Peer relationship navigation, conversational turn-taking, and stress management strategies within supportive group settings. Develops communal belonging through shared mental health education and collaborative skill practice.
An interactive 1-hour workshop on empathy and social awareness in everyday adult life, focusing on friendships, job hunting, workplaces, and navigating daily community interactions with mutual respect.
A comprehensive lesson designed for adult learners to master assertive communication techniques including I-Statements and the DBT DEAR MAN framework to effectively express personal needs in a mental health context.
A 60-minute group session focused on empowering adults in PSR programs to understand their personal rights and practice assertive communication in real-world situations.
Uses prayer as a tool for realignment rather than just petition, focusing on 'not my will but thine' as a release of unrealistic burdens.
Identifies and provides tools to counter common scrupulous cognitive distortions like overestimating demands and underestimating grace.
Focuses on the transformation of our nature (becoming) rather than the tallying of individual deeds.
Shifts focus from fear-driven checklist religion to the Savior’s model of invitation and lack of condemnation.
Discusses the reality of imperfect leaders and institutions as a reflection of the divine pattern of working with flawed individuals.
Explores the divine purpose of weakness as taught in Ether 12, reframing struggle as a tool for humility rather than evidence of failure.
Addresses the clinical cycle of religious OCD, focusing on how hyper-monitoring and fear distort our self-perception and spiritual experience.
Reframes the command to 'be perfect' using the Greek 'teleios,' shifting the focus from 'flawless' to 'whole' and 'complete in Christ.'
A deep dive into the doctrine that God expects persistence and Christ-centeredness rather than flawless performance in mortality.
Identifies the three layers of expectations—what we think God wants, what we want, and what God actually wants—to find the source of religious distress.
Explores how our internal expectations act as filters for our reality, using Alma 32 to reframe growth as a gradual process rather than immediate perfection.
A supportive final session for counseling groups focused on reflecting on interpersonal growth, shared experiences, and the process of saying goodbye.
A 90-minute verbal-only workshop on body language in workplace, retail, clinical, and social settings. Uses interactive live acting and guided group discussion.
A workshop session focused on using Narrative Therapy techniques to externalize self-worth challenges and re-author personal narratives through life mapping.
This lesson provides Master-level counseling students with a clinical framework for group termination based on the Corey model, focusing on consolidation of learning, processing unfinished business, and applying therapeutic gains to daily life.
This lesson provides a deep dive into Adlerian Therapy as applied to various group counseling contexts, focusing on social interest, purposeful behavior, and the four phases of the group process for graduate-level school counseling students.
An exploration of Person-Centered Approach (PCA) applied to various school counseling group formats, focusing on core conditions and growth.
A complete therapeutic game system designed to adapt UNO Show 'Em No Mercy into an active MH/SA coping skills group. Includes a high-visibility clinical rules board, somatic/mindfulness coping skill cards, and 20 CBT-based stress questions to turn gameplay tension into real-time regulation practice.
A lesson designed to empower clients in recovery to understand and write their own narrative progress notes, focusing on self-evaluation of group participation, behavior, and future goals.
A one-hour group session designed for clients in trauma recovery, SUD, and anger management to identify internal and external triggers and understand the 'alarm system' of the brain.
An interactive PSR group lesson centered on the movie 'Anger Management,' focusing on identifying personal triggers and building a hierarchy of coping skills from moderate stress to severe anger.
A high-level exploration of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) specifically tailored for group settings, focusing on the unique therapeutic factors and structured protocols used in master's level clinical practice.
A graduate-level training lesson for school counseling students focused on moving beyond surface-level complaints to identifying core themes and underlying emotional drivers.
A secular lesson on spiritual well-being, focusing on seven domains of meaning, connection, and inner strength. It adapts the 'food plate' concept into an 'inner balance plate' suitable for clients of all backgrounds.
A concluding hour session for PSR groups focusing on balancing Emotion Mind and Reason Mind to find Wise Mind, concluding with a scenario-based game.
Students design and pitch a sustainable community care initiative tailored to their specific academic or professional cohort.
Develops skills for leading group stress check-ins, managing dynamics, and ensuring psychological safety in group settings.
Focuses on preventing compassion fatigue through emotional and temporal boundaries and professional referral protocols.
Practical workshop on active listening, validation, and holding space for peers without the pressure to provide immediate solutions.
Examines the buffering hypothesis and the psychological mechanics of how social connection mitigates stress, contrasting co-rumination with constructive disclosure.
Students design a framework for a community care plan, producing a 'Community Charter' for peer support in a specific campus context.
A facilitated dialogue session focusing on common undergraduate stressors, practicing normalization and collective coping strategies.
Training on recognizing the limits of peer support and when to refer to professionals, with a focus on setting emotional boundaries to prevent burnout.
A skill-building session on non-judgmental listening, reflecting, and validating emotions, focusing on 'holding space' rather than problem-solving.
Students explore the 'Buffer Hypothesis' and how social connection mitigates the health impacts of stress, focusing on the difference between instrumental, emotional, and informational support.
Students create a personalized resilience roadmap and write letters to their future selves to prepare for upcoming academic challenges.
Students categorize coping mechanisms and synthesize collective wisdom into a shared resource for managing academic pressure.
Students engage in a structured Fishbowl discussion to share personal academic struggles and practice active, non-judgmental listening.
Students explore the biological markers of stress and map their own 'stress signatures' to validate and manage physical reactions to pressure.
Students analyze case studies of failure and differentiate between perfectionism and healthy striving while sharing anonymous academic anxieties.
Students synthesize their learning by writing a 'Professional Origin Story' that integrates challenges as strengths, culminating in a gallery walk of new narratives.
An introduction to cognitive behavioral techniques relevant to academic performance, focusing on identifying cognitive distortions and rewriting internal monologues.
Students interview mentors about career non-linearities and setbacks, comparing real-world narratives against the idealized 'linear success' model of graduate school.
Participants study the concept of a 'CV of Failures' and draft their own Shadow CVs to visualize invisible struggles and normalize rejection in a group setting.
Students investigate the psychological roots of Impostor Phenomenon (IP) and review data on its prevalence in higher education, shifting the perspective from personal defect to systemic response.
