continuing Education & Leadership Training
Educational Workshops & Leadership Training
The Greater Mercy works with both professional and youth groups offering a variety of opportunities for education and training. Through our network, we bring specialized training to professionals looking to expand their skillset, and we offer CEUs to licensed mental health practitioners. TGM offers an onramp for young community members through leadership training and service opportunities.
CEU EVIdence and Resilience based Professional training
Our evidence-based workshops on various therapy modalities build skills for our therapy team. Experienced mental health practitioners facilitate monthly workshops for our team with opportunities for deeper dives and additional training.
Burnout among professionals working in mental health and education—often due to high caseloads, lack of role clarity, and perceived lack of organizational support—is a major issue. Emotional exhaustion, especially among school special education and mental health professionals, is of particular concern. For this reason, our workshops provide resilience-based training to help protect our educators and mental health practitioners from burnout and offer these critical community members a path toward self-care practices for their personal wellbeing.
We continue to provide support and education to mental health practitioners, school counselors, and special education faculty. We continue to curate specialized training to meet the needs of professionals who support mental health clients, children and youth, and other vulnerable populations. Our training provides skills that both support the professional’s wellness and their ability to support their clients and students. We believe that it is essential to provide care for the professionals that care for others. When professional mental health providers, educators, and care givers are nurtured and supported, their capacity to serve their clients and students is improved.
Some of the training we have provided includes yoga, breath work, nature and art experiences, walking and stillness meditation, sound therapy, and nature workshops. Each of these opportunities offer participants a personal experience with practical applications in the classroom or client space.
Follow this link to access and register for TGM CEUs.
Youth Leadership training
We believe wisdom lives in each of us regardless of age. Our youth leadership opportunities bring young people together to learn a particular skill that first serves their personal wellbeing so that they might bring this leadership into the world in a unique way. TGM provides service hours to students who participate in our events and projects. Our youth leadership training has included:
Grief and Loss Peer Support: We trained four high school senior volunteers in the Wellness Center at Wimberley High School to support their peers struggling with loss.
Here to Be Me & Yoga for Girls: We provided an afterschool yoga series for middle school students who found community in class and learned to self-regulate through yoga and breath.
Connection is Key: A Suicide Awareness Event: This annual community event provides a variety of youth leadership and service opportunities including volunteer coordination, social media management, and mental health advocacy in an overall effort to educate and support mental wellness.
Stay connected and stay tuned. Our youth leadership opportunities are expanding, and we work with several partnership organizations in the community.