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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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Leading at a Distance: Managing Virtual Staff and Teams

We're seeing more organizations with employees who work from home, live in other states and often live in other countries. "Lead from a distance" by understanding the challenges and best practices. Build trust, navigate conflict, make decisions and conduct engaging meetings with virtual staff.
Upcoming Dates
  • June 4–5, 2024
    $449; govt./nonprofit $349
    Live online
  • Nov. 6–8, 2024
    $460; gov't/non-profit $360
    Live online

German 1

Subject Area: LanguagesGerman
Master the basics of German: numbers, the alphabet, introducing yourself and having simple conversations while learning about German culture.
Upcoming Dates
  • June 5, 2024–Aug. 28, 2024
    $269
    Live online

Conflict in the Workplace: Crafting and Adapting Your Role in Resolution

This class is three mornings, offered in a participatory live online format with brief prework and learning exercises between sessions. Conflict in the workplace is normal, even inevitable. We tend to avoid it despite the many benefits of resolving conflict effectively. Managing conflict can improve decision-making, strengthen professional relationships, increase employee retention and significantly contribute to organizational success. In this interactive workshop, you'll learn about your own conflict styles and examine the pros and cons of each as they apply to varying conflicts in the workplace. We'll review the 5 approaches to resolving conflict and how to strategize which approach best fits a situation. Learn how conflict can change from dysfunctional to a factor in growth and success. You will understand your role in working toward a resolution with others.
Upcoming Dates
  • June 6–13, 2024
    $469; gov't/nonprofit $369
    Live online

Leader as Coach

Coaching cultures foster accountability, encourage employees to take ownership of their work and drive goal achievement through the transformative power of coaching. When leaders embrace the role of a coach, they not only drive individual and team performance but also inspire a cultural shift within their organization. This course offers the essential skills and knowledge needed to engage in coaching conversations that encourage open communication, actively listen and provide constructive feedback resulting in continuous improvement, innovation and deepened engagement.
Upcoming Dates
  • June 11, 2024–Aug. 29, 2024
    $6,990
    Live online

Trauma Informed Leadership: A Guide for All Managers

Studies are revealing that a large percentage of adults nationwide suffer from abusive childhoods, PTSD, grief from loss and/or other traumatizing events. This class will focus on what individual managers can do to recognize and respond to members of their team who are struggling. We will navigate through how to be compassionate without running afoul of employment laws or abandoning work standards and job descriptions. Participants will learn how to deal with worker trauma in ways that go beyond simple expressions of empathy while protecting confidentiality.
Upcoming Dates
  • June 19–20, 2024
    Standard $479.00 Gov't/ Nonprofit $379.00
    Live online

Spanish Book Club: Low Intermediate

Subject Area: LanguagesSpanish
Boost your confidence in Spanish with this short course that provides the perfect transition from Spanish 3 to Spanish 4. In this low-intermediate (A2.1) book club, participants will read the short novel Año nuevo, vida nueva together and discuss.
Upcoming Dates
  • July 25, 2024–Sep. 5, 2024
    $204
    Live online

Coaching Skills Sharpener Series/Group Mentoring

This Skills Sharpener Series is a five-part experience hosted over the span of 10 weeks, designed to give learners practice and feedback about their coaching skills from a highly experienced and certified PCC-level Mentor Coach. Participants will work in groups of no more than ten to practice the skills and competencies required of a PCC-level, ICF-certified, professionally credentialed coach. Participants will take turns coaching one another and providing feedback per the ICF's Core Competencies and PCC Markers, in a group setting. This series will count toward the completion of the ICF's Group Mentoring requirements for both ACC and PCC levels. Participants who attend will be awarded 8 Continuing Coach Education (CCE) units from the ICF. The first five individuals who sign up for the course are guaranteed the opportunity to be a coach-participant if they choose. All others will be coach-observers or clients.
Upcoming Dates
  • July 29, 2024–Sep. 23, 2024
    $595
    Live online
  • Oct. 7, 2024–Dec. 2, 2024
    $595
    Live online

A Coach Approach to Work Performance Feedback

Customizable
This specially designed class will focus on the how-tos of adopting a coaching style for giving work performance feedback. This is a class for leaders and managers who are ready to learn this approach and who want to understand and practice the key elements to utilize them right away.
Upcoming Dates
  • July 30, 2024–Aug. 8, 2024
    $475; $375 Gov't/Nonprofit
    Live online
  • Oct. 10–24, 2024
    $475; $375 Gov't/Nonprofit
    Live online

Great Lakes Motivational Interviewing Conference

Subject Area: Behavioral HealthMental Health
Join us on the beautiful University of Wisconsin Madison campus to learn more about this evidence-based practice, hone your current skills and network with other MI practitioners and trainers from across the Midwest. Registration Coming Soon: Save the date for August 6–9, 2024 | Location: Madison, WI at the Pyle Conference Center | Audience: Helping Professionals
Upcoming Dates
  • Aug. 7–9, 2024
    $490
    In-person

Business Spanish Certificate Program

Subject Area: LanguagesSpanish
Newly revised!  In 4 months, greatly improve your professional proficiency in Spanish and gain the cultural knowledge you need to conduct business with partners in Spain and Latin America. This practical course targets the specific skills you need to communicate professionally with clients and colleagues via email, telephone and videoconferencing.
Upcoming Dates
  • Aug. 14, 2024–Dec. 13, 2024
    $699
    Group-paced

Ethics and Boundaries: Legal Issues Part II and the Internet

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
    $148
    Live online

Ambiguous Loss

Subject Area: Behavioral HealthGrief and Loss
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
    $29
    Live online

Advanced Ethics and Boundaries

This 4-hour live online course meets Wisconsin requirements for ethics and professional boundaries continuing education for licensure renewal. 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
    $148
    Live online

Building Motivational Interviewing Competency Certificate

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.
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 8, 2024–Dec. 3, 2024
    $1,299 The registration fee includes two practice sessions with a simulated client with instructor feedback and access to Canvas, an online learning management system. The course workbook is not included in the fee. Please see the summary for details on where the text can be purchased.
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The Changing World of Professional Ethics and Boundaries in a World of Artificial Intelligence, Managed Care, and Workforce Shortages

New Course: This 4-hour live interactive webinar meets Wisconsin requirements for ethics and professional boundaries continuing education for 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. This 4-hour live 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. 4 CE Hours | Audience: social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and other helping professionals
Upcoming Dates
  • Oct. 8, 2024
    $148
    Live online
  • Dec. 12, 2024
    $148
    Live online

Seriously Playful: Approaching Climate Change with a Lighter Touch

Subject Area: Behavioral HealthGrief and Loss
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
    $89
    Live online

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

Subject Area: Behavioral HealthGrief and Loss
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
    $89
    Live online