In living an engaged personal and professional life, we all encounter stress, tensions, and dilemmas.  Creating and sustaining a meaningful connection in your work, balancing personal & professional life, and expanding your capacity and tools to be effective are important factors to support your work of providing service to others.

I offer a variety of programs, Staff and Professional Development, and coaching options to enhance your enhance daily work or organizational life with tools to:

• create greater balance on the job and between personal & professional life
• repairing and strengthening relationships
• reduce drama and other destructive patterns
• deal with difficult people and conflicts
• reduce a sense of dividedness and fragmentation
• infuse more meaning into daily rhythms
• practice effective and compassionate communication
• integrate a holistic model, (the levels of body, mind, heart, and spirit)
• shift how you experience challenging patterns & behaviors i.e. anger or stress
• create a deeper sense of connectedness with your self, those you work with and those you serve

Consider the following services as support for professional or organizational setting:

• Workplace Settings - Staff & Professional Development
• Staff support - Specific initiatives
  
• Management Teams & Leadership Development
• Group & Community Settings
• Family Involvement

Continuing Education Credits can be given to Social Workers and Teachers.  Programs can be customized to meet the specific needs of your setting.

Workplace Settings - Staff & Professional Development

• Compassionate Communication - Effective practices & principles to reduce conflict and increase capacity to listen across differences, and express in a way that builds relationships (based on the work of Marshall Rosenberg Nonviolent Communication)
• Compassionate Communication Practice Groups
• Dealing with Difficult People
• Mindful Listening & Mindful Talking - Create positive & effective communication patterns
• Forgiveness: Narrow Mind or Spacious Mind - Moving past difficult situations
• Finding Yourself Again - A Restorative Retreat to create a sense of balance and congruence (using a variety of mindfulness practices, reflection and silence)
• Step off the Tight Rope:  Stress Management for Whole Person - Whole Community
• Change the Face of Anger - A Holistic Approach
• Living Between Two Worlds - Build Bridges in Your Life and Between People
  • Worlds can be cultural, racial, interfaith, intergenerational, etc.
• Peace Wrestling - Stories and Skills for working through conflict
• Nurture Your Workplace Soul- A holistic model
• Four Personalities - Playful session to understand, strategize and appreciate each other
• Using Storytelling & Story Listening to Enrich your Professional Work - Pulling on the Threads of Story
• Shifting Enemy Images
• Hands Across the Table - Holding the tensions of differences
• Sitting with Story:  Story circles to foster listening and creating a communal story
• Sustaining a Life of Service - Courage & Renewal® retreat, using the principles and practices of Circles of Trust® to support reflection and discernment process

Staff Support - Specific Initatives

Consider forming practice groups for specific teams or people who would benefit from more intensive training and practice of skills.  These groups would meet for a designated time, providing time for skill refinement and support in applying skills in their daily work.

• Any of the above mentioned sessions
• Walk & Talk Coaching Sessions® Walk & Talk
• Change the Face of Anger - Coaching or Systems Consultation
• The Lady & The Lion: Leadership Empowerment Workshop for Women, w Sydney Solis
• Listening From Within - Coaching on topics that matter to you, such as: compassionate communication, moving through conflict, Courage & Renewal principles and practices

Group & Community Settings

• Nurture your Communal Soul
• Change the Face of Anger - a Holistic Approach
• Peace Day - playful day of activities, stories, and other events to learn & celebrate
• Living Between Two Worlds - Building Bridges
• Compassionate Communication Practice groups
• Conversationl Practice Circles
• Sitting in Stillness  - Restorative Retreat
• Step off the Tight RopeStress Management for Whole Person - Whole Community
• Circle Work - Inviting others into community, Council, etc.
• Use Storytelling & Story Listening to Enrich your Community
• Peace in Our Community - Stories & Skills to Inspire A More Peaceful Community
• Walk & Talk Sessions  - see Walk & Talk Page for details

Parent and Family Involvement

Please visit the Parent and Family Education Page for extensive program options.

Consider:

• Brown Bag Lunch Series
• Evening Programs
• Peace Day
• Storytelling& Story Listening Circles
• Community Building Events