Date: 9/14/2023, 9:15 am—4:45 pm
County: -Training Offerings
CEUs: 6
Location: -DISTANCE LEARNING
Sponsor: A Better Way, Inc.
Phone: 510-601-0203
How we are seen, understood, categorized, and engaged contributes to our understandings of ourselves and of each other. We can see this along many lines, and, when it comes to our understandings of sex and gender, we start being impacted by these concepts before we are even born, whether we realize it or not. From the moment we are seen in the womb, we are treated in certain ways based on assumptions about sex and gender, and this continues to impact us and compound over time. Without exploring our own understandings of and assumptions related to sex, gender identity, and oppression, we will contribute to the lack of safety, which acutely impacts trans and gender-nonconforming youth in the child welfare system.
Together in this day-long workshop, we will learn the language and historical knowledge necessary to begin to unpack our socialization into systems of oppression, with a focus on understanding our current construction of gender. Through group process, lecture, and reflection, attendees will be supported in learning the history, construction, and institutionalization of the gender binary. Participants will be encouraged to use this safe space to examine their own socialization, the values and beliefs we hold and act upon, and explore possibilities for change. Together, we will imagine possibilities for ourselves, our clients, our colleagues, and our communities that include all of us, especially working to explore possibilities for gender-expansive people outside of an oppressive model.