Instructor-Led Training
Volunteer Safety Training
Development Tool Canva, Vyond, Google Docs
Client Santa Cruz City Schools: Monarch Community School
Summary This half-day live training overviews the organization's safety guidelines and emergency response procedures and demonstrates how volunteers can apply Positive Discipline in their interventions.
Challenge MCS relies on parents in supervisory roles, yet parents are not effectively trained to do so. This can lead to mismanagement of risk and conflict, overstretched school personnel and physical or emotional harm.rm to students
Solution Through an interactive learning experience that includes reflections, written prompts, and skill-building practice applications, learners gain competency and confidence.
Results Volunteer supervisors feel more confident in their knowledge and ability to intervene in out-of-bounds behavior.
Participant Guide
Presentation
Facilitator Guide
Beyond Esalen: Communities of Practice
Development Tool Google Suite, Zoom
Client Esalen
Summary This six-month pilot program developed alumni Communities of Practice (COP) to broaden Esalen's mission off-campus, grounding their trainings in the lives of alumni worldwide.
Challenge Esalen provides transformative trainings and retreats, but once alumni return to their home communities, the impact and connection to Esalen's impact becomes less salient.
Solution After conducting a needs-analysis, comparative study of best-practices and a live two-hour pilot ILT, the project pivoted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of live trainings, the solution was a six-month pilot of monthly, 90-minute virtual COPs. We presented the client with a Findings Report as well as a Chapter Leader Toolkit.
Results For Esalen alumni, the meetings were a reminder of a time and place where they feel inspired, connected, and at peace. In spite for early-COVID "zoom fatigue" program satisfaction remained high, with one participant reporting, “It has been a real highlight of my time being isolated.”
Similarly, as members returned month after month, they reported a feeling of community and increased connection to each other, alongside a positive reminder of their Esalen experience.
