Did I Just Say That? Inclusivity Training for Colleges

  • Learn why microaggressions matter: Intent vs. Impact
  • Understand the veils of social interaction
  • Recognize adverse communication situations and practice resolution skills

Stepping Forward: Leadership Training

  • Learn the hallmarks of collaborative leadership
  • Understand the roles of emotional intelligence and technical knowledge
  • Understand one’s talents and skills and learn how to apply them in the real world

 Assertiveness Training for Women

  • Determine personal comfort zones and set boundaries that stick
  • Distinguish among passive, assertive and aggressive behavior
  • Learn about the importance of voice control and body language when dealing with acquaintances and strangers who do not respect personal or professional boundaries

Setting Professional Boundaries

  • Define professional boundaries that enhance harmonious and appropriate working conditions
  • Develop clear, effective workplace communication skills
  • Learn to speak to coworkers in appropriate and non-confrontational language

Conflict Transformation

  • Learn the five conflict styles and recognize when each is most effective
  • Master the building blocks to assertive communication
  • Understand the impact of nonverbal communication

About Last Night … What Everyone Thinks Happened at the Party: How Miscommunication Impacts Student Life

  • Learn about the relationship between alcohol consumption and sexual assault and other aggressive behaviors
  • Understand how alcohol impacts the ability to assess and react to risk
  • Identify peer environments that encourage heavy drinking and sexual assault
  • Gain skills to set and enforce appropriate boundaries and limits in social situations

Communicating, Dating and Relating for College Women

  • Enhance interpersonal communication skills for work, school, and dating situations
  • Practice setting and enforcing boundaries
  • Master physical self-defense techniques to handle worst case scenarios

Communicating, Dating and Relating for College Men

  • Master conflict resolution, de-escalation, and physical self-defense skills
  • Learn to correctly interpret verbal and nonverbal communication common in social situations, including dating
  • Understand what constitutes unwelcome attention and sexual harassment

 Self-Defense for LGBTQI

  • Gain skills for avoidance, deterrence, and resistance of physical and verbal assault
  • Learn to assess the potential danger in a situation
  • Master easy to learn hands-on physical self-defense techniques

Personal Safety Seminar

  • Gain skills for avoidance, deterrence, and resistance of physical and verbal assault
  • Learn to assess the potential danger in a situation
  • Participate in an interactive question-and-answer style format addressing individual concerns about assertiveness, safety, and self-defense

Self-Defense for Women

  • Master easy to learn hands-on physical self-defense techniques
  • Participate in verbal role-plays
  • Learn body language and voice control
  • Move beyond the freeze response
  • Deliver full-force debilitating blows to equipment or a padded “assailant” in a variety of simulated attack scenarios
  • Advanced courses may include opportunity to practice skills in role play scenarios involving weapons and multiple attackers

Self Defense for Men

  • Learn about boundary setting, including the importance of distance, ego control, and de-escalation techniques
  • Master easy to learn hands-on physical self-defense techniques
  • Practice defensive counter-attacks, blocks, and strikes to equipment or a padded “assailant” in a variety of simulated attack scenarios
  • Gain proficiency in verbal and nonverbal communication
  • Advanced courses may include opportunity to practice skills in role play scenarios involving weapons and multiple attackers

Loud and Clear: Understanding Listening Styles and Gaining Listening Skills

  • Decode nonverbal communication
  • Develop active listening skills
  • Learn to communicate like a listener and listen with empathy

Job Interview Skills

  • Develop strategies for communicating competence
  • Gain skills for reducing anxiety
  • Learn to be a confident negotiator

Public Speaking With Confidence

  • Decrease public speaking anxiety and increase confidence
  • Learn the essential components of a good presentation
  • Prepare and successfully deliver a speech and receive audience feedback

Media Literacy

  • Learn to be active consumers of popular culture
  • Understand how media shapes values and cultural beliefs about love, sexuality, and other issues
  • Make conscious, values-based choices about media consumption

Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies

  • Evaluate negative results of poor body image (e.g., eating disorders, self destructive behaviors) as well as the psychological and social impact of these disorders
  • Understand the role mass media plays in developing cultural ideals of beauty for men and women
  • Establish a realistic and attainable sense of beauty

Taking the Lead: Leadership Styles for Millennials

  • Engage in self reflection about personal experiences with the leadership paradigm
  • Understand cultural and generational perspectives that factor into leadership choices
  • Develop a leadership style that reflects individual values and honors the values and needs of others