Strategies for Success Series

The HSC Workshop Series presents our Strategies for Success Series.
Strategies for Success is an interactive workshop series designed for nonprofit rofessionals interested in integrating best practices into their work. This series provides practical approaches for applying these principles effectively, benefiting individuals,
organizations and the communities they serve.

Register to attend all four sessions in the series by September 23, 2024 and receive a $5 discount per session. You must register for all four sessions in the series using this ticket to receive the discount. Individual session registrations will be charged full price.

Session 1: September 26, 2024

Trauma Stewardship for Helping Professionals - A Learning & Practice Workshop
with Maureen Kelly

Understanding the deep secondary impact of helping work on community professionals who care for those in need is crucial. Trauma informed practices offer wise guidance for how we work with the people we care for, while trauma stewardship offers a big picture approach through which we can pay attention to our capacity to care for ourselves as we care for others. In this workshop, participants will learn, share, and practice with tools and materials that can help them build intentional pauses to observe and notice themselves and consider new practices to replace patterns that may not serve their wellness, their communities, or their work. Participants will self-select their level of engagement while learning together about the deep and real emotional impacts of care work. This workshop is designed for professionals working directly with people experiencing suffering, hardship, crisis, or trauma, and those who support, lead, or supervise them. We will explore both individual and organizational approaches to trauma stewardship in this workshop.

Session 2: October 10, 2024

Mediation for Managers - Navigating Tension Before Involving HR with Sierra DeSalvia

Studies show that over 30% of managers' time can be spent dealing with workplace conflict, yet only about half of managers receive formal conflict resolution training. Let’s change that! This type of training is crucial not only to save time and enhance productivity, but also to create a better working environment for managers, those they manage, and the clients they serve. When managers know how to navigate conflict they are seen as leaders.

If you’re ready for practical tools you can apply right away to prevent, de-escalate and manage everyday workplace conflict without having to involve HR, then this training was designed for you. This workshop will provide an intro to mediation tailored to managers. Together we will explore how to approach situations from a people first, trauma informed lens. We will practice ways to get involved early before things feel unmanageable and go through a step by step process to create solutions.

Session 3: October 24, 2024

Trauma informed Teams - Creating Connection Points with Luca Maurer

Understanding the various ways trauma can impact people in workplaces is crucial for creating supportive and productive teams. This interactive workshop is designed to help participants explore the impacts of trauma on workplaces and teams, identify some of the many skills that support and build trauma-informed teams, and how all of this important work thrives with a deep understanding and application of an equity and inclusion lens.

By the end of this workshop, participants will have a deeper understanding of trauma and its impact on workplace teams, practical tools and strategies to create a supportive and trauma-informed team environment, and personalized action plans to make your workplace trauma-informed.

Session 4: November 7, 2024

Supportive Practices for Change Management with Judy Rowe

This engaging and practical session is designed specifically for non-

profit leaders and team members to effectively navigate and manage change within their organizations while integrating trauma-informed care principles. Non-profit organizations face unique challenges and opportunities when it comes to change, and this session will provide participants with the skills and strategies needed to successfully manage transitions and drive positive outcomes in a sensitive and supportive manner.

About the Presenters:

Maureen Kelly
With 30 years of program management, training design and delivery, supervision, and serving as a senior leader within a community-based reproductive and sexual health organization, Maureen blends her experience with emerging practices and tools to deliver intentionally planned gatherings, learning, and development opportunities for organizations and health systems across the US. Maureen’s work is based on the belief that possibilities abound when people are brought together with intention to pause, think, work, and plan. She builds space that offers clarity in moments of complexity and action in times of uncertainty.

Sierra DeSalvia
With an education in Peace and Conflict Studies, I served as a case manager, mediator and conflict resolution trainer in Baltimore, Maryland, handling cases and leading training in nonprofits, courts, prisons, public housing, and schools. I was honored to be ranked among the best mediators in the Maryland, Virginia, and DC area. As Northern California Program Director I led leadership training for Emerge, an organization dedicated to training women to run for office graduates include the Lieutenant Governor of California, Senators, Assemblymembers, mayors, judges, attorneys and many nonprofit leaders. The approach I am trained in is people driven, meaning those closest to the problem are always the ones with the solution.

Luca Maurer is the inaugural Executive Director for Student Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Ithaca College. An author and consultant on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, LGBTQ topics, intersectionality, global health, and disability, he has worked in the US and abroad with professionals in social services, education, health care, and law enforcement, and with workplaces of all types.

Judy Rowe
Passionate about unleashing potential, Judy drives transformation through her consultancy, Judith A. Rowe Consulting, LLC. With a focus on diverse training, facilitation, coaching, and wellness initiatives, Judy champions growth in DEIB, leadership, and communication skills. With dual bachelor's degrees in Civil and Industrial Engineering (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) and a master's in Industrial and Labor Relations (Cornell University), Judy's 27-year journey at Corning Incorporated spanned engineering, sales, customer service, quality, and management roles. Judy provides coaching through her practice as well as through partnership with Organizational Learning Group (OLG) and Bravely, Inc. Judy is a Certified Coach through IFC. Judy’s commitment extends to community engagement, including leadership roles at the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes, Corning Children's Center, and the Southern Tier Regional Planning and Development Board.

All registration sales are final.

All workshops are in-person only.

Masks are optional.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca, United States