A Sexual Attitudes Reassessment (SAR) workshop is not traditional sex education—it’s a deeply personal, emotionally engaging, and professionally enriching experience.

Designed and facilitated by Sexplore with Den Temin, this SAR helps participants:

* Explore their attitudes and values about sexual behaviour, gender identity, and sexual diversity

* Identify personal and professional biases

* Increase comfort and confidence when discussing sexuality-related topics

Through interactive explicit media, small group dialogue, reflective exercises, and testimonials, SAR creates a safe, confidential, and inclusive space for self-exploration.

This SAR training in Toronto is ideal for:

• Sex Therapists & ASTO candidates

• Mental health professionals & psychotherapists

• Medical professionals (physicians, nurses)

• Sexuality specialists (educators, clinicians, counsellors)

• Social workers & graduate students

• Anyone seeking deeper self-awareness around sex, sexuality, and gender

• Health care providers

Whether for certification, career development, or personal exploration, this program builds confidence and skill in engaging with diverse sexual identities and experiences.

1. Increases Self-Awareness

Sexuality is an essential part of many clients’ lives, yet many therapists feel unprepared to address it. Many people avoid discussing sexual issues unless the provider initiates. SAR training:

• Reduces discomfort and judgment

• Encourages open, nonreactive dialogue

• Builds confidence in using appropriate sexual health language

• Stay calm and nonreactive in sessions involving sexual content.

• Improve their capacity to explore clients’ sexual concerns without avoidance.

• Ask questions using respectful, nonjudgmental language

• Normalize sexual health conversations

• Build trust in provider–patient relationships

2. Builds Comfort Discussing Sexual Issues

Clinicians bring their own beliefs into the room—consciously or unconsciously. Explore your personal values, judgments, and biases related to sex and relationships. This reflection helps:

• Identify personal biases and values related to sexuality

• Recognize how those beliefs might influence client interactions

• Work through & reduce transference / countertransference around sexual ~ gender topics

• Prevent the imposition of personal values

• Support genuine client-centered care

3. Promotes Cultural Competency and Reduces Health Disparities

Sexual expression is shaped by culture, identity, and lived experience. SAR workshops introduce clinicians & prepare healthcare providers to:

• Diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and relationship structures

• Cultural and religious perspectives on sexuality

• Issues of stigma, discrimination, and inclusion

• Affirm LGBTQIA+, non-monogamous, and gender-diverse patients

• Avoid microaggressions or stigmatizing behaviours

• Understand how systemic bias affects sexual health outcomes

4. Supports Ethical Practice

Professional ethical codes emphasize the importance of sexual health awareness.Medical ethics emphasize respect for patient autonomy, dignity, and equitable care. SAR workshops help therapists & medical professionals:

• Meet continuing education and certification requirements (e.g., CRPO / ASTO)

• Compliance with medical board expectations

• Practice nonjudgmental, client-centered care

• Know when and how to refer clients to sexual specialists

• Competence in informed consent, trauma-informed care, and inclusive communication

• Continuing education requirements in sexual and reproductive health

5. Enhances Clinical Effectiveness

Many clients bring sexual issues into therapy—whether directly (e.g., sexual difficulties) or indirectly (e.g., trauma, intimacy issues). Many therapeutic issues—such as trauma, identity, intimacy, and relationships—have sexual components.  Sexual health is linked to many medical concerns—STIs, chronic pain, mental health, fertility, and more. SAR-trained clinicians / service providers are better equipped to:

• Address sexual concerns directly and compassionately

• Integrate sexual health into holistic care

• Strengthen the therapeutic alliance through openness and acceptance

• Take better sexual histories

• Detect conditions linked to sexual function or trauma

• Encourage preventive care and patient disclosure

Expect a bold, engaging, and emotionally rich workshop that includes:

• Sexually explicit and emotionally evocative media

• Group discussions on complex and diverse sexuality topics

• Guided self-reflection and experiential learning

• Field trips, guest speakers, and live testimonials

• Exploration of intersectionality, gender diversity, consent, pleasure, and trauma-informed practices

• Tools, and knowledge to work through ~ reduce transference and countertransference around sexual ~ gender topics

• PDF with resources on appropriate sexuality language, how-to design intake procedures including sexuality & gender, 

This workshop is designed to challenge assumptions, expand awareness, and improve communication skills around sex, gender, and relationships.