Speaker & Educator

Trailblazer Chani Getter is a powerful keynote speaker and award-winning educator—who specializes in helping people recover from harmful religion.

In Chani’s workshops, people learn valuable skills that lead to stronger relationships, improved communication, and enhanced collaboration across lines of difference.

Chani leads workshops and trainings on cultural humility, LGBTQ inclusion, and managing change for a variety of institutions including colleges and universities, social service agencies, medical centers, nonprofits, and corporations.

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For groups large and small, Chani develops personalized workshops and trainings that create a welcoming and engaging learning environment for participants from all walks of life.

  • It’s no secret that change can be hard. In our jobs. In our communities. In our personal relationships. It’s how we respond to change where we hold the power to build resilience and create the life we seek. In this talk, award-wining educator Chani Getter unveils the process of change and offers concrete strategies to understand change, prepare for it, and embrace it when it inevitably arrives.

    • Gain a deeper understanding of how change affects their life, work, and experiences

    • Learn how to anticipate, prepare, and navigate change

    • Learn how to embrace "the not knowing place" and grow more comfortable with the unpredictability of life and work

  • He. She. They. Ze.

    Many are confused by people deciding what pronouns they use. Learning to use new terms can be a slow and messy process. Many people have questions and simply don’t get why it matters. If this is happening in your workplace, community, or house of worship, this talk is for you.

    Award-winning educator Chani Getter explains the importance of inclusive language and gives concrete strategies on how to get better at using non-gendered terms.

  • In this specialized offering for healthcare professionals, Chani Getter, LCSW, shares psychological research and case studies to exemplify the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ people who grow up in fundamentalist religious communities as well as their struggle to leave the community and develop their own identity. Chani then supports participants to analyze the cases.

    Participants will:

    • Learn about key research findings on LGBTQ+ psychology

    • Evaluate clinical dilemmas in case studies of LGBTQ+ clients and how to address them

    • Deepen their understanding of how intersectional variables such as race, ethnicity, religion and immigration status impact the psychology of LGBTQ+ clients.

  • A CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSE

    Award-winning educator and social worker Chani Getter unveils the depth and nuances of medical illiteracy in fundamentalist communities and how this often leads to patients not having the ability to give informed consent in their own healthcare. Chani shares strategies on how to bridge this critical information gap while providing culturally sensitive care.

    Participants will learn:

    • How living in a fundamentalist community may affect a person's ability to provide informed consent.

    • How to provide informed care to individuals with no information on how their body works.

    • How to identify and address implicit biases when treating patients from fundamentalist communities.

    • How to provide culturally respectful and appropriate care to a community of people who have been deliberately deprived of medical information as well as encouraged to shun evidence-based medicine.

    • Additional skills, empathy, and compassion when caring for individuals from fundamentalist communities.

  • Do you struggle with loving and accepting yourself? Many of us were taught to be harsh to ourselves rather than gentle and kind. If you struggle with self-compassion or forgiveness, this workshop is for you.

    In this workshop, Chani inspires participants to learn to accept and ultimately embrace every part of themselves.

What Participants Say

  • "In a little over an hour of teaching and conversation, I had new tools and new ways of being in the world. That's pretty amazing and that's what Chani brought to the workshop."

    — Workshop Participant

  • "Through Chani's guidance, we learned concrete ways to take better care of ourselves during the work day and how to avoid burnout. I would recommend Chani and their workshops to anyone looking for a thoughtful, present facilitator.

    — Maris Krauss, Jewish Queer Youth

  • “Chani’s message speaks to the heart. It is one of inclusion, compassion, joy, and self-inquiry and explores core issues that affect the meaning and well-being of our lives.”

    — R. M.

  • "What started as a group of strangers sitting uncomfortably in a circle ended with profound sharing and connection. That's what happens when Chani facilities a training or workshop."

    — M. H.