CB Beal, M.Div. (they/them/theirs) specializes in facilitating learning experiences that involve issues of marginalization, oppression, and privilege, helping participants hold the complexities of our lives in perspective, to co-create a safer braver space within which people can be challenged to learn and grow.
They are a dynamic and humorous speaker and frequent presenter and consultant in congregations and schools in the northeast in Preemptive Radical Inclusion, safer communities/congregations, and supporting gender creative and transgender/non-binary children and youth in schools and youth-serving organizations. They are an Our Whole Lives Sexuality Education trainer and trainer of trainers nationally and teach sexuality and consent education to elementary and middle schoolers and parents around Massachusetts. They also support organizations, groups and individuals doing change work.
Prior to consulting full time, they were the Director of Religious Education at the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence for 16 years after holding education and training positions in adjacent fields. CB received a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1991 and was the Unitarian Universalist Association’s 2019 Angus H. MacLean Award for Excellence in Religious Education.
CB is a white, trans non-binary/genderqueer, queer, neurodivergent, fat person.
Above is a taste of what CB is like in person, their acceptance of the Angus H. MacLean Award. It begins at the 6-minute mark. If you are interested in the falderal preceding that, simply move the cursor to the beginning.
CB grew up on a small farm in the Northern Adirondacks, went to a christian college in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and Union Theological Seminary in New York City. They currently live in what they call their “farmhouse library loft” in a repurposed factory building in Western Massachusetts.
