SIGNATURE NO SHAME ON U WORKSHOPS

No Shame On U offers mental health workshops and training to any audience, including but not limited to businesses, non-profit organizations, those seeking professional development, religious institutions, summer camps, and schools. Workshops can be delivered live or virtually, and typically run for 60 minutes.  

No Shame On U will work with your community to customize workshops based on your needs.  For more information and pricing, please email nsou@noshameonu.org

Student Workshops:

(Suitable and adapted for middle school, high school, and college age students)

Preventing Burnout: Strategies for Dealing with Everyday Ups and Downs, Stress, Pressure, and Burnout

Students are asked to do it all: juggle academics, extracurricular activities, athletics, part-time jobs, college preparation, and so much more.  This session will focus on helping students learn what mental health is and understanding what are "normal" ups and downs versus the kinds of concerns that may be more serious.  Students will begin to be able to identify when they need to ask for support and who to ask.

Help!  How to Support Someone Struggling With their Mental Health

The lifetime prevalence of living with a mental health condition is 50%. That means that at some point in time, nearly everyone will know someone struggling with their mental health.  It can be difficult to know what to say or how to provide proper support.  In this session, we will work with students and give recommendations on what to say,  what actions to take, and how to maintain their own wellness.  Students will leave this workshop knowing how to support their friends and loved ones and what appropriate interventions look like.  

Resilience for Everyday Living and Traumatic Events

Resilience is our ability to adapt when things don't go as planned. It is our ability to bounce back in the face of adversity, trauma, family and relationship stress, serious health problems, or workplace and school stressors. Resilience is a strategy that can be learned. In this session, we will explore the factors that contribute to resilience and provide practical coping strategies for everyday life and more traumatic experiences.  

Language and Stigma Surrounding Mental Health

Language matters.  The words students choose and the meanings attached to them have a powerful effect on how we view mental health and the people who live with mental health conditions.   In this interactive session, students will learn about the language that can alienate people, sensationalize mental illness, and create barriers to treatment.  They will leave the workshop having learned  about preferred language and tools to intervene when confronted with stigma around mental health.

Adult Workshops:

(Suitable for adults, parents, educators, and professional staff)

Demystifying and Destigmatizing Mental Health Struggles

Experiencing mental health struggles may trigger fear and loneliness. Stigma may contribute to this sense of hopelessness and isolation and may serve as a barrier to seeking help.  Learn to recognize the signs of depression and anxiety, and learn how you can help those who are struggling with their mental health. This session will focus on support and self-care strategies.

Developing Resilience at Work and in LIfe:  Adopting an Attitude of Gratitude

Adopting the practice of gratitude can lead to reduced stress, better emotion regulation, and increased resilience. Participants will leave with practical self-care tools that they can start incorporating into their daily lives and routines.  

Making Mental Health Matter for School Staff and Faculty

School staff are asked to do it all: Be a teacher, mentor, event planner, therapist, security risk manager, and so much more for the hundreds of students in their care.   In this training, staff will learn about school burnout prevention and stress management. This session will help empower staff on the job and in their personal lives to make choices that will help prevent burnout and reduce stress. 

Managing Anxiety During Uncertain Times: Tips and Tools for Coping

It is becoming the norm to experience anxiety about world issues such as the upcoming U.S. elections, ongoing world conflicts, and climate change. Though you do not have control over world events, you need not feel helpless or overwhelmed. Join No Shame On U for an interactive session and learn evidence-based skills that may improve the way you cope with these ongoing global challenges.

Summer Camp Staff Workshops:

(Suitable for school-based afterschool program staff and recreation professionals)

Help! I'm Worried About My /Campers Mental Health

In this training, after school recreation or camp staff will learn about mental health risk factors, warning signs, and the prevalence of mental health challenges. Staff will leave the session with tools and strategies for creating a positive and caring camp/afterschool environment. 

Making Mental Health Matter for Camp Staff

Camp staff is asked to do it all! Be a best friend, mentor, teacher, therapist, medic, conflict resolution specialist, event planner, risk manager, and so much more for a group of children they have just met. In this training, staff will learn about burnout prevention and stress management and empower staff to take care of themselves. . Happy staff….happy campers!

Camp Builds Resiliency 

Summer camp is a place in which resilience in children and adolescents’ social-emotional skills can be strengthened. In this session, staff will learn about resiliency and leave with activities to build this important skill at camp. 

Making Mindfulness Moments

There is no doubt about it, today’s kids are stressed out.  Summer Camp is a place where campers can learn tools they can use year-round to reduce stress and bolster their mental health.  In this session, staff will learn about mindfulness, its benefits, and different activities and ideas for incorporating mindfulness moments into the camp day with campers.