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Facilitator Skills

Essential and accessible lessons for on-the-ground leaders who lead and support participants in global experiences

All The Skills You Need To Run Successful  Programming

 
Let's face it: Taking young adults abroad is not an easy task, let alone a whole group of them.  In our Facilitator Skills you can learn essential content for on-the-ground professionals to lead successful international programs for young adults with an intentional focus on mental health and wellbeing. 

 

All sessions are delivered live with full recordings and resources/handouts accessible anytime.

 

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Facilitator Skills: Spring 2024 Series

Access all four Spring 2024 trainings: all sessions will start at 12P ET and will be recorded. Student Disclosure (now available on-demand) "Difficult" Students and the Need for Resiliency (now available on-demand) Handling a Mental Crisis On-the-Ground  Handing Prescription and Medication Issues 

$100.00 USD

Facilitator Skills: Summer/Fall 2024 Series

Access all four Summer/Fall 2024 trainings: all sessions will start at 12P ET and will be recorded.  Session topics:  "I'm Triggered"--Identities and Mental Health 6/21/24 noon ET Fostering Healthy Group Dynamics 8/23/24 noon ET Managing Anxiety/OCD during Travel 9/20/24 noon ET Burnout and You 10/19/24 noon ET

$100.00 USD

Why Didn't They Tell Us? Student Disclosure

Young adult participants don't disclose their mental health information to their global travel provider for a number of reasons.  So what do you do when you find out, in-country, that their are mental health needs that need attention?  Licensed therapists share skills, resources, and best practices for facilitating psychological resiliency amidst the known change of international travel experiences.  This session is a 60-minute session meant for all on-the-ground professionals.   Available on-demand.

$30.00 USD

"I'm triggered!" --Identity Politics and Mental Health

What does "being triggered" mean? What are "triggers"? Are you students reporting being triggered? Are you triggered by them? In this session, we lay some groundwork for understanding the mental health elements behind social trends of (1) conceptualizing our identities, (2) the impacts of defining our selves and experiences relative to one another, (3) differentiating trauma and stress, (4) how these tendencies may present challenges unique to study abroad, and (5) strategies to scaffold and contextualize understanding and more flexible, helpful alternatives.

$30.00 USD

Difficult Students and The Need for Resiliency

Study abroad is itself removing comforts and adding stressors. We know that is a great recipe for growth and it seems to increasingly be a recipe for students to struggle and even withdraw from programming. In this session, we'll talk about how to set the stage for resiliency: how to prime students for encountering the challenge, build their capability to tolerate the discomfort, learn about themselves and the world, enjoy the unique experience, and return home with a more flexible, mature, and healthy perspective on life. 

$30.00 USD

Fostering Healthy Group Dynamics

You may have heard of the stages of group dynamics: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. In this session, we elaborate on recommendations to establish a model for group travel experiences that invites optimal academic and personal growth outcomes by utilizing mental health-informed best practices before, during, and after travel. We'll offer practical examples and tools on protecting against unhelpful disruption to the group; fostering healthy disruption of individuals' typical routines; and facilitating individual, interpersonal, and reflective learning.  

$30.00 USD

OMG. Managing Mental Health Crisis Abroad

When crises occur, it is usually the on-the-ground staff who are required to be the first responders, even though they are not specialized in mental health management. When crises loom often or are impactful, burnout of those non-mental health first responders may be an additional stressor upon programming.    This session will focus on best practices in what on-the ground staff should do during and after a mental or behavioral health crisis: what to say and how to say it, who to mobilize and what resources to engage, and how to recover.  

$30.00 USD

Managing Anxiety/OCD during Travel

Reports of anxiety have increased significantly across the last few years, as has use of medication, participation in treatment, and requests for academic and work accomodations. Often overlooked and/or misidentified but a subset of anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is not uncommon (and it isn't about being organized or clean). In this session, we'll talk about these most common diagnoses and symptoms (for folks without or who haven't disclosed a diagnosis) and how to best manage them -- importantly, what works best isn't to ignore them, try to get rid of them, or pathologize them. We'll provide tips and tools to proactively set up your participants for success before travel, across appropriately anxiety-provoking adventures (like all the things that are study abroad), and how to lean in and cope despite challenges.

$30.00 USD

What do I do?! Prescription and Medication Issues Abroad

Many young people are taking prescribed medications to treat mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, panic, and ADHD. Medications are often challenging to manage at home or on campus, and can be much more problematic across travel, with potentially serious physical and mental health consequences when stopped.    In this course, we'll talk about how and why to plan ahead for meds while abroad: tips for collaboration with students, tips for students to collaborate with their prescribers, strategies to ensure necessary coverage, resources to plan, and what to do when things don't go as planned.  

$30.00 USD

Burnout and You

International work is exciting, fulfilling, unique, and uniquely demanding: divergent timezones and currency, divergent contexts and customs and languages, divergent risks and needs; students, parents, faculty, administrators, community members, institutions...oh! And you: your health, family, friends, and life outside of the "9-5." In this session, we'll talk about what burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma are and how to prevent and manage them -- from an institutional and individual level, including differentiating burnout from depression, empathy from compassion; establishing and setting personal and professional boundaries; and enacting and modeling self care.

$30.00 USD

We are licensed clinical mental health counselors.

With over 30 years of combined experience, we leverage our expertise in mental health, educational psychology, and education leadership and policy to give your program the best outcomes.

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