Professional | Community Involvement

Professional and Community Involvement

Community Involvement

2016 – present

• Chair of the MN LGBTQ+ Therapists Network Board of Directors, the professional organization in Minnesota for LGBTQIP2SA+ mental health professionals (also a co-founder, 1988)

2021

• COVID-19 and Racial Uprising Impact Us, too: Caring for Ourselves and Our Clients: for Mental Health Care Professionals: Moderated discussion, Zoom

2020

• Wellness During COVID-19 and Political Trauma Stress: Self-Care for Helping Professionals: Moderated discussion, Zoom.

2019

• Conference Chair and Moderator of Beyond the Boxes III: A Mental Health Conference for, by and About LGBTQ+ Helping Professionals and Our Allies: When Our Clients’ Trauma and Oppression Do and Do Not Mirror Our Own: Current Issues Facing LGBTQ+ Muslims, and Gender Expansive BIPOC, Midwest Mental health conference, Minneapolis

2016

• Conference Chair and Moderator of Beyond the Boxes II: Emerging Trends in LGBTQ Mental Health: Gender, Polyamory, and Compassion & Oppression Fatigue Midwest LGBTQ+ mental health conference, Minneapolis
• Facilitator and Organizer of The Ripple Effects of Orlando, Philando Castile, et al: We LGBTQ+ Mental Health Professionals Need to Take Care of Ourselves, Too: A Discussion for LGBTQ+ Mental health Professionals, Minneapolis

2014

• Initiated “Healing Justice for Black Lives Matter” (HJBLM) event within MN LGBTQ+ Therapists Network (HJBLM is a national grass-roots network of healers who support community organizers and activists who are people of color)
• Coordinator, South High School Annual Awards Ski Banquet, Minneapolis
• Coordinator, South High School Ultimate Frisbee Annual Awards Banquet, Minneapolis

2013

• Coordinator and host of the 25th Anniversary Gala of the MN LGBTQ+ Therapists Network
• Co-organizer of the Twin Cities One Billion Rising (OBR) flash mob event held in downtown Minneapolis, in conjunction with One Billion Rising-International events around the world. OBR is an international organization working to end violence against women and children.
• Trainer – psychological first aid and self-care for street medics, activists, and organizers of Occupy-MN

2011

• Psychological First-Aid Medic Trainer for North Star Health Collective Street Medics during Occupy Minneapolis (OccupyMN), Hennepin County Government Center

2010

• Conference Co-Chair, with the Director of the UM-Twin Cities GLBTA Programs Office, Office for Equity & Diversity of Beyond the Boxes: Emerging Trends in LGBTQ+ Mental Health, the first Midwest LGBTQ mental health conference, held at the UM-Twin Cities.

2009

• Co-organizer of Still Healing from the RNC, with North Star Health Collective, a psychological self-care training and support day for protesters, activists, arrestees, and street medics who participated in civil disobedience at the Republican National Convention, in St. Paul in 2008

2008

• Co-organizer and trainer for the North Star Health Collective’s psychological and physical health emergency care site for protesters, activists, and street medics during the Republican National Convention, in St. Paul

1987-2007

• Served on the boards of: MN Women in Psychology, Rainbow Families (now Family Equity Council), Seward Child Care Collective, and was the state-wide chair of the MN Coalition of Sexual Assault Services

GREENE Workshops Trainings Groups 9.2019

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