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Practical learning for people who work with people.

Trainings build skills that people use in their own roles. Workshops bring a group that works together into one room to work on how they work together.

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From Strain to SupportHow to Recognize and Respond to Burnout at WorkStaff learn to tell burnout, secondary trauma, and moral injury apart and choose a practical next step.Virtual · About 90 minutes · Up to 30 people

For: Staff in demanding, people-centered roles and their supervisors, including data, grant, and administrative staff who carry the same pressure.

People leave with: A workbook, a one-page overview, and a learning brief for leadership. An optional second session looks at what has to change at work for the practices to last.

Nine in ten state public health staff who took part said the session was relevant to their work.

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Peer Navigator TrainingHow to Support Clients Without Carrying Everything AloneTwo sessions on boundaries, reconnecting with clients who stop responding, and warm handoffs, with peers learning from each other.Virtual · Two 90-minute sessions · 20 to 35 people

For: Peer navigators, recovery coaches, community health workers, quick response teams, and other direct service staff, with or without lived experience.

People leave with: A resource built from the group's own language and practices, and a leadership brief for the sponsoring organization.

Ways to book it:

  • The full training. Both sessions with the same group.
  • One session on its own. Session 1, You Matter Here, focuses on sustaining yourself in high-exposure work. Session 2, Connecting Without Taking On, focuses on staying connected to clients and making warm handoffs. Each one stands on its own.
  • Ongoing peer learning. Facilitated sessions every month or quarter, on topics the group chooses, such as losing contact with a client, client loss, and hard boundary decisions.
  • A session for supervisors and program leaders on supporting peer navigators. In development
  • A free monthly circle for peer navigators and recovery staff through Communities of Care.

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The Human Work of Leadership In developmentHow to Handle the Hard Conversations and Decisions of Leading PeopleA full-day intensive to practice listening, making decisions, and responding to mistakes or harm.In person · Full day

For: Leaders at any level and leadership teams that want to practice together.

Brooke Albert is developing this full-day intensive. Ask to hear when it is available.

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Workshops

Better By DesignHow to Run Board Discussions Every Member Can Contribute ToBoard members learn three facilitator responsibilities and plan the discussion of a real item from their next agenda.Virtual or in person · 2 hours · One board or a conference group

For: Board members, chairs, executive directors, and staff who prepare board meetings, including boards with patient and community members.

People leave with: A discussion plan for that agenda item and the Better By Design workbook and Participation Library.

Nearly every health center board member who answered our survey said the session helped them understand how meeting design affects who participates.

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Board Development SeriesHow to Build a Board That Shares the WorkBoard members learn their roles, each commit to specific work, and build a binder for new members.Six one-hour sessions over about a year · One board

For: Small nonprofit boards that are rebuilding or have had little training, and their executive directors.

People leave with: A defined role for every member and a binder that doubles as new-member orientation.

Now underway with a United Way board in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

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How every session works

We start with your group.

A short intake and conversation tell us who will attend and what they face, so the examples come from their real work.

Most of the time is practice.

People work through situations they recognize in small groups. When it helps people speak openly, supervisors and their staff are in separate groups.

Leaders hear what we learned.

After the session, the organization receives a written learning brief with what people raised and what to try next.

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Tell us who the group is and what you hope will be different afterward. A few sentences are enough.

Our team will reply by email to talk through fit, timing, and cost. Each session is a flat fee that we confirm once we know the group. We can also design a custom session.