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Specialized Training Programs
When a Client Dies: Healing & Recovery in the Workplace
When a client dies many people are affected, including the professionals who have been either directly or indirectly involved with the client and their family. Clients might die due to natural causes such as a poor health condition, and sadly clients also die due to tragic and traumatic circumstances such as homicide, suicide and child abuse. This specialized 1-day program provides insights and strategies for the professional and the organization dealing with the aftermath of a client’s death.
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Post-Strike Recovery
This workshop is designed to assist managers and staff to bring closure following a strike or significant labour disruption. It enhances personal and organizational resilience in the aftermath of a strike, and supports positive future planning and development. Typically, post-strike environments feature extensive accumulations of events and experiences that have occurred over extended periods of time, within complex social environments. Thus, the post-strike recovery process requires a comprehensive approach.
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Maintaining Wellness While Coping With High Risk/High Needs Clients & Personnel
This workshop has been specifically designed for staff dealing with particularly challenging clients, members of the public and/or organizational personnel. In particular we are concerned with staff who have to deal with high risk individuals who present with hostility, threatening behaviours, verbal abuse, or physical aggression. We are equally concerned about staff exposure to high needs individuals who present with multiple needs, are often highly distressed, and may be in very difficult or tragic circumstances. This workshop has two components. The first half of the program focuses on managing high risk/high needs individuals, while the second half is concerned with the self-care needs of staff who deal with these challenging people.
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Grief and Loss in the Workspace
This 1-day specialized workshop addresses the issues related to loss and bereavement in the workplace. When a co-worker or colleague suffers catastrophic illness or injury, is the victim of violence, or dies, the impact can be profound for coworkers, clients, and others in the professional community. When tragedy befalls someone we know, we all react at many levels and within the context of our own lives and histories. This specialized program provides insights and strategies for the professional and the organization dealing with the loss of a colleague.
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Coping With Change in the Workplace
This 1-day intensive workshop is specifically designed for staff experiencing significant workplace transition and/or restructuring. It will enhance employees’ abilities to cope in healthy ways with the changes in their personal and work lives that will be necessitated by the restructuring and/or transition. It will assist employees’ to function effectively as individuals in their work and personal lives, and will help them to function effectively as a working team, both during and after the period of transition.
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Care for the Caregivers: Imperatives & Obstacles
This 1-day workshop has been specifically designed for professionals providing care to high need populations (eg., health care, social services, counselling and psychological services, pastoral care, etc.). Effective and sustainable self-care is critical for individuals who work under such demanding conditions.