These individual workshops are each 2-4 hours long and can be taken in any order. Register for as many workshops as you would like as your schedule allows. Descriptions of each workshop can be found below.
The emotional and physical cost of being an engaged and empathetic caregiver can be an occupational hazard. Considering the potential impact of vicarious and secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burn-out, caregivers are provided with critical steps in identifying signs and symptoms of each.
Additionally, practical skills and a commitment to self-care are an integral part of this interactive workshop.
2 Hour Workshop
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*One Penn Center, 1617 JFK Boulevard, Suite 1705, Philadelphia, PA
The emotional and physical cost of being an engaged and empathetic caregiver can be an occupational hazard. Considering the potential impact of vicarious and secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burn-out, caregivers are provided with critical steps in identifying signs and symptoms of each.
Additionally, practical skills and a commitment to self-care are an integral part of this interactive workshop.
2 Hour Workshop
Available Dates & Formats:
*One Penn Center, 1617 JFK Boulevard, Suite 1705, Philadelphia, PA
The emotional and physical cost of being an engaged and empathetic caregiver can be an occupational hazard. Considering the potential impact of vicarious and secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burn-out, caregivers are provided with critical steps in identifying signs and symptoms of each.
Additionally, practical skills and a commitment to self-care are an integral part of this interactive workshop.
2 Hour Workshop
Available Dates & Formats:
*One Penn Center, 1617 JFK Boulevard, Suite 1705, Philadelphia, PA
The emotional and physical cost of being an engaged and empathetic caregiver can be an occupational hazard. Considering the potential impact of vicarious and secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burn-out, caregivers are provided with critical steps in identifying signs and symptoms of each.
Additionally, practical skills and a commitment to self-care are an integral part of this interactive workshop.
2 Hour Workshop
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Enhancing cultural competence and encouraging cultural humility is essential to increasing access and improving the standard of care for traumatized children, families, and communities.
Cultural awareness, responsiveness, and understanding need to be infused at every level to be effective in addressing the needs of those who have experienced trauma.
With both presentation and group interaction, participants will identify forces that contribute to behaviors that build or decrease emotional health in individuals and systems.
4 Hour Workshop
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Recommended training: Trauma 107: Trauma-Informed Cultural Sensitivity
This workshop provides information the subject of racism with a focus on defining basic aspects and components of racism, historic racism and researcher bias:
Additionally, time will be spent integrating trauma principles to highlight the profound impact of racism while offering ideas with regard to the responsibilities of white and BIPOC to actively promote anti-racism and socially equality. There are opportunities for individual reflection and constructive conversations among participants to allow consideration of action steps to take as individuals, communities and a society to challenge and change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors around race.
4 Hour Workshop
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Active Listening is perhaps the single most important skill a person can employ. At the same time, it is a highly refined skill that is more than simply hearing what someone is saying. It involves understanding and appreciating someone’s experience, feelings, perspectives and interpretations.
Active Listening is an intentional way of communicating that involves many steps. One’s abilities as a There is always room for growth as a Listener. Join us to learn new skills or work to refine and better understand the skills you already employ.
2 Hour Workshop
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One of the most powerful effects of Active Listening is the emotional catharsis that occurs. Catharsis occurs without any reassurance or advice on the part of the Listener. This workshop will build on the content from Effective Communication (part 1) to further promote trust and connection in relationship by exploring the power of continuum language and the nuances, principles and cautions that accompany I-Messages.
2 Hour Workshop
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Professionals are often in the position of having to assess and find ways to meet the needs of others. By becoming clearer about the nature of needs and some ways to better understand, identify and classify needs, professionals can be more intentional about their responses. Affirmations are messages that empower people by validating their right to exist, feel, think, behave, grow and have their needs met. Professionals can be intentional in affirming others and in expanding their tool belt in the development of affirming statements.
2 Hour Workshop
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A two-hour workshop that explores relational integrity, membership circles, the nature and principles of relationships and the relational bridge image.
2 Hour Workshop
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In order to understand any child it is necessary to consider the complexity and interrelated components that make up the child as a whole person, unique and unrepeatable. Professionals will benefit from exploring the broad cycles of development associated with ages, the child’s task at each developmental stage and how various aspects of uniqueness, such as temperament, environment and maturity influence behavior. Using LGI’s acronyms of PIES-RMS and ADUMS, professionals will be equipped with tools to explain to adults what is going on in the children they interact with. Note: This workshop will not explore neurodiversity. LGI is currently developing a separate workshop that will focus on neurodiversity as a component of the Whole Child.
2 Hour Workshop
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Because every human being enters the world as a member of a family and because each human being cannot exist, grow, learn or thrive without being part of a group that provides safety and an environment that adequately meets their basic needs, it is essential that professionals are aware, understand and respect the complex and powerful relational forces that are part of a family. This workshop will explore the information around families so grow their understanding, leading to greater respect and nurture of healthier families.
3 Hour Workshop
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This three-hour workshop focuses on the development of core beliefs and how these core beliefs impact a person’s self-esteem. We also consider the principles and foundation of healthy self-esteem as well as messages that damage developing self-esteem.
3 Hour Workshop
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This three-hour workshop will explore various expressions of neurodivergence through the lenses of how these variations impact child development and parenting.
3 Hour Workshop
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