Wouldn't it be nice if you could find a way to end the bounce-back cycle of resilience and begin the process of spiraling upwards?
News flash: The old, traditional ways of doing anything are quickly becoming things of the past. Which means now is the perfect time to achieve a healthy perception of Self in new radical ways. But where do we start?
In this interactive workshop, Healing Your Attachment Disruptions Through Radical Resilience, Integrative Nutrition Intuitive Health Coach and Award-Winning DJ, Tera Greene, will guide participants one step closer to eradicating bounce-back and cultivating a "springboard"-like ability to come back better than ever.
This is for the underdog, the overachiever, the outcast, the believer, the skeptic and the hopeful.
Tera "DJ Nova Jade* Greene is a visibly Black, non-visible Jewish, Queer, Immigrant with Native roots, and a mother to one. Originally from Los Angeles, CA, she is an artivist (activist/artist), intuitive health coach, award-winning DJ since 2003, and the host of Bad Rabbit Radio on SUB.FM.
Her journey for wholeness started in her youth, after coming to terms with the realities of her own mental illness at the age of 13. Since then, she has been on a journey of deep self-reflection, transmutation and healing. Her intention is to help other's find their path to wholeness, without feeling the need to be "fixed".
Tera lives, works and plays on Lekwungen Territory.
Slides
This workshop will focus on the barriers 2SLGBTQ+ Canadian’s experience when accessing remote service provisions in Ontario. The global pandemic has shifted the forced Canadians to be more reliant on virtual spaces to host meetings, social gatherings, and access medical services. Access to digital spaces is a basic human necessity these days, just like water and hydro are a basic need. Without this access individuals become disconnected from their communities, pushing them further into isolation and increasing feelings of loneliness. Activists, organizations, and governments need to come together to address these barriers in digital access. This workshop will focus on providing an overview of what the barriers 2SLGBTQ+ older adults experience in accessing digital spaces. We will explore the steps that must be taken to address barriers to digital access. Lastly, I will share strategies organizations can adopt to build digital literacy and access programs into their agencies. My aim is to educate and inspire participants to take action in ensuring all 2SLGBTQ+ people have digital support during the global pandemic.
Stephanie Jonsson, PhD Candidate, School of Gender, Feminist and Women Studies at York University. Currently, she is working on her dissertation, which examines the barriers 2SLGBTQ+ older adults experience when living in Canadian long-term care (LTC) homes. She is an active member of the Senior Pride Network and volunteers with Rainbow Faith and Freedom. Using an intergenerational aging and intersectional lens, Stephanie aims to improve the lives of 2SLGBTQ older adults who experience discrimination, homophobia, and harassment when living in LTC homes that do not recognize gender and sexual diversity.
LeZlie is a world majority, brown, trini, Carib, indo, chinese, callaloo, queer, DYKE, differently-abled community activist, Elder. LeZlie is a 2SLGBTQI+awareness consultant and workshop facilitator. She focuses on the issues affecting 2SLGBTQI+ seniors / older adults and the barriers we are forced to overcome on a daily basis. LeZlie shares her lived experiences of queerness, age, race, ability and sexuality with openness and vulnerability. She lives her life from an anti-oppression, anti-racism, anti-colonial, intergenerational and intersectional perspective.
LeZlie has presented in Ontario, Nova Scotia, Belize and St.Lucia...as a queer DYKE senior. Her work has been highlighted in the anthologies Marvellous Grounds and Any Other Way.
She currently live in Toronto, Canada and for fun I am a story teller, actor and connector. LeZlie loves dim sum, doubles, dancing, soca and a trini 'lime' anytime!
This workshop will be an opportunity to explore best practices and share resources for discussing the intersections of queerness and faith. Many 2SLGBTQ+ people have experienced trauma and rejection from their faith communities, and this can lead to significant mental health consequences. At the same time, many queer people still feel strong connections to certain faith traditions but struggle to find either worship or queer communities that are open to affirming the co-existence of queerness, religion, and spirituality. This workshop is an extension of The Queer Pedagogies Series that I conducted with my colleague Morgan Bimm. These workshops provided a space for Teaching Assistants to share their struggles and triumphs with university teaching and discussed techniques for bringing queer, feminist, and trauma-informed pedagogies into our classrooms. This workshop will explore some best practices for holding discussions about faith and queerness in ways that address both the faith-based discrimination faced by queer people and the deeply help religious and spiritual identities that many queer people hold. I will also go through some examples of queer-affirming faith-based resources that people may find helpful for either exploring their own identities or supporting members of their communities.
Hannah Maitland is a PhD. student in the Department of Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies at York University. Her Master’s project focused on media portrayals of sex education controversies and her current work explores youth activists and their relationships with their mothers. Recently, Hannah worked as a researcher with Rainbow Faith and Freedom, an organization devoted to combating faith-based discrimination against 2SLGBTQ+ folks. She helped to review and compile queer-affirming multifaith resources for a publicly accessible online database.
