Professional Development Trainings

Our Fall 2025 trainings will explore the art of emergence: how leaders, teams, and organizations can develop new patterns, insights, and capabilities naturally, without forcing change.

Each training is designed to provide:

  • practical skills

  • relational awareness

  • Actionable strategies you can apply immediately in your workplace

Investment: In-person $79, virtual $49 per participant; group rates available. Located at 1030 E. Jewett Blvd, White Salmon, WA. Virtual sessions on Zoom.

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#1 How to Lead with Empathy & Empower Others with Accountability

FALL 2025 TRAININGS

Learn how to foster trust, enact accountability, and support growth while reducing micromanagement.

Faculty: Jill Catherine

Learning Outcomes:

  • Demonstrate active listening, perspective-taking, and behaviors that foster psychological safety in their teams.

  • Apply strategies to clarify expectations, delegate effectively, and encourage ownership without resorting to micromanagement.

  • Recognize trust-building and trust-eroding behaviors, and implement practical approaches to strengthen inclusion and engagement.

  • Align team priorities with organizational values, making decisions that support both individual and organizational growth.

  • Apply insights from research on empathy, accountability, and adaptive leadership.

  • Identify current control-oriented behaviors and implement specific coaching and empowerment techniques to shift team dynamics.

SEPT. 24 IN-PERSON |
8:30-10AM PST
(registration closes 9.20.25)

OCT. 1 VIRTUAL | 9-10AM PST
(registration closes 9.30.25)

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Learn specific techniques and practice delivering and receiving feedback that builds skills, trust, and a culture of continuous learning.

Faculty: Jill Catherine

Learning Outcomes:

  • Apply techniques for delivering feedback that is clear, actionable, and growth-oriented.

  • Learn strategies for receiving feedback effectively, with openness, curiosity, and reflective listening.

  • Recognize and manage emotional triggers to maintain constructive dialogue.

  • Build trust and psychological safety through mindful, intentional feedback interactions.

  • Foster a culture of continuous learning by integrating feedback into day-to-day practices.

  • Develop a personal action plan to implement feedback strategies that enhance team performance and engagement.

#2 How to Give and Receive Feedback with Intention + Mindful Impact

OCT. 8 IN-PERSON | 8:30-10AM
(registration closes Oct. 3)

OCT. 14 VIRTUAL | 9-10AM
(registration closes Oct. 10)

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Learn skills to make conflict productive, not destructive, and move from tension to transformation.

Faculty: Christy Deere

Learning Outcomes:

  • See conflict differently: as a catalyst for clarity, accountability, and stronger relationships.

  • Learn research-based insights into how our brains and bodies react to conflict.

  • Explore simple and accessible frameworks for navigating differences, how to balance power dynamics, address emotional needs, and shift from reactivity to curiosity.

  • Experience space for practice.

  • Develop a practical toolkit and a personal commitment to approach your next conflict with more presence, courage, and skill

#3 How to Turn Conflict into Clarity

NOV. 5 IN-PERSON | 8:30-10AM
(registration closes Oct. 29)

NOV. 11 VIRTUAL | 9-10AM
(registration closes Nov. 5)

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#4 How to Lead Like Life: An Introduction to the Regenerative Leadership Framework

Learn how to see your organization as a living system and shift from managing parts to nurturing wholeness using a framework to unlock vitality, resilience, and creativity.

Faculty: Christy Deere

Learning Outcomes:

  • Apply the Regenerative Leadership perspective to see organizations and communities as living, interconnected systems.

  • Use Ecosystem Mapping to identify leverage points, relationships, and areas of opportunity within your organization or team.

  • Shift from controlling parts to nurturing the whole, fostering resilience, creativity, and long-term impact.

  • Recognize patterns, interdependencies, and dynamics that influence organizational health and vitality.

  • Develop practical strategies to strengthen relationships, collaboration, and system-wide alignment.

  • Create a personal action plan for implementing regenerative leadership practices in your context to unlock growth and sustainability.

DEC. 3 IN-PERSON | 8:30-10AM
(registration closes Nov. 25)

DEC. 9 VIRTUAL | 9-10AM
(registration closes Dec. 3)

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