Supporting the mental and emotional wellbeing of staff who support others

Staff Development & Wellbeing Training Sessions are designed to assist staff at all levels in:

  • Addressing common workplace challenges, such as establishing healthy boundaries and finding a balance between work and life
  • Increasing self-awareness about one’s own wellbeing and gaining tools and strategies that support higher levels of wellbeing

Below is the listing of the most commonly requested Staff Development & Wellbeing Sessions:

Communicate Don't Alienate

Communicate with Skill
This session addresses specific approaches to written and verbal communications that can increase efficiency and effectiveness.  Participants will have the opportunity to complete a Personal Action Plan to assist them in carrying key themes and approaches from the program into daily practice.

Communicate in Challenging Situations
This session explores how to act with more confidence when communicating in difficult situations. Participants will identify how body language, beliefs, and delivery impact confidence. They will also explore the ways that passive, aggressive, and assertive approaches to communication may impact effectiveness. Participants will receive support in how to better communicate when asked to offer an opinion and/or take a clear and firm position.

Communicate to Drive Action
This session explores the impact of presence and preparation to facilitate effective meetings and sessions. Participants will address specific approaches to written and verbal communications that can increase efficiency and effectiveness. Participants will also have the opportunity to identify skills for giving and receiving constructive feedback. A Personal Action Plan will be developed, which identifies key themes and approaches that participants want to put into daily practice.

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Staff-Care

Balance is a ‘Verb’: The Real Truth about Self-Care
The experience of ‘balance’ in life can feel very elusive.  We often believe that it is a state to achieve versus the practice of choosing where and how we place our attention and energy.  In this session, participants will explore the role that mindset, boundaries, guilt, and self-compassion play in creating an experience of balance in life.

Caring for Yourself through Mindful Self-Compassion
In this training, participants will explore how bringing kind and caring attention to one’s own thoughts and feelings can provide relief from stress and overwhelm.  Mindfulness tools will be offered that can be practiced in a variety of work and life situations.  These tools will encourage deeper presence, connection, and ways to manage difficulties with more courage and inner strength.

Finding Calm in the Chaos:  Decreasing Stress Through Mindfulness
Participants will explore the connection between how worry creates a feeling of anxiety in the body and how to begin shifting negative thinking patterns through mindful attention and intention. They will also practice various centering and breathing exercises to deepen their awareness of how to create a sense of calm and peacefulness in their body, mind, and heart. No prior experience in mindfulness practice is required.

Navigating Change & Building Resilience
Participants will explore ways to practice self-care during times of change and learn strategies for creating habits of resilience. Building mental and emotional reserves of energy to utilize during times of transition will also be discussed.

Roadmap to Wellbeing: Strategies for Health & Success  (6 hours, onsite only)
In this session, participants will be facilitated through a proprietary coaching process called the Results Roadmap™. They will create a personalized roadmap that identifies key outcomes, goals, and a critical path of steps for success in improving their overall health and well-being. They will also create a 90-day action plan for implementing well-being practices into their work and life. Participants also have an opportunity to reflect on their Core Values and explore making healthy decisions based on what’s important to them.

Shifting from Crisis to Coping to Connection
Participants will self-identify physiological, emotional, and mental states that occur when they experience a crisis. They will explore how to shift from reactive to more responsive states of being, while also discussing how connection to self and others can support healthy and creative outcomes. The experience will include strategies for finding peace and calm in oneself and exploring ways that active listening and empathy can help one powerfully connect to self and others.

Supporting Grief & Loss with Empathy & Compassion
Participants will explore how to support themselves and others when experiences of loss and grief occur, regardless of the reason. The group will discuss how increasing one’s sense of empathy and compassion can provide important balance during these challenging times in work and life.

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Team Effectiveness

Creating Professional Boundaries at Work
No matter our professional role, setting appropriate boundaries is necessary for individuals to feel safe, create healthy relationships, increase effectiveness, and support success. In this session, participants will have an opportunity to develop greater insight into the application of healthy boundaries in the workplace. Scenarios discussed will include setting boundaries with clients, peers, and balancing personal issues at work.

Emotional Intelligence Foundations
Emotions drive our behavior and can either energize us or deplete us. In this session, participants learn how to identify their emotional states and explore how to not let their emotions ‘control them’. Strategies for responding versus reacting to strong emotions will be shared. Self-management techniques and interpersonal skills will be explored to strengthen one’s ability to cultivate meaningful relationships and decrease conflict with others.

Multigenerational Competency in the Workplace
Today’s teams span four generations, each bringing unique experiences, values, and strengths. In this interactive session, participants will explore what unites us across age groups and how to communicate and collaborate more effectively. By examining shared human needs, challenging generational stereotypes, and practicing inclusive approaches, participants will strengthen their ability to build trust, reduce conflict, and foster connection—creating a more engaged and cohesive team environment.

Recognizing & Addressing Imposter Syndrome
Have you ever experienced uncertainty about starting something new – or stepping into a new role? Maybe you’ve heard of ‘Imposter Syndrome’ and wondered if that might be what you are experiencing? Join us as we explore Imposter Syndrome and normalize some of the ‘not-so-sure’ feelings you may experience! We’ll share some signs and behavior patterns that might be getting in your way and also explore ways you can support yourself and others through an Equity and Inclusion lens.

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Trauma Exposure

Addressing Compassion Fatigue & Burnout
Compassion Fatigue and Burnout are states of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. They occur when you feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands … and can leave you feeling devoid of motivation and beyond caring. In this session, participants will identify specific signs of Compassion Fatigue and Burnout and explore the role that connection (to self, to others, and to your team) can make in recharging their energy reserves.

Maintaining Composure in the Face of Hostility: For Staff
Participants will learn how to recognize and regulate their emotional reactions when faced with emotionally charged (anger, rage, rudeness) situations and people. They will explore the role their nervous system plays, identify specific triggers, and learn to respond instead of reacting in these situations. They will also practice simple, yet powerful, de-escalation skills to use in situations of conflict and aggression. Skills utilized will include centering, grounding, and calming techniques based on mindfulness and emotional intelligence principles.

Reducing the Impact of Trauma Exposure & Cultivating Resilience
Participants in this session will learn to identify the signs/symptoms of Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, Burnout, and Moral Distress and will assess how they may be impacted by the nature of the care they provide. They will utilize a Caregiver Well-Being Assessment to identify holistic practices for self-care and long-term resilience.

Expertise and passion were so clear

I have sat through a number of seminars, both in and out of work, designed to assist with self-help. I can honestly say that your training was the first time I was ever entirely engrossed in what I was learning. The tips, tools, and examples were explained in such an engaging way and your expertise and passion were so clear.

I'm more aware of how to incorporate balance within my life

I think that today’s training was very insightful. It definitely made me more aware of the different systems within my life and how to incorporate balance within these systems, whether it be working from home or interacting with family.

Enjoyable and surprisingly interactive

This was my second webinar with TLS, and both have been enjoyable, surprisingly interactive, and meaningful to me and the work that I do!

Presentation was infectious

Excellent job interacting with participants and engaging participants to interact with one another. Your presentation is so infectious I forgot it was a webinar. Truly enjoyed this training.