Training Programs for Educators
- Developing Psychological Hardiness
- Promoting Resiliency in Students and Staff
- Resiliency: The Hope of Overcoming Adversity
These workshops are available by request.
If your organization or group is interested in any these workshops please contact: Sandra Marshall – Coordinator, Training and Development, training@ckmconsultation.com
Developing Psychological Hardiness
New workers to the field often find their first years of practice unsettling. While most training programs have prepared the new worker to manage difficult clinical situations, workers find the stresses of full time practice challenging and often struggle to maintain a psychological equilibrium.
The recent research on work place stress and wellness promotes the ideal of workers learning to create a psychological hardiness in order to be able to endure the rigors of mental health work.
What are the practices that all workers should incorporate in order to protect their mental health and minimize the incidences of secondary trauma?
This workshop will address:
- the issues that are pertinent to new workers in the first years of their practice.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop is designed for workers who are just starting out. It specifically addressed their difficulties and shock of being exposed to certain experiences for the first time. New workers will b e encouraged to establish a life long practice of skills to ensure psychological hardiness.
Promoting Resiliency in Students and Staff
Educators are at the forefront of assisting youth. Many youth struggle with more than the normative issues of growing up. Some youth are facing difficult family problems, addictions, and a pull to join gangs or engage in other anti-social behaviour or have been the victim of any number of kinds of abuse and violence. Some face issues of poverty, homelessness and racism.
This workshop will address:
- how educators and others who work with youth can assist them in learning the skills that will enhance their resiliency.
- as youth learn best by example, this workshop will also explore how staff can utilize the same principles to enhance their own outlook and be a role model for students.
Who Should Attend:
Educators who want to understand how they can promote resiliency skills.
Resiliency: The Hope of Overcoming Adversity
Length: 2 hour presentation
Pain, grief, hurt, loss, betrayal, trauma – these are some of the challenges that are part of the tapestry of our lives. How is it that some survive their painful experiences and others are crushed? How can we use these experiences as opportunities to learn about ourselves and connect with others? In this service we will explore the qualities we can nurture in ourselves and in others to transform pain into something useful, to live life with resiliency.
Who should attend:
Anyone wishing to learn more about how people who are faced with sometimes almost insurmountable obstacles are able to overcome and thrive.