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Date(s) - 07/08/2026 - 09/08/2026
7:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR)

14-Hour Experiential Training for Practitioners (Meets AASECT SAR Requirement)

For counsellors, therapists, coaches, sexuality educators, and other helping professionals

This is about what happens in your sessions

You can know the frameworks.

But when a client shares something that:

• Challenges your values
• Feels unfamiliar
• Creates discomfort

Your internal response shapes the work.

• What you ask.
• What you avoid.
• What you normalise.
• What you pathologise.
• What you stay curious about.
• What you quietly judge.

This training is about that layer.

What this training is

A Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) is a structured, experiential process designed to help practitioners examine their:

• Attitudes
• Values
• Beliefs
• Biases
• Emotional responses

…towards sexuality, and how these may affect professional practice.

It is not:

• Therapy
• A lecture-based course
• Skills training in the traditional sense

It is a professionally facilitated process of self-examination.

Why this exists

AASECT requires SAR because knowledge alone is not enough.

A practitioner may understand sexuality intellectually and still struggle in practice when faced with material that feels confronting, unfamiliar, or personally activating.

SAR exists because professionals have historically:

• Avoided sexual topics
• Imposed personal values without realising it
• Reacted from discomfort rather than awareness
• Reinforced shame despite good intentions

The point of SAR is not simply to teach more. It is to help practitioners become more aware of how their own conditioning, assumptions, and reactions may shape the therapeutic or educational space.

Why this matters in Asia

In much of Asia, many practitioners receive little or no structured professional training that asks them to examine their own sexual attitudes directly.

That gap matters.

It can show up as:

• Hesitation
• Avoidance
• Overcompensation
• Moral discomfort
• Subtle judgement
• Difficulty staying grounded with diverse sexual realities

This training is designed to address that gap in a direct, professional, and clinically meaningful way.

Why Dr Martha is qualified to lead this

This SAR is led by Dr. Martha Tara Lee, Relationship Counsellor and Clinical Sexologist, who is an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator and AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator Supervisor. AASECT has clear expectations around the training, experience, and facilitation required to lead SAR. This is not something that can be improvised, diluted, or rebranded casually. It requires deep familiarity with sexuality education, group process, facilitation, professional ethics, and the purpose of SAR itself. This is also what makes this training rare in Asia.

How the training works

This is a live, in-person, professionally facilitated experience using:

• Short lectures to frame discussion
• Structured experiential exercises
• Curated media
• Small group discussion
• Guided reflection
• Sensorium as part of the SAR process

This is not passive learning. The value is in noticing yourself in real time.

On the use of explicit material

Yes, sexually explicit material will be used.

This is intentional and part of SAR methodology.

It is included because:

• Reactions to explicit sexual material are often immediate
• Those reactions cannot always be hidden behind intellectual language
• They reveal discomfort, assumptions, bias, curiosity, and blind spots in real time

That is part of the work.

You are not required to view any material.
You are required to participate in the process and discussions.

What tends to emerge during SAR

Participants often notice:

• Areas of discomfort
• Personal assumptions they had not fully examined
• Gaps between stated values and internal reactions
• Patterns of judgement, distancing, rescuing, or avoidance
• Greater clarity about what they need to keep working on as practitioners

This is expected.

What this changes in practice

SAR can support practitioners to develop:

• Greater awareness of personal bias
• More comfort discussing sexuality directly
• More grounded responses to diverse sexual expression
• More consistent neutrality in practice
• Better capacity to stay present with material that once felt activating

Who this is for

• Counsellors
• Therapists
• Psychologists
• Coaches
• Sexuality educators
• Healthcare professionals
• Students pursuing AASECT certification
• Practitioners who want to examine how their own responses affect their work

Who this is not for

• People looking for therapy
• People wanting a purely academic training
• People unwilling to reflect on their own attitudes and biases
• People who are not prepared for an experiential process

Training Details

Dates: Friday to Sunday 7 – 9 August

Venue: Private villa in Johor Bahru, Malaysia

7 August

• Arrival at villa from 2:00 PM – 7:00 PM

8 August

• SAR training: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Includes two 30-minute breaks and one 1-hour lunch break
• Sensorium: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

9 August

• SAR training: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Includes two 30-minute breaks and one 1-hour lunch break

Total SAR hours

• 8 August (Daytime): 6 hours
• 8 August (Sensorium): 2 hours
• 9 August (Daytime): 6 hours

Total: 14 hours 

This training is structured to meet the AASECT SAR requirement.

Selection process

To protect the quality and safety of the group: An interview with Dr. Martha may be required before acceptance. This is to help ensure readiness, fit, and the integrity of the learning environment.

Confidentiality and participation

Because this work is personal as well as professional:

• Confidentiality is required
• Respect for different identities, experiences, and viewpoints is expected
• Full participation is required for completion
• Participants are responsible for managing their own boundaries while remaining engaged in the process

What your investment includes

Early Bird: S$900

Regular: S$1,100

This is an all-inclusive, professionally facilitated SAR experience:

• 14-hour Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) (meets AASECT SAR requirement)
• Private villa stay in Johor Bahru (2 nights)
• All meals provided during the training
• Transport between Singapore and the venue
• Structured experiential process, facilitation, and materials
• Certificate of Completion (14 SAR hours)

This is designed as a contained, immersive professional experience — so you can focus fully on the work without logistical distractions.

About Dr. Martha Tara Lee

Dr. Martha Tara Lee is a Relationship Counsellor and Clinical Sexologist based in Asia. She is an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator and AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator Supervisor, and has trained sexuality professionals across the region.

Her work is known for being:

• Direct
• Grounded
• Practical
• Clinically relevant
• Culturally aware

Registration

Places are limited. Application, fit, and interview may be required before confirmation.

Testimonials

“I attended Martha’s SAR workshop in 2012. It was very good and refreshing. Watching the different videos made me more accepting of myself and others by the end of the workshop. From the workshop, I actually gained comfort that there were other people who felt the same way, and supported people with different sexual preferences and behaviours. It was very comfortable attending the workshop, and not that awkward. In particular, I liked the clip of people sharing their masturbation experiences openly. It was discussed openly and without shame in the video, which was intimate and informative. Also, it made me realize that it was normal for people to start masturbating at a young age, making me think that perhaps it was a natural behavior and something many people instinctively know what to do, but it’s sad that we are shameful of it. Overall, it really challenged my perspective, and it was a pleasure to learn positive information, instead of the more rampant judgments and commercial media which ultimately close us up, because it’s not authentic and loving. Thank you for conducting the workshop!!!” – YQ, 2012

“I have to say I knew not what to expect when I first attended SAR. I knew I was going to experience discomfort; but having known Martha for some time, I knew she made a wonderful facilitator; and I was correct. Martha made sure that the whole situation was as comfortable and guided as possible. SAR made me more open on my attitude towards sex. The various type of sex, the various preferences, and how all of such can actually be a calming, freeing experience.” – Male Participant, 2012

“I first attended SAR with a fair amount of resistance to the notion that it will be uncomfortable and weird to be viewing material with a group of strangers. However as the sessions proceeded, I found myself transformed through the process and the openness in discussion and sharing our views and perspectives definitely helped to challenge the various pre-conceived notions or pre-judgements that we have about certain things. Having gone through it, I do think that the process helps in broadening our perspectives and becoming more tolerant individuals capable of appreciating people for who they are and to see beyond stereotypes. Credit must go to Dr. Martha Lee for administering the process and for creating an environment where frank, honest discussion is possible.” – Male participant, 2012

To sign up, drop me an email to express your interest info@eroscoaching.com.

Please note that no refunds will be issued if you have paid and cannot make it for the workshop. Replacement allowed. Deferment is not available.

This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 14 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT certification. For further information please contact info@aasect.org.

Facilitated by Sexologist Dr Martha