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“People grow and change over time because of the experiences they have. It’s not something that is static.” — Brent Satterly Don Dyson Brent Satterly Schiller Lecture Prize Brent Satterly, PhD, and Don Dyson, PhD, a pair of AASECT-certified sex therapists, are this year’s winners of the Schiller Lecture Prize, an award given to best conference proposal for a worshop utilizing interactive learning strategies. The workshop, presented at the organization’s recent gathering in New Orleans, focused on how the sexual identities of lesbians and gay men may change over time. Inspired by Michelle Eliason’s “cyclical pattern through which individuals explore and adopt new identities,” Satterly and Dyson argue that many lesbians and gay men experience changes in sexual identity over time. For example, a young lesbian may identify as a butch or femme in her twenties before raising a child and then seeing herself as a queer parent. “People grow and change over time because of the experiences they have,” Satterly says. “It’s not something that is static.” Satterly and Dyson have been team teaching a “Sexual Minorities” class at Widener University in Pennsylvania for the past six years. The Schiller Lecture Prize is named for AASECT founder Patricia Schiller, MA, JD. Schiller served as AASECT executive director from 1967-1980. Now 94, she’s retired and living in Palm Beach, Fla. — Todd Melby AASECT Winter Institute T hanks to Bill Finger for his work on recruiting two of our stellar faculty for a special new AASECT endeavor. Sallie Foley and Barry McCarthy have agreed to co-lead our first Winter Institute for advanced/intermediate sex therapists. This training, entitled “An Integrative, Comprehensive, Psychobiosocial Approach to Sex Therapy” will address current issues in couple sex therapy as well as dealing with controversial issues of sex and aging, females and males without partners, secret sexual lives, sexual trauma, gay and lesbian couples, dealing with extra-dyadic involvements, fatally flawed relationships, use and misuse of medical interventions, and the role and meaning of non-sexual relationships. The date is January 9-11, 2009 and we are currently negotiating with two hotels in Boca Raton and Palm Beach, Florida for the training site. More details soon. — Steve Conley, AASECT executive director 6 Contemporary Sexuality www.aasect.org | July 2008 Vol. 42, No. 7 http://www.aasect.org

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