READY-TO-GO PREPACKAGED WORKSHOPS

VICARIOUS TRAUMA AND IT’S IMPACT ON HELPING PROFESSIONALS’ RELATIONSHIPS  (3-3.5hrs)

• Explores the Physiological and Psychological Impacts of Repeated Exposure to Trauma
• Factors of Trauma (Why Some People are Impacted Differently than Others)
• When What You Do Overtakes Who You Are – How This Happens and How to Reclaim What You’ve Lost
• Impact on Relationships
• Finding Your Way Back to One Another
• Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth

STRESS: LEAVE IT, LIVE IT, LOVE IT  (1.5hrs)

• What is Stress?
• Internal/External Impacts of Stress
• Handling It (APR)
• Acknowledge
• Process
• Respond
• Making Stress Work for You

MENTAL HEALTH FOR FIRST RESPONDERS – HAZARDS AND HEALING (2.5hrs)

• The Physiological and Psychological Risks of Becoming a First Responder
• The Life Hazard Assessment
• Hazard Proofing our Hearts and Rewiring our Brains for Success
• Resilience and Other Awesomeness

A CHANGE IS GONNA COME          (6.5-7hrs)

•  Values, Ideals and What You Thought You Signed Up For When You Joined this Field
•  Barriers to Change
  • the words we use and what they “mean”
  • understanding stuckness and why Tarzan was a smart guy
  • rethinking resistance and the revolving door
• Empowering Change
  • stages of change
  • a few ideas on what helps change happen (common factors theory)
  • “action” and also bamboo plants
• How Challenge can Change Us
  • for worse or for better
• A Change is Gonna Come
  • STO (small things often)

PIE IN THE SKY, WELL RUN DRY, and THE LIFE SPACE IN BETWEEN (6.5-7hrs)

• Values, Ideals, and What You Thought You Signed Up For When You Entered this Field
• Stress and Trauma – Part of the Package?
  • define, compare, contrast
• Red, Blue and the Paper Towel Tube (neuroscience stuff)
  • The Physiological and Psychological Impacts
• Where Did You Go?
  • The Impact on Our Relationships
• Here I Am! There You Are!
• Prevention and Treatment
  • workplace practices
  • relationship practices
  • self-care practices (what it really is)

TLC: A COUPLES CONNECTION WORKSHOP (two full days)

DAY ONE – Focus is on Communication

• What Makes Relationships Work (myths and realities of real relationships)
• Why We Need Each Other
• Communication Patterns that Push Us Apart and Pull Us Together
• Getting to Know Your Partner Differently
  • Skills and tools to be seen and heard and to be seeing and hearing
• Reducing Stress
• Intro to Conflict

DAY TWO – Focus is on Conflict Resolution

• When Your Partner Has Trauma, Anxiety or Depression
• When We are Stuck – Overcoming Conflict
• Sex, Parenting, Money and More
• Planning to Make Love Last