Training
We believe training is foundational to building a healthy workplace.
There is so much learning and unlearning to do! While training isn’t all that’s necessary to transform a culture, it helps to:
Get everyone on board and aligned
Strengthen existing culture
Jumpstart new initiatives
Our training is available in person, virtually, as a single seminar, a day-long bootcamp, or even a retreat. The sky is the limit and we’re here to help.
To get started, we encourage you to take a look at our FREE online crash course on workplace well-being:
help improve well-being in the workplace
Our FREE Workplace Well-being Kickstarter Course is an easy way to learn accessible and immediate strategies for improving your workplace.
Who is this for? Well, anyone who wants to learn more about how to positively impact a space! Leaders, emerging leaders, and advocates are all welcome!
Our Flagship Courses
These 6 seminars & workshops are consistently the most requested topics from our clients.
Mental Health & Well-being & Work
This class is a basic overview to help grasp the scope of mental health & well-being and how the workplace can impact us—for better or worse. Attendees will leave with language and tools to continue exploring their own mental health & well-being.
Understanding Stress & Burnout
Stress & burnout are terms consistently thrown around in the workplace and on social media, but what are they really? This class digs into the causes and functions of stress & burnout and offers practical strategies & tools to manage challenging moments.
EMBERS & FLAMES: Burnout Prevention & Recovery
This course functions as a workshop extension of Understanding Stress & Burnout by walking attendees through our preventative and recovery model, EMBERS & FLAMES
Identifying Workplace Toxicity
Toxic workplaces are not only harmful to the individuals working within them, they can destroy the longevity, innovation, and potential of a business. In this course, we define what makes a toxic workplace and provide antidote to fix or avoid it.
Fostering Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety is a major factor when it comes to belonging, innovation, creativity, well-being, and burnout prevention, and it’s an essential metric within the contemporary workplace. We can teach you what it is and how you can build it in your organization.
Creating a Helping Culture
Gone are the days when “coffee is for closers”— if you haven’t heard, we’re supporting each other now. Helping cultures are spaces that are highly collaborative, interdependent, and thoughtful. We can help you build a helping culture of your own.
In addition to our flagship courses, we are prepared to present on these subjects as well:
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Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
While emotional intelligence is an extraordinary skill to have, it's even more integral for those in leadership positions (formally or not) to be able to regulate and read their emotional lives. This course is specific to managers, owners, leaders, and emerging leaders.
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Imposter Syndrome & Oppression at Work
Imposter syndrome occurs when marginalized individuals have experienced oppressive workspaces, internalized that oppression, then doubt their own competencies. This course examines how the workplace can prevent and help heal imposter syndrome.
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Hiring & Belonging in the Industry
Hiring practices in the industry are varied; some being more structured, others are about relationships and networking. But what is fair? How does it impact feelings of belonging? Our communities? This course provides considerations to take when hiring and building a team.
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Managing with Mental Health in Mind
While the healing of mental health issues are the responsibility of the individual, the workplace has a responsibility to be a space where people can thrive. This course is designed for leaders who want to create a safer workspace for their teams and themselves.
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Boundaries & Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is tough in this industry because our boundaries around our time, identities, roles, and relationships make it challenging to know where work stops and begins. This course helps to better understand boundaries to live a more balanced life.
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Making Conflict Work at Work
Conflict is in both inevitable and something we often avoid because we associate it with anger, violence, and endings. But when approached healthily, it's the source of creation and innovation. This course helps teams to reframe and embrace conflict at work and beyond.
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Mentorship & Leadership
In any industry or community, leadership and mentorship is instrumental when fostering and developing the skills and culture of the next generation, so it's important we do it with care. This course sets the stage for mentoring and leading intentionally.
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Career Growth & Development
By and large, this industry falters when fostering career development and growth, resulting in too many people floundering, not reaching their potential, or leaving. This course provides a map of how to cultivate development within organizations and professional communities.
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Creating a Culture of Feedback
Collecting, providing, and addressing feedback is an integral process that contributes to increased psychological safety, reduced burnout, more effective goals, and higher retention, but feedback can be tough! This course helps to get you started.
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Understanding Burnout: a Deep Dive
Burnout is often regarded as when we reach our breaking point with stress, but it's much more insidious than that: it's social emotional stress resulting from cut-throat and exploitive cultures. This course goes deeper into burnout with offerings of how to recover.
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Compassion vs Self-Criticism for Creatives
Whether we would call ourselves creatives or not, working in a creative industry can come with a lot of pressure. This course examines the self-criticism and perfectionistic tendencies in this industry, and how cultivating compassion can be the key to growth.
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Mindfulness & Our Work
Mindfulness is a buzzword that is associated with industrialized meditation, yoga, and the wellness, but it's actually a very helpful practice to improve the health of a workspace. This seminar discusses mindfulness and how it can help ignite change.
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Emotions are the Heart of Innovation
A "Part II" to our emotional intelligence courses, this seminar discusses the role our emotions and feelings of connection plays when working creatively and collaboratively, challenging the idea that we should leave our emotions out of our work.
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The Effects of Workplace Trauma
Workplace trauma has a profound impact on someone's mental health and well-being, as well as their ability to thrive and flourish. This course explores the emotional and behavioral patterns that might seem "normal," but have emerged from the trauma and abuse at work.
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Employee Relations & Expectations
The quality of the manager/employee relationship is a strong predictor of well-being, retention, and engagement, so what can we do to ensure it's healthy and not strained? This course discusses how to engage effectively to promote healthy working relationships.
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Adopting a Growth Mindset at Work
The way we approach obstacles and challenges have profound impact on how we work to overcome them and how we respond when we fail. this course discusses the differences between growth and fixed mindsets, and why we should accept the gift of failure with open arms.