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In-person event: November, 2019

“A Voyage to Expand Your Growing Edge” was a great success!

A Voyage to Expand Your Growing Edge” launch event including day long workshops included “Expand Your Growing Edge,” “Radical Resilience,” and “How to Lead and Who to Follow.”
Don’t take our word for it…hear what participants said!
Left: Stephanie Crawford-Goetz, Ph.D., Director Personalized Learning Mental Health, Douglas County Schools;
Right: Stephanie O’Neill, District Lead of DCSD, Crisis Team Child Welfare Education Liaison DCSD
I ran into Cindy Hodge at the State Suicide Prevention summit and heard her mention something about a program she was leading.  Knowing Cindy and the quality of what she did, I just said yes on the spot.  I had no idea what I had signed up for.  I was certainly not disappointed, in fact, my life changed quite remarkably through the training.  As we were discussing burnout, I realized I hit all levels.  I had no idea.  Through the course of two days I realized how stressed, empty, and on edge I had become in my life.  The training not only helped with awareness, but also how to take better care of my body, mind, and soul.  Since the training I have let go of many obligations and reassessed what is truly important.  I am focusing more time on wellness, relationships, and spirituality.  This has changed how I feel about myself, those around me, and brought so much more vitality to my life.  I would recommend this course without reservation.  It was the wake-up call I so needed
Molly F., Suicide Prevention Advocate, Eagle, CO
As a business owner in Property Management, I found the conference with Cindy Hodge and Kathryn VanBoskirk invaluable.  I learned many things that are benefiting me both personally and professionally.

Over the three days, the sessions were insightful, interesting and very meaningful. Cindy and Kathryn facilitated this learning well by giving everyone a chance to be involved. I would come away from each session fulfilled and eager with more information, insight and motivation to make changes  I found the “How to Lead and Who to Follow” especially helpful.  It was eye opening and inspiring to consider all the ways we can use leadership daily to increase success in our businesses, teams and even personal lives.

I benefited immensely from this conference and would advise anyone to attend to enhance their personal and professional lives.
Ty Y., Owner, Property Management Company, Ft. Collins, CO
Attending the launch for ALL-IN Unlimited was a truly exceptional experience. What I know is that it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day businesses of our lives and find a million reasons why we can’t or won’t take time for our own personal or professional growth.  Doing so makes it easy to stay in our stuckness. Attending the launch gave me the opportunity to challenge myself and grow by exploring both where I’ve been and where I want to go. Not only were the facilitators amazing in their guidance, but the community of the group was inspiring.  Thank you for a wonderful opportunity Cindy and Kathryn.
Paige H, MA, LPC, Oregon City, Oregon

Launching group
Getting ready for the workshops
Evening of jazz courtesy of Purnell Steen and LeJazz Machine

Voyage Into Your Future with Four New Workshops

All four day long workshops are now available individually and in any combination. Workshops may be tailored to individual groups based consultation and thoughtful planning.

Click on a tab below to learn more about the workshop and sign up.

The purpose of the workshop, “Expand Your Growing Edge,” is to identify your current growing edge through learning about the difference between your comfort zone and your learning zone and the processes to assist you to grow.

Participants will:

  • Learn what constitutes a growth mindset
  • Understand the process of being in your comfort zone and expanding into the stretch zone
  • Explore the power of thresholds in your life and their relationship to transformation
  • Identify your own growing edge
  • Outline what elements are necessary to expand your growing edge
To get started, click the “Request a Consultation” button below.
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Cindy Hodge
See Cindy’s Bio
Kathryn VanBoskirk
See Kathryn’s Bio
See what people had to say about the workshops during the November Launch:
Rated: 4.8 out of 5

Most appreciated:
“Most enjoyed support, notebook, able to make requests, great programming.”

“The integrated collegial partnership between the leaders. Pace”

“Everything was real life and sharing was done in a safe space not being worried about what is being shared.”

“Ability to process material at an individual level”

“The willingness and vulnerability of the instructors evolved a vulnerable group process.”

“I really enjoyed the day.  It was well-facilitated and allowed me opportunity to reflect.  Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness and care.”

“The group dynamics!  Super instructors!

To get started, click the “Request a Consultation” button below.

Cindy facilitating the workshop

The purpose of the workshop, “Radical Resilience,” is to build your own Radical Resilience skills to help you cope with the changes which we face daily.

Participants will:

  • Recognize the characteristics of radical resilience
  • Identify the 5 conditions necessary to build radical resilience
  • Assess your own capabilities regarding 10 radical resilience skills
  • Understand the value of these skills in a model to build resilience
  • Practice several of the radical resilience skills
To get started, click the “Request a Consultation” button below.
Kathryn facilitating the workshop
See what people had to say about the workshops during the November Launch:
Rated 4.7 out of 5

Most appreciated:

“Good incorporation of movement, music, internal/external reflection/conversation. Nice build—distilling complex constructs by use of simple language. Trustworthy and skillful facilitation.”

“The mapping of the integration, the meticulous care in the selection of photos, references, original thinking and exercises to illustrate and amplify radical resilience.”

“Excellent, engaging and great safe place to explore a challenging topic.”

“Appreciated the ‘aha’ moments and space Kathryn allowed participants to have to explore resilience.”

“I really enjoyed this day and the opportunity to examine resilience from a different lense of radical resilience.  Good balance of presenting information and time to process/practice. Thank you.”

“Good slide content, clear definitions ahead of concepts taught. Super day two!”

“The content folded into the activities and time to reflect.”

Kathryn VanBoskirk
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The purpose of the workshop, “How to Lead and Who to Follow,” is to deepen your understanding of leadership and ways leaders can effectively maximize team efforts for greater impact.

Participants will:

  • Explore your beliefs about leaders and leadership
  • Identify qualities of successful leadership
  • Understand the role of leaders in teams found in all parts of life
  • Learn about obstacles to good leadership
  • Practice related skills to enhance the impact of your leadership moving forward
To get started click the “Request a Consultation” button below.
Fun exercise from the workshop
See what people had to say about the workshops during the November Launch:
Rated 4.7 out of 5

Most appreciated:

“The hope is to take what I learned today and put it into action with confidence where I currently lack in leadership in life”.

“Time to interact in group, thoughtful presentation, well organized.”

“A good, creative way to host conversation about leadership.  Activities designed to draw comment from people with all/any experiences with leadership/as leader.”

“The group!  And the “groups”; beautiful balance; input and exercises,”

“Loved the content.”

“Great content and activities.”

“Good content. Great discussion with people.”

Cindy Hodge
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Community Response to Trauma 2.0: Always Wear Comfortable Shoes, A 20-year examination of practical lessons learning from responding to the Columbine HS murder/suicide.

Participants will:

  • Identify challenges in responding to mass/community tragedies (natural/man-made)
  • Explore impact of vicarious trauma on caregivers, both short term and over decades
  • Examine challenges in decision making for leadership
  • Outline individual and organizational strategies for greater success beforehand
  • Determine personal self-care needs and challenges
To get started, click the “Request a Consultation” button below.
Request More Information
Cindy Hodge
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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