Event Details

This past year has challenged us on so many levels, individually and certainly collectively. As 2020 comes to a close, it seems like everyone is ready to put this year behind them. Without slipping into toxic positivity or bypassing, how can we mine this past year for the messages and medicine it did have to offer us? How can we write our narrative of our experiences this year--individually and collectively--from a place of agency rather than one of disempowerment? It's true that it often felt as if things were constantly happening *to* us, and when we can acknowledge, process, and integrate our experiences and feelings--especially of hardship--we can move forward from a place of grounded power. 

grey doolin, M.Ed. (they/them) will give attendees the opportunity to:

• Take a wide lens look at 2020, both from an individual and collective (staff & faculty) perspective
• Honor the hardship and challenges of the past year
• Create a list of gratitudes 
• Rewrite any narratives from a disempowered stance to one of agency 
• Begin to integrate the learnings from this past year
• Create a vision for how to move forward
• Learn how to best support trans students and the broader LGBTQ community as the year wraps up

Bio:

grey doolin, M.Ed. (they/them) is a transgender thought leader and mentor helping trans folks experience freedom from depression, anxiety, individual/collective trauma, and isolation. After going from a life marked by severe depression, addiction, abusive relationships, and the effects of trauma to one of radical self-acceptance and freedom, grey uses their personal experience and training as a therapist to help other trans folks find the power inherent in their trans identity.

grey is the founder of Trans Mentoring Circles, which are facilitated virtual spaces where trans folks experience a sense of community, connection, and possibility. grey has trained thousands of people--from parents, to early childhood educators, to corporate employees--on what it means to be supportive and competent around issues relevant to trans and gender nonconforming communities.