Trainings

This evidence-based 2SLGBTQIA+ training covers key concepts and general terms relating to gender and sexuality, practical skills for being in allyship with 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, and grounds the group in intersectionality principles to create safer, more inclusive school environments.

Educational Objectives (Attendees will leave with the following):

• Key 2SLGBTQIA+ concepts, terms, and definitions
• Practical skills for working with trans, gender non-conforming, and Two Spirit populations in particular
• A working definition of intersectionality, a brief introduction to its origins, and ways that intersectionality frameworks can create safer, more inclusive school environments

This training discusses the concept of intersectionality through a Black Queer Feminist Lens. We will also discuss LGBTQIA2S+ history and a broader overview of intersecting liberation movements. There will be time to discuss your own identities and how intersectionality may impact you and those around you.

Our Allyship and Affirming Spaces training covers common identities in the LGBTQIA+ community and expands upon previously held knowledge on how to be a better ally. Learn how to be an ally through resources and relationships, intersectionality and inclusion, disruption and defense, and education. Attendees will leave this training with tips and skills to be a better ally and understand why allyship is important.

Our evidence based LGBTQIA+ 101 Training covers general terms relating to gender and sexuality, best practices for educators with pronouns and how to be an ally to gender non-conforming students. We will dive into thinking about our own experiences with gender and learn about the differences between gender identity, biological sex, gender expression and sexual orientation.

Our Healthy Relationships training discusses different types of relationships, relationship structures, myths about queer relationships as well as practical tools for setting boundaries and communicating with partners. We also examine how media has impacted our perceptions of queer relationships. Attendees should leave this training with a renewed idea of what a relationship is and how they can be built in a healthy way.

This queer theology training gives you the opportunity to explore the theologies undergirding “clobber passages” while also building a new theological framework that allows us to build a theology that welcomes and affirms all people. You will receive notes on best practices for weaving this theology into your congregational life.

This training covers general terms relating to gender and sexuality, respecting pronouns, and steps you can take as a congregation to be a better ally. We will ground much of our learnings in theological tenets, reflect on our own experiences of gender, and discuss best practices in being a welcoming and affirming congregation.