Workshops for Companies, Organizations, and Communities.
About Janelle Peters, LSW: Janelle Peters is a queer therapist whose work touches on the systems we live in, how they impact us, and how we impact them. Janelle facilitates workshops and professional development trainings for companies, organizations and communities who aren't satisfied with the status quo. In workshops, Janelle highlights the connection between the individual and the global - exploring, disentangling, and contextualizing complex topics, while holding space for the human heart.
The Myth of Perfection
This workshop explores individual and structural experiences of perfectionism. Many folks who self-select into challenging activities and careers have tendencies toward perfectionism. This workshop offers actionable, individual tools to help manage the harm that perfectionism can do, and also explores the ways in which perfectionism is culturally perpetuated to maintain an unequal status quo.
Supporting the LGBTQIA2S+ Youth in Your Life
A workshop for caregivers, teachers, and family members of LGBTQIA2S+ young people. This workshop covers fundamental concepts and vocabulary in gender and sexual orientation for those who are new to the conversation. We then move into deeply important self-reflection, and create pathways to call upon existing skills, and using these as a foundation for understanding and supporting your LGBTQIA2S+ young person.
Supporting Your LGBTQIA2S+ Community Members
This workshop is designed to create an informative and brave space for those who want to support their LGBTQIA2S+ community members, but who may feel uncertain of how, or who may be worried about "doing it wrong". This workshop provides participants with vocabulary, context, and tools to create a lifelong practice of engagement and support for their LGBTQIA2S+ colleagues, family, and friends.
Courageous Conversations about Mental Health
This workshop helps support transparency and comfort around mental health and mental health challenges. This workshop provides a framework for understanding and dismantling many common barriers to talking about our mental health. This workshop provides participants with an opportunity to develop new perspectives on the ways that talking about our mental health and mental health challenges make us more resilient, connected, and empowered.
Vicarious Trauma, and Compassion Fatigue
Vicarious trauma (VT) and compassion fatigue (CF) are some of the leading causes of turnover in the caring professions. These issues are only beginning to be addressed in professional training and educational settings, so many who provide direct care to clients, students, patients or others are at a disadvantage when it comes to identifying how they are effected. This workshop provides education about the psychological, physiological, social, and spiritual impacts of VT and CF, and provides participants with a safe environment to explore their experiences. Participants are guided through multiple strategies to address and mitigate the impacts of VT and CF.
Feedback from past workshop participants:
“Thank you for engaging and creating the space for what is often a terrifyingly uncomfortable conversation for people to have, especially in the environment where they are expected to perform as efficiently and compartmentalize the vulnerable from the productive. And: "remembering humanity" is a message that needs to be consistently repeated, thank you for bringing into the vernacular of [our organization]”
“That was one of the most moving and compassionate conversations I have ever had with a group of colleagues. I am so appreciative to have had that opportunity.”
“I'm excited to connect more with colleagues around our human experience and vulnerability. It helped me feel more connected and inspired to make space for this in the future.”