Political Stress and Anxiety: Resiliency for LGBTQ+ Helping Professionals

Live, virtual, and interactive 3-Hour workshops

Workshops for progressive LGBTQ+ helping professionals who want a safe and nonjudgmental place to discuss the personal and professional experiences and concerns unique to us during these frightening, oppressive, and chaotic social-political times.

It is an opportunity to support each other in sustaining our personal and community well-being, resiliency, and resistance.

~ For Progressive LGBTQ+ Helping Professionals in the Mental Health, Social Service, Behavioral Health, Coaching, and Related Fields ~

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Support. Strategize. Debrief. Fortify. Network. Rejuvenate.

I. The Toll When Our "Personal, Political, and Professional" Selves Intersect

• Issues unique to LGBTQ+ helping professionals during these frightening and chaotic times.

• The reactions we see in our clients to the current social-political environment and the toll it takes on us.

• Holding Space for Clients: Self-disclosure, Boundaries, and Being Real.

• Provider Burnout, Political Trauma Stress, Moral Injury, Secondary Trauma, Oppression Fatigue, Compassion Fatigue, and Resiliency Assessments. (Assessments will be provided.)

II. The Personal Impacts of the Current Social-political Climate

• Seriously, how are you doing? What are the negative and positive impacts on my emotional, spiritual, psychological, and physical health and well-being?

• Assess your resiliency, burnout, oppression fatigue, and compassion fatigue.
• The 6-Fs of Interaction: Understand when our coping strategies of FIGHT, FLIGHT, FREEZE, FADE, and FAWN override our ability to be grounded in FACE. The costs and benefits of each.

• How bad is it, really? How prepared should I be, and for what?
• What, if anything, is "my role" in the revolution?
• REVOLT Together for Ten Minutes.

III. Fostering Resiliency for Our Professional and Personal Well-being

• Why rest, self-care, and dancing are fundamental, radical tools of the revolution.
• Factors that build and sustain resiliency.
• Eight pillars of self-care and well-being.
• Share resources, tools, and ideas.
• Create a Professional and Personal Wellness and Action Plan. (Templates will be provided.)

Community. Connection. Courage. Joy. Resist. Revolt.

Keep the revolution healthy.

Contact Irene for information about personally customized resiliency coaching or a workshop for yourself, your friends, your community or neighborhood group, or your organization. No one is turned away for an inability to pay.

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What: Live 3-hour Zoom workshop

For: Specifically designed for progressive LGBTQ+ mental health professionals from anywhere.

Capped at 15 spots/workshop.

Date: Thursday., 4.10.25 at 1:00 pm - 4:15 pm CST (There will be a 15-minute break.)

[Another similar workshop is open to LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and allies. Register: Resiliency Over Political Trauma Stress Workshops for Helping Professionals]

To register: Press the red button for registration. No coupon code is necessary.

Fee: $60. Sliding Scale. No one is turned away for an inability to pay. Free for paid members of The MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network. (Network membership is not the same as being a member of the Network's FB page.)

[Tech help needed: The facilitator is in need of someone to provide the virtual tech-related tasks during this Zoom workshop, i.e., cue up any videos, track the chat, etc. This tech person will receive a $50 stipend, and the workshop will be free. Contact irene@irenegreene.com if you are interested.]

CEUs: Up to 3 CEUs are possible. (See FAQ for more information.)

Provided: The agenda, worksheets, templates, and resources are provided in advance.

Workshop Facilitator: Irene Greene MSED (She/Her) - A national group facilitator and trainer.

irenegreene.com | 612.874.6442 | irene@irenegreene.com

Facebook: Irene Greene of Greene Growth and Training

LGBTQ-affirming. Neurospicy-friendly. Trauma-informed. Healing-centered.

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More Offerings by Irene: A Support Group and Workshops

(1) Political Stress Resiliency Support Group:

A virtual support group for progressive and liberal adults who identify as LGBTQIA+ and our allies. Share intentional space with like-minded kindreds and discuss the personal toll of the trauma, chaos, inhumaneness, and instability of the current social-political climate. Learn key strategies to fortify and sustain your resiliency. Starts in late April 2025. FMI: Contact Irene.

(2) Political Trauma and Resiliency Workshops:

Workshops for Progressive Helping Professionals: Resiliency Over Political Anxiety and Stress Workshops for Helping Professionals

Workshops for LGBTQ+ Helping Professionals: Political Stress and Anxiety: Resiliency Workshops for LGBTQ+ Helping Professionals

Workshops for Progressive Community Members: Foster Resiliency and Action Over Political Trauma Stress and Anxiety

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Facilitator: Irene Greene MSED (She/Her).

Irene has 29+ years of experience as a psychotherapist, positive psychology holistic wellness coach, group facilitator, relationship and family conflict coach, and national trainer. She is the Chair of the MN LGBTQ+ Therapists' Network and a psychological first-aid street medic trainer. Irene currently facilitates three support and skills groups: a sexual abuse survivor group, a group for LGBTQ+ executive directors of non-profits, and a burnout and compassion fatigue group for helping professionals. Irene provides resiliency, burnout, vicarious trauma, moral injury, and compassion fatigue trainings to political activists, social service, medical, educational, mental health, and non-profit community-based agencies and organizations. Irene also offers anti-racist workshops and affinity groups for white helping professionals. Irene was the first director of the U-MN-Sexual Violence Program, worked in the State of MN’s Crime Victim Unit, served as Chair of the MN Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and was on the board of MN Women in Psychology.

Irene is a lesbian, cisgender, Roma-Irish-German-American parent of two adult children. She has two feline companions who like exploring her flower and vegetable gardens.

Examples of organizations Irene has trained: Regions Hospital, St. Paul, MN; Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Co; Anatomy Bequest Program, UMN; MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network; Headway Emotional Health Services, Twin Cities; The UMN Advising Program: Office of Undergraduate Education; Telling Queer History, Twin Cities; BECAUSE Conference, St. Paul; The UMN Department of Earth Sciences; Travis County Texas Prosecutor’s Office, Austin TX; Way to Grow, MN; State Conference for Headway MN; Anti-racism Coalition, NYC; MN United Way; MN Coalition of Domestic Violence; Northstar Street Medics of MN; The Minnesota Aliveness Project; The Family Tree Clinic, Minneapolis, MN; MN Women in Psychology; Touchstone Mental Health, Minneapolis, MN; OutFront-MN.