The Buehler Institute Online SAR

How do we experience our own sexuality?  What about the sexuality of others?  Do you understand today’s sexual attitudes and behaviors?  How does thinking about, observing, or experiencing that landscape make you feel?

The Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) workshop is a unique experience designed to help professionals confront and understand their countertransference to sexual material brought in by the client.

Our workshop is designed to be inclusive of all kinds of people engaged in all kinds of behaviors--behaviors that may make sense, or that may be confusing.  A SAR stimulates sex-positive discussions and questions, questions that may or may not be answered within the context of the workshop.

Both Stephanie & Natasha are experienced SAR leaders and have decades of experience as psychotherapists between them.  Both are AASECT certified sex therapists and supervisors of sex therapy.  Natasha is expert at navigating issues related to religion and culture, while Stephanie has written a broad textbook about sex therapy and sexuality that was just updated for publication later this year.

We will limit enrollment to 24 people.  We may break into dyads, triads, quads, or dozens after considering behavior in sexually explicit material*, or answering questions about sex.   We will process our responses and delve into our biases.  We will consider the experience of those we are observing, the experience of being the observer, and the experience of being observed by the therapist.  We will do this in an ethical, professional environment where openness is valued and confidentiality is maintained.

*Nobody is required to watch sexually explicit material, but you are required to participate in discussions.  And yes, listening is also participating.