Friday, October 3rd from 9:30am to 12:30pm PDT
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Price: $150
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The past two decades have seen a proliferation of research on psychedelic medicines for the treatment of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder, among other conditions. Slowly but surely, researchers are also beginning to look at how psychedelics medicines can support sexual flourishing, enhance sexual satisfaction, and support greater sexual self-acceptance. This workshop will explore not only the current research on psychedelics and sexuality, but go far beyond that to ask questions about how prohibiting pleasure has molded our current drug laws, why pleasure is omitted from the narrative about psychedelic healing, and how psychedelics can help us to embrace our erotic power for optimal sexual experiences and sexual self-actualization.
This interactive workshop is based on the book, Embrace Pleasure: How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality. The workshop will aim to foster dialogue about psychedelics and sexuality, explore a “psychedelic” philosophy of sex and pleasure, and provide concrete strategies for psychedelic preparation and integration practices helpful to sexual trauma survivors, couples, and individuals interested in exploring and enhancing their sexuality. Power, desire, ethics, and the dangers and pitfalls that can occur in mixing sex and psychedelics will also be discussed. Undergirding our exploration will be a critique of the neo-liberal and capitalist structures that exist in our society and in psychedelic science that prevent us from embracing pleasure, creating community, and engaging in meaningful erotic connection while centering on the uplifting message that pleasure (and psychedelics medicines) have the power to heal us.
This workshop is suitable for therapists, psychedelic facilitators and guides, sex educators and coaches, as well as those interested in how psychedelics can enhance and heal our sexuality.
Dee Dee Goldpaugh, LCSW is a psychotherapist, consultant, educator, and author. They are a Women, Gender Diversity, and Sexual Minorities Advisor for The Chacruna Institute, the Clinical Director of Chrysalis Integrative Psychotherapy, and part of the Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy team at the Woodstock Therapy Center. Dee Dee has authored the first paper to appear in an academic journal describing Psychedelic Integration Psychotherapy techniques that incorporate spirituality for sexual trauma survivors. They also served as a Clinical Supervisor for the EMBARK approach to Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy in addition to having facilitated numerous Ketamine-Assisted Transformational retreats. Dee Dee has been a frequent presenter at international conferences including the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research, Psychedelic Culture, Psychedelic Science, and the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. They have over seventeen years of professional clinical experience and training in diverse modalities including EMDR, Internal Family System, Sex Therapy, psychodynamic, and transpersonal therapy models and are the author of the book Embrace Pleasure: How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality published by Inner Traditions.
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