Training Workshops for Community Leaders

This workshop is most suitable for those who want to understand anxiety in children/youth. 

There is currently an epidemic of anxiety affecting children/youth, which can take many forms including obsessions, compulsions, phobias, panic, sleep issues, physical illnesses, as well as a host of perplexing behaviours. Today’s world can create many challenges for adolescents with school pressures, peer interactions, family dynamics, negative self-image, perfectionism, and many other stressors that impede a teen’s ability to learn and mature. Whether it’s the natural, episodic worries or more profound and crippling versions of anxiety, this workshop will help make sense of the roots of anxiety and will suggest ways in which educators, helping professionals, and parents can help support adolescents experiencing anxiety.

This workshop will focus on making sense of the world of anxiety for children as they experience it.  We will discuss the roots of anxiety and use our understanding of such to inform knowledgeable responses and supports for the children we are growing up who might be struggling with too much worry. The goal will be to provide participants with a developmentally sensitive and practical approach to understanding worry and transforming it into wonder.

Learning Objectives:

• Help professionals and parents make sense of the roots of anxiety
• List common vulnerabilities which teens face that are too much to bear and outline how the brain defends against this wounding
• Provide solutions to help reduce symptoms of anxiety and help the teen mature
• Supporting anxious children in the school, church, community setting

This workshop is usually limited to 20 spaces.

This workshop is most suitable for ministry leaders, teachers, parents and caregivers

Suicide Prevention Training is a brief training session for anyone who wishes to develop skills and confidence in helping another who may be at risk of suicide.  The basic knowledge and practiced techniques acquired through this workshop can be extremely effective in preparing participants to reach out to someone in crisis and assist him or her to access appropriate professional services. Knowing what to say and what to do can save a life. Join us for this training workshop and become one of the many community members who can help.

This interactive training program is designed to teach ministry/youth leaders in how to detect, assess, and manage acute suicide risk in persons considering ending their own lives, inclusive of how to immediately intervene to lower near-term danger and set up a collaborative safety and referral plan.

This workshop is usually limited to 12 spaces due to the hands-on activities involved. 

This workshop is most suitable for those who want to learn practical techniques for managing stress.

Workshop participants will learn about the nature of stress, how it affects them, and the health benefits of stress management. They will be guided through techniques of relaxation, self-care and develop an awareness of how thought patterns can contribute to, or alleviate stress. Participants will learn to use Cognitive Behaviour Therapy techniques to modulate their stress response.

Topics that can be discussed:

• Contemplative listening & prayer
• Mindfulness
• Sleep
• Anxiety and worry
• Thought patterns
• Health, Nutrition and wellbeing
• Assertiveness & Self-esteem
• Self-Care & Relaxation
• Counselling & Spiritual Direction

This workshop is usually limited to 12 spaces due to the hands-on activities involved. 

This workshop is most suitable for those who want to learn practical techniques for managing stress.

Workshop participants will learn about the nature of stress, how it affects them, and the health benefits of stress management. They will be guided through techniques of relaxation, self-care and develop an awareness of how thought patterns can contribute to, or alleviate stress. Participants will learn to use Cognitive Behaviour Therapy techniques to modulate their stress response.

Topics that can be discussed:

• Contemplative listening & prayer
• Mindfulness
• Sleep
• Anxiety and worry
• Thought patterns
• Health, Nutrition and wellbeing
• Assertiveness & Self-esteem
• Self-Care & Relaxation
• Counselling & Spiritual Direction

This workshop is usually limited to 12 spaces due to the hands-on activities involved. 

Healing the Wounds of Trauma: Supporting Recovery (Part 1)    

Topics discussed:

-What is Trauma?

-Types of Trauma

-What’s happening in Our setting?

-Trauma, the body and the brain

-How can you support recovery?

-How can the Church body help support recovery?

Healing the Wounds of Trauma:  Treating Trauma Over Time (Part 2)

 Topics discussed:

-Role of the Helper

-Stage One:  Stabilization and Safety

-Stage Two:  Separating Past from Present and Future

-Stage Three:  Rebuilding Balance and Connection

-Signs of Health

-Vicarious Trauma