Please note: the AECEA office will be closed from December 25, 2024-January 5, 2025. Expect a delay in processing questions and memberships. Happy holidays!
Imagine Insitute for Learning (IIFL) offers organizational support workshops for early childhood educators. AECEA professional and student members receive 15% off public sessions and associate members receive 15% off on-site sessions.
Becoming a Trauma-Informed Organization or Team (3 Hours)
This highly interactive three-hour session supports organizations that are looking to introduce a mindset that supports new ideas and elements that take an idea to action. This session is an innovative and inspiring way to kick off a work event or give a reset to a team struggling to come up with new ideas. Based on research, this session pushes people to think outside the box as well as find a way to give their ideas a language that can be translated into action. Albert Einstein sums it up best in his quote, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
Kouzes and Posner’s Leadership Challenge ™. (2 Days)
Immensely practical and hands-on, The Leadership Challenge® Workshop is designed to inspire, engage, and help emergent leaders develop the skills needed to meet whatever leadership challenges lay ahead. The core curriculum is structured around seven components, including five independent modules that focus specifically on each of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®. Each module describes the practice, reviews the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) items related to that practice, and ends with techniques that asks participants to reflect on how to apply what they have learned to a current leadership challenge of their own. With a plan of action in-hand for taking the key learnings from the workshop back to the workplace, leaders will be prepared to implement these new leadership practices back on the job, beginning Day 1.
Workplace Wellness Level 1: Connection (3 Hours)
This 3-hour interactive session is for those employed in the human services sector whose working conditions and identities as workers have been changed and challenged by the pandemic. Through guided conversation and reflective activities, participants will engage with many of the complex mental health topics that are relevant to workers right now, such as surge capacity, ambiguous loss, and moral tension. By the end of the session, participants will be empowered to re-examine their experiences using newly acquired vocabulary and personal insight to move their needle towards wellness and compassion, both for themselves and others.
Workplace Wellness Level 2: Preservation (3 Hours)
This 3-hour interactive session builds on the reflective work completed in Level 1 and aims to support employees with practical tools to enhance their workplace wellness during these challenging pandemic times. Participants will examine compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction through the lens of their own professional quality of life. By understanding what the warning signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue and burnout may look like in ourselves and others, we are better prepared to respond by prioritizing well-being and mitigating potential harm to individuals, clients, and our organization. Participants will leave the session with practical tools and protective strategies to safeguard their mental health and minimize the experience of fatigue that can come from working in empathetically demanding jobs.
For more information, and to register for an available workshop, click here.
Release time funding may be available. Please contact IIFL for more information.