Speak your truth in a trauma-informed space
The “Courage to Express Your Voice” Workshop offers a gentle, 2-hour, practical, experiential session for LGBTQI+ individuals and allies to explore self-expression, courage, and inner safety. Participants are encouraged to engage at their own pace without pressure to “be confident” or push past fear.
Understanding fear and self-expression
The workshop explores how fear around visibility, coming out, and authenticity is not a personal failure but a nervous system response shaped by lived experience. Through reflective dialogue, simple science, and body-based tools, participants will learn to work with fear instead of against it.
What participants will experience
- A clear, accessible understanding of how fear and the nervous system work
- Insight into why self-expression can feel so vulnerable, especially in queer lives
- Gentle somatic grounding practices to create safety in the body
- EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) tapping to release emotional tension
- Supportive, inclusive group dialogue (sharing always optional)
- Practical tools you can use in real moments of vulnerability or truth-telling
Workshop outcomes
Participants will leave with:
- Increased awareness of what holds them back from expressing themselves
- Greater emotional regulation and inner steadiness
- A felt sense of courage, not forced confidence
- Permission to take up space authentically and at their own pace
Facilitator and location
Christina Lefkati is an integrative therapist specialising in trauma-informed healing, emotional regulation, and embodied self-expression. She is an EFT Practitioner (Advanced Practitioner training in progress), an Inner Child Matrix Practitioner, an NLP & Hypnosis Practitioner, and a Coach.
Her work integrates alternative therapy, somatic awareness, and gentle mind–body approaches. Christina works online and in person in Cyprus and facilitates community healing spaces for LGBTQI+ women.
Location: Kafeneio Prozak, Nicosia (Medontos 3A, Nicosia 1060)
Time & Date: 18:30, 5 February 2026
Duration: 2 hours
Participation details
- Free of charge
- Registration mandatory via Google Form: Register here
- No prior experience needed
- All practices are optional
- This is not group therapy, but a supportive learning and experiential space
A space to soften fear, reconnect with your voice, and meet courage with compassion.
This workshop is part of the EU co-funded project Safeguarding of LGBTIQ+ People’s Right to Health (SAFE-R).
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