Center for Mindfulness and Justice
Training & Consulting
Our organizational consulting and training is especially designed for professionals working in the non-profit sector and public service, governmental departments. Additionally, we also provide services for organizations and employees in all sectors.
Available Training & Consulting
Organizational Consulting
We design and facilitate specific training for organizations experiencing myriad difficulties, from dysfunctional communication to quality-improvement strategies.
Health & Wellness Training
This focuses on the emotional health and wellness of employees, whether police officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, correctional officers, probation and parole agents, victim advocates, nurses, teachers or other helping professionals. This includes training on how to be aware of – and prevent – the dysfunctional effects of the job on employees and their families, including secondary trauma.
Snapshot
"The Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WCADV) hired Cheri as an organizational consultant & trainer to provide a day and a half workshop for our staff during a time of upheaval and transition. Cheri spent time meeting with management and with a representative group of staff in order to analyze our needs and to understand the concerns and fears that were rampant in the organization at the time. She crafted a workshop that spoke to the issues, that validated both staff and managers, and that ultimately provided a road map to strategies and solutions. Cheri's work with our staff was reassuring and made a real difference in aiding our organization to begin the process of healing and stability."
Mindfulness Training
We teach how to incorporate mindfulness into your personal life, your work life and the collective work of which you are a part.
Ethics Training
Boundary and confidentiality issues are at the heart of this training – both when working with co-workers and with consumers of your services. This includes identifying and eradicating unconscious and unwritten rules of agreement in yourself and your organization that lead to problematic behaviors.
Diversity Training
Unconscious bias can enter into various individual and organizational decision-making points, which is crucial to recognize and understand. We examine unconscious bias and create work environments that enable everyone to use their multiple and creative talents.
Fostering Healthy Communication & Conflict Resolution
We teach how to create guidelines and buy-in to foster healthy communication and reduce conflict in your workplace or organization. This includes training tools for mediating individual and team conflicts.
Team Building
We provide tools that foster employees' ability to understand their own and each others' learning and communication patterns. This builds more effective communication and productivity within and among teams.
Creating/Running Project Teams
We address a common organizational challenge: how to design teams that are functional and pass through defined stages of group development with ease.
Team Leader/ Facilitator Training
We train team members and leaders to run project groups and other groups effectively. This includes how to accomplish the tasks of the group more effectively with processes that are effective for all – and not just some – members (please also see Planning & Running Effective Meetings).
Supervisory & Leadership Training
Don't we yearn for true leadership? This is a vast need. We focus on going beyond being a supervisor or a manager by providing inspirational leadership to get the work done.
Planning & Running Effective Meetings
Most of us spend an excessive amount of time in meetings. It is important that the meetings in our organizations are planned and run effectively so that valuable time is not wasted. This requires knowledge on how to properly build agendas; lead, facilitate and evaluate meetings; and effectively define and accomplish missions, tasks and ground rules within a framework of functional group norms and behaviors.
To schedule a training or consultation
Please contact Maureen Brady: info@mindfulnessandjustice.org