Sexuality Leadership: Inspiring Community Engagement, Social Empowerment, and Transformational Influence (4 CE Hours, 2021)

Description:

This workshop offers a careful blend of educational, clinical, and consultative best practices – with equity, diversity, and inclusivity in mind – and serves as a think tank of empowerment and activism within the field of sexuality. This innovative space illuminates leader styles in the field of sexuality as well strategic planning, community access, and the necessity of working with underserved or marginalized communities. Discussions about risk taking, organizational improvement, collaborative leadership, and cultural intelligence are explored.  Finally, consideration is given to strategies that empower underrepresented groups and lead systemic change.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe 2 sexuality leadership styles
• Describe the difference between leading and managing
• Name two important concepts about leadership planning and priorities as it relates to sexuality therapy, consultation, and advocacy
• Name three characteristics of sexuality leaders and as well as the anticipated impact that they have on underserved and marginalized communities.

Speaker Bio:

Dr. James Wadley is a licensed professional counselor. He is the founding editor of the scholarly, interdisciplinary journal, the Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships (University of Nebraska Press). He is also the founder and Principal of the Association of Black Sexologists and Clinicians and his professional background in human sexuality education, educational leadership, and program development has enabled him to galvanize scholars and practitioners in the field of sexology across the world.

His research and publication interests include sexual decision making among young adults, masculinity development and conceptions of fatherhood by non-custodial fathers, and HIV/AIDS prevention. He has written undergraduate and graduate courses and authored 22 courses for the Master of Science in Counseling program for Lincoln University (PA). In addition, he recently co-authored 13 doctoral level courses for the Theological Seminary of Puerto Rico. In 2015, Dr. Wadley earned his NBCC-International Mental Health Facilitator certification after spending time with Rwandan therapists discussing the impact of genocide and trauma in the early 1990’s. In 2016, he helped developed curricula and conducted a sexuality education course at the University of Muhimbili in Tanzania for the nursing and midwifery program. Later that year, he developed and taught an applied research methods course at Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2017, Dr. Wadley’s work and advocacy domestically and abroad enabled him to complete his first documentary, Raw to Reel: Race, Drugs, and Sex in Trenton, New Jersey, which captures some of the challenges that emerge in addiction and recovery. Finally, in 2018, Dr. Wadley co-edited The Art of Sex Therapy Supervision (Routledge), which is a book devoted to the clinical experiences of supervisors and supervisees in the field of sex therapy. The book won AASECT’s 2019 Book of the Year Award. His new book, The Handbook of Sexuality Leadership: Inspiring Community Engagement, Social Empowerment, and Transformational Influence (Routledge), carves a new path for sexuality educators, counselors, and therapists in that it serves as an invitation for re-conceptualizing the consultative roles in which sexuality professionals engage.