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Why invest in your team?

Our trainings are between 45-90 minutes, designed to start team conversations. Check out more about

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Call / text 202-246-5336

Email susan@nonprofitwellness.org

IG @NonprofitWellness 


given your time & budget, here's what we can do

Impact (private Skill-shops)

Investment (Train-the-Trainer)

Impact (private Skill-shops)

Try a Skill-Shop or two during your next retreat or as a mid-afternoon work break (online or in-person). Single sessions start at $350 and can usually be recorded. 


Size is unlimited though interaction tactics vary based on the group. Check out the Skill-shop menu above, and descriptions/trainers, below.

Intervention (Tools Talks)

Investment (Train-the-Trainer)

Impact (private Skill-shops)

 We like to focus on your wellness committee and/or HR head or leadership team. This usually involves training on our "Tools" like the Prescription and Scorecard. 


  We suggest adding inclusive (online and in-person) small group activities to build your team culture, health, and camaraderie.


Tool talks start at $500, and Coaching packages begin at $1,000. All are designed to achieve specific outcomes for your specific organization.

Investment (Train-the-Trainer)

Investment (Train-the-Trainer)

Investment (Train-the-Trainer)

We designed a Train-the-Trainer curriculum on Team-Care, with the goal of building an effective Wellness Team at your school or nonprofit. 


We have led this four-part curriculum at nonprofit organizations (like Nonprofits LEAD, in OH) and schools (like Mundo Verde PCS, in DC). These sessions are best with cross-functional teams (10-20 people). 


 Train-the-Trainer curriculum comes with sets of all 16 of our postcards and all 52 of our bilingual Immune Boosting & Breathing posters -- one for every week of the year!

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it's more than team-building. it's team-care.

Our activities are fun and engaging in the moment, while building the foundation for a culture of WE

Leaders at nonprofits and schools are trying to build back better as the fog of the pandemic finally lifts. 


The team has been giving it their all and then some, from home or behind a mask, and there’s a real concern that they’re burning out. (It’s ok to admit it if you’re there too!) You know that shared, fun experiences help build the team, but after the trauma and exhaustion of the past year-plus, you’re looking for something more constructive than mini-golf and happy hour.


Nonprofit Wellness combines energy, experience, science, art, and a sense of humor through Team-Care activities that are equal parts fun, engaging, and instructive, both virtual and in person. (We're based in DC, FYI.) From an hour at a retreat to a multi-week series culminating in a lasting Wellness Committee, our programs are custom-made to meet your big-hearted and exhausted employees where they are, build camaraderie through vulnerability, and establish a space and priority for discussing and supporting well-being at work. 


According to McKinsey, 96 percent of companies globally provided additional mental-health resources to employees, but only one in six employees reported feeling supported. Even if you have an EAP program and decent coverage for therapy in your healthcare, most of your employees probably aren’t taking proper advantage of it. Nonprofit and school employees in particular struggle with making the time to take care of themselves, so employers need to be more proactive in creating the space and expectation. That's where team-care comes in. 

Education director Ty Powell and nonprofit director Susan Comfort (Co-founders)

PRICING: SMALL INVESTMENTS can BRING BIG SHIFTS

(online) Training costs

Skill-Shops for your team (online)

$350 per training

We are constantly adding to our list of options, like:  Juggling, Mindful Art, Qi Gong, Mindfulness and more. See below for descriptions.  $100 surcharge for recording.

Tool Talks

$500 per training

These trainings feature Nonprofit Wellness senior trainers Ty & Susan. 

Coaching, Consulting & Custom Videos

$1,000 minimum

We support leaders, HR folks, and teams. Talking confidentially to Ty or Susan about your team's culture shifting will yield dozens of new ideas for practices, perspectives and team-building tools for wellness. We also create custom wellness videos for teams. 

Sustainable Wellness Culture: Train-the-Trainer program

$3,999

These four online sessions are for schools or nonprofits who want to develop a program that supports/retains staff.

Public Trainings

$0-50 per training

We occasionally offer free, open-to-the-public, "ticketed" trainings. However, our curriculum was designed for groups that have a common interest -- like a team, workplace, retreat, or conference. Contact us to schedule!

VISUALS (english or spanish)

$250-999

Visuals include posters, postcards, flyers and quotes. 

$250 for downloadable files (English or Spanish). 

$999 for printed & mailed packet. 

Please contact us for scholarship options and in-person training pricing.

Skill-shops: putting the "WE" in wellness

Mindfulness in Stressful Times

Mindfulness in Stressful Times

ABOUT OUR SKILL-SHOPS 


Our skill-shops are single sessions for teams to practice wellness activities together. 


Because it's fun for people to learn a new skill or have a new experience (together).


Want to schedule a session or series for your team? susan@nonprofitwellness.org

Mindfulness in Stressful Times

Mindfulness in Stressful Times

Mindfulness in Stressful Times

Mindfulness is "nonjudgmental awareness of the present moment." Harder than it sounds, and worthy of a lifetime (or at least a few minutes a day) of practice. This session is designed as an introductory experience. 

We go over brain science and the current stressful world we inhabit, but most of this session is spent practicing several methods of mindfulness (mantra) o 5-4-3-2-1 (sensory awareness). Here's Maria-Jose's story highlighting Headspace (the above links are in Spanish, led by bilingual trainers). 

Latin Dance

Mindfulness in Stressful Times

Grief with Grace

Sometimes dance is the best solution to unstick your body or mind. These skill-shops are family-friendly, and zero dance experience is expected. 

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 Learn Latin dance while exercising and having fun. This class will go over the basics of popular styles like salsa, merengue, and bachata, led by Latin dance instructors like Ricardo Loiaza, above.

Grief with Grace

Juggling Challenges (& bags)

Grief with Grace

Leslie Gray Streeter, columnist for the Baltimore Banner and author of Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title, presents this "Grief with Grace" skill-shop that is mostly safe for work. 


She shares practical steps, based on experience and science and the pandemic, to navigate the grieving process with positivity and YEP! a sense of humor. Participants will come away with a plan of action that includes talking about and acknowledging grief, a topic most avoid but everyone experiences. 

Juggling Challenges (& bags)

Juggling Challenges (& bags)

Juggling Challenges (& bags)

Think you can’t juggle? We beg to differ. Using simple plastic bags or maybe scarves, we’ll teach you juggling basics in less than an hour. 


Here's a 5-min taster of Kevin's session with kids. These movements sharpen the reflexes, increase focus, and improve coordination.


Learn from expert circus yogi Kevin O'Keefe of Circus Minimus. Circus arts are inherently family-friendly, so do this session from home office(s) and invite the kids. 

Qi Gong: Meditative Movements

Juggling Challenges (& bags)

Juggling Challenges (& bags)

Qi Gong is a gentle, ancient, Chinese healing practice that cultivates our vital life energy (qi or “chi”) and fosters balance in both our bodies and minds. 


In this beginner practice, Joann and Pat of QiCircles teach a mindful flow of simple and profoundly effective movements. 


This session is accessible to all ages (Joann is 80 years young!) and physical ability levels.


When a team does something (anything) new together, the experience builds camaraderie as well as skill. 


Mindful Art: Upcycling

How to have Less Zoom Stress

How to have Less Zoom Stress

Our Mindful Art sessions focus on paper "upcycling" (making new stuff from otherwise discarded magazines, calendars, maps, etc) for cards, envelopes, and other human connection tools. 


These activities engage the right hemisphere of our brain, and help us stay present. They also help us view the "waste" economy with a new viewpoint.

How to have Less Zoom Stress

How to have Less Zoom Stress

How to have Less Zoom Stress

In this session, we take a fun approach to looking into why "Zoom fatigue" exists, best practices for engagement -- on any online platform -- and tips/tricks to make Zoom work better for you. This skill-shop models interactive practices that you can then replicate with your team.
Some of the content from this training was covered by TechSoup in their June 2021 blog post.

Improv for Teamwork

How to have Less Zoom Stress

Improv for Teamwork

Come learn some new online games to bring to your next meeting. You'll also  experience the links between improv and empathy and mental health. 


We team up with Lynne Childress of Building Better People Productions to present this session, which is appropriate for a variety of ages and seniority levels. Participants will get a list of check-in questions to try.

Mental Health & team-Building: TOOL TALKS

Personal Stress Prescription

Stressor & Resilience Scorecard

Stressor & Resilience Scorecard

A list of free, personal, science-backed stress solutions like Laughter, Play and  Exercise.

  • Goal of Training: Understand  neuroscience and health impacts of (unprecedented) stress & identify science-backed self-care solutions.  
  • What You'll Learn: In this training, participants will learn the neuroscience of what stress does to the body and mind. Then, participants will reflect on their "roots" of self-care. They will self-prescribe their own stress solutions 
  • Trainers in training will learn ways to facilitate this tool in small group discussions, to build trust.

Stressor & Resilience Scorecard

Stressor & Resilience Scorecard

Stressor & Resilience Scorecard

  • Goal of Training: Understand your sources of (non-work) stress and learn ways to reframe these challenges to build personal resilience. 
  • What You'll Learn: This session shares new tools that are needed to manage the chronic stress of 2022, especially in nonprofits and schools. Participants will complete a "Stressor & Resilience Scorecard," our revised tool which measures the impact of one's identity and personal circumstances.
  • Trainers in training will practice reducing and re-framing, two key strategies for personal resilience.

A Forest of Team-Care

Stressor & Resilience Scorecard

A Forest of Team-Care

  • Goal of Training: Cultivate a healthy forest -- that is, a culture of team-care that supports everyone at work.
  • What You'll Learn: How to assess your team's wellness needs to plan a post-pandemic culture of retention. Participants will share ideas on wellness planning and receive our "Big List" of 30 (cheap!) cultural and leadership wellness practices to inspire staff year-round.  
  • Trainers are available for additional coaching and customized plans. 

12 Immune Boosters

Brain Boost BINGO (Take 5)

A Forest of Team-Care

In a pandemic and entering flu season, everyone can do a few more things to bolster their immune systems. This skill-shop goes over 12 science-backed solutions for naturally boosting your resistance to sickness. The summary sheet is available on the "resources" tab, in English and Spanish.

Brain Boost BINGO (Take 5)

Brain Boost BINGO (Take 5)

Brain Boost BINGO (Take 5)

The "Take Five"  tool talk uses Dave Brubeck's best-selling jazz single to encourage 5-minute brain boosts throughout the day.  

3 recommendations: challenge your neural networks, choose a mindfulness practice (including listening to music), and recall playful memories from childhood.
This session comes with Brain Boost BINGO cards for all participants. This session was developed for the Pentagon in 2015 and has been in demand ever since.

Making the case for team-care

Your existing offering doesn't cut it

Workplace stress is as harmful as secondhand smoke

Workplace stress is as harmful as secondhand smoke

Only 30 percent of employees say they feel comfortable talking to their manager about their mental health. Yet nearly ⅔ of employees in that same study report mental health to be an issue of serious concern during the pandemic. If your employees aren’t bringing up mental health issues, it’s probably not that they don’t exist, but rather that they fear talking about that. Our programs are purposefully designed to overcome this trust and confidence gap.

Workplace stress is as harmful as secondhand smoke

Workplace stress is as harmful as secondhand smoke

Workplace stress is as harmful as secondhand smoke

According to a McKinsey analysis of a Johns Hopkins study, “Workplace stressors such as long hours, economic insecurity, work–family conflict, and high job demands coupled with low job control are as harmful to health as secondhand smoke.” 

5x ROI on mental health

Workplace stress is as harmful as secondhand smoke

Burnout, more than low pay, is why teachers quit

Corporate wellness is an $11 billion and growing industry. Consulting firms like Deloitte say that investment in mental health has a 500% return on investment as demonstrated by reduced sick time and employee turnover, as well as increased productivity. 

Burnout, more than low pay, is why teachers quit

Burnout, more than low pay, is why teachers quit

Burnout, more than low pay, is why teachers quit

Burnout is a huge factor in people leaving nonprofit and teaching jobs. In fact, 43% of teachers who left before scheduled retirement did so due to stress — nearly double the number who left due to pay.

1 in 5 nonprofit employees quit annually

Burnout, more than low pay, is why teachers quit

Your wellness journey is just beginning...

A pre-pandemic study showed that nearly one in five nonprofit employees leaves every year, yet only 13% of nonprofit leaders recognize it as a top challenge. This matches another pre-pandemic study showing nearly ⅓ of nonprofit employees, and over 50% of employees under 30, planning to leave within two years.

Your wellness journey is just beginning...

Burnout, more than low pay, is why teachers quit

Your wellness journey is just beginning...

Wellness at work is a growing industry -- after all, we spend 1/3 of our lives at work and since we are not physically or mentally "well" we have to address some of these skills and solutions "at the office."  Especially since many of our stressors come from the work/team itself.


Nearly every client asks us to come back and do more. Hopefully Nonprofit Wellness can support your mission minders in some way. 

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teacher wellness is an urgent need

This webinar was sponsored by DC's Public Charter School Board in May 2020, right after the pandemic hit. In it, Susan, Tyecia and Maria-Jose Carrasco (from LAMB-PCS) go over stress strategies and examples of boosting school health with an active wellness committee.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.


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