CULTURAL IMPERIALISM & SPIRITUAL SCAVENGING: Deconstructing Whiteness & Eurocentrism in Sex Therapy, Counselling and Education

DESCRIPTION

Sex therapy, counselling, and education, all operate from a white, upper-middle class baseline. That standard is fundamentally incompatible with people from every other walk of life (the People of the Global Majority). This course critically examines these invisible standards to which Black and Brown bodies are gauged upon. It interrogates how colonial governance, the weight of multigenerational trauma, fundamentally changed childhood, development and intimate lives of the POGM. It introduces the concepts of encultured brains which argues that the survival strategies employed by one generation are carried on as cultural adaptations by the next and so on. Such intergenerational intelligence allowed for the development of traditions that were spiritually rooted, historically informed and politically charged. Yoga, Meditation and Tantra have all had deeply ingrained spiritual and religious roots, and have all been constantly subjected to spiritual scavenging and cultural imperialism.

Join me as I navigate the world of Necropolitics, the politics of death, to further facilitate decolonial discourses. Necropolitics is a political theory coined by philosopher Achille Mbembe, defined as the use of social and political power to dictate how some people may live and how others must die. It describes a “politics of death” where sovereign power is exercised by exposing certain populations to premature death, creating “death-worlds” or conditions of life that render them “living dead”. Necropolitics, when applied to indigenous knowledge systems, is a tool to analyze how settler colonial states marginalize, exclude, and destroy these systems to consolidate power, land, and resources, and eventually scavenge any indigenous knowledge systems to satiate the hunger of the lost connection to land.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to analyze how political theories of bodily governance apply to the systemic sexualization, pathologization, and disposability of Black and Brown bodies within modern sex therapy, counselling and education spaces.
2. By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to evaluate the impact of multigenerational trauma and explain how colonial imposition of heteronormativity and sexual morality led to the abandonment of indigenous sexual wisdom.
3. By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to decolonize professional spaces to avoid cultural imperialism and spiritual scavenging.

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Standard Access: Full course access with AASECT Continuing Education credits. Ideal for licensed clinicians and certified professionals fulfilling CE requirements (First-come, first-served).
Collective Access: Full course access with AASECT Continuing Education credits, offered at a lower price point to support decolonial participation across professional communities (First-come, first-served).
Community Access: Full course access without AASECT CE credits, designed for BIPOC, queer, kink+, and sex-positive community members engaging outside of a clinical or certification context.
Open Access: Registration open to all, including international students. No AASECT CE credits issued. Suitable for anyone curious about the subject matter regardless of professional background.

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