Training

Communicating with others can be difficult.  In this course, we’ll introduce a simple and straightforward framework for healthy communication.  You’ll have an opportunity to practice and develop new ways to share your feelings and needs in ways that can support others to listen and understand you better. 

 Does having 20 browser screens open give you a sense of effectiveness and efficiency? If so, this session is for you! Learn about how self-awareness practices can support you to focus your attention on one task at a time in order to support quality, effective, and quality work.  

In this workshop, we will explore the importance of establishing and implementing boundaries at the personal and intra-personal levels.  Boundaries can be tricky and often have negative stigmas in our society. However, this session will frame boundaries as vital to our mental, emotional, and physical health and as a necessary tool for communicating with others what we can and cannot do.  

 What does it mean to manage other people? Developing self-awareness of how you show up as a manager is important to understanding what communication habits work and which ones do not.  Reflective questions we’ll address: What communication skills are you stronger in? Where do you need support? Who do you admire or look up to related to management and communication skills?  

 Often, we don’t speak clearly, and in moments of stress and stressful communication, we further exacerbate the issue at hand.  Leading others with clarity requires self-awareness of how verbal and non-verbal communication can hinder or support clarity.  Words that are clear, connected to understand what our needs are and are respectful can be helpful in ensuring others hear us.  When another person can hear us, they are more likely to understand our needs as leaders, and support open communication. The words we use or don't use, and the ways we speak or don't speak can inspire others or deflate others. 

Leading others requires flexibility in responding to varying situations and difficult conversations.  Using a one size fits all approach is not effective, especially with today’s diverse workforce.  Responding flexibility takes self-awareness and self-regulation to work, connect, and engage with others that have different styles and communications than we do.  

 This session will be seriously serious, and seriously fun too.  Come learn about why laughter and playfulness can help promote gratitude and positive emotions.  

In this session, we explore how many of us have learned and heard messages that keep us from asking for the help we need.  To support us in this exploration, we will learn self-awareness tools to help us notice themes in our lives that keep us from seeking the support we need.  Further, explore emotional tools to help us respond to common barriers that often arise that keep us from seeking support, including shame, embarrassment, and disappointment.   

So many of us already have the experience, knowledge, and information we need to address life's biggest challenges.  However, many of us do not practice reflecting and listening internally to cultivate this insight.  This workshop helps you develop a basic understanding of the concept of wisdom and help you identify areas where you already have answers.    

In this session, we explore how personality, as a construct, is often misunderstood and thought of as a fixed trait.  As humans, holding this perspective can keep us back from interacting and developing empathy for others who have different personality styles.  When we see personality as a fixed trait, it can also lead us to experiencing stress and feelings of frustration.   By understanding our default personality styles, we can also develop empathy and compassion for other personality types that are differ from ours.