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Find your way forward. Whether you’re upskilling to advance your career, improve client/patient outcomes, pursuing a new passion or something in between, our flexible online, in-person and hybrid classes are designed to work with your schedule, here on the UW–Madison campus or wherever you are in the world. Use the search filters to find the class, badge or certificate that works best for you.

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Disenfranchised Grief

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Grief and Loss
This one-hour live webinar with instructor Erica Srinivasan targets helping professionals, funeral home directors, clergy and others. It explores disenfranchised grief, the impact of minimizing or hiding grief, and shares strategies for coping with grief in personal and professional contexts.
Upcoming Dates
  • Dec. 13, 2024
    $29
    Live online

Dementia: Exploring Grief and Loss

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Grief and Loss
This two-hour live webinar with instructor Erica Srinivasan targets helping professionals working with an aging population. It explores the grief of the person with dementia and their caregivers. You'll gain both an understanding of grief and effective strategies that are uniquely associated with dementia.
Upcoming Dates
  • Jan. 10, 2025
    $59
    Live online

Etiology of Suicide and Provider Self Care

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Mental Health
This 6-hour live webinar (offered over two days) with instructor Meghan Henderson targets social workers, therapists and other helping professionals. It discusses common etiology of suicidal behavior, as well as risk assessment, intervention, safety planning and prevention. We also review self-care.
Upcoming Dates
  • Feb. 4–5, 2025
    $169
    Live online

Grief Support Specialist Certificate

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Grief and Loss
This one-of-a-kind, 40-hour, online certificate with instructor Erica Srinivasan targets helping professionals, funeral home directors, clergy, peer educators and others. It provides knowledge and skills to create/enhance a professional specialty to support people who have suffered a major loss.
Upcoming Dates
  • March 12, 2025–May 2, 2025
    $1,249 through February 26; $1,449 after
    Group-paced

Integrating an Ecotherapy and Climate-Conscious Approach into Your Mental Health Work

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Grief and Loss
This new three-hour live webinar with instructor Thomas Doherty will help clinicians explore their own environmental identity, discover ways to adapt existing therapeutic orientation, and identify opportunities to apply these interventions in practice with diverse individuals and groups.
Upcoming Dates
  • Not scheduled at this time. See page for program description.

Mindfulness for Clinicians: An 8-Week Intensive Course

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Mental Health
This intensive, 20-hour blended course (8 weekly live webinars plus self-study) with instructor Mare Chapman is for clinicians who want to incorporate mindfulness into both their lives and practice. Learn to be more present in your work and develop confidence in applying mindfulness with clients.
Upcoming Dates
  • Not scheduled at this time. See page for program description.

Seriously Playful: Approaching Climate Change with a Lighter Touch

Subject Area: Behavioral Health → Grief and Loss
This new three-hour live webinar (offered over three days) with instructor Casey Meehan is designed for all human services providers looking to reimagine their relationship to climate change. Come explore the basics of play theory for adults and how you can lean into this to find energy and add more into your practice.
Upcoming Dates
  • Not scheduled at this time. See page for program description.