Supporting Birthing People in Navigating Sex and Connection Postpartum

This workshop explores the intersection of sexuality, intimacy, and postpartum experiences for birthing people, addressing an often overlooked aspect of perinatal wellbeing and relational health. While much attention is given to physical recovery and infant care, many birthing people and their partners are left navigating significant changes in desire, body image, identity, and relational connection with little guidance or support.

Using a biopsychosocial and culturally responsive framework, participants will examine the physiological, psychological, relational, and cultural factors that influence postpartum sexual functioning. The training also considers the impact of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, and societal expectations on postpartum intimacy, with attention to the experiences of queer families, nontraditional partnerships, and individuals whose lives intersect with sexuality and erotic labor.

Participants will leave with practical strategies to ethically, confidently, and compassionately support the rebuilding of intimacy, communication, and connection after childbirth, whether in clinical work or within their own relationships and communities.

🎤 Presented By: Victoria Moon

📌 What to Expect:

• A holistic look at postpartum intimacy, including physical, emotional, relational, and cultural influences on sexuality after childbirth.
• Discussion of common challenges, such as shifts in desire, body image, identity, and partnership dynamics.
• An inclusive and culturally responsive perspective that centers diverse family structures, identities, and experiences.
• Practical tools and strategies for navigating conversations about sex, boundaries, and connection.
• Reflection and discussion to support rebuilding intimacy and communication after childbirth.

👤 Who Is This Space For:

• Birthing people navigating changes in intimacy, identity, desire, and connection after childbirth.
• Mental health clinicians, birth workers, and helping professionals who support individuals and families in the perinatal and postpartum period.
• Partners, loved ones, and caregivers who want to better understand how to support postpartum healing and connection.
• Queer families, nontraditional partnerships, and individuals whose lives intersect with sexuality, including sex workers.
• Anyone interested in learning and growing in this conversation, recognizing that most of us will support someone navigating postpartum life at some point in our communities.

🧠 Learning Objectives:

• By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to identify at least three biopsychosocial factors that influence sexual functioning and intimacy for birthing people in the postpartum period.
  • Core Knowledge (b): Developmental sexuality from a bio-psycho-social perspective across the lifespan
  • Core Knowledge (h): Health/medical factors that may influence sexuality
    
• By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to apply at least two counseling or therapeutic strategies to support birthing people and their partners in navigating intimacy challenges postpartum.
  • Core Knowledge (e): Intimacy skills (e.g., social, emotional, sexual) and family dynamics
  • Sexuality Counseling (c): Theory and methods of different approaches to intervention in relationship systems

Accessibility: Zoom offers live captioning. If further accessibility tools are needed please let us know.

Please Note: This workshop will be recorded for sale after. 

Aging Kinky AF reframes aging as erotic evolution—especially for Black, Brown, queer, disabled, and sex-working communities. We blend clinical insight, public health, and lived kink expertise to dismantle ageism and center pleasure as resistance. Attendees will learn adaptive strategies for desire, consent, and connection as bodies, roles, and needs shift across the lifespan. Through quick somatic check-ins, workbook prompts, and facilitated dialogue, we model kink-affirming, trauma-informed practice you can use with clients, partners, and communities right now. Participants will leave with language, tools, and a mini “Desire Intimacy Wellness Inventory™️” they can immediately implement in practice.

🎤 Presented By: Jet Setting Jasmine & Dr. Nicole Crawford

👤 Who Is This Space For:

• Both licensed & unlicensed clinicians and clinical interns (social workers, therapists, psychologists)
• Sex Workers and anyone in the adult industry
• Anyone of the general public interested in learning more about kink 

🧠 Learning Objectives:

• By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to identify at least three kink-based strategies (such as adaptive power exchange or sensory shifts) for sustaining pleasure and connection across the lifespan.
  • Intimacy skills (e.g., social, emotional, sexual) and family dynamics.
    
• By the end of the workshop, attendees will be able to apply a trauma-informed and body-affirming framework to evaluate and dismantle at least two common myths regarding aging and eroticism in marginalized communities.
  
  • Socio-cultural factors (e.g. ethnicity, culture, religion, spirituality, socio-economic status, family values) in relation to sexual values and behaviors
    

Accessibility: Zoom offers live captioning. If further accessibility tools are needed please let us know.

Please Note: This workshop will be recorded for sale after. 

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