WORKSHOP OFFERINGS

Shifting from what is wrong to what is strong.

Solution-Focused Counseling in Schools

  • Explore key strategies of SFC including fostering collaborative relationships with "resistant" students, setting meaningful goals, asking change-focused questions, and emphasizing students strengths and resources.

  • Learn how to collect feedback and empower small changes.

  • The workshop includes demonstrations, videotapes, experiential exercises, and practice activities to ensure immediate application of techniques in educational settings.

Solution-Focused Counseling (or “Therapy”) with Children, Adolescents, and Families

  • Explore key techniques including fostering collaborative relationships, developing practical goals, creating interventions based on strengths and resources, and systematically collecting client feedback.

  • Experience demonstrations, videotapes, experiential exercises, and practice activities that help you immediately apply solution-focused practice in your work.

Doing What Works in Trauma-Informed Care: Evidence-Based Strategies

  • Learn about the power of therapeutic relationships, responsiveness, and other key skills in trauma-informed care.

  • See and practice evidence-based strategies for strengthening relationships, responsiveness, and other ingredients of therapeutic success.

  • Customize trauma-informed services one client at a time.

  • Improve your outcomes and overall effectiveness by applying evidence-based strategies of change.

You Can’t Re-Arrange the Furniture Unless You’re Invited into the House: Relationship-Building Strategies for School Practitioners

  • Describes the powerful role of relationships in school-based counseling, consultation, and intervention.

  • Provides practical, evidence-based strategies for building cooperative relationships with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others.

  • Includes real-time demonstrations, videos, and practice exercises that enable practitioners to immediately apply relationship-building techniques in their work.

When Everything You've Tried Hasn't Worked: Creative Techniques for Difficult School Behavior Problems

  • Learn creative techniques for addressing difficult problems that are unresponsive to conventional methods.

  • See and practice how to “do something different” by being unpredictable, reframing the problem, using change-focused language, interviewing the internalized other, and more.

  • Experience live demonstrations, videos, and practice exercises that bring workshop content to life and encourage you to apply it the very next day on the job.

Practical Strategies for Working with Parents in Schools

  • Learn practical strategies for partnering with parents to address difficult school problems.

  • See and practice respectful strategies with “resistant” parents to facilitate student success and change.

  • Experience live demonstrations, real-life examples, videos, and other activities that help you apply workshop content to parent consultation and counseling, parent-school meetings, parent education, and more.

Interviewing Students for School Solutions

  • Learn step-by-step methods of interviewing behaviorally challenging preschool through secondary students based on the presenter’s book Conducting Student-Driven Interviews.

  • Practice various interviewing strategies that empower students to resolve school problems and improve their lives.

  • Experience live demonstrations, real-life examples, videos, and other activities that help you implement language and questioning techniques to connect with hard-to-reach students and strengthen their participation in school-based counseling and intervention.

Using Systematic Client Feedback to Improve Outcomes

  • Learn about the Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS), an ultra-brief, evidence-based, culturally responsive approach to improving client outcomes and enhancing your effectiveness as a provider.

  • Practice using two research-supported tools for using session-by-session client feedback to adjust services and give people voice and choice in their care.

  • Experience live demonstrations, videos, and activities that bring workshop content to life and encourage you to apply it the very next day on the job.

The Power of Hope: Practical Strategies for Building Hope with Students, Teachers, and Parents

  • Explore the concept of hope and its significance in the change and growth process.

  • Practice future-focused questions, exploring small successes, and other “resource activation” techniques.

  • Experience live demonstrations, videos, targeted exercises, and other activities that bring hope-instilling strategies to life and encourage you to immediately apply them in your work.