This workshop focuses on building understanding of specific issues faced by forcibly displaced LGBTIQA+ people: including strengths, vulnerabilities and the risks experienced in their home countries, during the journey and resettling in Australia. The workshop will highlight the multiple oppressions faced and explore the diversity of needs and experiences that are grouped under the LGBTIQA+ framework.
The workshop increases participants’ awareness of how to identify assumptions or biases that may impact negatively on the provision of effective assistance, and how to enhance the ability to work in partnership with forcibly displaced LGBTIQA+ clients , with the aim of enabling services to become safer and more welcoming for all their clients.
This training is co-designed and delivered by trainers with lived experience at the intersection of LGBTIQA+ and refugee and asylum seeker experiences. The training will provide participants information and tools for their practices that reflects the realities and priorities of this cohort.
The full day workshop is activity-based, grounded in the latest research, and features time for gentle dialogue and discussion.
These trainings are designed for service providers working within the health, education, settlement, multicultural or LGBTIQA+ sectors.
Registration is essential. Please follow links below.
Inclusive Practice dates:
Wed, 11 Mar | 9:30am – 4:30pm AEDT | STARTTS CARRAMAR (152 – 168 The Horsley Drive, Carramar NSW Australia)
Wed, 15 Apr | 9:30am – 4:30pm AEDT | STARTTS CARRAMAR (152 – 168 The Horsley Drive, Carramar NSW Australia)
Wed, 20 May | 9:30am – 4:30pm AEDT | STARTTS CARRAMAR (152 – 168 The Horsley Drive, Carramar NSW Australia)
More information and to make a training request
Contact the LGBTQIA+ Project Officer, Heather Grace Jones via email.