Having strong virtual facilitation skills are essential in creating a psychologically safe environment where each participant feels seen and heard. These ecosystems of belonging create a learning environment where participants can reflect, learn and unite with others using their individual and collective gifts to reach a shared goal. This interactive enlightenment session will explore promising practices to integrate into your online facilitation tool belt. Participants will learn how to create a safe and supportive learning environment that builds trust, creativity,…

COVID provided an opportunity to explore and expand how we engaged with residents and how we offered services as we shifted from in-person to virtual programming. Providing a program virtually came with its own set of challenges. It also allowed us to slow down and engage in ways that offered psychological safety and inner strength to support our physical safety during a national pandemic. We have learned that we can create a culture where people feel safe, engaged, and deeply…

To be in service to others does not mean to be in sacrifice to oneself.  There is growing evidence that the impact of directly supporting others through experiences of trauma, oppression, and poverty, goes beyond burnout or fatigue.  The toll of constantly witnessing and holding space for heavily charged human emotions and experiences can distort views about the self, the world, and the future. Individuals who have chosen to be in service to others, often sacrifice their mental, physical, emotional,…

To be in service to others does not mean to be in sacrifice to oneself. There is growing evidence that the impact of directly supporting others through experiences of trauma, oppression, and poverty, goes beyond burnout or fatigue. The toll of constantly witnessing and holding space for heavily charged human emotions and experiences can distort views about the self, the world, and the future. Individuals who have chosen to be in service to others, often sacrifice their mental, physical, emotional,…