Hi all! I’m Ross, and I work at a service called QLife. We provide phone counselling and web counselling for LGBTI people, and are run by staff and volunteers who talk about resilience all the time to people who contact us. For LGBTI people in particular, resilience is something that is learned to survive everyday experiences, particularly of discrimination. I can relate to this personally! I’m really excited to explore the benefits of resilience (but also too maybe how resilience can keep us stuck) in tonight’s forum with you all J

Also… many thanks to the team at Living Proud, who can’t be here tonight for setting this up. They do amazing for around IDAHoT day, and I’d love to talk more about this too!