1. WORKPLACE
​Affinity Group Capacity Building and Planning
Time Commitment: 3-10 one to one and half hour long consultation visits
Creating a strong affinity group can be challenging and can require careful planning, intentional
recruitment, and commitment to creating relevant programming to create a more affirming
environment for LGBTQ+ people. We are glad to provide consultation on how to create a strong
affinity group. On site groups can have the longest lasting change in an environment.
Policy Consultation
Time Commitment: 3-10 one to one and half hour long consultation visits
Having an affirming workplace often means having clear, conspicuous, and up to date policies
that create a workplace where LGBTQ+ people can thrive. This can range from looking at where
and how policies are made visible to looking at policies in place for corrective action if someone
is accused of discriminating against an LGBTQ+ person. We can review your policies, consult
with decision makers and human resources, and work with your affinity group to put policies into
place that work for you.
Engaging and Supporting Transgender/Gender Non-conforming/Gender
Expansive/Genderqueer People Series
Time Commitment: 2 one and half hour trainings
This is a two part series designed to educate a core group of staff members on gender identity,
terminology, and best practices. The first workshop will provide education and awareness on
LGBTQ terminology, with a focus on gender identity. This will be followed by a brief Speakers
Panel and Q&A. The second workshop​ will focus on specific steps that staff can take to support
and engage transgender/gender non-conforming/gender expansive/genderqueer co-workers,
customers, clients, etc. Both trainings include interactive activities to explore and apply concepts
and best practices.
OnBoarding
Time Commitment: 1 two our training of trainers, consultation as needed
We can develop a 30-minute to one hour training on LGBTQ awareness and/or transgender
specific best practices. We can then train trainers to educate and onboard new staff members.
The onboarding can be adapted to your unique needs or it can be adapted from our current
trainings.
Speakers Panel
Time Commitment: one to two hour long speaker panels
We can organize a speaker panel to speak to any number of topics that feel relevant for your
workplace. With our speakers panels we can organize an event start to finish including
recruiting speakers, moderators, and designing advertising material. We can also collaborate,

2. utilizing panelists, moderators and materials that Greater Boston PFLAG and your organization
put together. Lastly, we are happy to develop, train, and work through a topic with your own
facilitators and speakers.
Ally to Advocate Training Series
Time Commitment: 2 one and half hour long trainings
This is a two part training, both trainings lasting one and half hours. The goal of the two trainings
is to explore the definition and responsibility of allyship, examine the developmental journey of
being an ally, and increase one’s comfort and confidence in handling difficult situations where
allyship is needed. The first training includes a brief review of LGBTQ terms, exploring ally
concepts, and doing some interactive activity to better understand the responsibility of allyship.
The second training involves looking at the developmental model for allyship, exploring
strategies for being a strong ally, and working through scenarios to increase comfort and
confidence.
Engaging and Supporting LGBTQ Employees: A Two-Part Series for Managers
Time Commitment: 2 one and half hour long trainings
This is a two part series designed for management to gain a more in-depth understanding of
supporting LGBTQ people in the workplace. The first training will focus on LGBTQ identities and
specific workplace issues that tend to come up. The second workshop will look at laws and
policies that impact managers of LGBTQ people and practice handling scenarios that are likely
to arise.
SCHOOL
Engaging and Supporting Transgender/Gender Non-conforming/Gender
Expansive/Genderqueer Youth: A Two-Part Training Series
Time Commitment: 2 one and half hour long trainings
This in-depth training series is intended for a small group of core faculty who are willing to be
leaders and advocates in their school. The first training will focus on exploring and complicating
the concept of gender identity. The goals of this workshop will be to help teachers and staff
understand different identities and feel comfortable with terminology. The workshop will be
followed by a brief speakers panel and Q&A. The second training includes going over current
laws, best practices, and the state's guidance on supporting and engaging transgender
students. It also has people work in teams to use the information from the trainings to address
certain scenarios. Both trainings include education as well as interactive activities to explore
topics as well as increase comfort and confidence.

3. Complicating Gender Crash Course
Time Commitment: 1 one and half to two our long training
We can offer a brief, 40-minute to one hour training that will help faculty and staff understand
and support transgender, gender nonconforming, and genderqueer students in affirming ways.
This workshop begins by providing brief education and awareness about different gender
identities. We then outline the state guidelines for supporting LGBTQ students. The workshop
will also include a brief story sharing components. We recommend this to educate an entire
faculty in one sitting or as a last resort if you can not make time for our two part core group
training.
Community Forum
Time Commitment: 1 one and half hour long training
This workshop will unpack terminology, discuss the spectrum of gender identities, and discuss
how a community can work together to be open and affirming. The training will also include
interactive activities to help everyone get accustomed to discussing sexual orientation and
transgender identities and issues. The workshop will be followed by a brief speakers panel and
Q&A. These forums can be about discussing LGBTQ identity and inclusion or, more specifically,
transgender inclusion.
Parent Forum
Time Commitment: 1 one and half hour long training
This workshop will unpack terminology, discuss the spectrum of gender identities, and discuss
how parents, specifically can support theirs and others’ LGBTQ youth. The training will also
include interactive activities to help everyone get accustomed to discussing sexual orientation
and transgender identities and issues. The workshop will be followed by a brief speakers panel
and Q&A. These forums can be about discussing LGBTQ identity and inclusion or, more
specifically, transgender inclusion.
Support in Setting Up and/or Advocating for Comprehensive Sex Education
Time Commitment: Consultations as needed
With a goal creating change that is long lasting this is the highest priority as it is the space
where sexual orientations and gender identities cannot just be learned about but also
normalized, explained, and de-stigmatized. This offering would be in the form of multiple
consultation planning meetings to help supporters for comprehensive sex education effectively
advocate for the program.
Queer Group Support
Time Commitment: Consultations as needed
We can offer support for a QSA/GSA on many different levels including yearly planning,
designing of programs, capacity building, and much more. This would be multiple
meetings/consultations with the QSA advisor and with students. This can help set the school up
for long term change and QSA’s can take on a lot of educating both staff and students regarding
LGBTQ+ affirmative practices.

4. Bystander Training for Students
Time Commitment: 1 one and half hour long training
Bystander training is the act of training people who observe a conflict or some type of
unacceptable behavior to feel confident and empowered to intervene and interrupt the negative
behavior (i.e. bullying, micro-aggression, etc.). In this training, we would train 10-15 students to
actively prevent bullying and more, create a community where bullying is not tolerated and is
actively prevented because of bystander intervention. Such training aims to reduce and ideally
eliminate anti-LGBTQ bullying in schools and communities without putting the bystander’s
safety at risk
Safer Spaces Training for Faculty
Time Commitment: 1 one and half hour long training
This training will begin by unpacking LGBTQ+ terminology. The goals of this workshop will be to
help teachers and staff understand different identities, feel comfortable with terminology, and
increase comfort around intervening to address discriminatory language and behavior. The
workshop will be followed​ ​by a brief speakers panel and Q&A.
Safer Spaces and Panel for GSA
Time Commitment: 1 one and half hour long training
This workshop will begin by unpacking LGBTQ+ terminology. The workshop will be followed by
a speakers panel and Q&A featuring LGBTQ individuals who can speak to their personal
experiences. This is designed to stimulate conversation and explore identities as a means of
validating experiences, identities, and conversations.
Safer​ ​Spaces​ ​Assembly
Time Commitment: 1 one and half hour long training
We can offer an assembly for all students that focuses on raising awareness about gender
identity and sexual orientation. This assembly and/or class will include a presentation that
explains terms and identities and address problematic language. It will also include a speakers
panel, where speakers share short stories that illustrate LGBTQ+ and ally experiences.
Looking at Language
Time Commitment: 1 one and half hour long training
You may have heard people use the term microaggression. These are things people say that
are often meant to be harmless, funny, or observational yet harm and hurt LGBTQ people.
Research shows us that micro-aggressions over time have a substantial impact on a person's
health​. This training raises awareness so people are careful about what they say, understand
how to gracefully move forward after misspeaking, and practice correcting others when they say
something hurtful.

5. Medical and Mental Health Communities
Safer Spaces Series
Gender and Sexuality Awareness - An in-Depth Exploration of the Basics
Time Commitment: 1 one and half to three hour long training
This workshop, in some ways, is the foundation of knowledge a community needs to launch into
creating a safer and more affirming community for LGBTQ people. By increasing the audience’s
understanding of terms, concepts, and experiences the audience is then in a position to start
developing techniques for creating a welcoming environment. This training uses different
informational and interactive experiences to help the audience get an in-depth understanding of
identities and experiences related to sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression,
allyship, and much more.
Supporting and Engaging LGBTQ Clients and Colleagues in Medical and Mental Health
Settings
Time Commitment: 1 one and half to three hour long training
This training builds off Gender and Sexuality Awareness towards confidence and knowledge
that, when combined, will help people better understand how to support and engage LGBTQ
coworkers and clients. There is a brief review of terms, exercises to explore what discrimination
is and looks like, an outline of existing laws and best practices, and a collaborative activity to
work through and role-play scenarios.
Supporting and Engaging Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Colleagues and
Clients Series
Supporting and Engaging Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Colleagues and
Clients 1.0 - Complicating Gender
Time Commitment: 1 one and half to three hour long training
It is vital in our current time for all of us to explore gender identity in a ways that help us better
understand just how complicated it is and how it is socially constructed. In this training we use
that information to help unpack gender identity, gender expression, gender assigned at birth,
sexual orientation, and romantic orientation as a means of better und​erstanding transgender
and gender non-conforming identities. ​We then build from that information to dispel myths and
to go over a detailed list of terms and vocabulary, all before we hear from a panel of
transgender and gender nonconforming folks. We also include parents of transgender and
gender nonconforming folks if requested.

6. Supporting and Engaging Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients and
Colleagues in Medical and Mental Health Communities 2.0
Time Commitment: 1 one and half to three hour long training
This training builds off of the Complicating Gender training to increase comfort, confidence, and
competencies that will help people better understand how to support transgender and gender
nonconforming clients and colleagues. Transgender and gender nonconforming people tend to
have difficult relationships with the medical and mental health fields as a result of repeated
intentional and unintentional experiences of feeling and/or being discriminated and mistreated
by staff and colleagues. This training aims to reduce these kinds of interactions and to build
people’s confidence to better support and engage transgender colleagues through competency
building, scenarios, and role-play work.
Ally, Advocate, and Accomplice Series
Ally Training
Time Commitment: 1 one and half to three hour long training
Allyship is about two major focal points: awareness and accountability. Allies must be aware of
their place in supporting LGBTQ people and the dynamics and identities within the LGBTQ
community. This training will provide some basics about LGBTQ identities and definitions of
allyship. By unpacking what allyship means and where an allies place in the movement may be,
we can then discuss institutional and personal motivations and challenges to accountable
allyship. By the end of the training people will have a better sense of the need for allies as well
as how they, as an ally, can be active and accountable to meeting that need.
Ally to Advocate, Advocate to Accomplice Training
Time Commitment: 1 one and half to three hour long training
This training builds on the Ally Training by bringing to light what it means to be a more fully
active and accountable ally, or, what we refer to as, an accomplice. Inherent in the idea of an
accomplice is that we are all part of systems that harm LGBTQ people and we all, therefore,
have a stake in, and an accountability to, dismantling those systems. So much so, that we can
not engage and disengage from our allyship depending on our comfort and convenience. This
training will help people further explore accountability through the lense of an allyship
developmental model. That information is then used to explore levels of active and accountable
allyship, the different gateways into creating change, best practices within those gateways. All
this information is then applied to scenarios and role-play work.

7. Workplace Active Bystander Training Series
Looking at Language Training
Time Commitment: 1 one and half to three hour long training
The ways in which language perpetuates discrimination against LGBTQ people (particularly
LGBTQ people who have intersecting marginalized identities across race, ethnicity, income
level, ability, etc.) is often times hidden beneath the surface of language. This training goes
beneath the surface, to unpack how language is used to harm LGBTQ people intentionally and
unintentionally by examining unintended biases, intent, impact, and microaggressions. We will
then explore how understanding these dynamics can inform ways language can be used as a
tool for challenging microaggressions.
Active Bystander Training
Time Commitment: 1 one and half to three hour long training
Being an active bystander is about vigilant recognition of problematic situations, quick thinking
around what harmful dynamics are at play, and being equipped with tools to gracefully
challenge these situations. This training builds that vigilance and awareness. It also goes
through tools and best practices for being an active bystander in those situations before giving
the audience an opportunity to practice through scenarios and role-plays.