Workshops & Speaking
12/9/26. 19/9/26. 26/9/26. 3/2/26. /// 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Ebb & Flow is for all gender-nonconforming identities and for those questioning or exploring their gender, beyond the binary. Trying to explain my gender with a label often feels like trying to capture the essence of a river in a photograph. There is an internal Ebb & Flow that I am continually becoming more in touch with.
But getting in touch with the true Internal Knowing of my gender is asking me to call much into question. It is asking me to remember and befriend parts of me that have been exiled. To unlearn binary gendered societal stories about my body and myself. To connect and listen to my body so that I can scribe their origin story.
This work has been life-changing in many ways, but I've largely been navigating it on my own. Combine that with an absence of gender nonconforming elders in my life and the erasure of our history, and I'm left with many questions. Will I always feel invisible? What about my body? How do I hold the tension between wanting to love and be present in my body and wanting my body to align more with how I feel inside? Can I learn a new way of relating to my body? Where are my elders? What about ceremony, rituals and rites of passage?
What if we got together and got curious about new rituals and rites of passage to honour and witness our continuing journey with our gender? What if we navigated all of this together, in community? Enter Ebb & Flow. A community space co-created by combining my lived experience, therapeutic skills, and deep knowledge of literature and research on GNC identities and history, with all of your lived experience, knowledge, openness, and curiosity.
Join me as we prioritise exploration over explanation through themes like story, body, and ceremony.
If finances are a problem, please get in touch!
Venue is wheelchair and walking aid accessible.
Ebb & Flow
Dates TBC
This workshop is an immersive experience where you will be invited into the depths of your own gender story. We will co-create a safe space to ask questions, learn from each other, and grow in understanding of gender nonconforming experiences. There will be times of reflection, encouraging us to learn, unlearn, and understand. As well as practical information, historical contexts, and discussions of real-life applications.
Therapy: Beyond the Binary
4 consecutive Fridays from 1:00-2:30 PM.
24/4/26, 1/5/26, 8/5/26, and 15/5/26.
Kibblesworth Millenium Centre, Gateshead, NE11 0XN
In this 4-week container, we'll use art, writing, embodiment, and other creative expressions to explore, witness, and hold our grief.
Many people I've supported in their grief have spoken of the lack of spaces where the fullness of their grief can be expressed. They speak of wanting to protect people from their grief. They also speak of people dismissing and minimising, distracting or trying to 'fix' their grief.
In some ways, we are experiencing a poverty of ritual and communal acts of grief. We need safe spaces for our grief to be explored, felt, expressed, and witnessed. This is what Heavy Hearts Club is about. Heavy with longing, yes. But also heavy because they are full, because they are strong. A heart full of grief is a heart full of love. Let's gather together Heavy Hearts. I'll see you at the club.
Heavy Hearts Club
I have extensive experience in public speaking, delivering workshops, and training to large groups as well as smaller settings. I'd love to come speak to your school, business, charity, organisation, church, or any group. Just get in touch!
Speaking and training
My office
Kibblesworth Millennium Centre, Grange Terrace, Kibblesworth, Gateshead NE11 0XN
Contact
Cody Kettner
