In-Person Training

3 CE Hours

“Healthy Minds, Healthy Spaces, Healthy Men”

Chris Vidmar, PhD; Tim Machado, LMSW

In honor of November being widely observed as Men’s Health Awareness Month, TLPCA/SE Region will discuss “Healthy Minds, Healthy Spaces, Healthy Men.” Our speakers-Dr. Chris Vidmar, PhD and Timothy Machado, LMSW will address masculinity in today’s society and equip counselors with ways to address the subject matter in session. All genders are welcome.

Objectives:

• Examine the nature and methods of societal structures that reinforce oppressive social norms.
• Define and discuss the concepts of Collective Liberation and Aspiring Allyship.
• Formulate approaches for developing brave spaces that foster buy-in from men on exploring their masculinity and its impact.
• Understand and describe the difference between structural and behavioral masculinity and integrate this into conversation.
• Apply knowledge of the contextual nature of masculinity and its impact.
• Understand how homosocial men’s spaces limit social interaction and gendered change.

About the Speaker(s)

Chris Vidmar, PhD

Dr. Chris Vidmar (they/them) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. They are a nontraditional student from a working-class background, and earned their PhD from Georgia State University in 2022. They specialize in gender, sexualities, and technology, and their current research examines the construction of gender through algorithmically filtered social processes, and the gendered experiences of people in intimate relationships with AI companions. Dr. Vidmar is deeply committed to liberatory teaching and research practices, maximizing student agency and critical consciousness with unconventional course designs and centering the perspectives of respondents in their research. They are cinephile, lover of science fiction and detective novels, avid gamer, and DIYer.

Tim Machado, LMSW

Timothy Machado serves as the FJC Prevention Coordinator at the Dr. Carol B. Berz Family Justice Center, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In this role, he leads two, community-wide intimate partner violence prevention initiatives in collaboration with the TN Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence. The first, Men PACT, centers on involving men of all ages in IPV prevention work, and the other focuses on delivering training to businesses and organizations on policy development and workplace safety, called Intimate Partner Violence and the Workplace.

TLPCA Contact

If you any questions, please contact Yohunnah Woods-Moton.