This workshop invites wisdom seekers to engage in a liberatory journey of releasing colonial mentalities and hierarchical frameworks that inhibit our joy, fulfillment, and erotic sovereignty. Through the exploration of non-Western, pleasure-affirming concepts rooted in decolonial onto-epistemologies, participants will have an opportunity to engage with emancipatory tools that enhance erotic wellbeing and support the cultivation of erotic prosperity. If you are seeking AASECT CE, this is NOT the correct purchase. Please revsit our page and select the AASECT course.

Learning objective:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to describe a non-Western concept that affirms pleasure and/or erotic power.

Instructor

Dr. Zelaika Hepworth ClarkePhd, MSW, MEd

is the first Jamerican (Jamaican-American) to receive three degrees in human sexuality from accredited universities in the United States: Bachelors of Arts from NYU in Sexuality, Culture and Oppression (2007); Masters of Education in Human Sexuality(2012) and Doctorate of Philosophy in Human Sexuality (2015) from the Center for Human Sexuality Studies at Widener University. Dr.Clarke is also a graduate of the International School of Transnational Decolonial Black Feminism in Cachoeira, Brazil, from the Decolonizing Knowledge and Power Summer School in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain), and hold a certificate in Advocacy in Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS from the Center for African Family Studies in Nairobi, Kenya.

Dr. Clarke specializes in human sexualities, gender and relational diversity, clinical and cultural sexology, sexosophy, sexecology, African-centered social work, anti-racist sexuality education, critical autoethnography, and Ọ̀ṣunality, an African-centered, sex-positive, post-colonial paradigm that affirms diversity in sensuality, sexual pleasure and eroticism. Dr.Clarke’s passions include increasing critical thinking, expanding self-awareness and self-reflexivity, empowerment, counter-oppressive discourses, unlearning colonial mentalities, decolonial considerations, mindfulness, justices (social, racial, erotic, epistemic, ecological etc) and healing.

Dr. Clarke co-founded a sexuality studies concentration program that is committed to social justice at Goddard College in Vermont. This is the first (anti-racist, anti-imperialist) sexuality studies program in the United States founded by scholars of color at a PWI. Dr. Clarke co-created with (Dr. Herukhuti) the Decolonial SAR , and Sexual Attitude Restructuring/Reassessment program that highlights unlearning settler colonial sexualities, genders and relationship configuration narratives while centering on pre-colonial and decolonial perspectives and promoting multi-epistemic sexual literacy. Dr. Clarke is currently providing therapeutic, educational, and consulting services with the Pluriversity. The Pluriversity is an organization committed to increasing multi-epistemic sexual literacy through transformative learning.