Older LGBTQ+ Women’s Support Group
~It’s Your Time – A LGBTQ Women’s ~50+ Support Group to Honor Our Courage Over the Decades, Embrace the Present, and Envision Our Future
~ Identity. Aging. Boundaries. Bravery. Self-care. Joy. Badassery. ~
A welcoming space to increase connection, self-awareness, growth, and rejuvenation!
Are you looking for a place to give and receive support and build meaningful connections with like-minded womxn and non-binary people in the LGBTQ+ community?
Do you desire conversations that honor the memories, experiences, and wisdom connected to your LGBTQ+ identity…the challenges, struggles, pain, discrimination, changes, accomplishments, and joys over the past decades and the recent past?
Are you dealing with issues related to aging? For example, external and internalized ageism, concerns about personal identity, safety, loss, decision-making, or health issues for yourself or family members.
Could you use support in getting “unstuck” about important life decisions and changes you want to make, related to retirement, downsizing, relationships with parents and friends, making your bucket list a reality, etc.?
Do you need support balancing your self-care needs and boundary-setting skills with the personal, professional, or familial demands on your life that leave you feeling exhausted, stressed, burnt out, or resentful?
Could you benefit from a safe, confidential, and fun space to gain fresh strategies to challenge your lack of motivation and perfectionism so you can move towards addressing a specific personal, interpersonal, or professional goal?
Do you want support and ideas on celebrating your aging and increasing joy, rest, and fun in your life?
~It’s Your Time~
This 12-week virtual support and skill-building group is designed for socially progressive queer womxn, who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, “fem,” “butch,” and non-binary people aged ~50-ish and over who “came out” years ago or more recently. In this group, participants will have the opportunity to acknowledge and honor their experience and wisdom, discuss their aging-related concerns about identity and health, increase their interpersonal connections, and learn healthier boundary-setting and communication skills to improve their relationships with themselves, friends, partner(s), and family members.
Format and Structure
- A virtual strengths-based, uplifting, confidential coaching support and skill-building group
- Combines celebration, self-care strategies, emotional wellness themes, personal goal-setting, and plain old fun
- Weekly topics, lectures, group discussions, personal time, worksheets, and journaling
- Goal-setting packet with worksheets, resources, and homework
- Meets for 90-minutes for 12-weeks
- Uses the HIPPA-protected Zoom platform
- $60/session (private pay). Two sliding fee slots.
- Nine members maximum
- The next group starts in Winter 2024-25.
- Meets Thursdays 430-6p CST
- Contact Irene to be added to the waitlist.
- Minneapolis-based and open to folx in MN and beyond
- Designed and Facilitated by Irene Greene, MSED She/Her. Irene is a cisgender lesbian. A highly experienced group facilitator and national trainer.
Topics, issues, and concerns:
- Loneliness and how to build connections with others in the LGBTQ+ community
- Changes related to LGBTQ+ equity and equality we’ve seen over the years
- Challenging and inspiring experiences unique to queer women in their 50s and beyond
- Experiences of discrimination, oppression fatigue, political trauma fatigue, and hate crime violence
- Aging issues as they relate to identity, safety, health, retirement, and isolation
- Learn healthier boundaries in relationships. Identify co-dependent and people-pleasing patterns
- Stress, burnout, and overwhelm with balancing work-life-family-aging parents-self: work-life tradeoffs
- Family and relationship issues, including family estrangement and parenting
Wellness, changes, and growth:
- Develop a plan to increase your health, wellness, and community connection
- Honor your past, embrace your present, and envision a fulfilling future
- Acknowledge and celebrate your wisdom
- Improve your communication and inter-personal relational skills
- Learn strategies to help manage stress and overwhelm
- Build clarity and confidence to set and maintain personal and relational boundaries
- Develop discernment about accepting what you can and cannot control
- Transform your stuckness into healthy action and success
- Increase your self-care, self-compassion, and joy
Let’s sprinkle some glitter, make a mess, and have some fun!
Receiving nonjudgmental support and gentle accountability from a group of our peers can help increase our sense of connection, confidence, and self-acceptance so that we can follow through on goals, intentions, and changes we’ve wanted to make.
pic by Sharon McCutcheon
For general information about Irene’s groups.
Contact Irene for more information, to schedule your free 30-minute intake consultation, and to add your name to the waiting list.
Designed and Facilitated by Irene Greene, MSED. She/Her. Irene is a seasoned group facilitator, mental health provider, LGBTQPIA+ relationship coach, national family conflict coach, and national educator. Over the past twenty-five years, Irene has created and facilitated dozens of groups and trainings on a variety of topics: coming out, general support, moral injury, self-care and wellness, COVID-related self-care for medical and helping professionals, isolation and grief, White allyship, sexual and physical trauma abuse healing, moral injury, burnout, and compassion fatigue.
Examples of Groups Irene has Trained and Facilitated: Regions Hospital, St. Paul, MN; Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado; Anatomy Bequest Program, University of Minnesota; MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network statewide and national conferences; Headway Emotional Health Services, Twin Cities; the University of Minnesota Advising Program: Office of Undergraduate Education; Telling Queer History, Twin Cities; BECAUSE Conference, St. Paul; the University of Minnesota Department of Earth Sciences; Travis County Texas Prosecutor’s Office, Austin Tx; Way to Grow, MN; State Conference for Headway MN; MN Coalition of Sexual Abuse Programs; MN Department of Corrections; Anti-racism Coalition, New York City; MN Coalition of Domestic Violence, Northstar Street Medics, MN; The Family Tree Clinic, Minneapolis, MN; MN Women in Psychology; Touchstone Mental Health Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
