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It Doesn’t Have to Hurt to Help

Navigating Trauma and Building Radical Resilience

A daylong online interactional training built on evidence-based research and learning processes.

Registration IS CLOSED. Please contact us if you are interested in our next workshop.

Life and work experiences require that we learn about vicarious trauma, burnout, impact of community trauma and radical resilience skills for ourselves. There is a heightened need to understand these during a pandemic.

It is particularly important for those serving their communities to understand the impact that challenges and multiple traumatic events have on us personally and how this impacts our professional responses, capabilities, and responsibilities. Following that understanding, it is important to move forward with increased understanding and practice the skills of Radical Resilience. 

This training will provide valuable contributions to learning, recovery and moving forward for those working in direct service or simply supporting others during this time of uncertainty. By bringing together participants from different parts of the globe we can find common themes and challenges; share lessons and support; and increase our learning and growth.

Due to the experiences participants bring with them to the discussions, each workshop will feel personalized and relevant to the workshop group.

Registration is closed. Please contact us if you are interested in our next workshop.

Cindy Hodge

Earn 7.5 Professional Development Credits!

Certificate available upon request.

Who We Are

Cynthia Hodge, MA is an experienced trainer focused on using her experience in the Columbine HS murder/suicide to support efforts to care for caregivers.

See Cindy’s Bio

Kathryn VanBoskirk, LCSW is an innovative trainer in Radical Resilience currently focusing on training and consultation in community wellness.

See Kathryn’s Bio

Registration is closed. Please contact us if you are interested in our next event.

Two dates to choose from:

Sept. 21, 2021 or Sept. 29, 2021

8:30a – 5p MDT

A.L.L.-IN Unlimited members receive 25% discount. If you’re an existing member, click here to log in and complete the event registration process.
Refund policy

We are dedicated to delivering workshops to all interested people that serve others. However, we also acknowledge that unexpected circumstances can arise.

  • Full refund for cancellations 14 days prior to workshop date
  • 1/2 of the registration fee will be refunded 7-14 days prior to workshop date
  • There is no refund of registration fees for cancellations less than a week from the workshop date. (Pre-work and other materials are provided a week in advance. Late cancellations do not allow for others to attend.)
  • There is no refund of membership fees.
Are you outside of North America?

We’re glad you’re interested in coming to this workshop! We would like to accommodate everyone interested on additional future dates. Please supply your name, email, and time zone so that we can plan for this opportunity. When we can schedule the workshop in time zones outside of North America, we will reach out to let you know!

Testimonials

“I dwell in possibility” — E Dickinson
Cindy Hodge lives out that opening verse, and has for more than a decade led a multinational team of educators, persuading those in despair to forego suicide in favor of life.
Cindy was the Vice President for training in the world’s largest suicide prevention company—LivingWorks Education, Calgary, Canada— and oversaw the ten-fold growth of the number of persons trained to do suicide first-aid. She transformed the organization by enlisting and carefully cultivating the talents, hopes and dreams of hundreds of educators. In conferences where she led 150+ trainers, in workshops where she designed and oversaw the advancement of each educator’s career, and in personal conversations after each workshop, Cindy enables persons to evaluate and elevate both their skills and their goals. Cindy now stands ready, willing and able to help you.
David Pina, USAF (R)
VetConnect Trainer,
LivingWorks Education since 2000 VetConnect
Washington, USA
Personal and professional growth. Enhancing the conditions for exploring individual edges of learning. Creating a supportive environment that allows one to welcome vulnerability in order to stretch ones learning. It is rare to find an individual who may be able to support and encourage one of these elements much less all of them. Over the past few years I have had the good fortune to be mentored by Kathryn VanBoskirk whose leadership and facilitation skills have opened doors for me to experience all these elements. She not only displays these exceptional qualities; they are core to her being. Much of what I know about and practice today in the realm of teamwork is a result of the examples and lasting impact Kathryn has had.
Garra Lloyd-Lester
New York, USA
I have had the pleasure of knowing and learning from Cindy Hodge since 2009. I met her at a train the trainer week long training. Her leadership, compassion and encouragement gave me the confidence to do something I thought I had no skills or ability to do. Through the years she has become an invaluable mentor to me teaching me the value of teamwork, community collaboration and that anyone can do anything they put their minds to. I am forever grateful that I met and now call Cindy a friend! I look forward to our next journey!
Phyllis H.
Colorado, USA
Kathryn VanBoskirk’s training, support and leadership has been instrumental in my professional development.  Her ability to accept people where they are and lead them to the edge of their learning is transformational.
Mary Jadwisiak
CEO/Owner
Holding the Hope
www.HoldingTheHope.com
Washington, USA
Cindy is the type of transformational leader, compassionate coach and caring mentor that inspires personal & professional growth. She has had a life changing impact on people like me all around the world.
Alan Dagg USN Chief Petty Officer (Ret.)
Owner-Trainer-Coach
Innovative Education, Northern Ireland
If you have a chance to spend time in a training room with Kathryn VanBoskirk I encourage you to avail yourself of the opportunity. You will be working with an extraordinary woman who leads with strength from the heart, creates a wonderful environment for teamwork to flourish, knows the beautiful dance of facilitating then stepping back to allow the room to develop its own learning. It is time you will never regret investing.
Randy
M.A. University of Arizona
Retired Director of Prevention Services,
Providence of Arizona
Cindy Hodge is an inspiring leader who both challenges and motivates. Instilling confidence while facilitating excellence in the lives of those she touches. Leading with integrity, Cindy empowers while building community.
Karen Grant
KRGrant Consulting Inc.
Suicide Intervention Training and Consulting
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Kathryn VanBoskirk is a fantastic trainer and facilitates great discussion! She brings her wisdom, insights and helps mold the training to bring your experiences to life. Great interaction, engagement and connection with her participants. If you are able to engage her as a mentor, do it, her personal and thoughtful approach makes you feel as if she has known you for years and still she challenges you to be your authentic self.
Chris Sandwell, MS, LPC, NCC
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Cindy Hodge has made a major impact in my growth journey for the past 6 years. She has a gentle and poignant way of helping you look inward and forward at the same time. Now a part of what I do on a regular basis is exactly that, I look inward to see where I am and then I look forward to see where I need to journey next. Just simply empowering.
Ames Hart
Founder, Enter Hope, LLC
Suicide Prevention and Intervention Trainer
Board Chair, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Virginia Chapter
www.enterhope.net
Virginia, USA
I recently attended Kathryn VanBoskirk’s Radical Resiliency training and I found the experience very validating as we tend to work in our own bubbles and it was good to have the opportunity to work together on strategies that build resiliency. I have attended other trainings on compassion fatigue and resiliency and found this training unique. Kathryn has developed her own model and facilitates the attendees in determining what is having the greatest impact on them. Kathryn very genuinely cares about the people who attend her training and I recommend it for anyone who wants guided assistance in analyzing their own happiness or who is looking for skills to take back to their staff to improve job satisfaction.
Rena Fitzgerald, MIT, MHP
Care Crisis Response Services
Volunteers of America
Western Washington
Washington, USA
I have known Cynthia Hodge for over 15 years. She is a powerful force for encouragement, transformation, reflection, and growth. I have benefited from her steady support throughout the years. I especially appreciate her ability to create a safe space for me and others to be transparent in their process by sharing the barriers and the catalysts for success. She is a true facilitator who draws the wisdom from others through Socratic processes and helps others to find a turning point that moves them forward.
Monica Kintigh PhD, LPC
Texas, USA
I have been in the helping field for over 30 years. I can say that the techniques I learned at this workshop will change my approach in caring for others and myself. I am still thoughtful on the characteristics of resilience and how each characteristic may shine at different times in an individual’s lives.  I had a very impactful experience when discussing a negative experience with another participant. I was brought to tears by my partner’s reframing during this exercise. After this exercise I wrote a small “S” on my hand as a visual reminder to share this experience with my husband upon my return home. The “S” stood for safe because due to reframing I was reminded he represents safety in my life. That night on the way home my husband, with my children, were victims of crime, however due to my husband’s response everyone was physically safe. This workshop helped me see my husband’s resilience. This workshop was amazing!
Tracy
North Carolina, USA
I have worked with Kathryn in a variety of roles for the past 15 years 
She is a skillful and compassionate facilitator, coach, and leader. She pays attention and shows careful regard for individual needs. Her groupwork skills are exemplary. As a leader she uses her extensive experience and skill to demonstrate meaningful inclusion, support and flexible guidance when needed. She has an incredible ability to find ways to help you identify and work with the uncomfortable edges of learning, and in my experience it is here that deep learning always occurs.
Jenny Pickup
Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Trainer and Consultant
South West England
UK
I have known Cindy many years and have been continuously impressed with her. She is a real person that has faced life’s challenges with optimism and hard work and forged success. Cindy has a wealth of experience and proven her ability to be a leader and mentor time and again. She not only has knowledge; she has wisdom about how to use that knowledge. Cindy has many gifts and talents and three immediately come to mind. First, she really cares about helping others. Second, she is committed to giving her very best effort to those she helps. And third, her personal integrity will allow nothing less. In other words, she is A.L.L.-IN
Chaplain Colonel Joe F Johnston, USAF (Ret)
LivingWorks Education, ASIST Team Leader
Cindy Hodge expresses that rare blend of patience, insight, and ‘over-sight’ that allows her to hear what a person needs from her, synthesize those needs from the position of the person’s strengths, then help the person discover what next steps are needed. Our relationship spans decades, with our roles sometimes switching between student and Mentor. Her background in disaster response and suicide prevention serve her well in bringing out the best in people.
Gary McConahay PhD
Clinical Director at ColumbiaCare Services, Inc.
I have had the pleasure of working with Cindy many times over the past 10 years. While in Cindy’s presence I find myself in awe of her innate ability to develop and maintain relationships with colleagues, customers, strangers and organisations. Cindy is most definitely a people person, very much aware of her own presence, which she uses subtly and skilfully in order to support individuals and groups. Cindy’s natural intuition is razor sharp enabling her to see both the big picture as well as the small details. Her intuition coupled with her skills and qualities makes her an impressive leader, which in turn supports and develops leadership and teamworking among those she works with.
Kevin B.
Northern Ireland