Out, Proud, and Still on Shift.

Can You Truly Be Yourself at Work?

Being a healthcare provider is already demanding. For LGBTQ+ professionals, it often comes with an added layer of stress: navigating identity in environments that aren’t always affirming.

Out, Proud, and Still on Shift is a trauma-informed, community-rooted workshop for LGBTQ+ healthcare providers who are carrying the weight of burnout, judgment, and invisibility, all while showing up for others every day.

This in-person event isn’t group therapy. It’s a space for connection, validation, and nervous system support among peers who just get it. Together, we’ll explore what it means to be fully yourself at work, share real stories, and practice practical tools you can bring into your next shift (or your next breath).

In this 2-hour workshop, you’ll experience:

• Gentle nervous system education + stress relief tools

• Space to reflect, share, and connect in community

• Strategies for navigating identity-based stress at work

• A non-clinical, non-judgmental space designed by and for LGBTQ+ providers

Date: July 19, 2025, Saturday
Location: Yorkdale
Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm
Fee: $15 CAD
Register: https://forms.gle/h1Ykp3enwJn64oU46
Limited to 30 participants

Facilitated by:
Gelica Tatarenko (she/her)
Christopher Edd Galeno (he/him)

We created this event because too many of us have been quietly burning out in systems that ask for everything and offer little in return. You deserve space to be seen, to breathe, and to be reminded: you’re not alone in this.