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Through intentional and strategic mentoring and sponsorship, organizations can be transformed towards greater belonging and employee engagement. This course is designed to empower mentors — and potential mentors — to create greater possibilities for those whose talents are often under-represented in formal leadership roles. Through exposure to basic research findings, storytelling and the community built within the virtual learning space, participants will learn about the fundamentals of being good mentors, receiving mentoring, and creating a culture of mentoring that supports equity and belonging.
Upcoming Dates Sep. 5–12, 2024
$460; gov't/nonprofit $360
Live online
Customizable
Gain a basic overview of the knowledge and skills you need to teach in the online environment. Key topics include online course models, characteristics of online learners, understanding your role as an online instructor, how to plan content and learning activities and strategies to manage courses.
This 4-hour live webinar meets Wisconsin requirements for ethics and professional boundaries continuing education for licensure renewal. This two–part, 4–hour course is offered online via Zoom with instructor David Mays, MD, PhD and meets Wisconsin licensure renewal requirements for ethics/boundaries continuing education. Day one of the course is about the relationship between legislative and professional ethical and practice standards. We will investigate the following legal principles in this context: confidentiality, Tarasoff standards, and conscience clauses. Day two will tackle some of the ethical issues of working with electronic records and discuss boundary issues involved with internet searches of clients, email and texting as therapy, and telemedicine services.
Upcoming Dates Sep. 17–18, 2024
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This course will help you understand ambiguous loss and the impact of a loss without closure, with an emphasis on evidence-based therapeutic guidelines for coping with and providing support for ambiguous loss in personal and professional contexts. 1 CE Hour | Zoom | Instructor: Erica Srinivasan | Audience: Helping professionals, funeral home directors, clergy and other religious leaders.
Upcoming Dates Sep. 18, 2024
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Identify behaviors, create strategies that help you manage multiple priorities and handle interruptions so you are more effective at work. Cover the myth of multitasking, how daily goals and objectives lead to success, strategies and best practices in putting out fires and doing more than one job.
Upcoming Dates Sep. 18, 2024
$360; gov't/nonprofit $260
Live online
Nov. 6, 2024
$360; gov't/nonprofit $260
Live online
This class will use the DiSC® assessment instrument to build self-awareness and explore the many facets that shape the way we see our world and function at work. By incorporating neuroscience and the DiSC® framework, we will learn to better understand our perspectives, identify and adapt to the perspectives of others, and to capture insightful synergies. We will discuss how to use tools and strategies to make this process easier so we can discover more options and solutions in our teams and projects.
Upcoming Dates Sep. 19–20, 2024
$470; $370 gov't/nonprofit; $370 TIC
Live online
Customizable
Learn to teach communication, teamwork, critical thinking and self-motivated learning – four transferable skills strongly linked to student success. College educators and administrators gain a strong foundation in the theory, research and practical applications of these crucial skills.
This highly interactive introduction to Motivational Interviewing (MI) provides the 'what' and 'why' behind this highly sought, evidence-based skill for helping people change and grow. In this short course, you will also build a solid foundation for understanding the 'how' of MI, practice the fundamentals, and create a plan to continue your MI skills development. MI is learned over time, with ongoing instruction, practice and feedback. As such, this session is strongly recommended as a precursor to the Building MI Competency Certificate and/or MI Advancing Skills course also offered by UW–Madison Division of Continuing Studies. If you already have some MI knowledge and skills, consider participating in the Building MI Competency Certificate. If you have intermediate or advanced MI skills, check out our MI Advancing Skills course. Not sure which course is right for you? Check out our MI information page.
Upcoming Dates Sep. 24–26, 2024
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This 4-hour live online course meets Wisconsin requirements for ethics and professional boundaries continuing education for licensure renewal and is designed for social workers, counselors, therapists, psychologists and other helping professionals.
The management of ethics, boundaries and confidentiality is especially critical for human service professionals. This workshop will address the unique issues encountered during the provision of social services and therapy. The emergence of technology and its complications will be addressed to highlight the changing trends in ethical practice in the 21st century.
4 CE Hours | Audience: social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and other healthcare professionals
Upcoming Dates Sep. 25, 2024
Live online
Customizable
Artificial Intelligence is not a trend. It is a revolutionary development in technology for which all workplaces should be informed and prepared. This course is designed for non-technical managers and professionals seeking to understand and leverage generative AI in their operations.
There are many myths about what managers can and should do to support employee work performance, satisfaction and engagement. Learn what decades of real-world management experience reveal about best practices and tools, plus gain insights into today's diverse and fast-moving environments.
This 35-hour online group-paced (12 hours of live skills-building workshops and 23 hours of self-paced study) course is for participants wanting to learn or relearn the knowledge and skills necessary to reach proficiency in the use of Motivational Interviewing (MI). MI is a well-established, evidence-based communication practice for addressing the behavioral change of clinical problems across multiple settings and systems.
New Course: This 4-hour live interactive webinar meets Wisconsin requirements for ethics and professional boundaries continuing education for licensure renewal and is designed for social workers, counselors, therapists, psychologists and other helping professionals. The management of ethics, boundaries and confidentiality is especially critical for human service professionals and is in a constant state of change. The workshop will address the unique issues encountered during the provision of social services, and mental and behavioral health in the 21st century. The emergence of artificial intelligence, managed care, and workforce challenges will be analyzed and processed.
4 CE Hours | Audience: social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and other helping professionals
Upcoming Dates Oct. 8, 2024
Live online
Dec. 12, 2024
Live online
This three-hour course is instructed fully live online via Zoom by instructor Casey Meehan, PhD. It will be offered over three days, with a one-hour webinar each day. This course is designed for anyone looking to reimagine their relationship to climate change (beginners, intermediate or advanced). We will Explore the basics of play theory for adults and what a playful mindset looks like; (re)discover your "play personality" and reflect on how you can lean into this to find energy; and consider how playful your work is and spot opportunities to add a bit more of it into to your practice. 3 CE Hours | Zoom | Instructor: Dr. Casey Meehan | Audience: Helping Professionals, Clinicians, etc.
Upcoming Dates Oct. 9–23, 2024
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In this class, participants will be able to support eco- and climate-conscious therapy, as we re-vision competencies associated with all therapy approaches including rapport, assessment and multicultural awareness. Familiarity with the process of environmental identity, one's self-concept and a sense of relationship with nature are important tools. Environmental identity intersects with a person's other identities in unique ways and provides a base on which to build eco- and climate therapy interventions. In this experiential online workshop, participants will explore their own environmental identity and beliefs (including sources of well-being and resilience, as well as trauma or injustice), discover ways to adapt their existing therapeutic orientation and skill set to address environmental and climate concerns and identify opportunities to apply these interventions in practice with diverse individuals and groups. 3 CE Hours | Zoom | Instructor: Dr. Thomas Doherty | Audience: Helping professionals, therapists, psychologists, clinicians
Upcoming Dates Oct. 15, 2024
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One-of-a-kind, practical educational online program. You'll get to know the instructor — an expert who understands the complexity of personal loss. Acquire knowledge and skills to enhance or create a professional specialty that focuses on supporting people who have suffered a major loss.
40 CE Hours | Canvas LMS | Instructor: Erica Srinivasan | Audience: Helping Professionals, funeral home directors, clergy and other religious leaders | Space is limited
Examine the core aspects of servant leadership. Topics for the five-day program are: Servant Leadership Foundations, Personal and Organizational Challenges of Servant Leadership, Serving Customers/Clients/Citizens, Servant Leadership at the Team and Organizational Level and Connecting Servant Leadership to the Community and the World.
New Course: This 4-hour course is instructed fully live online via Zoom by facilitators from Share Collaborative. If you've already taken the Cultural Humility To Cultural Reverence course with Continuing Studies, or have had similar training in the past, this intermediate to advanced course will help you further explore frameworks for engaging in dialogue and avoid debating. This course is designed for individuals or teams of human services practitioners who desire to build on their existing skills to enter into healthy discussions regarding culture, identity and related topics.
4 CE Hours | Instructors: Share Collaborative facilitators Adesola Oni & Shawn Smith | Audience: helping professionals, workplace leaders, and others
Upcoming Dates Oct. 17, 2024
Live online
New Course: This 4-hour live interactive webinar leverages the 4 Principles of Cultural Humility and the person-centered approach of Motivational Interviewing to explore the impact of provider-client power imbalances on ethical practice and professional boundaries.
This four-hour live webinar meets Wisconsin's requirements for ethics and professional boundaries for continuing education for licensure renewal.
4 CE Hours | Instructors: Share Collaborative facilitators Adesola Oni & Shawn Smith | Audience: social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and other helping professionals
Upcoming Dates Oct. 24, 2024
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This 4-hour course is instructed fully live online via Zoom. The goal of this course is to enhance your ability to serve increasingly diverse client populations and work with increasingly diverse teams. In this highly interactive course, we will explore in dedicated conversations the four principles of Cultural Humility: Self-Reflection and Lifelong Learning, Client as Expert, Community as Expert and Institutional Self-Reflection and Investment + Modeling. As an individual practitioner, ensure you are providing services respectful of the person's self-ascribed identity; as a leader, address quiet quitting, turnover, and enhance your culture of inclusivity and belonging.
4 CE Hours | Instructors: Share Collaborative facilitators Noor Jawad & Shawn Smith | Audience: helping professionals, workplace leaders, and others
Upcoming Dates Nov. 7, 2024
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Jan. 16, 2025
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