#1 Workshop – Helping Professionals Are A Special Kind of Superhero! Holding Our Clients’ AND Our Own Social Political Stress – While Fostering Our Resilience and Wellness

As helping professionals who are holding space for our clients and patients who are suffering from SPTS, we are simultaneously experiencing increased levels of vicarious trauma, helper burnout, and compassion fatigue. We are tired.

What is your superhero name? What are your superpowers? How can you maximize your superpowers in your professional and personal life?

This 2.5-hour virtual workshop is designed for holistic, integrative, wellness, somatic, medical, mental health, and related healers and helpers.

WHAT: A virtual community support workshop, with breakout rooms for scenario-discussing and networking.

FOR: This event is designed for holistic, integrative, wellness, somatic, medical, and mental health providers, healers, and related helpers.

TOPIC: This Zoom conversation will discuss the wellness-related concepts of resilience, burnout, trauma grief, secondary and vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue through the lens of being a helping professional. Participants will be able to assess their levels of fatigue, burnout, and resilience, as well as learn creative ways to self-soothe, regulate their emotions, and strengthen self and community connection.

Resources and information on the topics are included, along with immigration and mutual aid resources, community donation requests, and self-care, self-soothing, and wellness ideas for us, our clients, and our patients.

DATES: #1: Th., June 4, 2026, from 10-1230p CST | #2: W., July 29, 2026, from 1-330p CST | #3: Sat., Sept., 26, from 10-1230p CST

Fee: $109. Tiered adjusted fee: $89 or $59.

CEUs: Depending on your circumstances, up to 2.5 CEUs have been granted for this and related trainings. Irene will provide CEU Certification forms for submission to your board or related agency.

Registration: Complete this Workshop Registration Google Sheet: being developed now.

#2 Workshop – Communicate Like the Superhero You Are: Use Your Superpowers to More Effectively Address Differences and Set Boundaries

This 2.5-hour virtual workshop is designed for organizations and groups seeking trauma-informed guidance and an intentional, confidential space to improve their communication and conflict resolution skills. Many social justice organizations and community groups are experiencing increased tensions and frustrations among the members and staff. This is to be expected in these times where we are all enduring in real-time the trauma of fascism, increased oppression, and collective trauma, in addition to whatever traumatic events we have personally already experienced. It is also an expected ramification after an intense event or circumstance that we feel unwell. When the adrenaline drops, we feel extra fatigued and agitated, and the loss of shared goals and focus can bring up a sense of hopelessness, loss of purpose, intense grief, and a feeling of being unmoored. 

WHAT: A virtual community support workshop, with breakout rooms for conflict scenario-discussing and networking.

FOR: This event is designed for anyone who wants to discuss communication and conflict resolution in their group or organization.

DATES: #1: April 13, 2026, 530-730p. Closed.  | #2: Sat., Sept., 19, from 10-1230p | #3: Th., Nov., 5, from 10-1230p CST

Fee: $109. Tiered adjusted fee: $89 or $59.

CEUs: Depending on your circumstances, up to 2.5 CEUs have been granted for this and related trainings. Irene will provide CEU Certification forms for submission to your board or related agency.

Registration: Complete this Workshop Registration Google Sheet: being developed now.

Topics to be discussed:

• Identify which superhero’s conflict communication style is closest to your own
• Is your communication style: The Eight Fs of Communication: Fight, Flee, Freeze, Fawn, Fix, Fade, Fact, or Face? 
• Factors from our past and the present that influence our conflict style
• “The Five ‘C’ Continuum to the Calling In Process” – Calling In the Call Out Culture
• Occupation and trauma-related conflicts in the workplace or group
• Burnout and activist fatigue
• Tone policing
• Codependency
• Boundaries
• Gossip
• Apologizing
• Self-regulation, grounding, and self-soothing strategies
• Tips on how to have challenging conversations in the moment and when planned
• Creating a shared language and a plan to address conflicts

Resources and templates for communicating and having hard conversations will be provided.

#3 – past workshop – sponsored by the MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network:

Keep the Revolution Healthy: Mental Health Provider Community Support Conversations 

TO: Mental Health Providers and Healers: Your resilience capacity is calling! Could you use a little connection and downtime with other helpers who can relate to what you are going through?
It’s our time – to share how we are balancing our professional, relational, and personal lives.
For: Mental and behavioral health and wellness providers
When: Wednesday, 1.21.26, from 12 to 1:30 p.m. CST. Zoom.
Sponsored by: The MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network
12 spots / (Sold Out)
FEE: Free to members of the MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network.
Non-members: donation of $15-$25, non-refundable. Venmo: @Irene-Greene-1 / …4688 | 100% will be donated to MN Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC).
CEUs: 1.5

Facilitated by Irene Greene, MSED, Chair, MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network

Resources and self-assessments about helping professional resilience, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout. Plus, info about activist self-care, meeting your community’s needs, emotional regulation, immigration, and your rights regarding  – for you and to share with your clients and loved ones.

Why Are We Holding These Community Support Conversations?
We are individually and collectively experiencing the insidious rise of fascism, which, by definition, is “systemic governmental power over.” Such widespread control, combined with its innate inhumanity, perpetuates the ultimate forms of physical, verbal, psychological, sexual, and emotional violence. This authoritarian spawning is creating, by design, widespread personal, familial, community, and collective trauma. Under this regime, we have been enduring ongoing personal and collective oppression fatigue, trauma grief, and political trauma stress (PTS).

As helping professionals holding space for our clients who are dealing with their PTS, we are inevitably experiencing vicarious trauma, burnout, moral injury, and compassion fatigue. Being a provider for someone who is a MAGA supporter, or is neutral or unaware, generates a certain kind of toll as well.
While we helpers are trying to meet our clients where they are at, we are simultaneously striving to manage our own PTS, grapple with what, if any, political actions to take, nurture our personal health and well-being, and be present for and with our loved ones.

Without community, balancing these goals is not sustainable. Professionally, ethically, and personally, we need warm spaces where we can, with like-minded helping professionals, remove our provider hats, take a breath, pause, debrief, and give and receive support, tips, understanding, and compassion. I firmly believe that we need intentional, warm, rejuvenating spaces for nourishment, validation, and mutual appreciation.

Sponsored by the MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network. Offering these support conversations to providers, like we did when George Floyd was murdered and during COVID, has proven to be a connecting service for our communities.

These groups and workshops are facilitated by Irene Greene, MSED (she/her/lesbian). Irene has 29+ years of experience as a psychotherapist, group facilitator, family and professional conflict resolution coach, and national educator. Irene is the Chair of the MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network and a psychological first-aid street medic trainer. She has certification trainings in wellness, conflict resolution, helper compassion fatigue, and workplace burnout. 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 Services, and was on the board of MN Women in Psychology.

Currently, Irene facilitates three support and skills groups: a sexual abuse survivor group, a resiliency support group for Twin Cities LGBTQ+ nonprofit executive directors, and a resiliency, burnout, and compassion fatigue group for helping professionals. Irene is a national trainer who provides workshops on burnout, vicarious trauma, moral injury, and compassion fatigue to activists and community groups, as well as to social service, medical, educational, psychological, legal, and nonprofit community-based agencies and organizations.

 Contact Irene Greene 

2025-2026 Protester and Activist Resources

For more information about the groups that Irene offers, see: Support and Skills Groups