“Seventy per cent of Canadian employees are concerned about the psychological health and safety of their workplace, and 14 per cent don’t think theirs is healthy or safe at all. Such workplaces can take a detrimental personal toll as well as contribute to staggering economic costs.”

What if…your employees have unhealthy levels of, or attitudes about, stress?

This workshop explores the profound impact our choices, thoughts, and language can have on well-being, particularly in the area of dealing with stress. It teaches participants that it’s more productive to have a healthy mindset about stress—and tools for managing it—than it is to avoid it. 

Take-away: Participants will reframe the role of stress in their lives and acquire simple mindfulness tools for managing it.

This workshop is offered in ½ day, full day, lunch and learn or webinar formats. 

What if…productivity and morale is suffering because employees neglect self-care?

This workshop teaches participants about intentional steps they can take to increase their well-being. This includes creating opportunities for fun and practicing self-compassion and mindfulness. 

Take-away: Participants will create a list of at least three self-identified “soul vitamins” that will support their well-being at home and at work.

This workshop is offered in ½ day, full day, lunch and learn or webinar formats.

What if…your employees are feeling depressed, defensive, and unable to learn from their mistakes, thus affecting culture and productivity?

This workshop allows participants to explore the three components of a self-compassion practice (based on Kristin Neff’s research): self-kindness, mindfulness, and common humanity. They will learn evidence-based skills for overcoming the self-criticism that negatively impacts performance and well-being.

People who practice self-compassion are proven to exercise higher levels of personal responsibility, than those who don't practice. As well those who integrate self-compassion into their lives are more likely to offer compassion to others, impacting the overall culture of a workplace. 

Takeaway: Participants will acquire tools for developing their own self-compassion practice.

Read this UC Berkley article about self-compassion and the workplace.

and the Power of Language

What if…your employees are disengaged, critical and conflict-prone?

This workshop explores how worldviews and implicit personal biases can create conflict and disengagement. In particular, it teaches participants about how a problem/deficit-based paradigm can sap motivation and destroy connection, whereas a strengths-based approach can build strong, inspired communities.

Take-away: Participants will acquire tools for challenging their implicit biases and supporting connection and engagement at work through a strengths-based approach.

This workshop is offered in ½ day, full day, lunch and learn or webinar formats.

What if…your employees are unfocussed and fragmented, and this is affecting the people served by your agency?

This is an essential process for ALL organizations and businesses.

Core values are pretty standard for most organizations, yet they tend to be lip service. Most agencies don’t understand the power that core values yield in guiding both the large vision, and small every day choices. Well-defined, inspiring core values can change everything.

Together your team will:

• Develop meaningful core values (beyond bland words, like “respect”). You will be supported to find deeper more meaningful values that will guide your organization

• Dig into the values and create a plan on how they will integrate into all parts of the organization

• Create a plan for how ALL employees will learn and integrate these values into their work.
  

Takeaway: This is a group work session. The team will create a set of core values, and a plan on how they will become a guidepost for everyday decisions.

This workshop is offered in a 4 hour or 1-2 full day format (in-person or online).  

What if…your employees have poor boundaries and resulting burnout and interpersonal conflict?

This workshop helps participants explore the importance of saying no, and creating priorities based on their values and how they want to feel. It touches on Stephen Covey’s Four Quadrants from his book First Things First, allowing participants to reflect on what is essential or sacred to them.

Takeaway: Participants will identify one thing they want to make a priority in their life, as well as what they will say no to in order to clear space for the sacred.

This workshop is offered in ½ day, full day, lunch and learn or webinar formats.

What if…your employees are spinning their wheels, unable to break free from the "we've always done it this way" cycle?

Generative=Creative/Growth/New Possibilities

This workshop teaches the key principles of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), a strength-based approach to growth and change that harnesses the best of what already IS, and builds on those strengths. Participants will learn that when they are focused on “problem-solving” they stay stuck in a problem–focused paradigm. Alternatively, when they focus on building upon strengths, they can create expansive and forward–focused cultures.

Takeaway: Participants will be able to articulate the philosophy of Appreciative Inquiry, and implement it into their work. 

This workshop is offered in ½ day, full day or lunch and learn formats.

Belonging and Feeling Safe at Work

What if...your employees are not functioning as a team. People are gossiping and complaining about each other, and management. People are continuously missing work.

In order to fully participate at work, people need to feel safe. This is based in biology. If someone is feeling unsafe their sympathetic nervous system is engaged (the place where the fight, flight, & freeze response is activated) then people simply can’t do their best work.

People need to feel safe to do their best work.

In this workshop learn the important leadership principles needed to create a culture of wellness and safety.

Takeaway: Participants will understand the foundational leadership aspects needed to create a culture of wellness and safety. These principles are grounded in trauma-informed practice.

a new paradigm for goal setting

What if...your employees aren't contributing to their full potential. They are unfocused and unclear of their strengths and purpose.

As Simon Sinek says "People don’t buy what you do; they buy WHY you do it.
And what you do simply proves what you believe."

In this workshop we participants will explore their "WHY" through an interactive environment. They will be guided through a process that will shine a light on their strengths, and bring clarity to their purpose and vision. Employees who lead by strengths and understand their purpose are more productive and inspired! 

Takeaway: Participants will be clearer on their strengths. They will be clear on their personal vision and how that vision intersects with their role at work. 

This workshop is offered in ½ day, full day or lunch and learn formats.