Irene Greene MSED Greene Growth & Training

01/26/2026

You are brave and awesome!

01/25/2026

I AM PROUD TO CALL MINNESOTA MY HOME.
We are once again proving to be ground zero
for humanity over fascism.
We are relentless in our multicultural and collaborative mutual aid actions, and fiercely
dedicated to staying boots on the ground.
Our communities are fortified by equal parts collective trauma, fear, sorrow, grit, outrage, and fatigue, as well as persistence, bravery, resilience, respect, compassion,
hope, awe, love, kindness, and an
unyielding commitment to justice.
We are immensely powerful, focused, and galvanized.
WE WILL NOT STAND DOWN!
F**K ICE! MELT ON!

01/25/2026

01/24/2026

Every effort matters. Just make an effort.

01/23/2026

For those marching during the general strike today, confirmed warming sites include:

Minneapolis Central Library
300 Nicollet Mall, Downtown Minneapolis | 612-543-8000

Hennepin County Government Center
300 Sixth St S, Downtown Minneapolis | 612-348-3000

Farrell’s Extreme Bodyshaping - St. Paul Gym
477 Selby Ave, Saint Paul
Operating as a warming site and for restroom use from 2-5 pm; no gym classes will be held during this time frame.

Stay safe, and stay warm!

01/23/2026

Rise up.

🎵 Andra Day - Rise Up (Lyrics)⏬ Download / Stream: http://smarturl.it/CheersToTheFall🔔 Turn on notifications to stay updated with new uploads!👉 Andra Day...

01/23/2026

We'll still be marching from The Commons at 2 pm TOMORROW, but now we’ll be ending at Target Center for a unity rally! Tickets for the indoor rally are free, but they are first come first serve by reserving them at this link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/iceout/2035559

👟2:00 PM - March begins at The Commons, the park located right in front of the US Bank Stadium located at 425 Portland Ave S, Minneapolis 55415. There will be a ~1-mile march through downtown Minneapolis.

📣Rally to follow the march INSIDE at the Target Center, 600 N 1st Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403. (See also Rules for entering Target Center)

See the comments for some additional tips.

01/22/2026

01/21/2026

Community care.

01/20/2026

[1.19.26] Keep the Revolution Healthy: MN Mental Health Provider
Community Support Conversations
Mental health providers: Your resilience capacity is calling! Could you use a little connection and downtime with other helpers who can relate to what you are going through?
It’s our time - to share how we are balancing our professional, relational, and personal lives.

Join us this Wednesday, 1.21.26, from 12 to 1:30 p.m. CST. Zoom.
Sponsored by: The MN LGBTQ+ Therapists' Network

FEE: Free to members of the MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network.*
Non-members: donation of $15-$25, non-refundable. Venmo: -Greene-1 / …4688 | 100% will be donated to MN Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC).
Two spots remain of 12.

Resources and self-assessments about helping professional resilience, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout. Plus, info about activist self-care, meeting your community’s needs, emotional regulation, immigration, your rights regarding 🧊 - for you and to share with your clients and loved ones.

Why Are We Holding These Community Support Conversations?
We are individually and collectively experiencing the insidious rise of fascism, which, by definition, is “systemic governmental power over.” Such widespread control, combined with its innate inhumanity, perpetuates the ultimate forms of physical, verbal, psychological, sexual, and emotional violence. This authoritarian spawning is creating, by design, widespread personal, familial, community, and collective trauma. Under this regime, we have been enduring ongoing personal and collective oppression fatigue, trauma grief, and political trauma stress (PTS).

As helping professionals holding space for our clients who are dealing with their PTS, we are inevitably experiencing vicarious trauma, burnout, moral injury, and compassion fatigue. Being a provider for someone who is a MAGA supporter, or is neutral or unaware, generates a certain kind of toll as well.
While we helpers are trying to meet our clients where they are at, we are simultaneously striving to manage our own PTS, grapple with what, if any, political actions to take, nurture our personal health and well-being, and be present for and with our loved ones.

Without community, balancing these goals is not sustainable. Professionally, ethically, and personally, we need warm spaces where we can, with like-minded helping professionals, remove our provider hats, take a breath, pause, debrief, and give and receive support, tips, understanding, and compassion. I firmly believe that we need intentional, warm, rejuvenating spaces for nourishment, validation, and mutual appreciation.
For the MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network, offering these support conversations to providers, like we did when George Floyd was murdered and during COVID, has proven to be a connecting service for our communities.

01/19/2026

01/19/2026

Catch yourself saying something nice to yourself.
You could start with, "I am awesome."
Cuz you are.