What it is
This seminar aims to provide young women with information and ideas related to their sex and sexuality that they could not find online. Most collegiate women have access to health centers, doctors, books, and, frankly, the internet. Much of the topics that sex education seminars, conventions, trainings, ect discuss birth control, mainstream ideas of consent, STI’s, and overall physical safety. Although those are very important in the health and wellness of individuals, that information is more readily available for collegiate women. They know how to find the resources and professionals to ask regarding those topics. These areas focus on a model that addresses sexual wellness. However, it does not address the concept of a term I coined called Sexual Wholeness.
The difference is that sexual wellness is considered the state of being in good sexual health. This includes things like getting pap smears and mammograms as necessary, identifying your wants and needs for pregnancy, ensuring the absence or reduction of STI’s by using condoms, and getting the HPV vaccine. Sexual wellness is also about feeling pleasure and connection to your body’s needs and desires, like understanding what type of intimate relationship you’re ready for, what makes your body feel good, and being able to recognize what it needs to feel good.
The difference is that sexual wellness is considered the state of being in good sexual health. This includes things like getting pap smears and mammograms as necessary, identifying your wants and needs for pregnancy, ensuring the absence or reduction of STI’s by using condoms, and getting the HPV vaccine. Sexual wellness is also about feeling pleasure and connection to your body’s needs and desires, like understanding what type of intimate relationship you’re ready for, what makes your body feel good, and being able to recognize what it needs to feel good.
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Sexual wholeness is all that sexual wellness covers and also refers to restoring the damage that has negatively impacted one’s ability to achieve sexual wellness. Things like reclaiming sexuality after abuse, societal stigma, familial, community, or religious teachings, improving self-esteem that may have been dampened through an individual’s experiences over the years. Writing a new narrative about what it means to be a woman in a particular society and how those views and expectations align with your own. Understanding how actions in our everyday life shape our experiences with ourselves and our relationship to our own sexuality.
The seminar is heavily focused on a bio, psycho, and social model, emphasizing social and psychological aspects as primary areas of focus, followed by physical elements. The four major topics discussed include, feeling that one deserves what they want and need, having the knowledge and self-awareness of one’s own body, having the ability to communicate and ask what you want while setting appropriate boundaries specific to the individual, and then identifying issues that arise when the first three categories are not met. |
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To be more specific, I discuss how self-esteem, confidence, stigma, and trauma affect our ability to recognize what we deserve from an intimate or sexual experience. I discuss physiological processes that occur in different areas of sexual arousal, attachment, and fear centers of the brain. Part of this focuses on showing biologically why the current "normal" flow of heterosexual sexual encounters completely disregards the female's sexual response cycle. I then discuss the importance of why asking and setting boundaries can have detrimentally positive or negative effects on sexual experiences. I finish by informing of the issues that arise when these categories are not met, how to recognize them, what to do when they arise, how to prevent them from occurring in the first place, and examples of how they commonly manifest in the lives of young women.
How it works
Step 1: Talk to leadership in your chapter to see if this seminar would benefit you.
Step 2: Get in contact with me by filling out the information form below
Step 3: Schedule a date (Many chapters will schedule it during their weekly meetings but others plan on other dates. It's up to each chapter to figure out what works best for them!)
Step 4: Book a room on campus to hold the seminar if you are unable to host it at your chapter house
Step 5: Attend the seminar! (The seminar is programmed to be 50-60 minutes long)
Step 2: Get in contact with me by filling out the information form below
Step 3: Schedule a date (Many chapters will schedule it during their weekly meetings but others plan on other dates. It's up to each chapter to figure out what works best for them!)
Step 4: Book a room on campus to hold the seminar if you are unable to host it at your chapter house
Step 5: Attend the seminar! (The seminar is programmed to be 50-60 minutes long)
How much does it cost?
Each chapter has different financial constraints and circumstances that may impact their ability to obtain services and resources. I work individually with each chapter to discuss financial implications.
