Trainings & Workshops
The Hope Unshaken offers customizable, lived-experience based mental health trainings rooted in compassion, emotional safety, and practical tools. Workshops are available as 1-hour sessions or expanded into bundled and half-day formats. Each training is tailored to meet the unique needs of your audience and community.
Trainings are led by a NAMI Smarts for Advocacy–certified trainer and peer support advocate with lived experience in mental health, chronic illness, and family caregiving.
Training Categories
Mental Health Education
Foundations of anxiety, depression, trauma awareness, stigma reduction, and how to support someone without trying to “fix” them.
Trauma-Informed Support
Fight/flight/freeze/fawn responses, triggers, emotional regulation tools, trauma-informed communication, and rebuilding safety in relationships.
Caregiver Support (Medical & Mental Health)
Burnout prevention, anticipatory grief, dementia caregiving realities, advocacy tools, paperwork systems, and boundaries without guilt.
Chronic Illness & Mental Health
Invisible illness, medical trauma, navigating healthcare systems, pacing strategies, and maintaining dignity during flares.
Substance Use & Recovery Support
Self-medication patterns, ADHD overlap, peer-based relapse prevention, shame reduction, and building sustainable recovery structure.
Eating Disorders & Body Image
Disordered eating vs. eating disorders, body dysmorphia awareness, diet culture, trauma-informed meal support, and body neutrality.
Crisis Awareness & Safe Conversations
Safe language, early warning signs, 988 education, supportive conversations, and reducing stigma around emotional distress.
Advocacy & Self-Advocacy
Navigating appointments, documentation systems, speaking up in complex systems, and storytelling for impact.
Storytelling & Hope-Centered Healing
Turning lived experience into strength, writing for healing, setting boundaries around vulnerability, and using your story safely.
Bring The Hope Unshaken to Your Community
Contact us to receive the full workshop catalog within your selected category and explore bundle options tailored to your community’s needs.
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