Education & Professional Training
Move beyond awareness. Build genuine understanding.
Customized educational presentations and professional trainings designed for organizations, professionals, educators, and communities seeking a deeper understanding of Dissociative Identity Disorder, lived experience, trauma-informed perspectives, and the importance of challenging assumptions.
Speaking & Presentations
Stories can do more than inspire. They can change the way we understand.
Stories have the power to do more than inspire—they can challenge what we believe we know. I am available for conferences, professional organizations, educational settings, community events, panels, and other speaking opportunities where authentic lived experience can help create greater understanding. Presentations can be customized to meet the needs of each audience and combine personal storytelling, education, and meaningful conversation to create an experience that continues long after the presentation ends.
Consulting & Collaboration
Bring lived experience to the table from the beginning.
Some of the most meaningful ideas are created when different perspectives are invited to the table from the beginning. Permission to Define collaborates with professionals, organizations, nonprofits, and community leaders on projects where lived-experience insight, education, creativity, and a different way of looking at a problem can add meaningful value. This may include program development, educational materials, workshops, advocacy initiatives, resource development, or something entirely new. If you have an idea that does not fit neatly into a predefined category, I am always open to exploring what we might create together.
Workshops & Psychoeducational Programs
Creating opportunities to learn, explore, and understand differently.
Permission to Define develops and collaborates on interactive psychoeducational workshops that create opportunities for people to learn, reflect, ask questions, and explore complex topics in a supportive educational environment. Programs are designed to combine accessible information with meaningful conversation and lived-experience perspective while respecting the individuality and complexity of every participant. Workshops may be developed independently or in collaboration with other professionals and can be tailored to specific communities, populations, and educational needs.
Advocacy & Lived-Experience Partnership
Lived experience belongs in the conversation.
Lived experience should be more than a story invited into the room after the important decisions have already been made. Permission to Define partners with professionals, organizations, programs, and initiatives seeking authentic lived-experience perspectives as a meaningful part of their work. Through advisory roles, consultation, advocacy projects, panels, educational initiatives, and collaborative conversations, I bring the perspective of someone who has both lived the experiences being discussed and spent years educating others about them. The goal is not to speak for everyone—it is to help ensure that the voices of people directly affected are genuinely included in the conversations that shape understanding, services, and change.