Rachel Epstein

Rachel Epstein is a highly skilled, experienced and approachable workshop designer, facilitator and communication skills trainer. She has delivered hundreds of workshops and trainings, provincially, federally and internationally. She was the founding coordinator in 2001 of the LGBTQ+ Parenting Network, a community-based urban program, run out of a community health centre. This position involved workshop facilitation, research, advocacy, and program development and evaluation, including regular programming for parents and their young children. Rachel is trained as a professional mediator, including family mediation, and has participated in training from the Public Conversations Project and Non-Violent Communication – both of which have equipped her to design and facilitate effective and generative conversations on difficult topics. She has also worked as a mediation and communication skills trainer, delivering training in-person and online, as well as authoring tip sheets and manuals. She has also served as Executive Director of a longstanding social justice organization, so understands both the big picture and the everyday details required for the smooth operation of an organization committed to social change. All of her work is based in an anti-oppression, justice-seeking framework.

What brings you joy? – Moving my body (yoga, swimming, walking, biking); intimate conversations that include laughter; my peeps and kids and grandkid; people coming together to stand for justice.