Outreach, Training & Technical Assistance

This training will explore core competencies around the diverse expanses of the LGBTQIA2S+ community. We will cover the difference between sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. Understanding the importance of pronouns and the impacts of misgendering and deadnaming. This training includes how to navigate accountability when working with LGBTQIA2S+ communities so we can continue to create more affirming and inclusive practices.

This training centers how we can show up for our transgender and gender non conforming community. We will cover the difference between sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. Utilizing reflective practices and scenario based questions, we will cover how we can normalize asking for pronouns, how to respond in the face of confusion or pushback around pronoun usage, the impacts of misgendering and deadnaming, and how we mitigate and respond to that harm. We will explore non gendered alternatives to our language, and how we can integrate this into a daily practice. While this training centers the experiences of our transgender and gender non conforming community, this training benefits us all in how we navigate our world in a gendered society.

For groups who already have a foundational understanding of intersectionality and/or a critical lens of how our systems impact us, that are looking for more context and tools to shift towards community based alternatives.

This training explores the historical context of community care and how we define community from a micro and macro perspective. We will examine the foundation of the systems and structures we exist in and how this shows up in our lives systemically and interpersonally within our communities. We will explore what community care means to us and community based alternatives and resources. This training utilizes individual reflection and group discussions to help us build our own personal praxis and opportunity to learn from and with others.