Lyndon Cudlitz: Consulting, Education & Training offers age-appropriate education designed for individuals and groups to explore issues of stereotypes, allyship, gender, attraction, activism, health, and more.

These are delivered as class presentations, community programs, and workshops for groups of youth, family members, or LGBTQ+ people. Upcoming public programs can be found on the calendar page.

Workshop and Presentation Examples

Some of the below examples are for youth, some for college students, and some for adults. Requests for custom topics are welcome, and each presentation is customized to the group’s needs.

2024

How to Win: Grassroots Organizing to Challenge Restrictive Athletic Policies

• Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference (co-facilitated with Trans Climbers Belong)

• Camp Unirondack (co-facilitated with Kristen Fiore)

Trans Climbers Belong: Building Community Through Dismantling Anti-Trans Policy

• Flash Foxy Trad Festival (co-facilitated with Trans Climbers Belong)

I Do… But with Caveats

• Camp Unirondack (co-facilitated with Caleb Seguin)

2023

Trans & Nonbinary Youth and Puberty (for parents/caregivers)

• GLSEN Upstate

We’ve Got You: Queer Collective Care

• Queer Youth Advocacy Retreat, Camp Unirondack (co-facilitated with Clyanna Lightbourne)

Safer & Seen: How to Support Your LGBTQ+ Loved Ones

• Shore Country Day School

• Camp Unirondack

• William B. Ogden Free Library

• Ellenville Public Library and Museum

• Pearl River Library

• Shaker Junior High School

• Kinderhook Memorial Library (2019)

2021-2022

Allyship Adjustment: How to Support LGBTQA+ Friends

• Youth Mental Health Awareness Conference, Yavapai County Community Health Services

• Upward Bound, SUNY Adirondack

Identity Exploration

• GSA, Galway High School

• Upward Bound, SUNY Adirondack

What's In a Name? Identities, Words, and Labels... Oh my!

• Camp Unirondack

• Center for Sexualities and Gender Diversity, University of Southern Maine (2011)

Anchoring Allyship: Showing Up for Trans & Nonbinary Climbers

• NYC Climbing Collective

Know You’re Right by Knowing Your Rights

• Camp Unirondack

• Queer Youth Advocacy Retreat

The Trans Heath Class You Didn't Get in School

• Camp Unirondack

• Queer Youth Advocacy Retreat

• Capital District Physician’s Health Plan (2019)

• Students for Reproductive Justice, Smith College (2017)

• Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom, Hampshire College (2017, co-facilitated with Cecilia Gentili)

• Center Youth program of Pride Center of the Capital Region (2017)

2019

Sex for Survivors

• Metro Trans Umbrella Group

• Weaving a World Without Violence, NYS Coalition Against Sexual Assault (2017)

• True Colors Conference (2016)

• Bennington College (2015)

Role Modeling & Resistance: Skills for Trans Supervisors and Managers

• Trans/GNC/Non-binary Leadership Collective, AIDS Institute, Dept of Health

TRANScending Expectations

• GSA, Schodack Jr/Sr High School

• Emma Willard School (2018)

• Wellness Day, Albany Academy for Girls (2018)

2017-2018

LGBTQ Youth Resilience and Mental Wellness

• Visibility Sexuality & Gender Alliance, Van Antwerp Middle School

• Visibility Sexuality & Gender Alliance, Iroquois Middle School

• Visibility Sexuality & Gender Alliance, Niskayuna High School

• Safe Spring Student Leadership Conference, Prevention Council of Saratoga (2017)

Beyond ‘Who Gets the Check:’ Navigating Sex & Sexuality in Mixed-Class Relationships

• Sex Down South Conference (co-facilitated with Cavanaugh Quick)

Organizing Across Class Differences in Our Movements & Organizations

• Creating Change Conference, National LGBTQ Task Force (2015) (2017, co-facilitated with Deidre Dumpson)

2013-2016

A Gender Agenda (Designed by and co-facilitated with Yoseñio Lewis)

• Sex Down South Conference (2016)

Creating Positive Experiences for Trans Rock Climbers

• CRUX LGBTQ Climbing (2013, 2015)

Beyond ‘Who Gets the Check:’ Navigating Mixed-Class Relationships

• Five College Queer Gender and Sexualities Conference, Hampshire College (2014, 2016)

• Sex Down South Conference (2016)

Sexuali-T: Real Talk About Sex for Trans Youth

• True Colors Conference (2014, 2015)

2004-2012

Identity & Expression Through Art

• Proud Rainbow Youth of Southern Maine, Community Counseling Center (2007, 2008)

Intro to Anti-Racism for White Queers

• CampOUT Maine (2010)

• True Colors Conference (2004), designed by and co-facilitated with Nathan Levitt)

Sexual Etiquette Dinner (Co-facilitated with Shane Diamond)

• Harvard University (2012)

• Small Colleges Queer Summit, Bowdoin College (2011)

Youth Organizing Institute Co-facilitated with team from National Conference for Community & Justice - STL

• Creating Change Conference, National LGBTQ Task Force (2004)

Sexual Encounters of the Comic Kind: A Queer Tale of Sex, Sexuality & Gender (Co-facilitated with KD Diamond)

• Bowdoin College (2011)

• University of New England (2011)

• Women & Gender Studies Department, University of Southern Maine (2011)

• True Colors Conference (2009, 2010)

• LGBT Freshman Seminar, New York University (2010)

• Maine Queer Youth Summit (2010)

• Bard College at Simon's Rock (2010)

What's Your Story? Education and Social Change Through Storytelling

• True Colors Conference (2011, 2012)

• CampOUT Maine (2011)

• Transforming Health and Wellness Conference, Maine TransNet (2011)

• Peer Leadership Conference, Maine Youth Action Network (2011)

TransSEXUALTY

• Transforming Health and Wellness Conference, Maine TransNet (2011)

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