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Training & Capacity Strengthening Workshops

About our Workshops

At Thompson Counseling & Consulting, our workshops are grounded in evidence-based psychoeducation and resilience science, informed by over 1 decade of experience supporting professionals in high-stress, trauma-exposed environments. Each session is facilitated through the lens and expertise of adult learning, trauma-informed care, and active psychological service delivery across humanitarian, development, nonprofit, corporate, and emergency response settings.

Our workshops combine conceptual insight with practical tools to foster personal and professional

resilience. Sessions can be tailored to reflect your organization’s unique context, drawing on data from consultations, employee surveys, or other assessments to ensure relevance and impact.

To enhance engagement, we use interactive tools such as anonymous response systems, reflective

exercises, and scenario-based learning that support processing and skill application. Workshops are

available in-person or virtually and can be delivered as standalone sessions or compiled into

customized learning plans that align with your strategic goals.

Below are detailed descriptions of each workshop within these themes with more added as trainings are delivered.

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Themes and Topics

Foundations of Mental Health and Resilience

Trauma-Informed Practice and Field Readiness

Core knowledge and skills for psychosocial

well-being, stress management, and personal resilience.

Trauma-Informed Practice and Field Readiness

Advanced skills for managing exposure to

trauma and operating effectively in high-risk environments.

Leadership and Supervision

Trauma-Informed Practice and Field Readiness

Organizational Culture and Team Dynamics

Empowering leaders with trauma-informed, reflective, and ethical leadership strategies.

Organizational Culture and Team Dynamics

Strengthening collaboration, communication, and

psychological safety at the team and system level.

Ethics, Identity, and Complex Risk

Organizational Culture and Team Dynamics

Ethics, Identity, and Complex Risk

Exploring nuanced psychosocial issues including identity,

moral distress, and inclusivity.

Digital and Operational Well-being

Organizational Culture and Team Dynamics

Ethics, Identity, and Complex Risk

Addressing risks and resilience in digital and remote work

contexts.

Foundations of Mental Health and Resilience

Understanding Stress, Trauma & Resilience

Pursuing Healthy Balance & Effective Coping

This workshop explores the different types of stress associated with aid work (critical

incident stress, chronic stress, and trauma) and the long-term effects on brain

functioning that lead to stress-related disorders. We will demonstrate effective and

evidence-based strategies for building personal hardiness and resilience to counteract

the

This workshop explores the different types of stress associated with aid work (critical

incident stress, chronic stress, and trauma) and the long-term effects on brain

functioning that lead to stress-related disorders. We will demonstrate effective and

evidence-based strategies for building personal hardiness and resilience to counteract

the negative impacts and prevent stress-related disorders. There is also a large focus on

specific resilience behaviors that research has shown reduce vulnerability to stress and

burnout.

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Pursuing Healthy Balance & Effective Coping

During this workshop, participants will learn how to identify signs and symptoms when

their life is in or out of balance. Participants will then practice coping skills and self-care

techniques to manage distress. Participants will then learn how to create a toolkit for

coping that fosters resilience and promotes health.

Emotion Regulation

Pursuing Healthy Balance & Effective Coping

Psychosocial Health: Increasing Awareness & Reducing Stigma

This workshop discusses strategies towards resilience and teaches advanced techniques

for regulating strong emotions that are common, given the frustrations of the context.

Participants will take away very practical tools from this training to help boost their

coping and improve functioning at work and in their personal lives. This can also

This workshop discusses strategies towards resilience and teaches advanced techniques

for regulating strong emotions that are common, given the frustrations of the context.

Participants will take away very practical tools from this training to help boost their

coping and improve functioning at work and in their personal lives. This can also equip

staff with tools to channel their emotions into a deliverable, bite-sized format for staff or

colleagues.

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Psychosocial Health: Increasing Awareness & Reducing Stigma

This workshop explores the individual and systemic barriers to seeking out support and

discusses ways to reduce stigma. Through this discussion, participants are positioned to

look at and challenge their own biases while creating space for a new way of viewing

mental and psychosocial health that increases awareness and openness.

Sleep Tricks in Challenging Environments

Psychosocial Health: Increasing Awareness & Reducing Stigma

Sleep Tricks in Challenging Environments

This workshop provides valuable insight into factors that negatively impact sleep and

how to develop healthy sleep patterns even in the most challenging environments.

Participants are taught skills for relaxing their mind and body before bed, methods for

combating thoughts and emotions that impact sleep, and healthy routines to promote

restful sleep.

Physical Fitness in Challenging Contexts

Psychosocial Health: Increasing Awareness & Reducing Stigma

Sleep Tricks in Challenging Environments

This workshop explores practical ways to care for your body in service of promoting

health and resilience. Participants will explore barriers and challenges to consistent

physical activity and will be provided tools for creating a healthy routine.

Trauma-Informed Practice and Field Readiness

Recognizing and Addressing Complicated Grief Reactions

This workshop is specifically useful in contexts where communities have experienced a

high degree of sudden and traumatic losses. Death and grieving are a normal part of life;

however, there are times when, due to the nature of the loss or the blocking of normal

grieving practices, people can get stuck in more chronic states of traumatic gr

This workshop is specifically useful in contexts where communities have experienced a

high degree of sudden and traumatic losses. Death and grieving are a normal part of life;

however, there are times when, due to the nature of the loss or the blocking of normal

grieving practices, people can get stuck in more chronic states of traumatic grief. This is

particularly true when one has had a family member or close attachment relationship die

in a violent or sudden manner. Complicated grief can also be heightened when the death

is unknown or unresolved, such as in the case of missing persons or sudden deaths. This

workshop explores normal grieving reactions and pinpoints key signs that someone may

be experiencing more complications in their grieving that may require a higher degree of

attention and intervention. This workshop will also provide key skills and concepts to

support people in moving towards a healthier grieving process through the utilization of

both trauma and grief research. Special attention is also given to the contextual reality of

the ways persons grieve in various cultures. Space is created to foster creative

problem-solving regarding ways to grieve well, considering the context and potential

meaningful rituals of the grieving individuals and community.

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Advanced Psychological First Aid (PFA)

Recognizing and Addressing Complicated Grief Reactions

This workshop provides an overview of PFA, which is an evidence-informed practice for

providing immediate psychosocial support after a critical incident. The founding

principles include: respect and dignity, safety and connection, support and

empowerment. Therefore, PFA focuses on promoting safety, reducing distress, and

fostering immediate

This workshop provides an overview of PFA, which is an evidence-informed practice for

providing immediate psychosocial support after a critical incident. The founding

principles include: respect and dignity, safety and connection, support and

empowerment. Therefore, PFA focuses on promoting safety, reducing distress, and

fostering immediate and long-term health and resilience. This training equips participants

with tools to provide basic psychosocial support in the immediate aftermath of a

catastrophe by focusing on being a calm and supportive presence, sharing information

on common reactions to distressing events, and assessing for concerning symptoms

that merit a referral to additional services.

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Understanding and Addressing Vicarious Trauma

Recognizing and Addressing Complicated Grief Reactions

Responding to Trauma Exposure: A Team-Based Approach

This workshop explores the implications of ongoing, long-term exposure to distressing

experiences and provides a framework for understanding vicarious trauma as well as

secondary trauma, and burnout. Participants are then provided evidence-based

information on ways to pursue health and wellness through the use of coping skills and

resilience

This workshop explores the implications of ongoing, long-term exposure to distressing

experiences and provides a framework for understanding vicarious trauma as well as

secondary trauma, and burnout. Participants are then provided evidence-based

information on ways to pursue health and wellness through the use of coping skills and

resilience-focused activities that promote compassion satisfaction, resilience, and

post-traumatic growth.

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Responding to Trauma Exposure: A Team-Based Approach

Transitioning Well: Preparing for and Returning from Deployment

Responding to Trauma Exposure: A Team-Based Approach

Designed for staff working in high-exposure roles, this session focuses on how teams

can support one another in real time following traumatic events. It includes techniques

for team check-ins, debriefing, and building supportive peer relationships in the field and

remote environments.

Transitioning Well: Preparing for and Returning from Deployment

This practical workshop prepares aid workers for psychological transitions before and

after deployment. It includes psychoeducation on reintegration stressors, reflective

exercises, and strategies to support continuity of care and post-deployment resilience.

Psychological First Aid for Managers

Transitioning Well: Preparing for and Returning from Deployment

A companion to Advanced PFA, this session focuses on equipping managers with the

confidence to offer initial emotional support after critical events while maintaining

appropriate boundaries and referral practices.

Managing Workload and Preventing Burnout in Remote and Hybrid Teams

This workshop addresses the unique challenges of remote and hybrid humanitarian work,

including blurred boundaries, isolation, and fatigue. Participants learn to identify

workload warning signs, implement practical boundary-setting, and foster connection

despite physical distance.

Faith, Meaning, and Resilience in Crisis Contexts

Managing Workload and Preventing Burnout in Remote and Hybrid Teams

This workshop explores the protective role of spirituality, values, and meaning-making in

coping with trauma, moral injury, and chronic adversity. Participants reflect on personal

and community beliefs and learn to support others without imposing or diminishing

diverse worldviews.

Leadership and Supervision

Trauma-Informed Leadership #1

Trauma-Informed Supervision: Supporting Staff through a Care Lens

Trauma-Informed Leadership #1

This workshop discusses a framework for trauma-informed leadership to support

managers in realizing risk factors and recognizing basic signs of impairment.

Participants are then encouraged to consider how they can help create a healthy work

culture through effective messaging & modeling, active listening, and giving feedback.

Participants wi

This workshop discusses a framework for trauma-informed leadership to support

managers in realizing risk factors and recognizing basic signs of impairment.

Participants are then encouraged to consider how they can help create a healthy work

culture through effective messaging & modeling, active listening, and giving feedback.

Participants will also be encouraged to explore ways to model healthy self-care and

create space for their staff to practice this as well.

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Trauma-Informed Leadership #2

Trauma-Informed Supervision: Supporting Staff through a Care Lens

Trauma-Informed Leadership #1

This workshop further discusses a framework for trauma-informed leadership and how

managers can identify and intervene with impaired staff. Participants will learn how to

have crucial conversations with staff who are struggling and create a plan both for how

to proceed when employees improve and when they do not. Through discussion,

particip

This workshop further discusses a framework for trauma-informed leadership and how

managers can identify and intervene with impaired staff. Participants will learn how to

have crucial conversations with staff who are struggling and create a plan both for how

to proceed when employees improve and when they do not. Through discussion,

participants will also explore ways to assist impaired staff and link them to internal and

external resources.

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Trauma-Informed Supervision: Supporting Staff through a Care Lens

The Business Case for Staff Well-being: Metrics, Messaging, and ROI

Supervisors and managers will explore how to incorporate trauma-informed principles

into supervision. The workshop offers tools for promoting psychological safety, balancing

accountability with empathy, and creating reflective supervision spaces to build trust and

well-being.

The Business Case for Staff Well-being: Metrics, Messaging, and ROI

This workshop supports leaders and HR professionals in articulating the strategic value

of staff care. Participants explore evidence linking well-being to performance, retention,

innovation, and organizational reputation. Tools are provided to assess impact,

communicate outcomes, and integrate staff care into broader organizational priorities.

Leading Through Crisis and Collective Trauma

The Business Case for Staff Well-being: Metrics, Messaging, and ROI

Leading Through Crisis and Collective Trauma

This workshop prepares leaders to navigate their teams through collective trauma events

such as war, displacement, natural disasters, or public health emergencies. Participants

explore trauma-informed communication, decision-making under pressure, and practices

that sustain team cohesion and trust during protracted crises.

Organizational Culture and Team Dynamics

Managing Team Conflicts and Interpersonal Effectiveness

This workshop discusses strategies for addressing and resolving conflict to promote

effective professional relationships. We will provide a framework for giving and receiving

feedback and navigating challenges as a team. Participants will be encouraged to

consider ways they can create a healthy and supportive climate through effective

communication.

Strengthening Team Cohesion and Psychological Safety

Managing Team Conflicts and Interpersonal Effectiveness

This session provides tools to assess and strengthen group dynamics, especially in field

teams. Participants explore practices that foster trust, inclusivity, and open

communication, and learn how to repair ruptures and build resilience at the team level.

Creating a Culture of Care in the Workplace

Managing Team Conflicts and Interpersonal Effectiveness

Understanding and Navigating Organizational Grief

This session focuses on the practical steps leaders and staff can take to cultivate a

workplace environment rooted in psychological safety, empathy, and wellness. It explores

how daily interactions, feedback processes, and team rituals can contribute to a

trauma-informed, care-centered culture.

Understanding and Navigating Organizational Grief

This reflective session explores the dynamics of organizational loss, such as the death of

a colleague, program closures, layoffs, or reputational crises. Participants learn to

facilitate grief processing at the individual and team level while supporting continued

functioning and resilience.

Navigating Uncertainty & Change

Understanding and Navigating Organizational Grief

Navigating Uncertainty & Change

This workshop is largely discussion-based and focuses on processing complicated grief

around change and loss, such as sadness, anger, and fear. We provide participants

opportunities to reflect on their uncertainties, needs, and desires. Participants will be

encouraged to consider ways they can support themselves in the present moment while

pursuing values-based, healthy actions.

Ethics, Identity, and Complex Risk

Moral Injury and Ethical Stress in Humanitarian Work

This session introduces the concept of moral injury and explores how aid workers can be

psychologically impacted when their actions or inactions conflict with deeply held moral

beliefs. Participants will learn strategies to address and process ethical stress, build

moral resilience, and support peers facing similar dilemmas.

Intersectionality and Psychosocial Health

Moral Injury and Ethical Stress in Humanitarian Work

This workshop explores how identity factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation,

faith, and disability status intersect with experiences of stress, trauma, and resilience.

Participants reflect on their own identities and biases, and learn strategies for creating

inclusive and aﬃrming mental health support structures in diverse settings.