Professional Development, Training Workshops & Curriculum
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School or Group
We offer customized training, consultation, speakers, & panels. It would be an honor to support your employees & leadership to elevate your organizational culture.
Professional Learning Communities & Training Workshops
We facilitate a responsive, interactive, hands on, minds on, hearts on learning experience for all participants to grow in their understanding & practices.
LGBTQI+ Affirming & Expansive
Digital Curriculum Sets
Coming Soon!
All revenue from training & curriculum goes towards supporting Rainbow's programs & services in the community.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE
“Our work with Rainbow Community Center was a game-changer for us as an organization. They did a careful analysis, helped us strategize, and led an amazing, heart-felt, and compelling training that really helped shift the tides of our committee's work to make our organization Gender Expansive.”
Leah Graniela-Loving, Senior Manager, Techbridge Girls, Oakland CA
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, & Expression (SOGIE)
Professional Development & Training Workshops
SOGIE:
Beyond the Binary
Participants will learn the foundational concepts of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression (SOGIE), identify current outcomes of rigid gender norms in our communities, and devise ways we can begin to break through dominant narratives around the gender binary and heteronormativity.
SOGIE:
At the Intersections
Participants will explore intersectionality, how different identities relate and show up in the world, & the impact of both intentional & unintentional communications that may stigmatize a group or many groups of people. These sessions can be customized into a deep dive into SOGIE at the intersection of a particular aspect of identity such as; race, ability, age or faith.
SOGIE: LGBTQI+ Fluency & Allyship
Participants will explore the dimensions of gender and sexuality, the importance of pronouns, gender inclusive language, and looking at personal and community impact of LGBTQI+ Implicit bias, and general best practices for allyship.
SOGIE: Embracing Liberation
Participants will examine LGBTQI+ history and our movement towards equity. Embracing liberation, we will uplift each other and celebrate current progress and identify areas of need for visibility and justice work. Together we will explore healing strategies and grow in our collective empowerment to overcome obstacles and attain social change.
SOGIE: Affirming & Expansive Approaches
Participants will move beyond a basic understanding of LGBTQI+ topics, exploring expansive allyship practices. We will invite creative and strategic thinking about specific action steps you and your family, community, and/or place of work can take to inform policies, language, facilities, culture and attitude within all our communities.
SOGIE:
Expansive Schools
Participants to increase their understanding and develop skills to create safer, more inclusive classroom environments for young people who identify as LGBTQI+. The training will cover the Foundational Concepts of SOGIE, health and educational disparities facing LGBTQI+ youth, laws that protect students, and specific strategies for classroom teachers to implement and resources available.
SOGIE: Growing Awareness & Cultural Humility
Through a SOGIE lens participants will define bias, power and privilege & explore how these topics show up in their lives & within our greater communities and society.
Customized Workshops & Consultation
Are you looking for something more specific to your group? We can customize our workshops to meet a specific need or goal of your organization, company, school or group.
We also offer one on one coaching or small group consultation on an hourly basis. Our dynamic facilitators will meet with you or your team to co-create goals and maximize outcomes.
Professional Learning Communities & Training Workshops
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, & Expression (SOGIE): Beyond the Binary
Join us for an interactive, hands on, minds on, hearts on workshop series exploring LGBTQI+ fluency and Allyship.
New Workshop Dates Coming Soon!
Professional Learning Community for Educators 22/23 School Year
Join our Professional Learning Community specifically curated for people in the education field to grow in their understanding and practices.
Meet Our Trainers
Rae
Messer
