Maria has extensive experience in designing and facilitating workshops. She is available to custom design a workshop for your organization based on your particular training and professional development needs.
Wellness Workshops
Attending to wellness looks different for everyone. The common denominator is that you prevent burnout, exhaustion, and poor health when you attend to your mind, body, and/or spirit in some intentional way.
My wellness workshops cover many aspects of wellness. Here are a few examples:
- Unpacking Burnout
- Self Love (Parts I & II)
- Life Changes: Exploring Metamorphisis
- Imposter Syndrome
- Life Purpose
- Real Self Care: A mini-book club
- Wise Council Process / Decision Making
- Need to vs. Want to: “Shoulding All Over Yourself”
- How to Handle Disappointments & Let Downs
- Ode to Your Body
- Wellness Wheels: Developing a Wellness Plan
- Saying YES & Saying NO in alignment with your wellness
- Inner Wisdom
- Forgiveness Series (Parts I, II, & III)
- New Moon Intention Setting
- Reiki & Writing
Change Cycle
Organizations go through change cycles just as inevitably as human beings. Change can create feelings of loss, confusion, and anger and it can also be an opportunity for growth and transformation. Acknowledgement and open discussion about the change are non-negotiable elements of successful change management. It can also be useful to have a context in which to understand some of the predictable elements of change. Maria often uses The Change Cycle materials, as a framework. She finds these materials provide a very accessible and meaningful way to understand change and what is needed in order to move productively through a change process.
Maria has also written a book on life changes: The Butterfly Series: Fifty-two Weeks of Inquiries for Transformation. The book is a companion to the workshop she teaches on change using the four stages of a butterfly’s development. For more information on how this workshop can be adapted for your team or group, contact Maria.
Effective Communication and Conflict Resolution
Understanding that conflict is a natural part of the human experience, Maria uses her experience in mediation and crisis counseling, to teach skills that help participants use conflict situations to learn more about themselves and about the people with whom they are seeking resolution. Her workshops include modules on:
- Conflict Styles Assessment
- Active Listening Skills
- Effective Communication Techniques
- Problem Solving Methods
- Effective Feedback
Team building & Leadership Development
Teambuilding is one of many ways for an organization to promote group cohesion, trust, and productivity. Typical teambuilding activities include assessing personality profiles and/or leadership styles, analyzing a group’s composite profile, building trust, and cooperative problem-solving. She uses a variety of assessments, evaluations, and exercises to help give a team different ways of thinking about their working relationships, group dynamics, and vision. She is also certified by Stratton Consulting in the Interpersonal Leadership Styles (ILS) Survey and can arrange for this to be a part of her work with your team.