Workshops & Classes
Learn With Von
Von Biggs leads workshops and training sessions for healthcare providers, community organizations, and advocates. Each session draws on over a decade of frontline HIV advocacy and LGBTQ+ health equity work.
Trust Is Not a Campaign: Building Community Engagement That Lasts
Teaches organizations the difference between showing up in a community and becoming trusted by that community. Participants learn how trust is earned, how it gets broken, and what practical behaviors help rebuild it over time.
Lived Experience Belongs at the Table: Moving Beyond Token Representation
Helps institutions understand that lived experience is not a decorative add-on. It is expertise that should shape policy, programs, services, and research. Participants learn to create advisory spaces where community input leads to real action.
The Patient Is Not the Problem: Advocacy and Navigation in Real Life
Teaches patients how to advocate for themselves and helps providers understand what it feels like to navigate a system not designed with you in mind. Covers appointments, referrals, stigma, and improving patient-provider communication.
Chosen Family Gets Older Too: Planning, Care and Connection Beyond Traditional Family Models
Helps participants understand that not everyone ages with a spouse, adult children, or traditional family support. Covers caregiving, decision-making, advance planning, social isolation, and building LGBTQ+-affirming services.
What Students Are Really Asking: Health Education Without Shame or Fear
Explores how misinformation spreads, why students are afraid to ask questions, and how educators can create safer spaces for honest learning. Covers risk behavior versus identity, health myths, and shame-free prevention education.
From Listening Session to Action: How to Make Community Voice Matter
Helps organizations close the gap between collecting community feedback and actually using it. Participants learn to avoid extractive engagement, document feedback responsibly, and translate community voice into decisions, programs, or policy changes.
Bring a Workshop to Your Organization
Each session is tailored to your team, your audience, and your goals. Reach out to start the conversation.