organizational trainings

Training that helps your team show up with more intention, compassion, and effectiveness.

With 15 years of experience across residential programs, Treatment Court, outpatient therapy, and county-based Medicaid systems, our lead trainer brings depth, clarity, and a deeply human approach to organizational learning. Selva & Self has supported both agencies and corporations through grief, post-incident trauma, acute conflict, and staff mental-health crises. We design organized, accessible training modules for teams that need both structure and humanity. Our facilitation style blends realness, humor, and direct communication — creating engaging, bold learning environments that inspire lasting change.

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learning for organizations; clinical mental health training

What we teach……….

Professional Workshops

  • Training supervisors to balance accountability with compassion while improving communication, documentation oversight, and staff development.

  • A digestible overview of how the nervous system drives behavior, reactivity, distress, and burnout — with practical tools teams can immediately apply.

  • Real-world MI skills that increase engagement, reduce resistance, and help staff move conversations forward. Adapted for clinical, community-based, and workplace settings.

  • Helping staff recognize escalating situations, respond with grounding, and navigate crisis moments with confidence and emotional intelligence.

  • A practical, accessible workshop on integrating AI into communication, documentation, supervision, and clinical reasoning — including ethics and boundaries.

  • Tools for navigating difficult conversations, repairing misunderstandings, and building cultures of transparency, curiosity, and respect.

  • Guided support and training for organizations navigating grief, robberies, violence, sudden loss, or high-impact events affecting staff.

  • Training on burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and practical strategies workplaces can use to support human beings doing hard work.

  • Real-case walkthroughs, gray-area dilemmas, and frameworks for making grounded, defensible, and human-centered decisions.

  • Practical tools for gathering information, building rapport, and creating collaborative treatment plans with complex or reluctant clients.

  • Understanding the systemic forces shaping staff morale, conflict, cohesion, and workflow — with tools for repairing and strengthening team culture.

  • We design tailored workshops and ongoing learning series based on the specific needs, culture, and goals of your organization.

Where learning meets real life.

People don’t need more theory — they need tools that actually work in the moments that matter. Our trainings are built around honesty, humor, and the realities of human work, turning complex concepts into practical skills that feel natural, usable, and sustainable. People learn best when training feels connected to their lived experience, which is why we focus on clarity, real practice, and the kind of tools teams can reach for under pressure.

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