Today is Trans Day of Visibility in the UK.
At The Productive Pessimist Ltd, we offer coaching, consultancy, and training from lived experience.
That includes lived experience of being on the 'less-likely-to-have-national-newspaper-columns-and-a-huge-fanbase' side of the 'transgender debate.'
Both our Founder-Directors - Ash, who leads on business consultancy, and management coaching, and Morgana, who leads on neurodiversity inclusion, support, and training - are trans.
Ash is a trans man (assigned female at birth, and raised as a girl) who first expressed a male identity aged 9, and began medical transition aged 21. He has experienced physical violence and conversion therapy as a result of his gender identity.
Morgana is a trans woman (assigned male at birth, and raised as a boy), who, in childhood, persistently experienced a 'wrongness and lack of connection' with gender, and began social transition (identifying and living as a woman) aged 22, and medical transition 8yrs later, following delays owing to disabilities, financial challenges, and geographical location. She has experienced significant emotional and physical trauma as a result of others' reactions to her gender identity.
Our Trans Inclusion training isn't just about pronouns.
We discuss the HR impacts and concerns.
We talk about techniques for managing personal change when someone comes out as trans, is outed as trans, or begins to explore their gender identity in other ways.
We explain the law - both as it is now, and as those launching very public attacks on trans people want it to be, and how that might affect trans employees, or staff who are trans allies.
We discuss 'competing inclusion' - for example, how to consider trans men, or non-binary people, who may experience menstruation, menopause, and pregnancy in discussions around those topics, without causing discomfort for female staff who are not trans, or how terms like "female-focused", "male-dominated", "masculine energy", and "predominantly female" are not helpful in general in explaining and identifying your company culture, and can feel threatening to trans, non-binary, and gender-non-conforming people.
We unpack all the ways in which dysphoria is not just "being upset that people didn't validate your gender" - and how non-trans people experience dysphoria, too.
We explain how it feels to be trans in Britain today, and how it used to feel, in the pre-social-media days, when barely anyone talked about it.
We ask about the stereotypes you've heard, the assumptions you may have made, the anxieties you have about ensuring a good experience of employment for a trans or non-binary person, and we help you work through those to solutions that work for everyone.
We talk about the realities of being trans, and how trans and non-binary people can make a real difference to your company, specifically - rather than a vague "Diversity is good for business!" assertion.
Sessions are offered remotely across the UK, and can be provided in-person at your location in Great Yarmouth, Waveney, and Norwich, and cost just £45 per hour, or £150 for a half day session.
We can also provide 'Business Friend' retained support services, giving you on-demand access to answers, insights, and support, and starting from just £800 per month.
At The Productive Pessimist Ltd, we offer coaching, consultancy, and training from lived experience.
That includes lived experience of being on the 'less-likely-to-have-national-newspaper-columns-and-a-huge-fanbase' side of the 'transgender debate.'
Both our Founder-Directors - Ash, who leads on business consultancy, and management coaching, and Morgana, who leads on neurodiversity inclusion, support, and training - are trans.
Ash is a trans man (assigned female at birth, and raised as a girl) who first expressed a male identity aged 9, and began medical transition aged 21. He has experienced physical violence and conversion therapy as a result of his gender identity.
Morgana is a trans woman (assigned male at birth, and raised as a boy), who, in childhood, persistently experienced a 'wrongness and lack of connection' with gender, and began social transition (identifying and living as a woman) aged 22, and medical transition 8yrs later, following delays owing to disabilities, financial challenges, and geographical location. She has experienced significant emotional and physical trauma as a result of others' reactions to her gender identity.
Our Trans Inclusion training isn't just about pronouns.
We discuss the HR impacts and concerns.
We talk about techniques for managing personal change when someone comes out as trans, is outed as trans, or begins to explore their gender identity in other ways.
We explain the law - both as it is now, and as those launching very public attacks on trans people want it to be, and how that might affect trans employees, or staff who are trans allies.
We discuss 'competing inclusion' - for example, how to consider trans men, or non-binary people, who may experience menstruation, menopause, and pregnancy in discussions around those topics, without causing discomfort for female staff who are not trans, or how terms like "female-focused", "male-dominated", "masculine energy", and "predominantly female" are not helpful in general in explaining and identifying your company culture, and can feel threatening to trans, non-binary, and gender-non-conforming people.
We unpack all the ways in which dysphoria is not just "being upset that people didn't validate your gender" - and how non-trans people experience dysphoria, too.
We explain how it feels to be trans in Britain today, and how it used to feel, in the pre-social-media days, when barely anyone talked about it.
We ask about the stereotypes you've heard, the assumptions you may have made, the anxieties you have about ensuring a good experience of employment for a trans or non-binary person, and we help you work through those to solutions that work for everyone.
We talk about the realities of being trans, and how trans and non-binary people can make a real difference to your company, specifically - rather than a vague "Diversity is good for business!" assertion.
Sessions are offered remotely across the UK, and can be provided in-person at your location in Great Yarmouth, Waveney, and Norwich, and cost just £45 per hour, or £150 for a half day session.
We can also provide 'Business Friend' retained support services, giving you on-demand access to answers, insights, and support, and starting from just £800 per month.
Reach out to us by email - theproductivepessimist@yahoo.com, or call us on 0748 2017 927
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