Workshops & Modules

This 4-hour workshop will provide participants with practical tools and strategies for improving cultural competence. The workshop begins by defining relevant terms and concepts including culture, cultural identity, intersectionality, and marginalization. Participants then learn strategies for deepening cultural understanding, developing self-awareness, enhancing communication and listening, strengthening empathy, demonstrating adaptability, and committing to learning. Through discussion, […]

This workshop is designed to address the challenge of escape and avoidance strategies used by clients to meet needs. These strategies are typically employed to evade or delay exposure to unpleasant situations. The workshop focuses on meeting client needs through the application of practical, evidence-based staff responses aimed at reducing or eliminating the reliance on […]

This livestream, 6-hour workshop provides parents and caregivers with practical, trauma-informed strategies to recognize and respond to their children's dangerous behavior. Using the crisis cycle as a framework, this workshop guides participants through each phase from a triggering incident and escalation through recovery and reconnection. Participants develop personalized observation, self-regulation/self-control, and crisis response strategies to prevent […]