Cultivate Trans Safety
Customizable workshops, consulting, and coaching to support you in creating safer, more inclusive environments for our Trans and Gender Non-conforming community members.
Expand your vocabulary, practice pronouns, move beyond binary thinking, experience embodied empathy, and more.
Cultivating Safety is for Everyone
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Cultivating Safety is for Everyone ⋆
Cultivating Trans Safety provides essential knowledge needed to create a safer, more considered environment for Trans and Gender Non-conforming people.
These classes provide an overview of practical steps and best practices. Participants will learn about ways to move beyond binary thinking, expand their vocabulary around gender, and embrace pronouns as a tool to support identity. Cultivating Trans Safety can be customized to meet your group's specific needs. They can cover a wide range of topics related to Trans safety including gender exploration or they hone in on one specific topic (for example: pronouns).
Cultivating Trans Safety is designed to provide a safe, nonjudgemental space for questions, allowing participants to fully engage with the material and leave feeling empowered and inspired.
There are so many ways we can deepen our capacity to hold Trans and Gender Non-conforming folks with more safety, consideration, and empathy.
Get A Sneak Peek
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Get A Sneak Peek ⋆
Reach out to discuss booking Cultivating Trans Safety workshops or request Maz George’s teaching CV
“Maz emphasized the importance and life changing nature of this work and helped me see myself as someone who can make a difference.”
— Cultivating Trans Safety workshop participant
Hear What People Have to Say
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Hear What People Have to Say ⋆
Kasandra, DEI Program Manager, Google
“Maz is great to work with and brainstorm on building thought-provoking and impactful workshops. Having worked with Maz, who created a four part workshop for my team at Google, I was impressed by Maz's ability to make highly complex topics around gender identity approachable for audiences from varying backgrounds. Please know, I'll be looking for more opportunities to work with Maz in the near future.”
Mangala Holland, Sexual Confidence Coach & Facilitator
“Hiring Maz to facilitate Cultivating Trans Safety has been a hugely important component of my professional facilitator training program, Embodied Female Pleasure.
Maz facilitates their work with heart, nuance and compassion, allowing participants to explore their own understanding without fear of getting wrong, being "cancelled" or shamed. My clients have been personally deeply impacted, as it's helped them understand their relationship to gender, cultural conditioning, trauma and safety on an entirely different level. Many of them have reported being deeply, and positively transformed as well as gaining education about how to minimize harm and become better allies.
I enthusiastically recommend Maz as an embodied, sensitive, supportive facilitator of this much-needed work.”
Cultivating Trans Safety Workshop Participants
“The workshop was a very welcoming, down-to-earth, and safe environment. Maz has a gifted way of making complex and nuanced information extremely digestible, relatable, and fun! It's hard to find all of this information in a single spot on your own, let alone with that context of lived experiences as well as the opportunity to ask questions and learn from others. I cannot recommend the Cultivating Trans Safety enough!”
“Learn from Maz about cultivating safe trans spaces in a way that really calls you in and leaves calling out at the door. Maz gave the right amount of information, emphasized the importance and life changing nature of this work, and helped me see myself as someone who can make a difference.”
“Maz is a pioneer in what they do. It is through Maz that I deepened my own coaching practice to be holistically inclusive in my space holding, in my language, in my energy, and in my heart.”
Meet the Facilitator
Maz (they/them) is a Queer Trans Nonbinary facilitator, coach, and visual artist who works to center Trans joy and justice. They offer workshops, consulting, and coaching.
Let’s Do The Work Together
Inclusion is not just about language. Using the right words is the tip of the iceberg—the bare minimum, yet it seems to be the focal point.
Creating safety for Trans and Gender Non-conforming people is about approaching with a justice mindset.
It’s about going to the foundation of your beliefs and making sure Gender-Blessed* folks are included there first and foremost.
*The phrase Gender-Blessed comes from Dr. Pavini Moray
Let's Get Into It
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Let's Get Into It ⋆
Recognizing Binary Beliefs
Our beliefs are the foundational ground that our words and actions are built upon. Whether we like it or not: we were raised within a strict gender binary and we were taught transphobia. It may be subconscious, but it is within us. And left unexamined, it is harmful.
Acknowledging our binary beliefs is the first step to creating safer spaces for folks of all genders.
Using Language As an Access Point
Examining our language, including our use of pronouns, is often the first step to creating safer, more conscious spaces for Trans and Gender Non-conforming people.
Using language as an access point, we will practice expanding our embodied empathy. Because even the most up-to-date and “accurate” language without deeper work does more harm than good.
Adding Layers of Safety
Systemically marginalized folks can require added layers of safety. The safety that we offer in held spaces should be centered around them and it’s important to be honest about what is within our capacity.
Accommodating our most vulnerable community members actually creates more safety and holding for everyone present. It allows spaces to be more equitable, accessible, and diverse.
Practicing Accountability
Accountability is a practice! It isn’t something you learn once and are all set with. Being accountable is an ongoing, lifelong practice that isn’t linear. It’s a commitment we make to showing up.
So let’s practice. In these workshops, we will learn by doing. We’ll make a game plan for being accountable, especially for how to regulate and create repair when we have harmed someone even unintentionally.
Holding Ourselves
We can’t hold others if we aren’t holding ourselves.
An important part of our accountability practice will be learning to hold ourselves so that we don’t disappear into a shame spiral or get lost in arrogance. We will create a personal resource list and simple plan so we don’t feel alone or disoriented.
Embracing Questions
What’s on your heart and mind? What do you wish you knew about creating safer, more welcoming spaces for Trans and Gender Non-conforming people? This is your chance to ask without shame or embarrassment in a safe, consensual space.
We don’t have to understand someone to offer them love, compassion, and empathy. And it’s ok to have questions, especially in this space where they are explicitly invited.
Cultivating Is an Ongoing Practice
I only know the experience of one Trans person: myself.
While my lived experience allows me to have greater understanding and empathy, it doesn’t make me exempt from examining my own beliefs. Transphobia and cis-supremacy are symptoms of the culture we live in. We may not have chosen them, but it’s imperative that we examine the way they influence and move through us. Left unaddressed they are harmful to ourselves and those around us.
Asking myself how I can cultivate safer spaces, work towards Trans Justice, and celebrate Trans magic is a practice. This work is a lifelong commitment. And I’m proud to be doing it.