Staff & Team Development Workshops
RelateAbility helps your team better understand how you all are doing as a team and how you can grow to encourage each other. And with a genuine appreciation for the educators, social workers, therapists, and other staff members serving in schools and social service agencies, RelateAbility makes time to celebrate and honor your team because not everyone can do the work you all do.
With RelateAbility, your team will engage in activities, conversations, and reflection exercises designed to strengthen relationships while strengthening focus around a common mission. These offerings all seek to rejuvenate your team's capacity to care for one another and, in turn, to better serve your students, clients, and families.
Below are the workshop sessions offered to to strengthen organizational health and team wellness. Each focuses on essentials for enhancing workplace mental health and well-being. RelateAbility will collaborate with you to develop an empowering experience for your team regardless of the workshop selected for your team. What remains consistent is the dedication to honor your team's unique perspectives, ideas, and needs.
Single Day Session
Team Togetherness
To remain invested in each other and a common mission, people need to feel like they belong together. This workshop helps teams:
- intentionally connect as people before connecting as colleagues
- create support for one another during times of stress
- identify ways to remain motivated to achieve peak performance
Single Day Session
Growth & Empowerment
Let's have some targeted conversations about how your team aspires to grow together. This workshop is for groups wanting to:
- identify professional development goals and strategically plan how to get there
- explore how your team members best love to learn
- meaningfully celebrate accomplishments
Multi-Day Sessions
Safe & Nurturing Environments
To engage in brave conversations, teams need to feel safe and security together. This workshop creates an environment for newer teams and teams going through transitions to:
- identify team needs
- engage in solution-focused conversations about change management
- develop norms to cultivate healthy workplace environments
Multi- or Single Day Sessions
Valuing One Another
Designed for highly functioning teams, we use a strength-based approach to:
- explore what members of your team bring to the group
- identify new ways team members would like to contribute to your overall mission
- engage in inclusive decision-making to build dignity in the workplace
Multi-Day Sessions
Balance & Harmony
Team wellness can take many forms. We'll look at ways your team can remain rejuvenated together, all while honoring organizational policies. We'll dedicate time to:
- explore how your team can support one another's professional and personal boundaries
- develop sound workplace wellness initiatives and practices
Multi-Day Sessions
Leading Cohesive Teams
Managers, team leaders, department heads, and supervisors engage in conversations and activities to:
- build community with one another
- enhance communication skills with each other, executive leadership, and supervisees
- strengthen relationships with people who report to them
- take ownership for enhancing workplace culture
Multi- or Single Day Sessions
Professional Development Workshops & Keynotes
Counselors, educators, and group facilitators are immersed in experiential learning activities with teammates, then plan to critically apply these activities with their own clients and students. We use a group facilitation framework that can be used for classroom, gymnasium, outdoor, or in-office settings.