CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Friday

4:30pm-6:30pm Registration and Reception

7:00pm Performance: Tim Miller, “Sex/Body/Self”

Saturday

8:00am-9:00am Registration

9:00am-10:30am Plenary Sessions

Vernon A. Rosario, PhD, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, UCLA: “Queer Latino Teens Negotiating Sexuality, Culture, and Poverty”

Steven Tierney, MA, EdD, Department Chair, Community Mental Health, CIIS: “Queer, Healthy and Fabulous: Toward Community Wellness, Resiliency, and Mental Health

10:45am-12:15pm Morning Sessions

Kristin Kali, LM, CPM, Maia Midwifery and Preconception Services: “Conception and the Queer Body”

SJ Kahn, MFT, Psychotherapist, Supervisor: “Loving Outside the Lines: Perspectives on Non-Traditional Couples”

Betsy Kassoff, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Author: “Who's Topping Whom: Queer and Relational Theories”

Sage Foster, MA, MPH, Housing Coordinator, Activist: "Embedded and Emerging Identity Issues in the Trans Community: An FTM Perspective"

12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch Onsite

1:30pm–3:00 pm Afternoon Sessions

Alzak Amlani, PhD, CIIS Faculty: “Liberating the Queer Body: Familial and Cultural Constraints for Middle Eastern and South Asian Americans”

Zach Finley, MA, MFTI: “Gay Male Bodies, Shame and Addiction: Working Somatically at the Edge of Unbearable Experience”

Brian Joseph, Center for Nonviolent Education and Parenting; Founder, Peace School Cooperative Preschool: “Supporting Healthy Sexuality and a Gender Spectrum in Young Children”

Dossie Easton, MFT, Author, Educator: “Shadowplay: S/M Journeys to Our Selves”

3:00pm-3:15pm Coffee and Tea Break

3:15pm-4:45 pm Afternoon Sessions

Matthew Bronson, PhD, CIIS Faculty, Shoshana Simons, PhD, Department Chair, CIIS Expressive Arts Therapy: “When As-If Becomes As-Is: Cultural, Cross-Cultural and Lived Perspectives on the Queer Body”

Charlie Glickman, PhD, Education Program Manager, Good Vibrations: “What is ‘Queer Sex’ Anyway? The Myth of the Normal and Psychotherapy”

Janet Linder, LCSW, Psychotherapist, and Elena Moser, LCSW, Clinical Director, Women's Therapy Center: “Butch Lesbians: A Vanishing Breed”

Connors McConville, MDiv, MA, MFTI: “Charon: A Queer Body? Traveling the Emotional and Spiritual Landscape with the Dying and Their Families

Rev. Trinity Ordona, PhD, Educator, Activist/Organizer: “The Asian/Pacific Lesbian Experience: Decentering the ‘White Gay Male' from the LGBT Universe, or "How to be Gay and Asian, too!"

5:00pm-6:30pm Keynote Speaker : Jewelle Gomez, “Show Me Your ID!”

6:30pm-8:30pm Art Reception and Panel

InQueering Minds: Art and Gender Identity
Panel Discussion with Wine and Chocolate Reception

Minna   Street   Center

6:30pm-7:00pm Art Viewing and Reception

7:00pm-8:00pm Panel Discussion

Panelists: Annie Sprinkle, Rudy Lemcke, and Tina Takemoto

Moderated by Elizabeth Stephens

In conjunction with VERASPHERE: An Exhibition of Photographs by Michael Johnstone.
Presented by Spirit in the Arts at CIIS and Visual Aid.

Minna Street Center
695 Minna Street, San Francisco

Dinner on your own

Sunday

9:00am-9:30am Coffee and Tea

9:30am-10:45am Morning Session

Richard Buggs , PhD, CIIS Dean of Alumni, and Connie Hills, PhD: “Counseling Same-Sex Couples: A Dynamic and Clinical Approach”

Karen Lee Erlichman, MSS, LCSW, Clinical social worker, Author
“The Queer Jewish Body as a Sacred Vessel: Cultural and Spiritual Approaches to Healing”

Dylan Vade , PhD, JD, Cofounder Transgender Law Center , Educator, Stanford University School of Medicine: “Working with the Gender Galaxy”

Clinical Directors Roundtable Discussion: Training Clinicians/Queering Training
Clinical directors past and present from CIIS Center for Somatic Psychotherapy,
New Leaf: Services For Our Community, Women's Therapy Center

11:00 am-12:30 pm Closing Plenary Speakers

William Cornell, MA, TSTA , Somatic Psychotherapist, Author, Educator: “Sex at the Margins: What ‘perverse' Sexualities Teach Us About Being Alive”

Keiko Lane, MA, MFT, Conference Chair, Somatic Psychotherapist, Author, CIIS Adjunct Faculty: “My Enemy Who Is So Beautiful – Resistance, Resiliency, and Countertransference in Psychotherapy With Queer Activists”

12:30pm-1:00pm Closing