Build-a-workshop

If you are wanting a workshop or training session that fits your needs specifically, here are all the topics we can discuss in our sessions and we can build a workshop together. To build your own workshop, send an email to workshops@northernmosaic.net with a description of your workspace and the modules you are looking for and we will talk through how we can meet your goals. Fees for these workshops will be based on duration and preparation period and shall be discussed during our consultation. Please find below descriptions of our available modules.

  • Duration: 30 mins

    Description: This module is dedicated to exploring 2SLGBTQIA+ history. It is a module intended to start a workshop, providing context on why learning about the 2SLGBTQIA+ community is important. We explore 2SLGBTQIA+ activism, key dates and figures in the movement, and situate these conversations in our context.

  • Duration: 1 hour

    Description: This module provides foundational information about the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. In this module we discuss the acronym, what identities it refers to, why it is important, and why we specifically use this acronym in the NWT. We recommend, if you haven’t taken a workshop with us before, to take this module as a way of establishing a baseline level of understanding.

  • Duration: 30 mins

    Description: This module explores biological sex, what it is, and how it differs from our gender. We also explore intersex identities in greater depth in this module. We recommend this module being taken alongside (Un)learning Gender to fully explore the differences between the two concepts.

  • Duration: 1 hour

    Description: In this module, we will fully explore gender and all the components to it. We will discuss our relationships to gender and explore how we are all impacted by gender. This conversation is situated in how discussing gender benefits everyone and understanding it doesn’t only impact 2SLGBTQIA+ people.

  • Duration: 1 hour

    Description: This module explores trans identities in depth as well as non-binary identities. We talk about nuance within gender, and the history of non-binary identities.

  • Duration: 1.5 hours

    Description: This module also explores sexuality in depth. We spend the majority of this module expanding on material covered in About Identity to give a very nuanced perspective on sexuality and different terms that people may identify with.

  • Duration: 1 hour

    Description: We spend this hour discussing various ways the 2SLGBTQIA+ community experience barriers to fully participating in society. This explores interpersonal oppression but also systemic oppression.

  • Duration: 1 hour

    Description: We spend this module debunking myths and misinformation about the 2SLGBTQIA+ community based in your specific context. We outline what myths and misinformation are, different tools to identify them and then put these tools into practice.

  • Duration: 1 hour

    Description: In this module, we outline what allyship is, what different forms it can take and collaboratively outline different things we can do to be an ally. This module is designed to get participants thinking about what they can do today, in a week and in a year in order to create action items that are achievable.

  • Duration: 1 hour

    Description: This module is specific to you, your workspace, and your needs outlined in our consultation. We have an extensive collection of inclusive, best practices for varying sectors ranging from: general businesses, schools, healthcare, mental healthcare, social care, sport and hospitality. In this module, we can provide recommendations on forms, administrative procedures and policy. We are able to offer a policy review and form review during this module.