Self-Paced (2 hours)
Burnout and compassion fatigue can diminish the way people feel about their work and contribute to things like turnover, especially for helping professionals. However, it is possible to combat these issues by building and promoting self-care and self-compassion. This course introduces definitions of burnout and compassion fatigue, helps learners recognize signs and symptoms in themselves and others, and offers proactive strategies to protect or improve wellness in the face of work-related stress.
Single-Session (2 hours)
This foundational course shares research and concrete strategies for having compassionate conversations. It will help learners develop self-compassion, strengthen reflective listening skills, and engage with the spirit of Motivational Interviewing: acceptance, evocation, collaboration, and compassion.
Single-Session (1.5 hours)
One of the challenging aspects of working with bereaved children is how different grief in children and adolescents looks from adult grief. We will discuss the hallmarks of grief in children, the grief experience through the lens of child development, and tools for supporting bereaved youth. Additionally, we will review how to identify the difference between typical grief experiences in children and those that may signal a need for further evaluation or support.
Single-Session (1.5 hours)
Learn foundational concepts of grief through scenes from classic and contemporary film and television. These scenes will bring to life concepts such as acute grief, integrated grief, ambiguous loss, prolonged grief, ritual, complicated spiritual grief, and attachment theory.
Single-Session (1.5 hours)
Gain a helpful foundation for understanding and addressing grief, loss, and healing. This course presents research-based information and addresses common myths about grief. We will start exploring ways grief and loss may impact our work and wellbeing, and steps we can take to support ourselves and others. This will be a helpful primer for those planning to participate in the multi-session course, Understanding Grief and Loss: Supporting Bereaved Community Members.
Single-Session (1.5 hours)
Traumatic and sudden losses, including those caused by homicide, suicide, accidental overdose, disasters, and accidents, can be particularly difficult losses to bear. The survivors of such losses can experience both grief and post-traumatic symptoms, as well as stigma, isolation, anger, and guilt. We will examine the phenomena of traumatic and sudden losses, learn what the research says about such grief experiences, and gain tools and strategies for supporting survivors of traumatic and sudden losses.
Single-Session (3.5 hours)
In this training, you will learn motivational interviewing approaches that you can immediately apply in your role as a helping professional. This course will be a fast-paced, highly interactive introductory course about three key skills in motivational interviewing.
Single-Session (2 hours)
Led by licensed creative art therapists, this workshop invites you into a journey of artistic discovery through an open studio approach. Participants will be introduced to a variety of art materials and creative techniques, then encouraged to develop your own artistic voice through independent creation.
Single-Session (1.5 hours)
The loss of a colleague or client can often reverberate through an entire organization. Often, organizations are uncertain how to best support their employees and the clients they serve when a death has a system-wide impact. In this course, we will review research-backed best practices for responding to organizational losses.
Single-Session (3 hours)
This experiential workshop introduces meditation as a secular and supportive practice to reduce stress and anxiety and improve interpersonal relationships and overall wellness. We will explore how to access meditation, and ways it can benefit us, in the context of social stress and challenges. This workshop will incorporate teachings from Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a scientifically researched program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979 for the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Single-Session (2 hours)
This course is designed for NYC non-profit care providers who support individuals and families navigating migration. Participants explore the impacts of migration-related trauma, including displacement, family separation, acculturation stress, and legal uncertainty, while learning trauma-informed, culturally responsive approaches to assessment and support. The course also emphasizes practical strategies for fostering safety, resilience, and healing while promoting provider wellbeing.
Single-Session (1.5 hours)
We will explore the multiple ways systemic inequality and related harms impact ourselves and our communities. Through examining new and emerging research on trauma and healing, we will explore the rich and diverse tools that support physical and emotional wellness, that have been led in communities and passed down through generations. Focusing on healing tools, we will explore and discuss our own lineages – those cultural practices we learn from the places and people we come from.
Self-Paced (1.25 hours)
This 3-part series will allow participants to explore their grief and its possible constituent elements (fear, anxiety, outrage, apathy, hopelessness, despair, and more) as they are experienced in relation to the legacies of loss in many marginalized communities, including those associated with gentrification and the geo-socio-political realities of our time. Participants will gain experience with life-affirming contemplative practices that can be used toward ongoing personal, interpersonal, and communal insight, empowerment, and transformation.
This series includes:
Session I: Processing Sociopolitical Grief with Joyful Empowerment
Session II: Moving with the Movements Toward More Just Behavioral Health
Session III: Rewriting an Equitable Future of Human Service Provision (Available soon)
Single-Session (1.5 hours)
While grief is often associated with the death of a loved one, we know that grief can accompany all sorts of loss experiences, including the loss of a job, the loss of health or functioning, and even the loss of a dream. This course draws on current research, contemporary grief and loss theory, and clinical experience to discuss strategies for coping with non-death losses and supporting community members who are grieving non-death losses.
