The Audacity to Embody Trans Joy: Creative Healing for Liberation is a trans-led, trauma-informed, consent-based Zoom workshop for trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive folks (and those who love us). In hard times, the body can feel like a battleground. This session offers practical tools to help your nervous system settle, reconnect to choice, and remember joy as an embodied form of resistance.

We’ll begin with gentle grounding and sensory-flexible regulation practices (breath, orienting, micro-resourcing), then move into low-pressure expressive arts: guided visualization, image/gesture work, and short writing prompts. You’re welcome to participate quietly with camera off, while resting, stretching, stimming, or taking breaks. No performance experience is needed, and personal disclosure is never required.

You’ll leave with repeatable practices you can use during stress, burnout, grief, or transition—plus a personal “future anchor” to return to when things feel intense.

Scope note: skills-based creative wellness facilitation (not psychotherapy or crisis services).

About the Facilitator: Dr. Axel Renée Winget (they/he) is a queer, transmasculine drama therapist (RDT), theatre artist, and educator. Founder of Queer Healing Space, Axel facilitates trauma-informed, consent-based somatic and expressive arts workshops for queer and trans communities. Axel has supported LGBTQI+ refugees through RFSL Stockholm and has taught at universities including LMU and USC.