Training & Workshops
Practical learning for the realities people face.
Jodie designs and facilitates engaging learning experiences that help people understand themselves and others, strengthen communication, recognize what is within their control, and make intentional choices about how they respond.
Drawing on more than two decades of experience in education, adult learning, mental health, leadership development, curriculum design, and facilitation - alongside lived experience within a first responder family - Jodie brings credibility, compassion, and practical tools into the room.
Jodie is certified to deliver The Working Mind (TWM), The Working Mind First Responder (TWMFR), and TWMFR family courses and is qualified to administer and facilitate the Personal DISCernment Inventory and EQ-i 2.0 assessments and developmental experiences. As a certified Leader Character Practitioner, she also incorporates character-based leadership development into her work with individuals, leaders, and teams.
Programs can be delivered as workshops, facilitated conversations, keynotes, certified mental health training, assessment-based development sessions, or customized learning experiences for organizations and teams.
Mental Health Training -
A shared language. Stronger People. Healthier Workplaces.
Evidence-based mental health education that builds awareness, reduces stigma, and provides practical tools for workplaces, first responder organizations and families.
The Working Mind (TWM)
Proactive mental health training for healthier workplaces providing practical tools to increase mental health awareness, reduce stigma, strengthen resiliense, and contribute to a workplace culture where conversations about mental health can happen with greater confidence.
Participants learn to recognize changes in mental health using the Mental Health Continuum, understand the effects of stress, practise coping strategies, and develop a shared language for talking about mental health in the workplace.
Ideal for:
Businesses | Municipalities | Non-profits | Public-sector organizations | Leaders and managers | Workplace teams.
The Working Mind First Responders (TWMFR)
Mental health training designed for the realities of first responder work. TWMFR applies core workplace mental health concepts within a course designed specifically for first responder environments.
The course helps participants recognize changes in mental health, reduce stigma, manage stress, strengthen resilience, and build confidence in having supportive mental health conversations. First responder-specific examples help connect the learning to the realities participants encounter in their work.
Ideal for:
Police | Fire | Paramedic | Corrections | Sheriffs and other first responder organizations | First responder leaders and teams
The Working Mind First Responders Family
Practical tools and knowledge for the family members who support first responders. TWMFR family helps family members better understand key mental health concepts within the first responder environment.
Participants learn to recognize signs and indicators or mental health using the Mental Health Continuum, understand how mental health stigma can affect the first responder families, and develop greater confidence engaging in supportive mental health conversations.
Ideal for:
First responder Partners | mature family members | Support networks
Leadership & Team Development -
Greater self-awareness. Stronger relationships. Better together.
Assessment-based learning and development experiences that help individuals and teams understand themselves and others.
Personal DISCernment
Understand behaviour.
Strengthen communication.
Build better teams.
DISC provides a practical framework for understanding behavioural and communication styles - both our own and those around us.
Using individual DISC assessments as a starting point, Jodie facilitates engaging conversations that help participants explore how their behavioural preferences influence communication, relationships, teamwork, conflict, and the way they approach their work.
Rather than using DISC to put people into boxes, the focus is on building greater self-awareness and learning how to adapt communication and behaviour to work more effectively with others.
DISC can support:
Self-Awareness | Communication | Team Development | Leadership | Workplace Relations | Conflict Awareness
EQ-i 2.0
Developing emotional intelligence for work. leadership, and life.
Emotional Intelligence influences how we understand and manage ourselves, navigate relationships, respond to changes, and make decisions.
The EQ-i2.0 assessment provides participants with insight into multiple dimensions of emotional and social functioning. Jodie uses assessment results as the foundation for meaningful reflection, facilitated learning, and practical development.
Participants can explore areas such as self-awareness, emotional expression, interpersonal relationships, decision-making, stress management, and the ways these capabilities influence their effectiveness at work and in leadership.
EQ-i2.0 can support:
Leadership Development | Self-Awareness | Communication | Relationship Effectiveness | Decision-Making | Stress Management | Personal Development
Leader Character
Strengthening who we are becoming while we are busy doing.
Leadership is shaped not only by what we know and what we can do, but by the character we bring to our decision, relationships, and actions.
As a certified Leader Character Practitioner, Jodie facilitates development experiences that help individuals and teams explore the dimensions of character that influence effective leadership, decision-making, relationships, and organizational culture.
Using the Leader Character framework, participants examine 11 interconnected dimensions of character: Judgment, Integrity, Courage, Justice, Temperance, Accountability, Humility, Humanity, Collaboration, Drive, and Transcendence.
The focus is not on labelling people as having 'good' or 'bad' character. Instead, participants build greater awareness of their character strengths, identify dimensions that may benefit from further development, and explore how character influences the choices they make - particularly when navigating pressure, complexity, change, and competing priorities.
Leader Character can support:
Leadership Development | Self-Awareness| Decision-Making | Team Effectiveness | Organizational Culture | Values in Action | Leading Through Challenge and Change
*Leader Character can be offered as a focused development experience or incorporated into customized leadership, team, and organizational learning programs
Custom Workshops & Facilitation-
Real conversations. Practical Tools. Lasting impact.
Interactive and customized workshops designed to meet the unique needs of your organization, team, or event.
The Weight We Carry
Emotional resilience for peer support and frontline personnel.
Frontline professionals and peer supporters regularly encounter experiences, stories, and emotions that can follow them long after a shift ends.
This interactive workshop explores what we carry, what belongs to us, what we share with others, and what we need to put down.
Participants explore practical approaches to emotional awareness, boundaries, communication, thought patterns, intentional action, and post-event reset.
Harnessing Your Power of Choice
Self-awareness for navigating adversity, change, and challenge.
Drawing on the 11 lessons from Choosing My Tomorrow, participants explore how self-awareness, communication, connection, hope, and character can influnece the way we navigate experiences. Through reflection and practical tools, participants examine their thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and strengths, identify what is within their control, and consider how the choices they make can shape what happens next.
Customized Training & Facilitation
Your organization. Your people. Your realities.
Not every organization needs the same conversation. Jodie works with organizations to design and facilitate learning experiences that reflect their audience, priorities, challenges, and desired outcomes.
Customized programs can draw from Jodie's experience in mental health, emotional resilience, grief and significant change, communication, boundaries, leadership development, character, adult learning, and the power of choice.
Programs can be designed for:
Frontline Personnel | Peer Support Teams | Leaders | Workplace Teams | First Responder Families | Community Organizations | Professional Groups
Possible areas of focus could include:
- Mental health and emotional resilience
- Grief, loss, and significant change
- Peer and colleague support
- Communication and helpful language
- Healthy boundaries
- Leadership and team development
- Leader Character
- Supporting first responder families
- Navigating adversity and change
- The power of choice
What People Are Saying
Thank you, Jodie, for sharing your transformative personal experiences and offering hope for creating a more resilient tomorrow.”
Dalton Associates
I highly recommend Jodie for any speaking engagement for small or large groups as her presence is palpable and held the attention of everyone in the room."
