Consulting, Trainings and Workshops!

General Information

All trainings and workshops are 3 hours unless otherwise specified. All are able to be extended to half and full day.

Covid Safety

I offer virtual and in-person trainings and workshops. If in-person and indoors I will require all participants mask for our collective safety.

General Trainings

  • This 3hr workshop is designed to be an introduction to working with and supporting LGBTQ and Gender nonconforming people facilitated by a gender nonconforming person.

    We will go over:

    Definitions of: pronouns, gender and gender identity and sexual orientation

    Current representation of LGBTQ and GNC folks within (the field you are in)

    Bias and barriers within the world that impact LGBTQ and GNC people's mental, emotional, physical and medical well-being.

    Facilitator will:

    Engage participants in practice scenarios

    Offer both local and global resources to that are currently working to create affirming care and services for LGBTQ and GNC people

    Offer practical tools for participants to practice unlearning transphobia, and other bias that impact LGBTQ and GNC people.

  • *Can be tailored to your individual gro

    In this workshop we will ground ourselves in the collective origins, meaning and practice of disability justice and access; including a common understanding of access and accommodations, access needs, access tools, access intimacy, community care and collective access practice; and the ways ableism impacts all of our lives collectively and individually. We will discuss intersections of disability and disability justice with all the other isms and calls for justice, for example: reproductive justice, examining the ways we contribute to ableism as practitioners and how we can disrupt ableism.

    Participants will leave with tools to begin both unlearning and learning ways for us to do access and disability justice in our everyday lives, as well as tangible moves to compassionately investigate their own interpersonal and communal lives

    Part I

    What is Disability and Disability Justice: Disabled History, Disabled folks to know

    Part II

    Disability Justice intersections with other ism and calls for justice

    Part III

    Full Terms and Definitions

    Part IV

    Trauma Informed Care, Boundaries and Bodies

    Part V

    Practice Scenarios and Take Home Suggestions

    Interwoven Throughout:

    Community Practice

    Reflection and Action Items

  • In this presentation, participants will learn the origins, meaning and practice of disability, access and ableism with a specific focus on neurodivergence in pregnant and postpartum people; including a common understanding of access and accommodations, access needs, access tools, and the ways internalized and systemic ableism and racism impacts the ways healthcare providers support their clients.

    This presentation will discuss intersections of disability and disability justice with reproductive justice and the Medical Industrial Complex, examining the ways health care worker contribute to ableism as practitioners and how that can be disrupted.

    Participants will leave with tools to begin both unlearning and learning ways to do be more accessible, and less policing and stigmatizing towards the neurodivergent clients they support.

Access/Disability Justice

  • In this workshop we will ground ourselves in the collective origins, meaning and practice of disability justice and access; including a common understanding of access and accommodations, access needs, access tools, access intimacy, community care and collective access practice; and the ways ableism impacts all of our lives from a state to individual level. We will discuss intersections of disability, chronic illness and neurodivergence and begin dreaming ways for us to do access and disability justice in our everyday lives.

  • *Can be tailored to your individual gro

    In this workshop we will ground ourselves in the collective origins, meaning and practice of disability justice and access; including a common understanding of access and accommodations, access needs, access tools, access intimacy, community care and collective access practice; and the ways ableism impacts all of our lives collectively and individually. We will discuss intersections of disability and disability justice with all the other isms and calls for justice, for example: reproductive justice, examining the ways we contribute to ableism as practitioners and how we can disrupt ableism.

    Participants will leave with tools to begin both unlearning and learning ways for us to do access and disability justice in our everyday lives, as well as tangible moves to compassionately investigate their own interpersonal and communal lives

    Part I

    What is Disability and Disability Justice: Disabled History, Disabled folks to know

    Part II

    Disability Justice intersections with other ism and calls for justice

    Part III

    Full Terms and Definitions

    Part IV

    Trauma Informed Care, Boundaries and Bodies

    Part V

    Practice Scenarios and Take Home Suggestions

    Interwoven Throughout:

    Community Practice

    Reflection and Action Items

  • Description

    In this workshop we will ground ourselves in the collective origins, meaning and practice of disability justice and access; including a common understanding of access and accommodations, access needs, access tools, access intimacy, community care and collective access practice; and the ways ableism impacts all of our lives collectively and individually. We will discuss intersections of disability and disability justice and wellness/yoga; examining the ways we contribute to ableism as practitioners and how we can disrupt ableism.

    Participants will leave with tools to begin both unlearning and learning ways for us to do access and disability justice in our everyday lives, as well as tangible moves to compassionately investigate their own yoga and wellness practices.

    Part I

    What is Disability and Disability Justice: Disabled History, Disabled folks to know

    Part II

    Disability Justice intersections with wellness/yoga and culture

    Part III

    Full Terms and Definitions

    Part IV

    Trauma Informed Care, Boundaries and Bodies

    Part V

    Practice Scenarios and Take Home Suggestions

    Interwoven Throughout:

    Community Practice

    Reflection and Action Items

  • In this presentation, participants will learn the origins, meaning and practice of disability, access and ableism with a specific focus on neurodivergence in pregnant and postpartum people; including a common understanding of access and accommodations, access needs, access tools, and the ways internalized and systemic ableism and racism impacts the ways healthcare providers support their clients.

    This presentation will discuss intersections of disability and disability justice with reproductive justice and the Medical Industrial Complex, examining the ways health care worker contribute to ableism as practitioners and how that can be disrupted.

    Participants will leave with tools to begin both unlearning and learning ways to do be more accessible, and less policing and stigmatizing towards the neurodivergent clients they support.

Doula/Birthwork

  • This 3hr workshop is designed to be an introduction to working with LGBTQ and Gender nonconforming pregnant people facilitated by a gender nonconforming person.

    We will go over

    Current representation of LGBTQ and GNC folks within reproductive justice, specifically the birthing community

    Bias and barriers within the birth world and their stake holders that impact LGBTQ and GNC pregnant people's mental, emotional, physical and medical well-being.

    Facilitator will:

    Engage participants in practice scenarios

    Offer both local and global resources to that are currently working to create affirming care and services for LGBTQ and GNC pregnant people

    Offer practical tools for participants to practice unlearning transphobia, and other bias that impact LGBTQ and GNC pregnant people in the greater scope of their personal lives.

  • This 2.5hr workshop is designed to be an introduction to working with Queer, Trans and Gender nonconforming pregnant people and their families, facilitated by a gender nonconforming person in the postpartum stage.

    We will go over

    What Queer, Trans, and GNC familes can look like

    Current representation of queer, trans and gnc folks within reproductive justice, specifically the birthing community

    Bias and barriers within the birth world and their stake holders that impact queer, trans, and gnc pregnant people's mental, emotional, physical and medical well-being.

    Facilitator will:

    Engage participants in practice scenarios that will challenge participants assumptions, unconscious bias and comfort level in working with Queer, Trans and GNC families

    Offer both local and global resources to that are currently working to create affirming care and services for Queer, Trans and GNC pregnant people

    Offer practical tools for participants to practice unlearning transphobia, and other bias that impact Queer, Trans and GNC pregnant people in the greater scope of their personal lives

  • While this training is similar to the ones above, I use a specific lens to speak to medical providers in hospitals.

    It is important that medical providers, particularly in hospitals learn how to lessen the trauma they cause to QTGNC Pregnant & Postpartum People Seeking Care from them.

    We will make extra room for discussion around policy and how hospital policy, ego and fear of liability enable providers to pressure and QTGNC Pregnant & Postpartum People, not consider or encourage their autonomy and facilitate traumatic situations. It’s time to be better. Let me support your practice <3.

  • While this training is similar to the ones above, I use a specific lens to speak to medical providers in hospitals. It is important that medical providers, particularly in hospitals learn how to lessen the trauma they cause to Black Pregnant & Postpartum People Seeking Care from them.

    We will make extra room for discussion around policy and how hospital policy, ego and fear of liability enable providers to pressure and Pregnant & Postpartum People, not consider or encourage their autonomy and facilitate traumatic situations.

    We will also definitely discuss how antiBlackness plays a role in how you see Black Pregnant & Postpartum People. And how that informs your implicit and explicit biases and ultimately your care.

    It’s time to be better. Let me support your practice <3

Trauma/Informed Care

  • an be designed for:

    Black people wanting to learn more about their history with the MIC’s mistreatment and how to advocate for themselves in an all Black space

    Black Social Workers, Therapists and Medical Providers to have their own learning and processing space

    All Social Workers, Therapists and Medical Providers

    Description

    - A history and present of medical racism, experimentation and abuse towards the Black diaspora,

    - Overview of types of trauma and trauma responses

    - Black representation in the U.S. and the medical field.

    - How providers can advocate and interrupt anti Black bias, and develop anti colonial and anti racist values as praxis

    - Discussion on the intersections of ableism and anti-Blackness and how using the social model of disability can balance the medical model of disability when interacting with/supporting clients

    - Discussion on how the medical industrial complex intersects with the prison industrial complex and the social welfare system

  • Can be for or designed for:

    Any Reproductive Care Worker
    -* Birthworkers, Doulas, Nurses, Midwives, Obs, etc

    Considering the racist, sexist and non consensual history of obstetrics, the Black maternal health crisis and the devaluing of pregnant people's needs and experiences in the U.S., it is likely you or someone you know has or will experience trauma on their birth journey. As doulas, it is imperative we learn to show up, grounded in trauma informed care. This workshop will define birth trauma and types of birth trauma and review the history and current state of birth and trauma. We will make connections between trauma and its intersections with race, gender, sexuality, class and disability as it pertains to birth. And we will take away tools on being more trauma informed in theory and practice as practitioners

  • Designed For:

    People who on their journey of abolitionist journey seeking to learn how to talk about abolition to folks who are not; particularly folks they have a relationship with

    Folks who want to do the work of abolition 101

    What do we know about abolition right now in this moment? What do our peers, comrades, family know? Is there a difference? How do we talk about abolition to those around us and whole communities who for any reason aren’t on the same journey as we are without patronizing or causing harm? How can we embody abolition as a daily practice for ourselves that includes but ultimately expands beyond police and prisons? How can we reconcile with ourselves and our peers the idea of safety from a trauma aware lens? This workshop will be part presentation part discussion. Please come with open hearts/minds and an awareness of abolition. 

Fusions

  • Disability Justice and Reproductive Justice go together like wildflowers in an open field.

    This training is at minimum 3 hours.

    We well learn the origins of Disability and Reproductive Justice. We will go over both U.S. and global context of DJ & RJ. We will learn of history of ableism, eugenics, enslavement and experimentation of stolen Africans. Current ableist, eugenicist and anti-Black policies and laws that are reminiscent of history.

    We will explore how the intersections of DJ & RJ also involved policing and the medical industrial complex.

    Depending on your group and goals for this training, we go through practice scenarios that put what we’ve learned to use.

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Doula/Birthwerk/Care Work Consulting