About EKG
Our Expertise
Our Expertise
Our Expertise
At EKG, combined we have over 30 years of experience providing trainings to non-profit and government agencies. We specialize in working with agencies providing mental health, housing, workforce development, crisis response, and family services. Our expertise is supporting organizations who serve individuals and families impacted by the justice system and navigating flatland community violence.
Our Team
Our Expertise
Our Expertise
Our team at EKG is made up of Ellery Graves and Kevin Grant. We work together to provide our clients with tailored trainings, workshops and consulting services based on the needs of the organization.
Meet our team and learn more about our individual areas of expertise.
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Our Approach
Our Expertise
Our Approach
We work closely with our clients to understand their organization's goals and challenges and develop our trainings with those areas of focus in mind. Trainings support not only the professional development of each attendee, but also their personal growth for a more engaged, purposeful and healthier organization.
Our Most Popular Trainings
Merge of Two Cultures
Merge of Two Cultures
Merge of Two Cultures
This training focuses on bridging the gap between academic/administrative culture and lived experience culture within organizations, fostering a more cohesive and inclusive work environment. Participants will explore how differing communication styles, decision-making processes, and conflict resolution approaches shape team dynamics. By strengthening these skills, teams will be better equipped to collaborate effectively, creating a more unified support system for both staff and the youth and community members they serve.
Workplace Integrity
Merge of Two Cultures
Merge of Two Cultures
This training empowers employees to navigate workplace challenges while staying true to their core values and the organization's mission. In times of rapid change, shifting leadership, divisiveness, conflict, or stress, it can be difficult to maintain a sense of integrity and alignment with professional and personal values. This training provides employees with practical strategies to uphold ethical decision-making, foster open communication, and strengthen workplace cohesion, even in times of uncertainty.
Healthy Boundaries
Merge of Two Cultures
The Empirical Knowledge of Substance Use Disorders
This training provides attendees with the tools and insights needed to assess, establish, or refine their personal and professional boundaries. Through interactive discussions and real-world applications, attendees will gain confidence in setting limits, managing difficult conversations, and maintaining self-care while upholding ethical responsibilities. By the end of the training, participants will be better equipped to navigate workplace dynamics with clarity, confidence, and professionalism, leading to healthier interactions and a more supportive work environment.
The Empirical Knowledge of Substance Use Disorders
Empowering Today's Violence- Impacted Youth, Families and Communities
The Empirical Knowledge of Substance Use Disorders
This training provides the empirical knowledge of substance use-related disorders, including methodology and latest techniques in counselling, in order to educate staff how to improve outcomes in supporting clients toward their goals and recovery.
Motivational Movement
Empowering Today's Violence- Impacted Youth, Families and Communities
Empowering Today's Violence- Impacted Youth, Families and Communities
This training encourages ways to support clients through what's strong with them, versus what is wrong with them. This in turn encourages the same lens in staff retention, collaboration, and professional development. Together we work through ways to ignite, maintain and regulate motivation in ourselves, and others we support.
Empowering Today's Violence- Impacted Youth, Families and Communities
Empowering Today's Violence- Impacted Youth, Families and Communities
Empowering Today's Violence- Impacted Youth, Families and Communities
This training will allow attendees to develop a framework for understanding and navigating violence in flatland communities. Attendees will develop tools, language and resources to build relationships and provide the best support to youth & families experiencing community violence.
Stress & Burnout
This training allows staff to identify where they are on the levels of stress to burnout. Attendees will learn early detection of stressors and discover ways to avoid burnout and be more productive, effective and balanced.
Deliverables Training
This training supports attendees to breakdown their service delivery from activities to milestones to deliverables and empowers them to understand and enact the outcomes they have the power to shape.
Anger Management
Effective Communication
This training supports attendees to understand the reflex response emotion of anger. Though the Injustice Triangle this curriculum frames the skill set to mediate conflict, interrupt potentially violent situations and encourage improved outcomes.
Effective Communication
Effective Communication
This training is designed to teach attendees the 5 Communication methods, verbal and non-verbal communication skills, active listening, and to effectively use assertiveness personally and professionally.
Facilitators Training
This training provides simple, surefire techniques to learn how to develop a workshop or training from topic to desired outcomes, managing a learning environment, and facilitating effective adult learning.
Purposeful Impact Retreats
EKG provides activities, workshops, strategic planning, and team building exercises for organizational retreats.
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