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Activist Institute Workshops
Audience: Youth and Adult
Workshop Examples:
- Planning a successful direct action
- Ideas for creating change in your school or community
- Turning apathy to action
- How to successfully lobby your legislator
- Nuts and bolts of grassroots organizing
- Developing activism on your campus
- Dealing with backlash
- Learning from our queer activist history
- Turning protest into power
- Creating a multi-issue social justice organization
- Anti-racism for queers
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College Only
Audience: College age students, approximately 18-24 years old
Workshop Wish List:
- Impact of media on body image, behavioral or relationship choices
- Starting and maintaining a GSA on campus;
- Working with conservative school cultures;
- Coming out to your roommate;
- Being political on campus;
- Fighting a culture of apathy with activism;
- Negotiating safer sex, etc.
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General Workshops
Audience: Youth and Adult
Workshop Wish List:
- Personal Coming Out Stories with Q & A
- Re-Constructing Masculinity
- Creating Effective Youth Adult Partnerships
- The Nuts and Bolts of Running and Maintaining a GSA
- The Rights of LGBTQ Youth at School;
- Exploring Transgender Concerns
- What is Intersex?
- Born Gay? A look at biological factors
- Exploring and Developing Your Creative Self
- LGBT Leaders of Color Speak Out
- Cross-national relationships;
- Queer Theory
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Jr. High School
Audience: Youth, approximately 13-16 years old
Workshop Wish-list:
- Icebreaker and ‘getting to know you’ activities that help youth make friends and meet people during the day
- Body image
- Healthy relationships (how do you know when you have one and when you don’t)
- Basic Q+A – what does it mean to be ‘questioning’? How does someone know if they are LGB? What does the T mean?
- How to be an ally
- Telling your friends or parents that you might be LGB or T
- Activity based workshops such as dance, drumming, art, theater games, performance art are also welcome
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High School
Audience: Youth, approximately 16-19 years old
Workshop Wish List:
- Body image
- Impact of media on body image, behavioral or relationship choices
- Negotiating abstinence or safer sex
- Starting or maintaining a GSA or great GSA activities
- Running a day of silence, no name calling week or other educational activities at school
- Healthy and unhealthy relationships
- Facilitated discussions on identity specific topics (such as youth of color who are also LGBT, Trans youth only; Being Bi; Caribbean LGBT; Managing Machismo: Gay and Latino, etc.)
- Dealing with homophobic students, faculty or staff
- Activity based workshops such as dance, drumming, art, theater games, performance art are also welcome
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Professional Best Practices Workshops
Audience: Adult professionals, graduate students
Workshop Wish List:
- Model LGBT inclusive lesson plans (English, Social Studies, History, Civics, Sociology, Human Services, etc.)
- Creating safe and affirming classrooms
- Bully Free Classrooms
- Hands-on Skills for Interrupting Intolerance in various settings (classroom, hallways, gym, group homes)
- Substance abuse reduction strategies that are effective with LGBTQIA youth
- Policy or programming models of inclusion within a group home setting
- Meeting the health care needs of transgender youth
- Developing support in middle schools
- Round table discussions targeting specific audiences
- Balancing personal values with professional responsibilities;
- Gay – nature or nurture;
- International issues (immigration, cross-national relationships, etc.)
- Working with Families of LGBT youth
- Working with Families of LGBT youth of color
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Queer Spirituality Institute
This unique two-day Institute has been created to consider the spiritual and religious needs of LGBT and ally youth and their families. The Instiute will consist of a keynote session and workshops devoted to these themes. NOTE: The Institute is funded entirely through private donations.
Audience: Youth and Adults
Workshop Wish List:
- Being Christian and LGBT
- Being Muslim and LGBT
- Being Jewish and LGBT
- Reconciling one’s childhood faith with current beliefs and values
- Healing Spiritual Wounds
- Homosexuality and the Bible
- Transgender Stories in Liturgy
- Balancing personal religious views with professional responsibilities in a secular society
- What does it mean to be open and affirming/welcoming?
- Exploring the journey to inclusion from your faith’s perspective
- Radical Inclusivity – what does it mean?
- LGBT Youth Concerns within communities of faith
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