Showing Up: Supporting Our Trans Loved Ones

for Gender Awareness and Inclusion Network Parents Support Group

Lex facilitated his program, “Showing Up: Allyship in Action” for GAIN on October 18th!

 

Some content areas include:

This program provides participants with foundational skills and practice opportunities for how to move through conflict and navigate difficult or challenging conversations from a care based approach, centering empathy, curiosity, and compassion. We will look at individual and collective practices which exploring how we cultivate inclusive and affirming spaces and communities through our everyday language and actions. Participants leave with tangible tools and takeaways for how to best engage proactively and reactively when challenges occur.

The tools and language covered are built for supporting students and colleagues alike, and apply just as readily to community and relationships outside of school.

Program Mission:

Attendees will learn tools to help them navigate difficult conversations and move through conflict. Participants will leave with practical tools for navigating conflict, feeling empowered and confident to have difficult conversations.

Content Areas Include

  1. How to move through conflict

  2. How to navigate difficult or challenging conversations

  3. Cultivating inclusive and affirming spaces and communities through our language and practices

    1. Spectrum of belonging

    2. Allyship to accomplices and coconspirators 

  4. Recognizing and addressing bias, microaggressions, and stereotypes

  5. Empathy, compassion, and curiosity based approach to learning and growing together

  6. Individual and collective practices

Objectives / Goals

  1. Gain practical tools to navigate challenging situations

  2. Build confidence as active allies and co-conspirators to better protect our trans family members

Takeaways

  1. Critically think about areas of improvement to better support queer, non-binary and trans people using an inclusive and affirming understanding of gender and sexuality in our proactive allyship

  2. Leave with tangible tools, best practices, and next steps to utilize as an effective ally in action to queer, non-binary and trans people and/or for self-advocacy

  3. Gain more confidence in how to utilize advocacy tools (proactive and/or reactive)

Themes: Resiliency; Allyship; Community Building; Affirmation Practices

 

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