Reflective Training

Reflective supervision, reflective consultation, and reflective practice are terms used for the approaches now considered best practices for providers, supervisors, leadership, and agencies where workplace stress, high turnover, and service quality are significant concerns.

This foundational virtual training provides two half-days and 7 hours of highly interactive, experiential learning for supervisors and leaders in health and human services, including mental health, early childhood education, home visitation, and more.

Utilizing video, journaling, breakout activities, and real-time demonstrations, participants will develop a comprehensive framework for understanding and employing trauma-informed, equity-centered, resilience-focused reflective supervision for every aspect of one’s job, including brave space creation, mindful self-regulation, critical self-reflection, use of reflective questions to promote provider reflective capacity, and virtual facilitation engagement strategies for supervising and leading a remote workforce.

A ‘relationship-based and reflective’ approach has long been synonymous with programs serving children and families. Yet this approach can only truly exist within organizations committed to equity and belonging in the workplace and community. Reflective practice creates brave space for frontline staff to think on their work, its impact on those they serve, as well as on themselves.

This interactive virtual training provides two half-days and 7 hours of highly interactive, experiential learning for providers in health and human services, including mental health, early childhood education, and home visitation.

Utilizing video, journaling, breakout activities, and real-time demonstrations, participants will develop a framework for understanding trauma-informed, equity-centered, resilience-focused reflective practice and supervision, including exploration of parallel process, mindful self-regulation, use of reflective questions to discover deeper contexts, differentiating therapy and supervision, and recognizing the importance of reflective capacity in building relational security.

“All this training was missing is a HUG button. I felt like I understood my work family in a totally different light. The degree in which we all allow our vulnerabilities a spotlight was incredible.” — Attendee

Mindful Parenting is a relationship-based, reflective model emphasizing observation, flexible response, and reflection as core practices to promote childhood attachment security through increasing parental reflective capacity, strengthening positive caregiver-child interactions, and reducing hostile-intrusive caregiving behaviors.

This virtual intensive provides four half-days and 14 hours of highly interactive learning for mental health and early childhood professionals working with very young children (0-3 years) and their families.

Through review of audio-video case material, this model’s core practices will be applied to work with parents, parent-child dyads, and groups, including trauma-informed work with parents whose trauma history challenges parent-child relationship security. This standalone training provides a reflective foundation for work with parents and very young children, and satisfies 14 hours towards the CA Center IFECMH Endorsement. This training is a prerequisite for Level 2 co-facilitation of a 12-week Mindful Parenting Group.

According the US Department of Labor, a record number of 4 million people monthly left their jobs in 2021. This ‘great resignation’ has had unparalleled impacts and prompted consternation across the country. Trauma-informed, equity-centered, resilience-focused Reflective Supervision offers a pathway for having ‘horizontal conversations in the context of a vertical relationship’ and is uniquely positioned to serve as a protective factor against workplace stress. Reflective Supervision provides supervisors with an approach to engage in person-centered conversations that value staff well-being and the work.

This virtual training provides attendees with two half-days and 7 hours of highly interactive, engaged learning for experienced reflective supervisors, managers, and leaders working with frontline staff serving adults, children, and families.

Utilizing video, journaling, breakout activities, and small and large group discussion, participants will center current issues of workplace stress and balancing productivity demands as a supervisor with the need to remember our shared humanity.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. — Albert Einstein

This introductory workshop is specifically designed to introduce supervisors, leaders, facilitators, and changemakers in the infant-family early childhood field to make use of the powerful tools known around the world as Liberating Structures. These 33+ microstructures, developed by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless, include and unleash the voices of everyone in shaping the future together, providing a powerful alternative to more constraining, conventional meeting structures such as presentations or managed discussions. Liberating Structures are designed to create tiny shifts in how teams think and organize, generating trust, collaboration, creativity, and serious fun along the way!

Participants in this half-day, highly interactive virtual workshop will experience 4 to 6 Liberating Structures that may be easily replicated virtually or in-person with your team or organization.