Prepare for Resistance. RESOURCE & LOVE your trans self, now.
It's never been clearer that we are facing down a very hard corner of history. Yet many of us lack basic skills for building our resources and buoying our spirits. If you're not sure how you're going to make it through these upcoming years, these workshops are for you.
RESOURCE YOUR TRANS SELF and LOVE YOUR TRANS SELF work synergistically - helping you create a beautiful, strong foundation for tending to yourself in exquisite and powerful ways. These workshops are not just conceptual lectures - we go deep on exercises and skills building together. You're also provided with tools and resources in the workbook that will bolster you as you build out these new skills.
This is not merely an encouragement to become more individualistic and hyper-independent. Applying the skills from these workshops will give you more capacity for showing up to yourself, your community, and your life. When you can show up for both yourself and others, you will be more effective in the web of support we all must build to survive the years ahead.
LOVE YOUR TRANS SELF focuses on self-love as a verb, specifically for trans folks. RESOURCE YOUR TRANS SELF focuses on resourcing in practical, approachable, applicable ways. Each workshop is 2 hours of instruction, practical exercises, and skill building. These workshops are grounded in action, and will leave your cup and heart full!
If you want to take ONLY RTYS, click here.
2 Workshops. 4 Hours of Video Content. 31 Pages of Workbooks.
Each class is robust and comes with 2 hours of video content. We start from the conceptual and work our way to the practical. These are not workshops where we stay in the realm of the mind - each workshops has exercises and practices that you can implement today.
In RYTS, we cover:
- What is resourcing?
- How is it different from self care?
- Trans-specific resourcing considerations
- Why does resourcing matter?
- How to know how resourced you are
In LYTS, we cover:
- What is love? (Hint: we're bringing in bell hooks)
- Love as nurturing your own growth
- The capitalist myth of love-as-consumption
- The trans-specific challenges of self love
- Self-love is a relationship, and relationships can be built and changed
- Loving yourself through dysphoria, internalized transphobia, and societal anti-trans backlash
Each class contains 3 exercises for practical learning and application.
The workbooks cover the exercises and concepts from the class in more depth, and provide resources for further growth and exploration.
All video content is (human) captioned and the workbooks come in 3 formats (digital, printable high quality, and printable less ink)
Choose a pricing plan
Full Price
$95
This is the full price of the bundle. This is a savings of $15 over buying the workshops seperately!
Abundance Rate
$160
This is the Abundance Rate. Choosing this rate helps support financial accessiblity of this offering. This is a savings of $16 over buying the workshops seperately!
What people are saying
This was truly the best thing I could have invested in for myself as a depleted, exhausted NB. I think EVERY trans-identifying person could benefit massively from the journal prompts and the community the course fosters.
— Workshop Attendee
Through Eli, I first read about the concept and practice of "resourcing," and damn, I had no idea how integral it could be to my everyday life AS a trans person. I return to the course's workbook constantly because it's such an approachable, patient resource in of itself for learning to resource myself.
— Workshop Attendee
I feel like I will be able to apply these tools to grow into more compassion for myself and it's energizing to imagine moving through some of the disassociation and self-meanness I've grappled with for my whole life. I've always found it so murky to articulate what I need, it's like learning a whole new language. I cannot tell you how serendipitous this has been, especially the Four of Wands, that resonated so much! I feel more hopeful, connected and like I'm waking up to some inner magic and wisdom.
— Workshop Attendee
I am so glad I attended LOVE YOUR TRANS SELF. It felt so validating to have the topic of self love be from a trans perspective. I got a lot out of this workshop - concepts, tools, resources. I am excited to start reframing my relationship with my body and use the tools we learned!
— Workshop Attendee
I loved the concrete activities to cultivate and practice self love. And Eli was, as always, so warm and knowledgeable and nonjudgmental. He makes the time fly by, and I always leave his workshops wanting to learn more!
— Workshop Attendee
I didn't think that the simple, approachable exercises in this workshop would make much of an impact on my life. But after a few months of engaging with them, the difference is palpable! Thank you for this resource on resourcing!
— Workshop Attendee
Eli Lawliet, Ph.D., The Gender Doula
Eli Lawliet, Ph.D., (he/him) is the dreamer and weaver of The Gender Doula. In addition to a decade of experience researching trans healthcare, law, policy, and history, he has formal training as a full spectrum doula, breathwork facilitator, and tarot reader, as well as many years of surviving the world of poverty wages and retail work. The broad scope of his experience directly informs the equally broad spectrum of his work as The Gender Doula. Eli has been seeing clients since January of 2020 and has worked with hundreds of trans folks nationally and internationally in sessions, classes, and workshops. Though he was born in Oklahoma and raised in Missouri, Eli currently lives in Los Angeles (Gabrieliño-Tongva, Chumash, & Kizh land) with his partner, three cats, a dog, and four snakes.