Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy and Sexual Health:

The Art and Science of Mindful Touch

Description

Discover, develop, renew, and update your knowledge of Sensate Focus (the foundation of sex therapy) for a diverse client population. Re-examine the value of Sensate Focus for working with couples’ intimacy, relationship, and sexual concerns, and explore its association with mindfulness practice. Linda Weiner, MSW, LCSW, and Constance Avery-Clark, Ph.D., will go beyond what has been published by Masters & Johnson, presenting later clinical applications for LGBTQIA, kink/poly populations, trauma survivors, Spectrum couples, and others. The workshop will include suggestions for the use of Sensate Focus 1 with sexually distressed clients as opposed to the use of Sensate Focus 2 with those seeking to optimize their intimate and sexual relationship. Update your conceptualizations and skills, and join the conversation!

Workshop Goals

• Overview of the history and application of Sensate Focus
• Identify the what, when and how of assigning & processing suggestions
• Clarify Sensate Focus Levels 1 & 2

Workshop Objectives

• Define Sensate Focus, its assumptions, & its relation to mindfulness practice
• Describe the Senate Focus hierarchy, & its pacing and processing
• Demonstrate Sensate Focus instructions and positions via video
• Identify common problems
• Offer modification specific to diverse demographic & clinical populations
• Case consultation

About WAS

The World Association for Sexual Health Scientific Committee together with the Local Scientific Committee is organizing a scientific program of excellent quality for the WAS Congress in Prague. An extensive number of key international leaders in sexual health and sexual rights topics already accepted to present at the Prague Congress (see below). The scientific program emphasizes the multidisciplinary nature of Sexual Health/Sexual Rights covering 7 main themes: Basic Research, Behavioural, Social & Historical, Bio-medical Research, Clinical Research & Practice, Public Health & Policies, Sexual Rights, and Sexuality Education. Besides the scientific diversity, we will also have gender balance and regional representation, with invited speakers coming from the five continents. Moreover, we will have an extensive number of symposiums organized by Global organizations as well as WAS affiliated societies from around the world presenting and discussing the most central and current challenges in the fields of sex research/sexual health/sexual rights as well as in-congress workshops with key leaders and experts in the field. This will be an excellent opportunity for everyone to come together and present, share and discuss with key leaders and colleagues from across the world while enjoying a real multidisciplinary and global atmosphere.