Supporting LGBTQ+ Community Members

It is essential for mediators and restorative practitioners to create spaces that are welcoming and supportive of all participants. For many members of the LGBTQ Community, taking part in processes like mediation or restorative processes may not always feel as safe as we think. Join us for this CE/CLE on July 27th to learn how to hold space when serving LGBTQ participants as well as manage other party comments and attitudes to help maintain a respectful, safe, and effective session.

Trainer Bio: Beau RaRa (they/them) is a poet and a lawyer who believes relationship is the locus of most transformative social change. Born in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, Beau moved back to Minnesota in 2016 after working in positive youth development after school in North Denver and Boulder, Colorado. Equal parts learner and educator, Beau believes that youth are the experts of their own lives and feels immense reverence for the various roles they have gotten to play in the lives of youth.

Beau spent their first two years as a lawyer at Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid and the Disability Law Center representing unhoused youth and youth with disabilities on cases ranging from eviction to emancipation to disability-related proceedings in schools or related to county benefits. As an advocate for systems change, Beau could not be more thrilled about working in their role as LRC’s Youth Restorative Justice Initiative Lead.