7-Night St. Kitts, San Juan & Puerto Plata Cruise
Round-trip Orlando (Port Canaveral), Florida
November 01 - 08, 2025

Where do our gender and sexuality norms originate, and how have they evolved over time? How do these norms shape our clients' identities, resilience, and self-support—especially in today’s sociopolitical climate? If these questions excite you, please join me for this presentation! Alfred Adler’s concept of “community feeling” points to the importance of feeling connected to the cosmic human community spanning time throughout both our past and future. This presentation will explore a variety of gender and sexuality cultural norms across the globe in pre-colonial societies, the influence of colonialism on these norms, and explore how oppression of the past influences power and social injustices of the present. We will conclude with actionable clinical strategies to help queer clients cultivate a strong sense of community feeling, empowering them to resist anti-queer propaganda and build community feeling as a source of resilience.

Objectives:

• Learn about the historical context of current gender and sexuality norms.

• Explore therapeutic approaches to decolonizing gender and sexuality within psychotherapy by cultivating an Adlerian sense of community.

• Develop strategies to empower queer clients to build resilience and a sense of community feeling.

*This course is part of a CEU mini-cruise hosted by Comprehensive Addiction and Psychological Services. To register for the full CEU package and learn more, please click the button below. Course fee listed in the following link is for the entire conference but does not include booking the cruise. Cruise line payment details are separate and available at the link through the button.

Conference at sea hosted by Comprehensive Addiction and Psychological Services.