Course Details
The Art of Difficult Conversations
4 weeks
FREE
Course Details
Language
English
Format
Live-stream
Duration
4 weeks
Course Description
Difficult conversations are part of supporting children, families, and the people who care for them. Approached with courage and compassion, these moments can strengthen trust, deepen understanding, and create opportunities for growth.
This four-week Deeper Dive livestream series offers practical, trauma-informed tools for navigating challenging conversations with confidence and clarity. In four weekly 90-minute sessions, you’ll explore how stress and trauma influence communication, recognize fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses, and learn ways to regulate your own emotions before and during difficult conversations.
At the heart of the series is the CALM Conversation Model—Connect, Acknowledge, Listen, and Move Forward. Through realistic scenarios from child welfare settings, interactive activities, conversation planning, and role-play, you’ll practice addressing concerns honestly while preserving dignity, strengthening connection, and encouraging accountability.
Whether you’re a caregiver, foster parent, professional, or someone who leads and supports others, you’ll leave with practical strategies to turn difficult conversations into opportunities for connection, understanding, problem-solving, and positive change.
Dates: Tuesdays 10:00 – 11:30am EDT: October 27th, November 3rd, 10th, 17th, 2026
Trauma shouldn’t define a person’s future. Healing can change their story.
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Your gift brings trauma-informed training to the people who care for children and families.