Dr. Jen Clifden
Educator | Researcher | Burnout Preventionist
Community,
Integration, Support,
Healing, and Collective Health
for Saint Paul Public Schools
The Light You Cast™
Communities of Practice
(TLYC | CoP)
Training Program
The Light You Cast™ CoP | GUIDE training is designed to provide strategic professional development and coaching support to site-based caregivers who want to guide their peers through
The Light You Cast™ REST - RESTORATION - REVITALIZATION practices within a small group
(or one-on-one) setting.
This training is perfect for those who want to deepen their personal mental and self health practices and who want to create spaces for their peers to feel the power of community health and healing.
The Light You Cast™ CoP | GUIDEs are coached and continually supported in how to create and hold structured, 60-90 minute, small group community circles (or one-on-one mentoring support) that allow for individuals to connect with their body, metabolize a collective stressor though community processing, and engage mental health practices.
TLYC | Communities of Practice
GUIDE Training Program
Coming into Circle
REST Practices
Module 1
MODULE 1 GUIDE-ance VIDEO
Module 2
MODULE 2 GUIDE-ance VIDEO
Module 3
MODULE 3 GUIDE-ance VIDEO
Module 4
MODULE 4 GUIDE-ance VIDEO
Ground & Guide in Circle
RESTORATION Practices
Module 5
MODULE 5 GUIDE-ance VIDEO
Module 6
MODULE 6 GUIDE-ance VIDEO
HOMEWORK/INTEGRATION
Study your stress response guidance video
Close the Circle
REVITALIZATION Practices
Module 7
MODULE 7 GUIDE-ance VIDEO
Module 8
COMING SOON!
MODULE 7 GUIDE-ance VIDEO
What We Know About
Healing-Centered
Community Support
"Community is how we respond to injustice. It is how we maintain balance. Our journeys are varied, our experiences unique, but the home we seek is the same place: a place of trust, a place of welcome, a place of respect." (Charleston, 2021)
Healing and wellbeing are deeply connected to the contexts in which we live and work. When we sit together and engage in a community practice of soul restoration work, we are able to focus not only on "What happened to you?" but also, "What is right with you?" (Ginwright, S.,2018)
Healing-centered engagement offers an important departure from solely viewing people through the lens of harm and focuses on asset driven strategies that highlight possibilities for well-being. An asset driven strategy acknowledges that people are much more than the worst thing that happened to them, and builds upon their experiences, knowledge, skills and curiosity as positive traits to be enhanced. (Ginwright, S.,2018)
IN-PERSON, On-Site
TLYC | Communities of Practice
The Light You Cast™ Communities of Practice (TLYC | CoP) are 60-90 minute, in-person and at your site.
They are based on a "come when you can" philosophy and occur on a regular basis (weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly) to support on-going MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, and SELF HEALTH workplace wellness.
To sustain, deepen, and provide a HIGH-TOUCH sustained support option to complement any in-person TLYC professional learning experiences and/or the ONLINE, ON-DEMAND TLYC self-paced offerings already happening at your site.
To engage a SOFT-TOUCH of on-going support to introduce and immerse your staff in The Light You CastTM foundational concepts.
*No additional in-person or ON-DEMAND TLYC trainings are required to bring TLYC Communities of Practice to your site.
We intentionally engage people-centered care practices to create, hold, and protect spaces within our systems of care for human-service professionals to gather, connect, process stressful experiences, renew their energy, and restore their balance and health together.
Every 60 - 90 minute TLYC | CoP creates and holds a protected space where staff engage with core content from The Light You CastTM curriculum and embody the 3 pillars of MENTAL HEALTH and WELL-BEING.
TLYC | CoP Format
REST
Regulate Nervous System
Gather in circle, check-in, engage a somatic body movement practice designed to soothe the nervous system, alleviate tension, enhance mood, and increase the circulation of energy in the body.
RESTORATION
Process & Make Meaning
Discuss a foundational concept of the core curriculum, apply the concept to a current stressor, and engage our signature Burn BalancedTM Cognitive- Behavioral strategy to create meaning, gain insight, and produce widsom.
REVITALIZATION
Connect with Self and Others
Close the circle by providing time for individuals to share what they are taking away and brainstorm boundary setting practices that protect against chronic stress fatigue and nurture mental health and well-being.
The Light You Cast™
Communities of Practice
(TLYC | CoP)
GUIDE Training
The Light You Cast™ Communities of Practice | GUIDEs are site-based staff who are trained in the core principles, practices, and body-movement experiences of the The Light You Cast™ curriculum and are trained to hold TLYC | CoP at their site or support individual clients.
TLYC Communities of Practice | GUIDE training series is ideal for site-based school or staff counselors, mentors, or mental health professionals who want to strategically support the adults they work with and alongside.