Imagining Abolitionist Sexual Liberation: A Conversation With The HEAL Project

Join Molly Adler of Sex Therapy New Mexico for a panel discussion with Aredvi Azad and Ignacio Rivera of the HEAL Project. We'll learn from Aredvi and Ignacio about treating sexual trauma outside the therapy room, liberatory sex education, raising sex positive kids, and reframing models of punishment around harm.

This session will be recorded and available to everyone who registers for 90 days.

Ignacio and Aredvi will introduce RASHIM, The Rivera-Azad Sexual Healing Integration Model during the panel discussion.

Rivera-Azad Sexual Healing Integration Model (RASHIM)
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The Rivera-Azad Sexual Healing Integration Model (RASHIM) offers a roadmap for sexual healing that captures the past, present, and future of our sexual relations. RASHIM locates nine areas of sexuality navigation, referred to as Pillars. Each Pillar represents a unique step in human sexual evolution and contains experiences, ideas, feelings, and actions. While the pillars are interconnected and relevant throughout our lives, they are categorized into three stages: rooting, growing, and yielding. In Just Healing Training, we focus on healing each stage as well as developing their corresponding connection skills. Less...

Learning Objectives

Identify ways individual therapy is limited as a primary treatment for sexual trauma
Understand connections between childhood sexual abuse and sex education
Develop understanding that sexuality must be understood within existing power relations, and that redistribution of power is essential to the work of sexual healing and liberation

Friday, March 31, 2023

Live Interactive Webinar

11:00 AM MDT - 12:00 PM MDT

EARN 2 CE Credit Hours

About the speakers

Aredvi Azad (they/them)

Aredvi Azad (uh-Red-vee ah-Zah-d) is a sex and relationship educator, speaker, and trainer who has been producing educational media on gender and sexuality, kink and BDSM, and intersectional approaches to relationship building for the past decade. An Irani-American immigrant living with multiple invisible disabilities, Aredvi is a queer and trans/genderfluid relationship nerd who uses the pronoun “they.” Aredvi’s work focuses on identifying patterns of bonding in adults who have experienced childhood emotional and sexual trauma, including generational and oppressive trauma of racism, sexism, classism, and other systems of inequality. As a scientist-turned-sex-educator, Aredvi is a self-proclaimed sexual liberationist working towards a sexually imaginative and expansive world. Aredvi is the Co-Executive Director at The HEAL Project, on a mission to prevent and end childhood sexual abuse through healing the wounds of sexual oppression and embracing sexual liberation. aredviazad.com | heal2end.org

Ignacio G Hutía Xeiti Rivera, M.A. (they/them)

Ignacio G Hutía Xeiti Rivera (Ig-Nah-See-Oh Gee Who-tee-ah She-eye-tee Ree-ve-Rah), M.A., is a cultural sociologist with expertise in sexual trauma and healing for marginalized populations. Ignacio is a Queer, Trans/Genderfluid, Chronically-ill, Black-Boricua, and Taíno activist who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun “they.” They are an internationally known gender non-conforming speaker, educator, writer, and performer with over 20 years of experience on multiple fronts, including economic justice, anti-racist and anti-violence work, as well as mujerista, LGBTQI and sex positive movements. Ignacio is also the founder and curator of Poly Patao Productions, which began 20 years ago and centers the sexual liberation of LGBTQI people of color. Ignacio’s work is influenced by their lived experience of homelessness, poverty, and sexual trauma and is focused on providing educational opportunities that are especially geared toward the sexual liberation of queer women, transgender, multi-gender, gender-queer, gender non-conforming, gender variant and queer people of color.

As the Founder and Executive Director of The HEAL Project, Ignacio is on a mission to prevent and end childhood sexual abuse through healing the wounds of sexual oppression and embracing sexual liberation. igrivera.com | heal2end.org

Agenda

We will explore questions and topics including:

An introduction to The HEAL Project.

What are we missing if therapy is the primary treatment for sexual trauma?

How are histories of childhood sexual abuse connected to sex education?

What does body, gender, sexual liberation look like for kids?

There’s so much shame and punishment associated with those who’ve enacted sexual violence. How can we look at those causing harm differently?

and more!

https://heal2end.org/resources/rashim/

CE Information - Earn 2 CE Credit Hours

CE Approvals

National Association of Social Workers, New Mexico

This training is approved for continuing education credits and cultural CEUs through National Association of Social Workers -New Mexico. The Licensee must maintain proof of continuing education courses taken for the past four (4) years. The New Mexico Regulations and Licensing Department, Boards and Commissions, Social Work Licensing Board reserves the right to audit a licensee’s continuing education records as it deems necessary. The New Mexico Counseling and Therapy Board and the NM Psychological Association accept approved social work CEUs for license requirements. Please always check with your professional licensing board for current rules and regulations.

American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists

This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 1 CE credit. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT certification. For further information please contact info@assect.org. Provider 22-148-STNM

CE Process Info

Each professional is responsible for the individual requirements as stipulated by their licensing agency. Please contact your individual licensing board/regulatory agency to review continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

A continuing education certificate for the event will be obtained using the website, CE-Go. Before the event, you will receive an email containing a link to CE-Go. (This link will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event).

Upon accessing the CE-Go website, you will be able to:

Join Webinar Sessions
Complete evaluation forms for the event
Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format

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