Training & Consulting
Better community response drives lasting impact - impact that will affect our children and future generations, and it starts with each of us.
Below are established training presentations offered to take parents, professionals, and teams to the next level. Not only trauma-informed, but trauma-led policies, practices and responses. For rates, scheduling, or information about working together on a personal strategy for your group or organization, please contact me directly.
How to Drink Water: What the Montana wilderness taught me about working with trauma*
Join me on a personal journey through Big Sky, Montana. How to Drink Water focuses on how we take care of ourselves so that we can better care for those we seek to help. Through storytelling, we’ll examine how exposure to trauma changes brain chemistry, explore coping patterns, common themes, and confront how our problems, vices, and hangups serve a function. I’ll guide you through the application of intermediate-level techniques to process, reframe, and initiate lasting change within yourself that will transform how you interact with others both personally and professionally. As helpers, we give so much to supporting others. I created this one for you and to support you. Let’s go on an adventure.
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The Whole-Brain Child Workshop
Based on the works of Dr. Dan Siegel, Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, and Dr. Bruce Perry, The Whole-Brain Child workshop breaks down what is truly ‘age appropriate behavior’, what drives that behavior, and how to respond to it in a way that helps your child become more secure, more resilient, and more ready for the world as they grow. The workshop will ask you to connect with how you want to show up as a thriving parent or caregiver. We will dive into the real life challenges you are having at home and give you an abundance of useable skills to navigate parenting in a truly connected and fulfilling relationship with your child. We’ll laugh, share, and maybe cry, but in the end we will come out empowered. After the workshop, you will have the choice to meet with me for follow up support sessions as you practice implementing the skills that best fit your family. Group rates available for parents.
Trauma Informed Communication*
Communication goes far beyond our words and for victims or witnesses of crime, our body language, tone, and expression speak to their sense of safety before our words do. Safety emerges in the presence of connection but connection cannot be passively assumed, it must be intentional. Learn how to recognize what influences your window of tolerance, the role of implicit biases, and how to deescalate heightened moments using clinically driven communication techniques. This training can be adapted to support businesses or organizations that are seeking to strengthen internal streams of communication or increase morale.
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Generational Trauma: Why the present echos the past and how to break free*
The question that has been researched since the origin of psychology: what shapes who we are and what we become? Examine the influence of nature vs. nurture as we look at how social factors, genetics and experience shape personality traits and behaviors like addiction, parenting, abuse, betrayal, and interpersonal violence. This training shines a light on the ‘why’ of generational trauma and brings you face to face with the hard work of breaking deeply rooted cycles in micro and macro systems.
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Brain Talk: a trauma and behavior series*
Welcome to the Brain Talk series: a cumulative training series that leads you through the influence of experiences on behavior across childhood. At its core, the Brain Talk series is built on the belief that behavior is communication. Understanding what compels it is the first step toward creating positive, lasting change. Brain Talk goes beyond learning about the impacts of trauma and adversity on children by teaching you how to effectively address the nervous system - the key to reversing damaging effects of traumatic experiences. Pairing clinically informed techniques with relatable content examples equips caregivers and professionals alike to better regulate themselves and others, and to model healthier relationships at any age.