Join us for our regular monthly meeting welcoming the entire spectrum of LGBTQ+ community, friends, families, and allies for education, rich conversation, and supportive community.
In case you missed it, our in person support group meetings will now take place at:
allcove beach cities
514 N. Prospect Avenue
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Meetings will be held inside of the allcove Café on the first floor of the Beach Cities Health District main building, in the hallway across from the elevators. There is plenty of free parking inside the Beach Cities Health District parking lot. Be on the lookout for the PFLAG signage to help guide you into the building.
We are forever grateful to Manhattan Beach Community Church for opening their doors & hearts to our community meetings for more than 5 years. Their welcoming embrace supported our chapter launch and 5 years of impact in our local culture. Thank You! 💕
Our PFLAG general support meetings will be held both IN PERSON and VIA ZOOM.
Virtual meeting attendees still require RSVP. If you are new to Zoom, CLICK HERE to get set-up.
Please RSVP to rsvp@pflagmanhattanbeach.org
Acceptance: The Power of Accepting Ourselves and Our Loved Ones
with Shea Hultquist (they/them), LMFT
In this presentation workshop, Shea will explore with us what it means to accept ourselves and our mixed and sometimes inconvenient feelings; and will share the power we hold in offering acceptance to our LGBTQ+ loved ones.
About our presenter:
Shea Hultquist (they/them) is a queer, non-binary licensed marriage and family therapist and runs The Unfolding Therapy Practice in Orange County. They received their master’s degree in counseling from California State University Fullerton with an award for academic excellence and completed their undergraduate work at Cornell University, earning a BA in Biology.
Shea was trained as a therapist at several gender affirming practices and organizations, including Beach Cities LGBT Therapy, The LGBTQ Center Orange County, and Open Door Center for Integrative Healing.
In addition to their clinical work, they lecture and facilitate workshops with Orange County and Los Angeles area PFLAG groups, school districts, and in clinical settings.
Shea's own experience as a non-binary queer parent inspires them to support parents in ways they wished their own parents had been supported when they came out. Shea is the parent of three teens/young adults in Orange County and loves hockey, taking their dogs to the dog park, and Star Wars. Find Shea Online HERE
A NOTE ABOUT VIRTUAL MEETINGS:
We will be utilizing Zoom features that provide the highest level of safety and confidentiality possible. Zoom is free to you and you need not have an account to join us. If you are new to Zoom, you can follow the links [here] for brief tutorials on all you need to know to sign on to a Zoom meeting with us. We ask that each of you that would like to participate in the on-line support, contact us in advance by email at rsvp@pflagmanhattanbeach.org to RSVP for the meeting. We will cut off RSVPs at 5 p.m. on the day of the meeting. All participants will receive a follow-up email with the link to the Zoom call and a password. For confidentiality’s sake, please do not forward these to another participant — they are welcome to contact us directly to receive the link.
We ask that youth who may want to join for our support groups to please be joined by a parent. Some heavy emotions can emerge in the course of our sessions and having a parent on-hand helps to ensure that the needs of any youth on the call are met.
There are some benefits to utilizing new tools like Zoom. We recognize that our typical evening support group meetings are not feasible for everyone due to work, family or other demands. If there is a need, we would like to offer an additional support group Zoom conference call sometime during the daytime hours. If you are interested in a daytime support group, email us at info@pflagmanhattanbeach.org and let us know what times might be more workable for you.
If you need more personalized assistance and support, we remain here for you. Email us confidentially and we will work with you to identify the best member of our team to assist with your individual needs.