Why LGBTQ+ Inclusion Workshops?
Creating a welcoming and inclusive environment in your workplace is key to ensuring that everyone can perform to their best ability. We'll help you to facilitate the learning and understanding needed to achieve these aims. All of our workshops are now available in person or online, operating on three fundamental pillars:
Inform: Your employees gain important knowledge about LGBTQ+ issues, allowing for greater understanding and allyship in the workplace.
Encourage: Offering our workshops acts a key incentive for hiring and retention, showing that your organisation is open and accepting of all employees.
Contribute: ShoutOut is a charity, so the proceeds from your workshop allow us to provide workshops to fifteen schools.
Why Choose ShoutOut?
We are Ireland's largest provider of LGBTQ+ workshops to schools, which we have been providing since 2012. Our volunteers travel around the country to give participants information and ask questions concerning LGBTQ+ related issues, and to address issues of bullying and discrimination in schools and workplaces.
Our workshops cover a range of issues, and are at the forefront of LGBTQ+ teaching by adapting to recent research and current affairs. The content included has also been reviewed by related organisations including DCU, Foroige, and TENI to ensure all issues are covered and treated accurately and sensitively.
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Available Workshops:
The ABCs of LGBTQ+
Our most popular workshop, this is a fun and interactive learning session which offers a comprehensive insight into LGBTQ+ identity, terminology, and allyship. We provide a safe space for people to ask questions, and we show how small changes can make a big difference for LGBTQ+ employees. Everyone can learn something here!
Length: 60 - 90 mins
Trans & Non-Binary 101
This workshop is perfect for any workplace looking to expand their capacity to support trans and non-binary colleagues, employees, clients or service users. Participants will gain insight into experiences of trans and non-binary communities in Ireland today and build fluency in respectful language and terminology. We create an open and safe space for people to ask any questions they may have, explore strategies for becoming confident allies, and offer practical solutions for building more inclusive workplaces for trans and non-binary individuals.
Length: 90 mins
Inclusive Homes: Parents & Guardians
Perfect for parents and guardians at your workplace (as well as aunts, uncles, and anyone who might be supporting young people) this session draws directly on our work with young people in schools. Participants will learn how small steps can make their home more inclusive, and leave feeling fluent in the language young people use to discuss their identities. Participants will discuss why it can still be difficult for young people to come out in a more accepting world, and together find practical solutions to support anyone who may be struggling.
Length: 60 - 90 mins
An Introduction to Pronouns
Understanding the importance of pronouns and gender neutral language can make a meaningful difference to LGBTQ+ communities, and this workshop will give insight into how you can make positive and practical changes as an organisation and an individual!
Length: 45 mins
Empowered Allies
In a post-marriage equality world, the LGBTQ+ community is still fighting several battles on several fronts. How can we get involved as allies, and how can we support some of the most marginalised in the community? This workshop will also give you an insight into the landscape for young people in schools based on our direct experience.
Length: 60 - 90 mins
Allied Leaders
For those in leadership positions, this workshop explores creating inclusive team cultures, resilience, best practice and leadership. This session is crucial for management who want to lead by example in their workplace. Demonstrate your company’s proven commitment to inclusion and diversity and learn how those qualities can make your teams stronger, more creative, and more collaborative in their work.
Length: 60 - 90 mins
LGBTQ+ Human Resources
This session is specifically for those working in HR and anyone involved in recruitment processes. Participants will receive guidance around supporting LGBTQ+ employees as well as building more inclusive recruitment practices. Within the two sessions we will troubleshoot potential workplace scenarios, to demonstrate these learnings. All participants will have the option of ongoing support with regards to LGBTQ+ inclusion in your workplace.
In this session, we'll discuss how being an inclusive employer will help make yours a dream workplace for any candidate!
Length: 90 mins
Pride 101
This session looks at the history and meaning behind Pride, and seeks to capture why it is still such an important movement for LGBTQ+ communities in every corner of the world. Here, too, we’ll look at how we can play a meaningful role in the celebrations as allies, and how we can continue to use Pride as a springboard for change and progress.
Length: 60 mins
Irish LGBTQ+ history
This workshop takes a deep dive into the historical stories of LGBTQ+ people in Ireland, from early Irish history through to recent legal struggles for equality. We’ll look at how queer stories have always been at the heart of Irish society, even as our understanding of those experiences has undergone huge change.
Length: 60 mins
We’re incredibly grateful to the teams, employee resource groups, and individuals who have mobilised in their workplaces to deliver these educational pieces.
By bringing us into their organisations, these people have advocated for us, supported our charitable work, and played a key role in shifting culture towards one of inclusivity and LGBTQ+ empowerment.
Here are just a few of the companies we have been lucky to work with:
