CSC now offers Continuing Education workshops for therapists, sex educators, counselors and other professionals. All of our CE workshops are approved by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists and are overseen by our Director of Education, Charlie Glickman PhD.

We strive to offer classes that are clinically and professionally relevant in order to help you increase your skills and enhance your practice. We are always looking for new ideas for Continuing Education workshops and welcome your suggestions for topics or presenters. Please email us and let us know who or what you'd like to see as part of our CE program.

If you'd like to receive announcements of our upcoming CE workshops, please enter your email address in the form below. This mailing list is for CE workshops only. Our regular mailing list for all of our events (including the CE classes) is on this page.

Registration: To register for a Continuing Education workshop, please email us at workshops@sexandculture.org or call 415-370-5392 and leave your name, phone number and the name of the workshop you're signing up for. The class fee may be paid at the workshop and we accept cash or checks.

Sex and Shame: Moving Towards Well-Being
Thursday July 26, 7-10 pm

Sexuality and shame are complicated experiences that are often misunderstood. This confusion makes identifying, exploring and responding to sexual shame especially challenging. Through the lens of Attachment Theory, we will explore the developmental role of shame, its place in our emotional lives and the relationships between shame and self-regulation of affect. This will serve as a foundation for a discussion of the ways in which both maladaptive and pro-social shame influence sexuality, in order to explore strategies for responding to sexual shame that foster interactive repair. Using a combination of presentation, discussion and group exercises, we will deepen our understandings of the roles of sexual shame and the part it plays in our lives.

Charlie Glickman, PhD is the Director of Education at the Center for Sex & Culture and the Education Program Manager at Good Vibrations. He also co-teaches classes in sexuality at JFK University and the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he focuses on helping his students explore how mental health professionals can help their clients enhance their sexual well-being. Charlie offers workshops on sexuality education practices for educators and has presented at numerous conferences and classes. He can be contacted at workshops@charlieglickman.com.

Objectives:

  • By the end of this session, the participants will be able to:
  • Describe the relationship between shame and attachment.
  • Identify at least three ways in which shame affects sexuality and sexual relationships.
  • Describe at least two strategies for helping people respond to sexual shame.
This workshop is approved for 3 AASECT CE credits.

Date: July 26, 7-10 pm

Location: The Center for Sex & Culture
290 Division St. #405 (cross street is 10th)
San Francisco, CA

Fee:
General Public: $40
AASECT Members: $30
Students: $25

Click here to see a list of our previous Continuing Education Events.