Workshops
Transforming lives through accessible mental health workshops.
Mental Health Before, During, and After a Potentially Traumatic Event (Virtual or In-Person)
Available in Customizable Formats
In this Workshop, we discuss the best mechanisms to prevent a responder from experiencing distress or a psychological injury is to be prepared in the weeks, months, and years before exposure to a PTE (Potentially Traumatic Event).
Over the course of 3 Modules, we look at the best practices for handling and coping with trauma or potential trauma before the event, during the event, and after the Event. With group scenarios to practice how we can identify the risks both for ourselves and our coworkers and teammates in all stages of responding to a Potentially Traumatic Event.
What we can do best to safeguard our mental health ahead of time, signs and symptoms of a traumatic event, things that may develop after a PTE, and enhancing our Emotional Regulation as an insulator.
Resilient Communities Need Resilient People (Virtual or In-Person)
Available in 60/90/180 Minute Formats
In this workshop we work to understand what resilience is, how to improve our own resilience, the factors that can weaken it, and ways to strengthen it.
Insulating our resilience through emotional regulation and exploring our unique explanatory styles to define ourselves within the ideas and terms of society.
Changes in society and the workplace often negatively effect resilience. We develop tools to deal with the unending changes and strategies to recognize diminishing resilience in self and others while ultimately learning how to strengthen our own resilience.
Suicide Awareness, Prevention, and Intervention (Virtual or In-Person)
Available in 60/90/180 Minute Formats
Join us for an insightful and supportive workshop where we’ll explore the deep impact of suicide and how we can make a difference.
In this session, you’ll learn how to recognize the signs, symptoms, and risk factors of suicide, and how to approach these tough conversations with care, without shame or urgency.
We’ll dive into the power of hope and how you can provide meaningful support to someone struggling, as well as where to find the right resources when needed.
This workshop is all about equipping you with the knowledge and tools to make a positive impact and help someone who may be in crisis. Come learn, ask questions, and leave with practical skills you can use immediately!
Workshop Outline
The Impact of Suicide
How to Talk About Suicide
Why People Die by Suicide
Risk Factors & Warning Signs of Suicide
Suicide Prevention & Intervention
Resources, Help, and Supports
Isolation, Social Connections, and Hope
Crisis Event Response Team Training (Virtual or In-Person)
When your Crew, Team, or Staff experience an intense event, it may be a potentially traumatic event (PTE). This is the time to take the best care of your team.
The best care includes bringing them together for a Defusing to ensure they retain or regain wellness as they move through adaptive recovery.
CERT Training is delivered to Front-line workers, Rescue Team members, First Responders, HR professional, Counsellors and Therapists, Mental Health Champions within a company or organization, & Lay providers. all who become part of a Crisis Event Response Team.
A 7 Hour workshop delivered in 1 day.
How a person exposed to a Crisis Event may respond cognitively, physically, behaviourally, and emotionally
Learning the strategies to processing the potentially traumatic event
How to access support that frequently starts with personal supports and may require professional supports
Gain the skills, knowledge and insights of how an effective Defusing conversation happens both as a participant and in a facilitation role.