Skill Building Workshops
For those who want a more in-depth approach, our workshops provide focused training with smaller groups of attendees, allowing a more interactive training with specific skill building. Don’t see a topic you’re interested in? Let us design one for your organization!
Reframing Leadership: Building Strategies for Dynamic Teams
April 30 and May 21, 2025
1:00 - 2:30 PM ET
While a few people might have natural leadership skills, most of us need to spend considerable effort cultivating the skills necessary to motivate and to guide employees to do their best work. This interactive, two-part leadership training is designed to begin to identify existing strengths and build on current ones for aspiring and current leaders.
This curriculum will provide multiple opportunities to refine and practice skills that will directly impact day-to-day service provision. The foundation of the training is based on Bolman and Deal’s Reframing Organization. This framework provides four leadership orientations that can be applied to current and future leadership topics including mentoring, career development, leading in a hybrid/ virtual office environment, and supporting staff. Participants will be exposed to the four leadership orientations, complete an assessment to determine their dominant leadership orientation, analyze leadership scenarios, and develop strategies to implement in their work environment.
From Tension to Trust: De-Escalation Techniques for Brain Injury Support
August 20, 2025
2:00 - 4:00 PM ET
De-escalation refers to a variety of methods used to calm down a person who is experiencing a heightened emotional state by using verbal or non-verbal communication. Essentially, it's about diffusing a crisis through a calm and empathetic approach.
De-escalation techniques are crucial when interacting with individuals who have experienced brain injury.
Emotional dysregulation and impulse control are common challenges that can lead to elevated outbursts or behavior. Cognitive impairment can result in difficulty with processing information, understanding instructions, or remembering events, which can contribute to misunderstandings and frustration. Individuals may perseverate, making it difficult to redirect or change the subject, leading to conflict.
This skill-building workshop will introduce opportunities to learn de-escalation techniques from a licensed psychologist who has experience in state hospital, correctional, and inpatient hospital settings. After an introduction to de-escalation and settings and situations where these methods can be applied, verbal and non-verbal techniques as well as a framework for understanding why certain techniques are more likely to be successful when it comes to brain injury will be reviewed in depth, practiced and discussed. Learn your own tendencies across situations so that you can better handle conflict response and be prepared to manage diffusing a situation effectively.