Professional Experience and Education
Employment
- Owner: Greene Growth and Training, Minneapolis, MN
- Self-employed in private practice as a national group facilitator and trainer. Individual, relationship, and family conflict mediation coach. Consultant. 1994-present
- Consultant and Trainer with MPG Consulting: Management and Leadership Services with an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppressive Lens, New York City, 2022 – 2023
- Facilitator of Twin Cities LGBTQ+Executive Directors’ Support Group, Founded by Arcus Foundation LGBT Leadership Initiative, New York City, 2017-present
1982-1994
- Director, The Sexual Violence Program, University Counseling Services, University of MN-Twin Cities
- Grants Analyst, MN Department of Corrections, Sexual Assault and Battered Women Programs
- Counselor, Counseling Department, St. Catherine University, St. Paul MN
- Crime Victim-Witness Specialist, Douglas County Prosecutor’s Office, Superior WI
- Coordinator of The Counseling and Women’s Center, University of WI-Superior
Certifications & Trainings
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Clinical Foundations in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Levels I and II, The Gottman Institute, 2021
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Emotion Coaching: The Heart of Parenting, The Gottman Institute, 2021
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PREPARE/ENRICH Certified Facilitator, #1349097, 2021
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Post-Graduate Certificate in Positive Psychology Well-Being Coaching (PPWBC) National Board Certification Training Program, College of Executive Coaching, 2016 – 2018
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Relationship Coach Certification (RCC), International Association of Professional Relationship Coaches, 2016 – 2017
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Certified Compassion Fatigue Professional (CCFP), 2016 – 2017, International Association of Trauma Professionals, Sarasota FLA
- Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP), 2016 – 2017, International Association for Trauma Professionals, Sarasota FLA
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The Power of Mindfulness as Practice Certification, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., 2016 – 2017
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Family Mediation Training and Certification, Twin Cities’ Mediation Center and Argosy University, Eagan, MN, 2017
- Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR), American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT)
- Foundations of Mindfulness: Integrating Mindfulness Meditation Practices with Psychotherapy, T. Glaser & J. Leverone, Minneapolis, MN
Education
Master’s of Science in Education Degree with a concentration in Guidance and Counseling: Community Counseling & Counseling Women from the University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Guidance and Counseling Program of the Educational Leadership Department, Clinical Mental Health Counseling Track, Highest Honors, 1985
Specialized training and education in anti-racism
Racial Trauma: Assessment and Treatment Techniques for Trauma Rooted in Racism Monnica Williams, PhD
Emotionally Focused Therapy in a Time of Racial Reckoning: Centering Race in Couple The Couple and Family Institute of New England
Kente Circle Training Institute:
- Reclaiming Our Humanity and Voices through PROTEST: Responding to Racial Trauma and Violence – Kente Circle Training Institute – Fall Conference 2020
- Order for A Communal Discourse: Embracing Racial Consciousness by Kente Circle Training Institute – Fall Conference 2019
- Keeping the Faith: In the Midst of Racial Oppression by Kente Circle Training Institute – Fall Conference 2018
- Healing in Community: Shifting the Burden of Dismantling Racism by Kente Circle Training Institute – Fall Conference 2017
Advanced Equity Skills for Clinicians by Rebecca Davis and Shea Lowery Anti-Racist Trauma-Informed Care by artic LLC (Anti-Racist Trauma-Informed Care)
Movement Trauma Healer Training Program, School of Global Citizenry
Understanding Movement Trauma for Healers TRACC (Trauma Response and Crisis Care) 4 Movements by Teresa Mateus
Racial Trauma by Lilian Daz, American Psychologists Association
White People Confronting Racism 20-hour training by Training for Change
Multi-cultural Awareness and Diversity: Strategies to Advance Rapport and Cultural Competency by Lambers Fisher
A Therapists’ Path for Exploring Implicit Bias and Racial Trauma with Janina Fisher, Debra Chatman-Finley, and Gliceria Pérez
White Fragility and White-Body Supremacy by Resmaa Menakem and Robin DiAngelo
Journey to Allyship by Catrice Jackson http://www.catriceology.com/
Training the Trainer Anti-Racism Project for nonprofit programs of MN Coalition of Battered Women and MN Coalition Against Sexual Assault Services
Award
1993 University of MN Staff Person of the Year, University of MN-Twin Cities Student Senate Award
Contact Irene at irene@irenegreene.com
