As much as I love a good story and meander toward a point, many people prefer lists over a narrative. So here is a list of some of the workshops and offerings that are available. I bring overlapping areas of expertise, and most workshops and consultations draw upon at least two of them, Venn diagram style, so you may look deeper than the categories themselves.
Preemptive Radical Inclusion: practices for equity and justice toward liberation
Consent and Sexuality Education: all bodies are good bodies
Organizational Transformation and Group Development: Collective change where it is needful for health
Workshops Talks Services Bio statements (jump here)
Group/organizational development (opens in a new page)
Workshops
Preemptive Radical Inclusion
- Preemptive Radical Inclusion: Behaviors of Welcome
- Working with Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Creative children and youth
- Constellations of Gender: Transgender, Nonbinary, GenderQueer, Agender and more, a 101
- Preemptive Radical Consent – skills of invitation, curiosity, and respect
- Preemptive Radical Inclusion – 3, 6, and 10-hour workshops
In addition to those introductory workshops, focused workshops include:
- The Glass is Refillable: Political exhaustion, Lifelong Faith Formation, and Preemptive Radical Inclusion
- Preemptive Radical Inclusion and our Puritan Roots – white supremacy culture and why we need to understand our institutional Puritan roots (a workshop for UU and UCC folks)
- Preemptive Radical Inclusion – for sexuality educators (or other specific professional populations)
- Preemptive Radical Hospitality – Welcoming the stranger and ourselves
- Bearing Witness: An antidote to gaslighting
- Trauma Sensitive support with Survivors of Abuse (for professionals and paraprofessionals)
- Preemptive Radical Inclusion workshops for groups and congregations with a particular focus is available, such as – privilege, marginalization, and oppression/bearing witness and meaningful inclusion of all genders and sexualities/GLBTQ+/kink and ethical nonmonogamy, and neurodiversity and neurodivergence
Organizational Transformation and Group Development
- Self-Advocacy and Boundaries
- All The Stories We Are: an exploration of
organizational history - Summit for Change: an exploration of mission, vision, and options for moving forward
- Who Do We Say We Are?: identity and purpose
- Hatchlings, Eagles, and Ducks: volunteer management as holding, witness, and connecting with purpose Supervision as Relationship
- Safe Organizations I: developing/identifying/learning policies and procedures that support the safety of children and other vulnerable people Safe Organizations II: trauma-sensitive interpersonal responses to disclosures of sexual misconduct, abuse, and assault
- Awkward Interventions: holding space practice for Preemptive Radical Inclusion
- Boundaries not Ballots: Antagonists in the Congregation/Organization
- Holding Space for a Trauma Sensitive, Flexible Future: engaging families during a Terrible Time
- Turning on a Dime: Reorienting Mission to meet the Reality of the Present
- Is it really Fascism? Beloved Community under threat: A skills building workshop
I also provide leadership and facilitation for staff retreats, and workshops of intervention or creation and ongoing individual consultation is available for ongoing work.
Consent and Sexuality Educaton
Introductory Workshops for Young Adults/Adults/Parents and Professionals
- Talking about Sexuality with Children
- What’s Appropriate Anyway? Age and Developmental Readiness for Consent and Sexuality Education
- All Aboard: Creating structures for transparency and accountability for child safety among staff or within an organization
- Beyond No, Go, Tell: modeling consent in everyday life as affiliated adults in young people’s lives
- Mind your T’s and Q’s: radical welcome, affirmation, and support of Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender Non-Conforming children and adults within your organization
- Holding Them Whole: faith formation and gender identity
- Sexuality and Consent Education workshop for educators
For young children and/or their caregivers
- Talking About Touching, grades P-K: safety education
- Beyond No, Go, Tell – teaching meaningful consent with young children
- Our Families’ Safety Rules: a workshop for caregivers
- Safe Grownups: are
boundaried , transparent adults who follow a families’ safety rules - Our Whole Lives, grades K-1: sexuality education (8 session series) (not currently offering, contact your local UU or UCC congregation)
For middle elementary children and/or their caregivers
- Awesomely Awkward Consent and Sexuality Education – inc. Bodies and Consent / Bodies and Babies / Biology and Genders / Communication and Relationship skills practice
- Consent and Sexuality Education for trans,
nonbinary and gender creative young people - My Body is Mine: teaching and modeling meaningful ‘yes,’ ‘no,’ ‘not yet’ or ‘maybe this instead’
- Our Whole Lives grades 4-6 (10 session series) (not currently offering, contact your local UU or UCC congregation)
- Tailored workshops re: Puberty, Communication, Consent, Relationships,
GLBTQIA+ and more
For Adolescents/Middle and High school aged people and/or their caregivers
- Preemptive Radical Consent: Skills of Invitation, Curiosity, and Respect
- Preemptive Radical Consent II: ‘Yes,’ ‘Hell, Yes,’ ‘No,’ ‘Not Yet’ or ‘Maybe This Instead.’
- Awesomely Awkward – Sex and Gender / Bodies and Consent / Bodies and Babies / Boundaries / Communication and Relationship skills practice
- Consent and Sexuality Education for trans/nonbinary/gender creative young people
- Our Whole Lives 7-9 (25 sessions) (not currently offering, contact your local UU or UCC congregation)
- Our Whole Lives 10-12 ( 12-20 sessions) (not currently offering, contact your local UU or UCC congregation)
- Our Whole Lives Sexuality Education Training of Facilitators, Elementary and Adult levels (co-facilitate)
All workshops are tailored to specific s
Talks (fewer interactive elements than workshops, but can be combined)
- Bear Witness: Build Trust
- Pandora’s Paradox: holding privilege and marginalization simultaneously
- You’ve Got Mail: Romantic Scripts that complicate our commitment to consent
- Love’s Only Hands: reciprocal relationships and turning toward care
- Preemptive Radical Inclusion, a love story
- The X-Gay Files Redux: anti-trans rhetoric and how to counter it
- I Couldn’t Stay On The Farm: GLBTQ youth in agriculture and trades and the power of faculty encouragement
- Clean Air as Disability Justice
- White Christian Nationalism: What Everyone Should Know
Worship Services/Sermons for liberal and progressive congregations
- Bear Witness: Save Lives (intro to PRI pt. 1)
- Preemptive Radical Inclusion (intro pt. 2)
- Love’s Hands: Community Care in ongoing pandemic times
- Jacob Wrestled an Angel: We wrestle with our history (colonialism/historical anti-indigeneity for majority white congregations)
- Pathfinder, Trailblazer, or Whack-A-Mole: humility as we collaborate toward a more just future
- The Call is Coming from Inside the House
- What Is your Apocalypse Outfit?
- Fred Phelps, Tom Cruise, and Me
- Pride, Identity, Beloved Community (a Pride month service)
- Bodies Are Awesome: (everyone should get one)
Bio Statements
Everyone has different opinions about these sorts of things. As a result, I offer here a number of sentences from which you can choose. Mix and match if you’re about to introduce me, according to what you think matters to your folk.
CB is an UU educator, storyteller, speaker, and consultant.
CB Beal (they/them) specializes in facilitating learning experiences that involve issues of marginalization, oppression, and privilege; helping participants hold the complexities of our lives in perspective, and co-creating a safe[r] brave[r] space within which people can be challenged to learn and grow.
They are a frequent presenter and consultant in congregations and schools in the northeast in Preemptive Radical Inclusion, safer communities and congregations, and supporting gender creative and transgender/non-binary children and youth in schools and youth-serving organizations.
CB was the 2019 recipient of the UUA’s Angus H. Maclean Award for Excellence in Religious Education.
CB Beal (they/them) is a speaker, educator, and consultant who specializes in facilitating learning experiences that involve issues of marginalization, oppression, and privilege. CB supports people to hold the complexities of our lives as we co-creating a safe[r] brave[r] space within which people can be challenged to learn and grow.
CB (they/them) comes from 400 years of Puritans and other colonialists in Massachusetts. Born in Massachusetts, they grew up in rural Vermont and the Adirondacks and after young adult years in Philly and NYC, have returned to live in Western Massachusetts on the ancestral lands of the Nipmuck, Nonatuck, and Pocumtuc, where they seek to make repair and reparation as they can.