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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.
Our online trainings focus on our original resources: the Deck, Prescription, and Scorecard.
We add inclusive, small-group activities to build your team culture, health, and camaraderie.
Trainings start at $650, and Coaching/video packages begin at $1,000.
All are customized to achieve specific outcomes for your specific team.
We designed a Train-the-Trainer curriculum on Team-Care, with the goal of building an effective program at your school or nonprofit.
This four-part curriculum has been tested 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 all 16 of our postcards (bilingual) and all 52 of our Wellness Deck cards (English)
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)
These trainings feature Nonprofit Wellness senior trainers Ty &/or Susan, plus at least one 52-card Wellness Deck.
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. Minimum $1,000 for a package of coaching or video resources.
We are constantly adding to our list of expert online trainers, with skills like: Juggling, Qi Gong, Salsa Dance, Mindfulness and more. See below for descriptions. $100 surcharge for recording.
These four online sessions are for schools or nonprofits who want to develop a program that supports/retains staff.
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!
Please contact us for scholarship options and in-person training pricing.
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 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 and usually led by board member (and TM practitioner) Daniel Medina (in English or Spanish).
We go over brain science of mindfulness and reflect on the health benefits as well as barriers.
Most of this session is spent practicing several methods of mindfulness (for example, mantra) or 5-4-3-2-1 (sensory awareness that breaks an anxiety spiral).
This is a good session to pair with Habit Change (translating lessons from Clear's Atomic Habits")
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.
Leslie 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.
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 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.
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.
This session is an interactive, online or in-person, crafting session.
These activities engage the right hemisphere of our brain, and help us stay present. We view the "waste" economy with a new perspective.
Most importantly, the letters and notes that can be sent in an earthalope bring people closer together.
We can all do a few more things to bolster our immune systems. Many of these suggestions are cheap, too!
This training goes over 12 science-backed solutions for naturally boosting your resistance to harmful viruses and bacteria.
The list of Immune Boosters can turn into a discussion series among your staff -- for one client, it was three months of weekly team-sharing of practices and resources for better health.
Being nonjudgmental present is harder than it sounds. So, it takes practice.
Go ahead--right now--TAKE A DEEP BREATH
Breathing is not only the language of the nervous system, it's a tool for mindful attention.
This training uses our new deck with 13 breathing cards, to practice easy exercises and learn the benefits of mindfulness (and the basics of habit change).
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.
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.
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.”
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 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.
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.
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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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.
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