature and history attunes them 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. In addition to their work as a therapist, Lucie is an Adjunct Professor in the Sex Therapy Certificate Program at Antioch University-Seattle as well as a sex educator and workshop facilitator. They are also the author of Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments (Routledge, 2021). Providing concrete clinical practices and practical activities steeped in somatics, social justice, intersectional trans feminism, and radical queer theory, Trans Sex seeks to move trans sexualities from the margins of gender-affirmative clinical practice, to center pleasure, and to spark creativity and empathic attunement within the client-provider relationship.
Website: https://luciefielding.com ; Instagram: @luciefielding ; Twitter: @Lucie_Fielding
Book Order Link: https://www.routledge.com/Trans-Sex-Clinical-Approaches-to-Trans-Sexualities-and-Erotic-Embodiments/Fielding/p/book/9780367331764
Course Description:
Many of the frameworks, modalities, and tools we deploy in clinical practice were developed by white cis men in Europe and the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, at the height of settler colonial projects that sought to impose European and U.S. sexual values systems and violently displace indigenous cultures and their values systems. Likewise, most of the sex research we rely on has, at least unconsciously, tended to center discourses of function as well as the erotic embodiments of white, cishet, thin, able-bodied people between the ages of 18 and 40.
This highly-interactive, activity-rich workshop is an exercise in flipping those scripts. Through lecture, discussion, and experiential activities, this workshop will provide participants with pleasure-centered, social justice-informed strategies and tools to eschew overly medicalized visions of sexual function; un-settle and enliven clinical practice; engage their clients’ imaginative capacities for mystifying and “Re-Visioning” their embodied sexual selves; and support clients, cis and trans, in exploring and passionately moving toward embodied ecstasy.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Identify and define at least three (3) ways that our practices as therapists and counselors have been shaped by—and formed in the crucible of—settler colonialism, white supremacy, and cisheteronormativity.
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 at least three (3) somatic, trauma-informed, and pleasure-centered techniques or interventions presented in this workshop within one’s counseling or therapeutic practice to help clients, cis and trans, come into relationship with their embodied erotic selves.
We look forward to your participation.
Kind regards,
Counseling Psychology Department
