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Our Most Popular Staff Trainings

Professional development rooted in real‑world challenges—equipping staff and leaders to communicate clearly, uphold integrity, and better support the communities they serve.

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Healthy Boundaries

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.

Workplace Integrity

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.

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.

Effective Communication

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.

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.

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.

Motivational Movement

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.

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.

Deliverables

Anger Management

This training supports attendees to understand the reflex response emotion of anger. Through the Injustice Triangle this curriculum frames the skill set to mediate conflict, interrupt potentially violent situations and encourage improved outcomes.

Facilitator's 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.

EKG provides activities, workshops, strategic planning, and team building exercises for organizational retreats.

Purposeful Impact Retreats

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"I think what I take away most from the trainings are their ability to unify us as a group... I think that makes us work better together, and we're more productive when it comes to output of the program."

-Marcus, Parent Partner with A Better Way, Inc.

"I gravitate towards their work because they're very touching and they come from the heart. And they incorporate everybody into their trainings and I really enjoy that. They have a lot of wisdom and I feel like I've gained a lot of wisdom through their trainings..."

- Daisy, Parent Partner with A Better Way, Inc.

"Kevin and Ellery are truly a dynamic duo who deliver powerful trainings that enhance functioning among teams of social service providers. Their trainings are structured and thought provoking while encouraging ample audience participation and reflection. A storyteller by nature, Kevin's delivery of training content is enthralling and hilarious, while Ellery has a calming and grounded presence. Together, Kevin and Ellery deliver a memorable and highly enjoyable training experience that is guaranteed to have a lasting impact on staff."

- Jenny Linchey, Deputy Chief, City of Oakland, Department of Violence Prevention

"I met Kevin Grant over 10 years ago. I attended one of his trainings and thought he was amazing trainer and invited him to provide some trainings for my staff. He has lead dozens of trainings for us over the years... And then I learned that he started this new collaboration called EKG working with Ellery and they are now providing even more training to our staff."

- Kimberly Murphy, Director of Social Service Programs at A Better Way, Inc.

"I really enjoy them coming into our space because they reach to the depths of our soul and bring out things that help us become better employees and better for our families."

- Sarah with A Better Way, Inc.

"Since taking these trainings, I've benefited more just as a mother but professionally. It's made me a stronger person. They train in a way that gets to your heart, and definitely been a huge influence to who I am today.”

- Crystal with A Better Way, Inc.

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From team retreats to healthy boundaries trainings, EKG Trainings creates spaces rooted in connection, meaningful growth and a whole lot of joy—no matter the size of the group.