Seminars
Get the information and skills you need to live your proudest life.
Coming in 2024
Exploring intimacy and sexual wellness for trans and trans/cis couples.
Sex, intimacy and relationships are not just for the bedroom, and certainly not for the closet. Learn to accept yourself and your partner on the most intimate levels, and it will filter out into your y life.
BOINK is dedicated to building a safe and inclusive space where individuals of all genders and sexual orientations can explore and embrace every aspect of themselves and others. BOINK's approach involves exciting workshops, social events, a variety of inclusive products, and personalised consultations. By taking a comprehensive approach, BOINK aims to enhance individual's intimacy with themselves or their partners.
Kayla Weagle-Brusso (she/they), owner and founder of BOINK!, is a certified sex coach and educator with over 3 years of industry experience helping people improve their sex lives. They have over 20 years experience in the BDSM community, is a member of the LGBTQ+ community and a Loveology University alumni. She has designed and facilitated educational material via in-person workshops and a weekly YouTube program.
Safety Planning for TNBGNCI and Survivors
We can help keep each other safer. In this workshop, we’ll look at tools for assessing risk in different situations, how to ask for support from others, and what might be included in a safety plan. Safety planning can help in a wide variety of situations, and we’ll look at some scenarios including relationship violence and safety outside of the home.
FORGE reduces the impact of trauma on trans/non-binary survivors and communities by empowering service providers, advocating for systems reform, and connecting survivors to healing possibilities. FORGE strives to create a world where ALL voices, people and bodies are valued, respected, honored, and celebrated; where every individual feels safe, supported, respected, and empowered.
Emil Rudicell (they/them) has been a community organizer and activist in a broad range of overlapping movements, with a focus on anti-violence movements, reproductive justice, and youth leadership. They bring over 20 years of experience working in direct service providing crisis intervention and peer counseling, and have supported youth organizing and conflict resolution groups in DC and Florida.
Building a Toolkit for Emotional Wellbeing
This workshop will impart the supports and tools that anyone can use in a crisis to care for their emotional well-being. With the increase in hate towards TNBGNCI communities, it’s important that we take care of ourselves and each other. This training will share tools to develop or add to your toolkit, discuss ways to access additional support, and provide a chance to briefly practice a few tools.
FORGE reduces the impact of trauma on trans/non-binary survivors and communities by empowering service providers, advocating for systems reform, and connecting survivors to healing possibilities. FORGE strives to create a world where ALL voices, people and bodies are valued, respected, honored, and celebrated; where every individual feels safe, supported, respected, and empowered.
Emil Rudicell (they/them) has been a community organizer and activist in a broad range of overlapping movements, with a focus on anti-violence movements, reproductive justice, and youth leadership. They bring over 20 years of experience working in direct service providing crisis intervention and peer counseling, and have supported youth organizing and conflict resolution groups in DC and Florida.
Disclaimer
Patchwork seminars are intended to offer educational and supportive opportunities for self care only. The seminars are not intended, and are in no way meant to offer, render, or represent legal, psychological or healthcare advice for any individual or situation. Patchwork seminars will not be construed to provide legal, professional, medical, mental health or any other type of health service. No legal advice, job or career assistance, public or social service, diagnosis, treatment recommendations or advice regarding any medical or mental health condition or illness are offered or implied. Peer support groups cannot be a substitute for, or alternative to, qualified professional services. Support group members are advised to seek professional services from licensed physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists and health care or intervention professionals, legal representation, or social services counselors if and when necessary.