Classes & certificates

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

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

This class will focus on the proactive approaches and tools for creating an EI culture that enables respectful, effective and creative collaboration even when the going gets tough. For this class, it will be assumed that participants are familiar with EI and want to lead or influence a team to become an extraordinary one. Participants will have the advantage of completing the EQi 2.0 self-assessment in advance of the class. The cost is included in the class fee.

This class meets Wisconsin requirements for ethics and professional boundaries continuing education for licensure renewal. The management of professional ethics and boundaries can be challenging in clinical work especially as we have become more dependent on the use of technology. This course will address the unique issues encountered during the provision of clinical services and will discuss best practice approaches to these challenges. This course was developed by Jeanne Wagner. 4 CE Hours | Canvas Online Course | Audience: Psychologists, Helping Professionals

This seven-hour live online course (offered over two 3-hour sessions plus a one-hour self-study activity) is for women and allies in human services who want to learn how to develop allyship and gender-inclusive leadership, practice self-advocacy and boundary setting, advocate for gender-fair and generally inclusive workplace culture, and create workplace policies on issues including professional development, anti-discrimination, mentoring, leave and childcare. 7 CE Hours | Zoom | Instructor: Jodi Vandenberg-Daves | Audience: Helping Professionals

This 4-hour live webinar meets Wisconsin requirements for ethics and professional boundaries continuing education for licensure renewal. This participatory course, designed for health and human services providers, is instructed fully live online via Zoom. During the course we will review empirical research on burnout and wellness with an emphasis on practical and evidence-based applications, engage in hands-on learning activities identifying the impact of provider burnout, identify your own burnout symptoms, and set goals to both enhance your well-being and improve your day-to-day delivery of behavioral health services. 4 CE Hours | Instructor: Erri Hewitt, UW Health and UW School of Medicine and Public Health | Audience: social workers, counselors, therapists, other health and human services providers

This 2-hour live online course will provide a review of topics related to clinical supervision in the provision of mental health care. 2 CE Hours | Instructor: Erri Hewitt, UW Health and UW School of Medicine and Public Health | Audience: social workers, counselors, therapists, other health and human services providers

This class will help you explore disenfranchised grief and the impact of minimizing or hiding grief, along with effective strategies for coping with and providing support for disenfranchised grief in personal and professional contexts. 1 CE Hour | Zoom | Instructor: Erica Srinivasan | Audience: Helping professionals, funeral home directors, clergy and other religious leaders.

Struggling with French pronunciation? Want to become more comfortable speaking French? This seven-lesson online course contains clear explanations, practice exercises and sets of drills to help you understand and refine the fundamentals of French pronunciation with one-on-one feedback from your instructor. Enrollment is ongoing; you’ll have two months to complete the course. A great preparation or review! No prerequisite is needed. Audiobook: "Secrets of French Pronunciation" by Camille Chevalier-Karfis. Please contact your instructor for purchase information.

Do you need Spanish training that is tailored to your schedule and your needs? Executive Spanish Training offers the flexibility and professionalism that you need to succeed.

This inclusive leadership training certificate consists of coursework designed for leaders and aspiring leaders committed to building effective and engaged teams through the recognition and encouragement of their members' individuality. The certificate consists of seven core required programs. Total class hours for the certificate are 45-50, depending on the electives chosen.

In this 10-hour fully asynchronous course, learn a simple approach for distinguishing the 10 personality disorders: the notion that each disorder has a unique agenda that is repeated over and over again. This knowledge can help you recognize what is happening in the client's world. You also learn about attachment and attachment patterns.

In this 6-hour self-paced online course learners will discover tips, techniques and tools used by successful nonprofit organizations and universities to raise money. This program is accredited through the Certified Fund Raising Executive International organization.

Take your command of Spanish to the next level with this practical course. Brush up on those tricky past tenses, object pronouns and the subjunctive while learning to compose a well-written narrative. A Spanish-writing expert will give you personalized feedback on five writing assignments.

This practical course has something for everyone. Brush up your Spanish writing by eliminating common errors and growing your command of basic language skills. Perfect the use of written accent marks, articles, gender, word order and tricky verb conjugations.

Take your career to the next level while providing invaluable assistance to those struggling from addiction with the UW Flexible Option Substance Use Disorders Counselor certificate program. This program offers a more flexible alternative for fulfilling the specialized educational hours required for Wisconsin state substance abuse counselor certification through the Department of Safety and Professional Services. When: Register any time for six months of course access | Audience: mental health or human service professionals 

If you are a new or returning adult student at UW-Madison, this orientation workshop will help you become familiar with campus libraries, student resources, grants, scholarships, and more. Meet and network with other returning adult students who share their experiences and tips for success.

Join us for this free webinar, which previews our online Leading for Racial Equity Certificate course coming up March 13, April 10 and May 8, 2024. If this webinar piques your interest, we hope you'll register for the full three-day course. What you'll learn Individuals who value and care about equity and justice often interact with and within systems that constrain progress. In our Leading for Racial Equity certificate, learners engage in a deep exploration of strengths, barriers, and practical tools for advancing equity and justice in organizations. This free preview webinar introduces some of these concepts, laying the groundwork for the more intensive transformational work ahead for those ready to commit to influencing change. The webinar will be led by ananda mirilli, Director of the nINA Collective, Courtney Reed Jenkins, Associate Member of the nINA Collective and program staff. Who can attend The webinar is free and open to leaders, managers and other professionals interested in learning more about this topic and registering for the Leading for Racial Equity Certificate course.

Polish your skills as you discuss the culture and history of France and the Francophone world. Refine your knowledge of tense, lexicon and register while improving your reading and listening abilities.

Continue to refine your French conversational skills, practice your pronunciation, and brush up on grammar with a convivial group and an experienced instructor at the French House on UW–Madison's campus.