Workshops & Training
I provide professional development workshops and training for a wide range of organizations. This work is focused on teaching non-therapists how to develop skills that might be called therapeutic: empathy, self-awareness, trauma awareness, and the ability to interact positively with people who are struggling or in distress.
Some organizations prefer a foundational approach (typically 1-3 sessions), whereas others choose training that is more in-depth (which typically requires 4-12 sessions). Every organization is unique; training is customized for the specific needs and context of a given organization.
Below are descriptions of workshops and trainings that I have offered within the past year or so, with various organizations. To discuss a possible workshop or training for your organization, please get in touch.
Program Development for Addictions and Trauma
Evidence-based practices for service providers (1 session)
The roots and paths of mental illness, addiction, and trauma are complex, interwoven, and surprising. Those seeking healing and recovery often find themselves exploring and coming to terms with und...
Education and Mental Health
Cultivating well-being in the classroom and beyond (1 session)
Many educational institutions are grappling with the troubling rise of mental health challenges within their communities. Issues such as depression and anxiety are becoming increasingly common not ...
Navigating Overwhelm and Burnout
Staying purposeful and healthy while helping others (1 session)
During times of turbulence and stress, how can we stay emotionally healthy and connected to ourselves and those around us? What kinds of coping are normal and helpful? When does normal coping becom...
Trauma-Informed Museum Practices
Creating safety and reducing harm (3 sessions)
Increasingly, museums have begun to grapple directly with complex issues — climate change, residential schools, refugees, systemic racism — in deeply purposeful ways. However when they do so, they ...
Mental Health Skills in Social Service Contexts
Skill development for service teams, front-line staff, advocates, and those who work with vulnerable populations
Building Trauma-Informed Skills In the challenging environment of social services, nonprofits, and similar organizations that work with marginalized groups, staff must develop not only practical...
Understanding Addictions
For parent groups, schools, and organizations (1 session)
Addiction is one of the most common and deeply misunderstood challenges. It exists all around: in families, among friends, and sometimes within ourselves. Addiction touches nearly every life in so...
Trauma-informed Mental Health Skills
Practical Therapeutic Approaches for Non-therapists (One Session)
This workshop introduces participants to the essential, practical, and strategic skills required to navigate complex emotional situations that arise in working with vulnerable populations. Particip...
Group Facilitation
Complex and consequential skills for working with people (3 sessions)
Working with groups is immensely rewarding and uniquely challenging, requiring of the facilitator a particular blend of professional skills and self-awareness that develops only through practice an...
Trauma-Informed Educational Practices
Creating safety and reducing harm (3 sessions)
Increasingly, educational institutions have begun to grapple directly with complex issues — climate change, residential schools, refugees, systemic racism — in deeply purposeful ways. However, when...
Mental Health Skills for Educators
Therapeutic skills for non-therapists (6 sessions)
The foundation of education is the development of people; their intellectual emergence, emotional maturation, and personal growth. The powerful experiences of formalized education provide meaning a...