Lighthouse Learning Series: Navigating Rough Waters: Essential Skills for Transforming Interpersonal Conflict
Starting in February 2025 and running until June 2025, we will be covering a series of queer harm reduction topics with the goal of creating a more inclusive movement.
Priority is given to those living and working in New York due to program scope. However, the series will be held virtually and is open to all those who would like to build on their harm reduction knowledge to provide better services to LGB/TGNC+ folks!
Session description: This workshop will provide meaningful frameworks and rooted in transformative justice for interpreting and navigating conflict with community. There will be an introduction to essential skills for navigating conflict. Participants will be invited to share questions and scenarios during the workshop.
Facilitators:
Opulence Abundance is a speaker, conflict navigator, and healing professional. They received their Masters in Social Work in 2016 from the University of Southern California with a concentration in Health social work. They spent two years working with clients with severe and persistent psychosis. In 2018 they began working with a federally qualified health center in South Central LA where they managed external partnerships, 14 grants, over 10 million in grant funds, and 4 health programs. They helped create the first program in Los Angeles County at a FQHC for people exiting incarceration and went on to train other health clinics across California on how to create, maintain, and support patients and staff with histories of incarceration.
