Presentations and Training Sessions for Companies, Businesses and Non-profits in Chicago
Offsite Training for Cultural Competence
LifeWorks staff members are experienced presenters who can bring engaging and thought-provoking education and training to your group or organization. This type of learning forum can help teams and groups in companies and non-profit organizations become more culturally competent and address important issues with compassion, objectivity and creativity.
- Address changing social and cultural norms and expectations
- Developing new awareness, language and sensitivity
- Expand knowledge, skills and attitudes
- Support improved engagement with marginalized communities
Selected Training Topics
Presenters from LifeWorks have unique expertise in a variety of areas and can provide tailored in-services, workshops or other services for your organization or company on topics such as:
- Working with LGBTQ+ Clients and Their Families
- Cultural Humility: Privilege Power, Systemic Racism, Cultural Bias & Social Justice
- Gender Identity Development and Coming Out
- Gender & Ethics
- Trans & Gender Non-binary 101 for School Personnel
- Gender & Intimate Relationships
- Becoming a Poly-friendly Therapist
- Parenting in Consensually Non-Monogamous Families
- Becoming a Kink-affirming Healthcare Provider
- Consent — What Is It and Who Gets to Say
- Deep Democracy: Working with Marginalized Experiences & Identities
- Relating to Differences in Our World: Multiculturalism and Diversity in Teams & Groups
- Relational Awareness
- Dance & Movement in Psychotherapy
CE credits for mental health professionals are available. To learn more about what we can offer you and your team, contact Essie Shacher-Hill, LCSW, Programs Manager.
In-House Training at LifeWorks
The Green House
In 2015, LifeWorks developed The Green House Program. A part-time, paid, post-graduate psychotherapy training fellowship, this 12-month mentoring program is for recent grads, newly licensed clinicians, and others.
The Green House program is geared specifically to professionals who want to develop specific therapeutic skills & cultural competence with clients including those who actively identify as or are exploring sexuality, erotic identity, gender and non-normative relationship configurations such as:
- LGB, trans and gender queer
- non-monogamous (open, swinging, poly-affective or polyamorous relationships)
- kink/BDSM
- sex work/erotic labor
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