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MARCH Announcements

March 05, 2021

SSTAR 46th Annual Meeting
Sex, Religion, and Politics: Understanding and Challenging the Beliefs that Shape Our Experiences

via Zoom Webinar - April 29 - May 2, 2021

In our 46th year as an organization, we continue to celebrate our commitment to excellence in the field of human sexuality — in research, clinical practice, education, and training—as well as our commitment to the principle that people from all ages and backgrounds have a right to healthy sexuality, a right to sex therapy treatment, and access to scientific discovery informing their sexual health and wellbeing.

Registration

We encourage you to register now! CLICK HERE to register directly online. Or please CLICK HERE to print and mail in the registration form. Please note, a late fee of $50 for the Annual meeting (Friday/Saturday) registrations, across all registration types, goes into effect April 1, 2021.

Scholarships

SSTAR is foremost committed to fostering clinical sexuality practice and research. In order to fulfill this mission, SSTAR is dedicated to being a welcoming and inclusive environment for all who work in the field of human sexuality, including Black, Indigenous or other Persons of Color (BIPOC), individuals from the LGBT2SQ+ communities, and students as well as early career professionals.

SSTAR recognizes that payment of conference registration fees can be an economic hardship and is therefore offering 3 scholarships for the 2021 Annual Conference of up to $825 each to attend 3 preconference workshops, the annual meeting on Friday and Saturday and post-conference Ethics workshop on Sunday. Applicants need not be SSTAR members. Click here to see the specific criteria and to apply. Those who apply for a scholarship are asked to wait to register until they have received a reply from the Scholarship Committee, which will be prior to April 1.

 

**Online Training**

Integrative Sex Therapy Institute

Mar 10 – 13, 2021

Held via: Live Simultaneous Webcast, 10 am – 6 pm EST/7 am – 3 pm PST

SIGN UP NOW

Wed – Mar 10

Thu – Mar 11

Fri – Mar 12

Sat – Mar 13

Come for 4-day training or sign up for one or more days.

TWO FULL Scholarships and TWO PARTIAL Scholarships available. 

Email tammy@drtammynelson.com or tammynelsonasst@gmail.com for more info.

 

Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy and Sexual Health: The Alchemy of Touch, Mindfulness and Somatic Techniques

Presented by Linda Weiner and Sex Therapist St Louis, LLC

Type: Webinar Link provided upon registration

Date: Friday, March 19th, 2021  9am-5pm Central

Cost:  $300 professionals  $250 students/retirees

6 AASECT CEs available

For more information or to register, please click here

 

**Resource for Clients**

Men’s Process Group to Treat Out of Control/Impulsive Sexual Behavior: Working Towards Sexual Health 

Center for Love and Sex

Sari Cooper CST, LCSW-R

Beginning March 2021

This weekly virtual group is for men who are seeking to feel more integrative in their goals and actions emotionally, relationally and sexually. This group helps men identify the internal conflicts between their goals and their current behaviors, and work on resolving the ambivalence to making the changes they want to make. It will also be a supportive environment for men to help each other explore their decisions, support them when they have faltered on their goals and provide alternative strategies that have helped them in their health journey.  Members will Learn new stress and coping mechanisms including: mindfulness, CBT, and embodied recovery. They’ll develop integrated and positive coping skills in their sexual lives for themselves and with their partners if they are in a relationship or dating.

The expectation is that clients will have had 4 individual sessions before joining the group as well as commit to attending weekly at a minimum for 4 months (the group will continue beyond 4 months).

For more information and to set up an intake call email: sari@centerforloveandsex.com and write Men’s Group interest in the subject line.

**Seeking Research Participants**

Seeking Participants for a Study on Social Networks and Well-being in Older Adult Women (The OWLS Study)

I am a University of Toronto doctoral student seeking participants for my dissertation research (The OWLS Study), which looks at the impact of social support on well-being in older adult women. In particular, I am interested in understanding how the experiences of lesbian and heterosexual older adult women may compare or differ.

I am looking for women over the age of 55, located in Canada or the US, who are willing to answer questions about their social networks, mental health, and Internet use. This study has been approved by the UofT Research Ethics Board, and consists of completing of a 30-45 minute online survey on a confidential and secure web-based survey tool.

Interested participants may visit http://www.tinyurl.com/OWLSStudyUT for more information or to participate.

I would also greatly appreciate if you could share the survey link with any potentially eligible participants. You may learn more about my study via our social media pages on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Many thanks in advance for reading and for your support.

Madeline Hannan-Leith, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate (pronouns: she/her)
Clinical and Counselling Psychology
Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
University of Toronto (OISE)
m.hannanleith@mail.utoronto.ca