Formats and Topics
Formats
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Short Online Webinars for Staff Meetings | Workshops | Workshop Series | Keynote Speaking | All-day Trainings
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Audience
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Students | Staff Teams
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My workshops are best for health providers, educators, child carers, youth workers, community workers, social workers, personal support workers, first responders and other workers with stressful, emotional, human work. I often use "care workers" to describe this group that does emotional labour. ​​​
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Why Organizations Partner With Me:
✓ Research-informed and trauma-aware training that supports the realities of helping professions
✓ Engaging, experiential sessions that use art, movement, reflection, and discussion to make learning stick
✓ Practical tools for managing stress, building resilience, and preventing burnout
✓ Compassionate design for staff navigating complex workplace demands and personal challenges
✓ A focus on equity and psychological safety
Your Team Benefits From:
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✓ Healthier, more grounded and resilient workers
✓ Stronger communication and team cohesion
✓ Reduced burnout, absenteeism, and presenteeism
✓ A workplace culture where people feel valued, supported, and able to do their best work
Training for Organizations
Exit Burnout Program
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This workshop is for any workers who are burning out in their jobs. I try to catch people before they are "in crisis," and help them figure out how to "exit burnout," whether or not that would mean leaving the job. This comes with a self-help workbook, "Burnout Exit Plan."
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Topics include:
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Welcome and Understanding Burnout
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Self-Compassion, Thoughtwork, and Visualization
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Helpful Thinking: Identifying thought errors and habits, retraining your brain
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Exploring Your Options
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Building Your Personal Power and Emotional Regulation Skills
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Expanding Creativity
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Planning and Taking Action
Thought Work for Care Workers
I have used self-compassion and cognitive behaviour techniques to manage my own stress and spent hours researching promising practices. In this workshop, I share what I have learned with other carers.
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This workshop takes a “coaching” approach to improving emotional regulation skills, and is designed for people who provide caring services (social workers, nurses, etc.). The workshop recognizes that we work in stressful contexts, that our feelings about the challenges in the work are normal, and that systemic change is needed. However, as individuals, we have control over our thoughts, feelings, and actions, and can use that power to reduce the stress response in our bodies. We can also direct some of the compassion we have for others towards ourselves.
Trauma Stewardship for Care Workers
This is a workshop for workers in helping fields such as social workers, youth workers, violence against women counsellors, nurses and shelter workers. "Trauma Stewardship" is a concept developed by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky, focusing on how to sustain yourself while engaging with suffering. I share useful teachings from Lipsky and other trauma experts, sharing pieces that I think are most practical for frontline workers. Going beyond "how to self care," I help workers learn how to "move the energy through." Components include:
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Trauma Stewardship
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Defining Burnout Within Social Context
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The Body's Stress Response
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PTSD versus "vicarious" trauma
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Completing the Stress Cycle
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Thoughtwork
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Self-regulation and Co-regulation
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This topic can be offered in staff meetings, pointing learners in the direction of useful teachings. However, this workshop can be expanded into all-day training. Online or in person.