Pre-Requisite: Being Brave Together: A Transfaith Primer (free).

• Being Brave Together is strongly recommended as a way to understand our dialogue expectations. However, you can begin the Transfaith for Allies certificate series without that 15 minute experience, if you are too eager to wait.

Certificate Program: Transfaith for Allies (free) 

• The OtherWise 101 course is an alternative starting point for your journey through the Transfaith for Allies certificate program.

Designed for: English-speaking adults, regardless of religious affiliation or professional aspirations.

• The content may also be appropriate for younger audiences, who are prepared to think about issues of mental health and community care.

Hours of Video:  Approximately one hour of video  in total with transcripts provided. Since there are many opportunities for you to spend time reflecting on your own values, the course may take more time.

OtherWise Voices:  Mx Chris Paige, Z Shane Zaldivar

Status: Open Access 

Objectives:

1. Explore and articulate your own values and worldview around love and acceptance
2. Consider your role as friend, ally, accomplice,  or co-conspirator in supporting OtherWise communities
3. Examine how frustration, insecurity, embarassment might be redirected when problems arise
4. Begin to think beyond "visibility" as the end goal for supporting OtherWise communities

Content Warning: The course does touch on suicidality as a way to understand the importance of relationships.

Description: This introductory course looks at skills and concepts to help well-meaning allies begin to find our place in transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and OtherWise communities. This course is a starting place and an invitation to journey alongside others in meaningful relationship. Some of the themes we invite participants to look at personal values, the importance of relationships, the difference between friends and allies, your sphere of influence, and how to cope with making mistakes. 

This course is not designed to answer all of your questions about transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and OtherWise people or experiences! See OtherWise 101 and OtherWise 102 for more content-oriented starting points.

Note: This course was originally developed by Transfaith to engage allies beyond definitions and language concerns. It has been revised and expanded for the OtherWise Academy, with permission.