As Wellness Professionals, we want everyone to feel safe and supported in our work, yet we know that many LGBTQIA+ people feel excluded, ignored, and uncomfortable in Wellness spaces. Or we aren't able to bring our full selves into the experience.

In this 90-minute training workshop, for people working in the wellness industry, Gabi Parkham (she/her) will share her experience and expertise as an LGBTQIA+ equity educator, consultant, and yoga teacher to help you create safer and more welcoming spaces for LGBTQIA+ people within your work.

In this thought-provoking and practical workshop you will learn:

How to make your physical and digital environment safer for LGBTQIA+ people.How to bring more LGBTQIA+ people to your work through thoughtful and authentic marketing.The importance of consent, intersectionality, and trauma informed practice for LGBTQIA+ communities.Public and private acts of allyship to support the LGBTQIA+ community.

This training will be delivered using a variety of learning approaches including sharing DEI best practice, real life scenarios, discussion and participant Q&A.

All participants will receive a certificate of attendance to support their CPD.

*This course is open to Allies and LGBTQ+ people working in the wellness sector. (We particularly welcome non-LGBTQ+ attendees)

About Your Trainer Gabi Parkham (she/Her)

Gabi Parkham (she/her) is a yoga and movement teacher specialising in accessible and trauma informed yoga for LGBTQIA+ people with a particular interest in the perinatal period. Her work aims to empower people to find ways to move their beautiful unique bodies, that feels good and brings joy. All of Gabi's classes are informed by pain science, cultural appropriation, and the rich history and ethics of yoga.

Gabi has 10 years of experience in project management within the charity sector, LGBTQIA+ education, and developing training and wellbeing programmes for volunteers. In 2018, Gabi co-founded Laviot (a social and supportive community for LGBT+ Jewish women and non-binary people) and she has worked with charities, synagogues, and Jewish communities to make their spaces more welcoming to LGBTQIA+ people.

Alongside teaching yoga, Gabi works in LGBTQ Mental Health, and as an educator and consultant for yoga studios and wellness professionals who would like to make their work more welcoming for LGBTQIA+ people. Gabi loves to dismantle systems of power and centres consent, autonomy and equity in her work.

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