Workshops

Advancing Dignity, Peace & Humanity Clinic for developing healthy adults, families, and communities

This highly interactive workshop is designed to bring community service leaders and providers (i.e., public/nonprofit leaders, law enforcement officers, educators, case managers, and social service providers) together with community members to learn about, practice, and discover behaviors and strategies to:

  • De-escalate and constructively resolve conflict
  • Eliminate abusive conduct
  • Improve community relations
  • Cultivate a culture of dignity, growth & hope
  • Foster healing, sound mind, inner peace & emotional regulation
  • Facilitate building empathy, compassion & trust

Becoming a More Authentic & Influential Leader

During this highly interactive workshop, participants will have an opportunity to explore core elements of their essence and leadership style. They will be coached to consider ways to leverage and manage their authentic self to increase their satisfaction with life, overall effectiveness, and ability to influence others.

Career Transition Program

This interactive career transition workshop and coaching experience engages participants in self-discovery activities designed to increase their self-agency skills as they learn more about their unique essence, passion, talents, and purpose.Participants will have an opportunity to learn:

  • How their core preferences and personality impacts their interactions, values, gifted abilities, and preferred work tasks and environment
  • How to tap into and build a life that is consistent with and ignites their core
  • How to develop a impelling personal vision that propels them beyond circumstances
  • How to effectively manage their self in relation to others and their desired aspirations
  • How to prepare themselves, create opportunities and garner support to bring career aspirations to fruition

PEOPLE MATTERS

Compassionate Engagement & Humility

Workshop Description and Learning Outcomes

This workshop is designed to equip participants to engage, lead, and work effectively with people across differences. It aims to develop participants’ understanding and ability to:

  • Listen, empathize, connect, and respond with compassion
  • Distinguish the difference between differences, acceptance, and dignity
  • Recognize forces of structural intolerance
  • Refrain from acting on implicit favortism
  • Understand the components of and ways to demonstrate humility

Creating and sustaining culture change

The workplace culture touches and influences every person, service, and product delivered to, within, and from an organization. It is a force that when aligned with the organization’s desired vision can provide a remarkable winning edge in accomplishing goals and objectives. Likewise, when not aligned, employees can falter and efforts can be stalled or completely derailed. This workshop is designed to provide participants with a clear understanding of the elements of a culture, how work culture forms, and useful frameworks to:

  • Assess organizational culture
  • Gain support and overcome resistance to change
  • Successfully create, implement, and sustain culture change

Conflict resolution & negotiations

This workshop is designed to support participants in further honing their conflict management and negotiation skills. Participants will have an opportunity to:

  • Explore ways to effectively anticipate, respond to, manage, and resolve conflict
  • Examine characteristics of effective negotiators
  • Gain enhanced clarity regarding the strengths and potential pitfalls of their own negotiation style
  • Learn strategies to improve their negotiation power

Learning and teaching style differences

This workshop is designed to increase teaching staff’s awareness and knowledge of:

  • Their own and others’ personality temperament
  • How temperament can impact instructional style
  • How temperament can predispose people to have a preferred learning focus, style, and feedback mode
  • Ways to effectively manage one’s own style to maximize ability to effectively connect with, engage and motivate students

Human Dignity Workshop Focusing on Prevention of Sexual Harassment & Abusive Conduct

This workplace human dignity workshop provides participants an opportunity to increase their knowledge, skills, and abilities related to establishing and maintaining a harassment-free workplace with specific focus on:

  • The legal and practical implications of sexual harassment and abusive conduct in the workplace
  • The definition of sexual harassment and abusive conduct
  • Identifying behaviors that are offensive and considered to be acts of harassment and unfair
  • Managing favortism and attraction in the workplace
  • Understanding and appropriately managing one’s own interpersonal needs and behavior in ways that do not negatively impact others
  • Techniques for increasing assertiveness and speaking up against harmful behaviors
  • Ways to foster respect and acceptance
  • Suggested practices for handling incidents of alleged sexual harassment

Maintaining high performing teams in the midst of change

This workshop is designed to help leaders develop strategies to lead effectively and maintain high performing teams in the midst of turbulent external and internal organizational change. Participants will have an opportunity to learn strategies to:

  • Keep team members focused and efforts aligned in the midst of change
  • Create positive momentum and overcome resistance to change
  • Develop and implement a performance management system
  • Inspire and coach others

Success! Effective leadership! What’s personality got to do with it?

The one thing you consistently take everyplace you go and to everything you do is your “self.” Likewise, the one thing you are consistently going to have to deal with in leading, influencing and working with others is their “self.”

The more we understand something the more effective we can be in using and leveraging it. Similarly, the more we understand our “self” in relation to others the more effectively we can manage, leverage and maximize our individual and collective potential.

This interactive workshop is designed to support participants in achieving just that: Understanding, appreciation and the ability to bring out the best in one’s self and others for optimal success.

Participants will have an opportunity to enhance awareness, understanding and their ability to:

  • Develop improved self-management strategies to ensure their actions align with their intentions and desired impact
  • Build healthy relationships, manage conflict, influence, lead and inspire others
  • Engage in well-rounded decision-making
  • Tap into their own creativity and inspire others to achieve greater innovation and unlimited possibilities

Strategic planning

This workshop is designed to equip participants with tools and frameworks to successful develop a strategic plan. Participants will have an opportunity to learn:

  • How a strategic plan can be used to align goals, objectives, work functions, and resources
  • Who should serve on a strategic planning committee
  • Key elements and processes essential to developing a strategic plan
  • How to conduct a SWOT Analysis
  • How to develop mission focused strategies and performance objectives
  • How to identify and draft performance objectives to address infrastructure and disciplines required for organizational effectiveness
  • How to develop a strategic plan communication process, progress tracking system and report card

Team building

This workshop is designed to support members of intact groups/teams in:

  • Building greater cohesion as a team
  • Identifying and eliminating behaviors that negatively impact team dynamics
  • Increasing behaviors that increase team synergy and productivity
  • Fostering greater trust, cooperation, and improved communication among team members
  • Having fun, working, playing, and learning together!