Speaking / Workshops
Healing Bear Collective offers speaking engagements and workshops.
As a storyteller, I'm available for public speaking, hosting, and facilitating workshops on a wide range of topics drawn from my personal experiences and life journey.
I also offer review and critique services for those developing their own workshops or storytelling presentations. Read below for more examples, and contact me if you are interested.


Workshop Examples
Following is a list of several workshops that I have hosted physically as well as virtually.
LGBTQ+ / Gender 101 Workshop
What does it mean to be feminine?
What does it mean being masculine?
What are the basic terms regarding our community?
Why should we care about pronouns?
The answer is it’s complicated. It’s not just sex and gender, and it’s important that we work from a similar framework. Current events have brought these things up into focus…
Zoom 101 workshop
Yes we all still need help in moving around in this amazing program. This includes an overview of the features and a little on why it is still complicated to use the program.
Heart Circle 101 workshop
Heart Circles have given soulful LGBTQ+ people an opportunity to drop into their bravest authenticity with each other, and offer each other the deepest listening, and their most heartfelt compassion and wisdom. This framework can be used for all genders and orientations.
It is unlimited.
Heart Circles foster open, honest, and loving community and build resilient community, one sharing at a time. A heart circle is a place where people meet in safe, sacred space to speak from the heart and be listened to from the heart. This is an introduction on the heart / feelings circle how it works, the guidelines and links for several active groups.
Future Nudism-Naturism
This is a freeform round table discussion on the issues of Social Nudism/Naturism and Sexual Nudism/Naturism (Libertine). The differences of them and dealing with closures of places to be clothing free and also trying to convince millennial adults to consider clothing free spaces and events.
Welcome to Year Four Workshop
This is a Freeform round table discussion on how we are all doing and feeling with the pandemic. For most of us this is Year Four. So come to the table with your tips and tricks on how you cope and thrive in this amazing time.
Game night workshop
Was able to host several online games including Would You Rather, intro to Wordle, Trivia games, and Jackbox games.
PrEP 101 Workshop
PrEP (pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a way to help people prevent exposure to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Knowledge and instruction help make people aware of their choices and resources on obtaining them.
Mindfulness 101 Workshop
Mindfulness is used as a buzzword, but there is sound information and understanding that helps a person know it better. It is more than meditation. And this workshop focuses on basic tenets on how this important principle can be used in everyday life.
More Information
Please contact me. If you want me to help you regarding with your storytelling or hosting and facilitating one of my varied types of workshops. What wonders we can do together.
Reminder: These are not replacements for therapy. Seek medical professionals accordingly.
All of these workshops have been done in-person and virtually, with same gender and co-ed audiences, and in clothed and clothing optional formats.
