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LECTURES
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Combining the Linguistics Of Gender with Human Science
Target Audience:
All Audiences
What is Gender? is Ryan's newest program offering. In any language, gender does not exist without agreement, so this presentation teaches audiences the origins of gender and how it appears both in the English language and the human body.
What is Gender? It’s grammatical for some, linked to sex for many, and nothing to others.
What is Sex? A human's sex begins with an X, where it goes from there depends.
This is a fun and engaging program that encourages audience participation.
60-90 MINUTES
A JOURNEY THROUGH HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Target Audience:
Parents, Family, & Community
Gender As My Adverb is a presentation designed to help family and community understand how to support their children through the foundations of human growth and development in relation to sex (body), gender (self), expression (communication) and orientation (relationships).
After covering foundational principles, Ryan shares his own story with his family from childhood to adulthood. His closing message reminds families the importance of working through hardships to heal estrangement and miscommunication.
60-90 MINUTES
From Patient to Professionals assists healthcare professionals in developing a deeper understanding of identity development in relation to orientation, gender, and forms of expression. It also speaks to the impact of prejudice and stigma experienced by sexual and gender minority individuals through the Minority Stress Model.
By exploring self development and pinpointing present societal barriers, Ryan will assist the audience with breaking down misconceptions of sex, gender and orientation and patient care.
60-90 MINUTES
BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS BY LEARNING ABOUT THE SCIENCE AND CULTURE OF GENDER.
Target Audience:
Workplace Environments
Gender in the Workplace helps companies navigate how to best serve employees, customers, and clients in a rapidly shifting global climate. Combining twenty-years experience with personal storytelling, audiences are led through the composition of gender: what gender is, how it presents, and why it looks different depending on the individual, culture and climate.
Through Ryan’s storytelling, audiences learn about the experiences of a person that transitions gender with a special focus on navigating relationships. The program closes with what we can do to support employees and families as we continue to grow respectful workplace environments.
60-75 MINUTES
Becoming Ryan: Eating Disorder Recovery and Transition is a presentation that blends present research surrounding eating disorders with Ryan’s personal recovery from anorexia nervosa, which began in 1999.
Ryan’s personal journey assists audiences with understanding the emotions that drive the eating disorder and also the recovery.
60-90 MINUTES
EATING DISORDER RECOVERY THROUGH BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT.
Target Audience:
Recovery Centers, Universities & Colleges
A STORY OF TWO COMING OUTS AND A TRANSITION.
Target Audience:
University and College Campuses
Since 2005, Ryan’s transition story, Scouting the Unknown, has been captivating audiences on university campuses nationwide. Ryan first provides a foundational overview of human sexuality in relation to sex, orientation and gender, before entering into his life story.
Having transitioned twenty years ago, Ryan provides the audience the opportunity to ask him questions about his personal journey, about themselves, or about today's society and culture. He closes with asking the audience to think about their struggles and challenges in life, and identify where they feel supported, while honoring their truths.
60-90 MINUTES
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Opening Plenary: Why We Need Inclusive Environments for LGBTQ Employees
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Eating Disorder Recovery and Coming Out as Transgender
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