tRAINING and facilitation
I love to facilitate for transformative learning in organizations and community spaces. My facilitation training comes from my background in Educational Psychology, my 10+ years of experience in nonprofit organizations, and my post-graduate work in community development.
Below you’ll find a few trainings I’ve developed and delivered for organizations and community groups. Reach out to discuss booking these for your organization or to hire me to facilitate or develop something specific with you in mind.
Burnout Prevention and Intervention for Care Workers
This 1.5 hour workshop invites care workers across disciplines and modalities to learn about burnout prevention practices that support wellbeing and offset the emotional strain of care work on the mind, body and spirit. Participants are introduced to such concepts as healing justice and energetic hygiene, and invited to reflect on their own needs and capacities within their work so as to build sustainable pathways to long-term career fulfillment and impact. If desired, a second workshop is available to dive deeper, guiding participants through the development of their own individualized burnout prevention plans in a facilitated peer support process.
Mental Health for Artists
This workshop is designed to support the mental health of artists, either who engage in art professionally or who identify as artists generally. The 2 hour workshop is designed to foster reflection about the relationship between creativity, artistic practice and one’s own mental health. Through guided meditation, writing and discussion activities, participants are invited to engage critically and personally with cultural constructs about art and pain, suffering, and healing, in support of their well-being and sustainability of practice.
Trauma Sensitivity for Community Workers
The two part workshop series is designed to enhance community workers' awareness of and ability to integrate trauma sensitive principles and practices for supporting clients in frontline community settings. Part one introduces foundations and principles of trauma informed practice for community workers in service-based organizations. Part two introduces applied skills for self-regulation in community settings and basic techniques for supporting the body and nervous system in working with trauma-impacted clients. Each module is participatory, with interactive practice opportunities. It is suggested that the two should be attended no more than 2 months apart.
