Closed for Vacation July 7-11 & August 4-8
Virtual & Local In Person Workshops
Protect your people from burnout & compassion fatigue and optimize staff retention, productivity and profits.
Wise leaders know prioritizing mental health and workplace wellbeing is both caring and smart business practice. But you're busy. You don't have time to become an expert. Not, to worry.
I'm a Certified Compassion Fatigue Professional, with twenty years clinical and group facilitation experience. I also have extensive training and experience in Gender Based Violence, leadership knowledge and experience as a Clinical Supervisor and member of a non-profit management team, front line staff and am a graduate of Leadership Waterloo Region.
Public speaking experience includes: small and large groups, panel discussions, virtual and local workshops, provincial and national conferences, virtual webinars for the Gottman Institute and a featured guest on podcasts and local media.
Having recovered from compassion fatigue and burnout, I am passionate about providing a safe space for personal and group reflections and empowerment through a variety of research based approaches and exercises.
Invest in your most valuable resource- your people and learn simple strategies to support you at work and home. Choose from one of the workshops below or request one customized to the unique needs of your staff or group. I also offer 1:1 or group mediation, single bereavement sessions and supervision consultation for leaders.
(Photo by Tomasz Adamski courtesy of Leadership Waterloo Region)
"Care for Caregivers"
By the End of this Trauma Informed Presentation, Participants will:
- Have experienced a safe space to discuss the impacts of the personal and vicarious trauma of the last few years and celebrate each other's strengths
- Have shared what helps and what makes it harder systemically
- Have learned ways to complete the Stress Response Cycle
- Been introduced to Polyvagal Theory and Nervous System Mapping
- Have learned a model for caring without carrying the responsibility for others’ wellbeing
- Have learned ways to manage and reduce anticipatory anxiety
"Healthy Teams and Clear Communication"
By the End of this Trauma Informed, Research Based Workshop, Participants will:
- Have been introduced to a model of 5 dysfunctions of teams and their antidotes
- Learned about barriers to healthy communication from a trauma informed and bio/psycho/social perspective and research based antidotes
- Have participated in interactive exercises on trust and conflict resolution
- Have been introduced to models for clear expectations and reframing feedback
- Have access to additional free resources to deepen learning and self-awareness
"Raising Resilient Children"
By the End of this Strengths and Attachment Based Workshop, Participants will:
- Have experienced a safe and nurturing space to discuss the impacts of the Pandemic on staff and their children.
- Have learned the difference between healthy and unhelpful guilt
- Have been introduced to conscious parenting and earned secure attachment
- Have learned 5 core beliefs and 9 things children need for Fostering Resilience
- Have learned 5 ways to deepen connection with children and youth to foster self-confidence
- Have learned ways to manage and reduce anticipatory anxiety
- Have learned how to cultivate hope without bypassing pain
"Strengths Based and Trauma Informed Classrooms"
By the End of this In depth Strengths Based and Trauma Informed Workshop, Participants Will:
- Have learned the definition and Signs of trauma
- Be able to identify Things that can Magnify the Stress Response
- Have experienced a Safe Space to Discuss the impacts of the Pandemic
- Have learned about the Effects of Trauma and Vicarious Trauma
- Be able to Identify Signs that Vicarious Trauma is Impacting Our Work
- Have learned "Care for Caregivers" Mind/Body Practices
- Been introduced to Strengths Based & Trauma Informed Responses and Regulatory Activities
- Be able to Identify Helpful and Unhelpful Responses to Defensive/Protective Reactions
- Have received Guiding Questions for Self-Reflection and/or to Apply to Case Studies
"Easing Anxiety- Support for Yourself and/or Your Children
By the End of this Workshop, Participants Will:
- Be able to identify Anxiety as a Normal Reaction to the Pandemic and changing world
- Have experienced a safe space to discuss the impacts of the Pandemic and collective stressors and traumas on themselves and their children
- Be able to identify Symptoms (Internalizing and Externalizing) of Anxiety
- Be able to identify What is Helpful and Not Helpful in Responding to Anxiety
- Have learned ways to Support Themselves and their Children to Reduce Avoidance Behaviour
- Have learned strategies for Effectively Addressing Worries and Embracing Uncertainty
"Coping with Grief and Other Impacts of the Pandemic"
By the End of the Presentation, Participants Will:
- Have experienced a safe space to discuss the impacts of the Pandemic in the context of grief and loss
- Be able to identify Myths & Facts of Grief
- Be able to identify Mental Health Symptoms that can overlap with grief or be a sign of complicated grief
- Have learned the 4 Tasks of Mourning
- Have learned 5 Ways to Care for Your Grieving Hearts
- Have learned 10 Ways for Cultivating Meaning and Hope without Bypassing Pain