Enhance cultural well-being, individual and team effectiveness, and communication dynamics with workshops thoughtfully tailored to your unique context. Some of the workshops offered are:

Embark on a transformative journey to overall well-being tailored for Black women with the Willow Plan™ framework. Join our virtual 90-minute immersive workshop, delving into the profound connection between culture and wellness. Crafted for those seeking a transformative journey to complete health, this experience provides insights into how cultural practices influence well-being.

Receive actionable tips to enhance your complete health, and explore the reasons behind your actions when you're not well, from comfort shows to daily habits.

What You'll Experience:

• Insights & Actionable Tips: Uncover the profound impact of cultural practices on well-being and learn powerful ways to integrate culture into your daily wellness routine.

• Guided Exploration: Delve into the intersection of culture and complete well-being through engaging activities.

• Personalized Strategies: Craft a wellness plan tailored to your unique cultural identity.

Join a supportive member community that extends your well-being journey beyond the session. Here, you can explore, accept, and integrate your cultural identity into your story of well-being.

Contact us to schedule a comprehensive and empowering experience!

Every community, population, and group has its own culture, but how is culture understood when it is mainly comprised of unwritten rules? Culture is more than age, race, gender, and socioeconomic status. During this workshop, attendees will be able to list the components of culture and assess their self-identified culture. The impact of implicit bias on professionalism will be discussed. Attendees will be able to state the difference between cultural competence, cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity, and cultural humility. At the end of this workshop, attendees will have constructed effective strategies for communication that addresses decreases microaggressions and builds relationships of trust.

During this training, attendees will learn:

• List components of culture, and explain differences between cultural competence, cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity, and cultural humility.

• Explain how power, bias, and privilege can affect the relationship between client and direct service professionals.

• Describe how stereotypes and microaggressions can affect the relationship between the client and direct service professionals.

• Construct strategies of effective communication to build trust as a direct service professional

Bubble baths and candles won't do. This four-hour training will teach attendees how to recognize and prevent burnout. For some, the line between professional and personal lives are thin. It is more effective to prevent burnout and to be able to recognize it before it becomes too much to handle. Unfortunately, burnout is often recognized too late.

Attendees will learn how to effectively manage their time and emotions at work. Additionally, this training will provide practical tools (e.g., Me, We, Cost, Free activity) for managing a professional and personal life. The audience for this training is organizations with staff who provide direct services.

Objectives of training/ what attendees will learn:

● Defining burnout and how it presents itself

● Exploration of your professional and personal identity

● Practical tools to minimize burnout and increase productivity

This workshop will cover the principles of Motivational Interviewing, which is an evidence-informed approach that centers on the client to enhance commitment and motivation to behavior change. From this workshop, attendees will define the Stages of Change and Motivational Interviewing and critique the benefits and challenges of the Stages of Change. At the end of this workshop, attendees will have developed a practical framework of Motivational Interviewing skills needed that benefits both staff and service recipients. The audience is for all levels of staff in behavioral health and human service agencies.

This training will teach attendees what peers are and how to effectively implement peers in a medical setting. Budgeting is the smallest worry. For both medical professionals and behavioral health staff, implementing peers into a medical setting is more than making a face-to-face referral.

Attendees will learn the principles of peer support. The beliefs and knowledge of the peer community will also be discussed. Like every field, peer services in the medical setting has benefits and challenges. Also, this training will provide practical tools for effectively supporting peer staff. The audience for this training is medical professionals who would like to incorporate peers into traditional medical and physical health facilities.

Objectives of training/ what attendees will learn:

● Principles of peers (beliefs, knowledge, requirements, and professional development)

● Benefits and challenges of support services in a medical setting

● Practical tools to effectively support peer staff

This training will teach attendees the importance of maintaining professionalism as a support specialist. Having lived experience is a requirement for support specialist. However, for some, there may be limited professional experience. Attendees of this training will engage about the overview, benefits, and challenges of a support specialist. This training will also discuss effective communication with various populations. Lastly, attendees will learn how to implement practical tools for professionalism in a field where personal connections are made. The audience for this training are peers in recovery, addiction specialists, and behavioral health professionals.

Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) is an approach that assumes that a person is more likely than not to have a history of trauma. TIC recognizes and acknowledges the symptoms of trauma and the role trauma may play in a person’s life. TIC shifts the focus from “What is wrong?” to “What happened?”. TIC provides support to individuals that are accessible and appropriate.

Objectives:

• Understand the term “trauma-informed care,” and its relevance in organizational policies and procedures, as well as individual practices

• Compare trauma-specific and trauma-informed

• Recite the Six Principles of TIC

• Create framework to implement Six Principles of TIC in their work

• Identify at least one strategy aimed toward inclusivity

• Explain  the importance of TIC for their organization

Participants of this training will explore the applicable Federal and State law concerning confidentiality in the human service domain. This course will use case studies to guide participants in thinking critically about providing effective services that maintain confidentiality for service recipients. 

The physical and emotional toll for professionals can be overwhelming if proper precautions are not taken. Compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burn-out are often interchanged and may have similar effects, but they are not the same. This training provides participants with practical tools in identifying and managing signs of each, as it is an integral part of being an effective professional. 

Objectives:

• Provide a brief overview of the foundation of vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue

• Define vicarious and secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and compassion fatigue

• Assess compassion fatigue and burnout using the Quality of Life (QOL) assessment

• Assess practical ways to lower and manage compassion fatigue and secondary trauma

Communication is thought to be a simple process, but it is not. The lack of effective communication can greatly impact relationships, professional and personal. This training provides group and individual exercises to enhance effective communication skills, reduce conflict, and enhance connection with others. 

Objectives:

• Describe the Communication Model 

• Explain the principles of active listening 

• Develop practical tools for creating and maintaining boundaries