Political Anxiety, Stress and Resiliency Workshops
A Series of Strategy-building, Support, and Wellness Workshops. Virtual, live, interactive.
(1) Workshops for LGBTQ+ Helping Professionals:Political Stress and Anxiety: Resiliency Workshops for LGBTQ+ Helping Professionals
(2) Workshops for Progressive Helping Professionals: Resiliency Over Political Anxiety and Stress Workshops for Helping Professionals
(3) Workshops for the Community:Foster Resiliency and Action Over Political Trauma Stress and Anxiety
Keep the revolution healthy.
This is a workshop for progressive LGBTQ+ helping professionals who want a safe and nonjudgmental place to discuss the personal and professional experiences and concerns unique to us during these frightening, oppressive, and chaotic social-political times.
It is an opportunity to support each other in sustaining our personal and community well-being, resiliency, and resistance.
(2/3) Resiliency Over Political Anxiety and Stress Workshops for Helping Professionals
Join us for a workshop on fostering resiliency in these times of political trauma stress for us and our clients.
(3/3) Foster Resiliency and Action Over Political Trauma Stress and Anxiety
Workshops for community members = progressive comrades seeking support, rejuvenation, and inspiration.
Countering Overwhelm, Anxiety, Fear, and Apathy with Connection, Courage, Hope, and Action
Topics:
I. The Personal Impacts of the Current Social-political Climate
II. Foster Resiliency and Action Over Political Trauma Stress and Anxiety
Create a Personal Wellness and Action Plan. (Templates are provided.)
Logistics:
What: Live 2.5-hour Zoom workshops
For: Progressive and liberal comrades, kindreds, and resistors from anywhere.
Capped at 12 spots.
Dates: Choose one date.
#1: Thursday, 4.17.25 at 5:00-7:30 pm CST OR
#2: Thursday, 5.8.25 at 9:00-11:30 am CST (add your name to the waitlist at the Eventbrite link)
Fee: $44. Sliding Scale. No one is turned away for an inability to pay. Free for paid members of The MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network.
To register and for more information: Foster Resiliency and Action Over Political Trauma Stress and Anxiety
Support. Strategize. Debrief. Fortify. Network.
LGBTQ-affirming. Neurospicy-friendly. Trauma-informed. Healing-centered.
Also see: Resiliency Coaching: Political Trauma Stress and Resiliency Coaching
About the Facilitator
Workshop Facilitator: Irene Greene MSED (She/Her) – A national group facilitator and trainer.
Irene has 29+ years of experience as a psychotherapist, positive psychology holistic wellness coach, group facilitator, relationship and family conflict coach, and national trainer. She is the Chair of the MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network and a psychological first-aid street medic trainer. Irene currently facilitates three support and skills groups: a sexual abuse survivor group, a group for LGBTQ+ executive directors of non-profits, and a burnout and compassion fatigue group for helping professionals. Irene provides resiliency, burnout, vicarious trauma, moral injury, and compassion fatigue trainings to political activists, social service, medical, educational, mental health, and non-profit community-based agencies and organizations. Irene also offers anti-racist workshops and affinity groups for white helping professionals. Irene was the first director of the U-MN-Sexual Violence Program, worked in the State of MN’s Crime Victim Unit, served as Chair of the MN Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and was on the board of MN Women in Psychology.
Examples of organizations Irene has trained:
Regions Hospital, St. Paul, MN; Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Co; Anatomy Bequest Program, UMN; MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network; Headway Emotional Health Services, Twin Cities; The UMN Advising Program: Office of Undergraduate Education; Telling Queer History, Twin Cities; BECAUSE Conference, St. Paul; The UMN Department of Earth Sciences; Travis County Texas Prosecutor’s Office, Austin TX; Way to Grow, MN; State Conference for Headway MN; Anti-racism Coalition, NYC; MN United Way; MN Coalition of Domestic Violence; Northstar Street Medics of MN; The Minnesota Aliveness Project; The Family Tree Clinic, Minneapolis, MN; MN Women in Psychology; Touchstone Mental Health, Minneapolis, MN; OutFront-MN.
Resiliency for LGBTQ+ Helping Professionals: Addressing Political Stress
© Irene Greene MSED 2025
Contact Irene for information about personally customized resiliency coaching or a workshop for yourself, your friends, community or neighborhood group, or your organization. No one is turned away for an inability to pay.
