Erotic Resilience: Toward a Queer Model of Developmental Sexual Complexity

Sexuality is complex: personal, relational, political. This moment calls us into emerging and inclusive sexual futurities, requiring new and expanded therapeutic approaches toward individual and collective transformation. Introducing the concept of “developmental sexual complexity" to initiate a growth mindset (Carol Dweck) using a queer and intersectional lens, this workshop foregrounds erotic resilience amid personal, interpersonal, sociocultural and systemic challenges. To validate the dynamic and ever-evolving sexual self (as process), Robert Kegan’s Subject-Object Theory (1982, 1994) comb...Read moreined with queer approaches to therapy (Tilsen, 2013, 2018, 2021; Iasenza, 2010, 2020) supports an expanded model of sex and relationship therapy with associated techniques to promote sexual thriving among adults. Less...

Learning Objectives

  • Participants will be able to explain "erotic resilience" as applied to sex and relationship therapy.
  • Participants will be able to discuss the concept of "queering" in the therapeutic context.
  • Participants will be able to distinguish between "sexual identity" and "sexual subjectivity" as related to sexual self as process.
  • Participants will be able to discuss how the application of Subject-Object Theory and increasing levels of complex consciousness (e.g., socialized mind, self-authoring mind, self-transforming mind) support a therapeutic model of developmental sexual complexity.

Target Audience

This educational activity is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and MFT's.

Learning Levels

  • All Levels

Monday, May 20, 2024

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01:00 PM EDT - 04:00 PM EDT

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About the speaker

Carole Clements, MA, MFA

Carole Clements, MA, MFA

Carole Clements is Professor of Contemplative Psychology at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Dynamics of Intimate Relationships, Erotic Intelligence, Sexual Narratives, and Human Sexuality. Carole is also a mindfulness-based LGBTQIA+ inclusive sex and relationship therapist for monogamous and consensually non-monogamous individuals, partnerships and relationship constellations. Carole served as Dean of Naropa College for seven years, leading the faculty in a revision of the undergraduate core curriculum and assessment in subsequent years. Carole’s book Sex Positivity and White-sex Supremacy: Ending Complicity in Black Body Erasure will be published by Routledge in 2024 as part of a book series on Leading Conversations about Black Sexualities and Identities. As a scholar-activist-practitioner, Carole’s work centers on erotic justice, erotic resilience, developmental sexual complexity, the intersection of gender, sexuality and race (e.g., the impact of White Supremacy on discursive and performative sexuality), unsettling sexuality research, and queer spaces, places, and times (i.e., splacetime). Carole identifies as queer with a feminine aesthetic.

CE Information - Earn 3 CE Credit Hours

CE Approvals

American Psychological Association
Council for Relationships is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Council for Relationships maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists
This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification.

Council for Relationships # 11-111A. (Expires 6/30/2025)

Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT Certification. For further information please contact ce@aasect.org.

CE Process Info


CFR is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists and other mental health professionals whose state licensing boards recognize CE credit provided by APA-approved sponsors. The following entities accept continuing education credits provided by APA-approved sponsors: The Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors; the New Jersey State Board of Marriage and Family Examiners; the Delaware State Board of Professional Counselors of Mental Health and Chemical Dependency Professionals; the Delaware State Board of Social Work Examiners. Each professional is responsible for the individual requirements as stipulated by his/her licensing agency. Please contact your individual licensing board/regulatory agency to review continuing education requirements for licensure renewal. Please note: You must attend "live" (in real-time) to earn CE credits.

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