Kristi Nigh, MSW, LCSW, CPCC, PCC, CDWFOwner & Professional Coach, Kristi Nigh Coaching Sorry, this class is full. Click below to join the waitlist. This workshop will be conducted in a virtual Zoom meeting format. 3 CEUs This course examines the impact of perfectionism on how women live, love, parent, and lead. We will discuss perfectionism as a strategy that women use to avoid shame while learning approaches for addressing shame and perfectionism in our female clients. We will also consider and address the ways that perfectionism can impede women from being their best selves as service providers. This course includes multiple exercises for cultivating compassion and developing shame resilience skills in our clients and ourselves. General Admission: $60** Class…

Krista Junge, MSEdDirector, Quality & Training, BJC HealthcareAdjunct Faculty, Brown School Sorry, this class is full. Click below to join the waitlist. This workshop will be conducted in a virtual Zoom meeting format. 3 CEUs/CPH units When an employee is not meeting job expectations, any number of factors may be the cause. The reason for poor performance and its likely duration are key factors in sound decisions about how a manager might best respond. This workshop you will give you greater ability to diagnose the root cause of employee low performance and take appropriate action to help the employee improve or move on. We will practice skills in diagnosing problems of skill vs. will and other root causes of performance…

Lorien Carter, MSWProfessor of Practice, Brown School Preferred registration deadline: September 29th This workshop will be held in person at the Brown School 3 CEU/CPH units Whether it’s orienting people to their jobs, required training for compliance, or skill-building professional development, most workplaces make significant investments in training their teams. However, all too often these training approaches are designed without leveraging what is known about how adults learn new skills and retain information. This workshop will enhance participants’ understanding of how adult employees typically like to be engaged. We will discuss formal learning opportunities (through staff and HR training) as well as informal ones (as members of teams and departments). Participants will be engaged as adult learners to demonstrate how…

Dewitt Campbell, MSWClient Engagement Manager, NCCJ St. Louis Preferred registration deadline: September 29th This workshop will be held in person at the Brown School 3 CEUs/CPH units Many of us were raised to avoid conversations that focus on our differences. And we can be uncomfortable with conflict that may arise when we or others are held accountable for the harm we may have caused. As a result, we have developed limited communication skills across our many differences, especially differences in identity (race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, and more), experience, and thought. This lack of skill has contributed to a deterioration in our basic civility and engagement across our differences. This workshop will explore the societal need for us to…

Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhDBetty Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professor of Social Policy, Brown SchoolCo-Director, Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging, Institute for Public Health Natalie Galucia, MSWManager, Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging, Institute for Public Health Preferred registration deadline: October 6th This workshop will be conducted in a virtual Zoom meeting format. 3 CEUs In our society, ageism is pervasive, invisible, and harmful to individuals and communities. Age bias affects both young and old, regardless of identity. As a society, we are living longer and we are seeing ageism continue to show itself more than ever, in healthcare, the workplace, media, politics, and our day-to-day lives. In order to move forward in an equitable way, we must advance another narrative; that regardless of…

Ed ReggiCertified Practitioner of Applied Improvisation Sorry, this class is full. Click below to join the waitlist. This workshop will be conducted in a virtual Zoom meeting format. 3 CEUs Join us for a highly interactive workshop to help you identify and practice the communication skills that contribute to a positive work culture and promote a free exchange of ideas. Through a series of guided exercises, rooted in the tenets of Compassionate Communication and Applied Improvisation, we will examine communication patterns that lead to mistrust and lack of empathy in the workplace. We will then consider how to achieve more productive patterns, with particular attention to communication occurring as people are working remotely. Participants will engage in communication exercises to…