Training – rainbowcc

Professional Development, Training Workshops & Curriculum

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We offer customized training, consultation, speakers, & panels. It would be an honor to support your employees & leadership to elevate your organizational culture.

Join a Family Learning Community or Training Workshop

We facilitate a responsive, interactive, hands on, minds on, hearts on learning experience for all participants to grow in their understanding & practices.

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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.”

"A great training reminding me, as an educator, how critical it is to remember that I might just be that ONE person to give a student the acceptance, love, and brave space to exhale as they walk their journey."

"I just wanted to reach out and tell you that yesterday's training was incredible. I firmly believe that we are all better employees because of what you both brought to our attention. Your style of engaging is second to none and I feel like a much more adaptive piece of the puzzle when it comes to being a true ALLY. I am so proud to say I work for a company that wants us to be the best form of ourselves and embraces our differences."

“Rainbow Community Center has been an excellent thought-partner to assist with increasing our workforce culture’s understanding of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, individually and as a collective. We are grateful for your assistance and look forward to our continued partnership.”

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: 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: 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: 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.

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: 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: Expansive Schools

Participants to increase their understanding and develop skills to create safer, more inclusive classroom environments for young people who identify as LGBTQIA2S+. The training will cover the Foundational Concepts of SOGIE, health and educational disparities facing LGBTQIA2S+ youth, laws that protect students, and specific strategies for classroom teachers to implement and resources available.

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): Basic Training

Participants will learn foundational terms and concepts of SOGIE and steps to become an ally to the LGBTQIA2S+ community. This is a great training for beginners, families and friends of people who just came out and ally’s who want a refresher on current language and topics.

Rainbow Family Learning Community (RFLC)

Join our Rainbow Family Learning Community specifically curated for families and allies of youth to learn and grow in their understanding of LGBTQIA+ topics.