Trainer
In-Person & Virtual sessions
As a former University Professor and Associate Dean in the Graduate School of Counseling, Dr. Dempsey has been an educator on the highest level. He gleans from his leadership experience, and mental health expertise to provide training in several areas.
Let's Work On This Together.
Developing
Your
Team
Our workshops are custom designed and specific to every team we work with for sustainable impact.
Expanding
Your
Business
Our trainings are designed to bring the best out of our clients, their bottom line, and their business practices.
Cultivating
Your
Intentions
Our diverse team of experts are culturally responsive, experienced and ready to enhance individual and team well-being.
Trainings & Workshops
Culturally Responsive Experts & Professionals.
Healthy Emotional Contracts
Too often, people navigate life through lenses of fear, stress, and past trauma. Operating in this manner makes one experience self-doubt and question their personal power. These beliefs become the foundation for unofficial contracts that limit greatness and provide barriers when seeking the road to wellness and a better self. This workshop will explore: ·
- Improved communication skills
- Improved self-esteem and overall emotional wellness
- Increase production and over team moral
Mental Health - The Human Experience
Since the pandemic in 2020 there has been a increased awareness regarding the importance of mental health needs. As more people acknowledge the need for therapeutic services, they may be reticent to seek help as mental health issues have become taboo in some spaces. This training/workshops breaks the stigmas and promotes that mental health issues are a human experience that we all navigate. Topics covered include:
- Explores the need to acknowledge mental health concerns
- Addresses the stigma about mental health
- Providing language to discuss mental health as a human experience
- Help agencies, schools, and organizations support mental health and provide safe spaces
Highly Effective Teams
In this fast pace world success often relies on the strength of your team. No matter how talented you are as an individual, team work always makes the dream work. This interactive workshop will provide tools to reduce frustration, unnecessary stress and confusion. Topics covered include:
- Habits of a highly effective and evolving team
- Exploring the importance of value, beliefs and capabilities
- Exploring the importance of healthy relationships
- Exploring the importance of strong communication
Healing The Healer
This workshop explores how helping professionals such as social workers, nurses, nannies, teachers and counselors endure the trauma of their clients. The training focuses on:
- Managing triggering conversations around violence
- Dealing with grief and loss
- Positive Coping
- Coping for Cyclical and Generational Trauma
- Therapeutic Support
- Examining the stigma of mental health in the Black Community
- Information, resources, and guidance regarding grief, loss and toxic stress resulting from community violence
- Intentional self-care
The Culturally Responsive Counselor
After the pandemic mental health services are needed more than ever. In order to serve diverse Populations counselors must continue to seek on-going training in the area of cultural responsive to Serve a multitude of clients during what some characterize as a mental health crisis. Topics covered include:
- Defining cultural competency and cultural humility
- Explore the personal work and gaps that may exist
- Exploring ways to provide culturally responsive responses
- Actions for improving cultural competency at work
- Create a framework for assessing progress
Cultural Awareness Training
This training explores the concepts and benefits of cultural competency and cultural humility. The training will provide practical examples and scenarios featuring real-world examples that will help people navigate an increasingly diverse world. Topics covered include:
- What is cultural competency
- What is cultural humility
- The importance of cultural competency in the workplace
- Factors and characteristics that affect one’s cultural identity
- Overcoming cultural barriers
- Actions for improving cultural competency at work