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The Safe Zone Project is a free online resource for powerful, successful LGBTQ awareness and ally training workshops
Our Goal
Our mission is to form and provide free online resources to make your Defended Zone trainings (and all of your LGBTQ+ educational opportunities) effective, fun, dynamic, and impactful.
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We'll take as much off your plate as workable, providing you curricula, activities, train-the-trainer planning, and tips to help you and your team grow all-stars.
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Shielded Zone trainings are unique educational opportunities, and we are all about making the most of those opportunities. Sometimes you only acquire one chance. Grant us help you raise the bar.
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Frequently Answered Questions
Do I need to be “certified” to use your curriculum?
Nope! We actually don’t offer certifications anyhow, so you can’t be certified by us. Our curriculum is provided here for your employ — no strings attached.
I want to customize your curriculum for [some specific population]. Is that okay?
Heck. Yes. Our curricula, activities, and resources are all uncopyrighted, and reasons li
INTRODUCTION TO CHEMSEX
Our “Introduction to Chemsex” training morning does what it says on the tin and is ideal for those wishing to gain a better understanding of the subject, related issues, and potential implications for services. The day has been running successfully since 2017.
Who is it for?
This accessible training day is designed for staff and workers from drug and alcohol, sexual health, and health promotion services; commissioning, CCGs, GPs, LGBT organisations and local government; and works more effectively if participants reflect these organisations.
Core learning objectives, which we are pleased to change depending on need, including a half-day:
- An understanding of the terms ‘chemsex’, ‘slamming’, ‘bareback’, ‘PEP’ and ‘PrEP’ and how they interconnect
- An understanding of chemsex and its evolution among homosexual men within a cultural and historical context
- An overview of prevalence and potential future trends
- An sympathetic of the challenges for harm reduction and abstinence (sober sex) strategies for gay men (GBMSM)
- An overview of treatment services and challenges facing the growth of c
This statement was adopted at the International business meeting of the ManKind Project in February, 2009
- We affirm that all men are welcome on our trainings and in our communities.
- We create trainings and circles in which all men are welcome to uncover their deepest truths. We welcome men of all sexual orientations: gay, straight, and bisexual, including those who identify as having unwanted same sex attraction, to do their own work as they define it, to respect the identity and value of others, and to take responsibility for the impact their words and behaviors have on others.
- We support each man in hunting his path to deeper legitimacy. We do not provide therapy nor endorse any particular therapy, including reparative therapy. Any organization or organization that states or implies otherwise does so without our permission.
- We do not, and will not, attempt to transform a man’s sexual orientation.
- We withstand in support of gay and bisexual men. We support men who believe that homosexuality is a normal part of the spectrum of human sexuality and of mature masculinity.
- We will not tolerate proselytizing for any religion or belief, organizing training staff into groups that exclude