This January, the Spokane Collaborative will be participating in a workshop organized and facilitated by Spectrum Center Spokane. Working with LGBTQ+ Communities, is a Core Workshop offered by Spectrum. The workshop will be covered during our full Collaborative meeting time, 1-3pm.

Workshop Description:

This interactive workshop will encompass language, issues, and experiences related to LGBTQ+ communities, as well as understandings of allyship and LGBTQ+ focused practices. Facilitators will challenge participants to consider how they can be active in making their communities safer for LGBTQ+ people. Discussions and activities will focus heavily on the intersecting identities and experiences that exist within LGBTQ+ communities and the best ways to interrupt exclusion.

Objectives may include:

1. Participants will identify LGBTQ+ terminology and vocabulary

2. Participants will discuss different models of understanding intersecting identities

3. Participants will recognize behaviors that make environments more welcoming to LGBTQ+ communities

4. Participants will practice identifying and interrupting occurrences of LGBTQ+ exclusion

Collaborative meeting materials can be found here. Please save this event to your calendar, including the following Zoom login information:

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