Trainings & Corporate Retreats
Teams, executive boards, and committees may suffer from any number of communication, personality, or leadership-related issues. We offer trainings and facilitation for groups to support an organization’s cultural vision.
Build the required skills for a work climate characterized by responsiveness, collaboration and trust, which include:
- Giving effective feedback that is honest, direct, and compassionate
- Running productive meetings
- Facilitating difficult conversations and conflict mediations
- Enhancing personal awareness & self management in triggering business situations
- Developing stronger, more trusting relationships in spite of personality differences
- Transforming dysfunctional cultural dynamics
Workshops Available
- Listen to what truly matters to coworkers who struggle to articulate their true needs
- Speak in a way that’s easier to be heard – particularly during conflict
- Give and receive effective feedback; share opinions respectfully and empathically
- Enhance capacity to speak up honestly and connectedly, even within a power differential
- Effectively use evaluation-free observation to give clear and connecting feedback
- Translate criticism or blame-filled feedback to build trust, accountability, and buy-in
- Better navigate responses to triggering relationships
- Self-manage in challenging situations and respond proactively with awareness, skill and choice
- Provide a framework for successful communications across multiple layers of diversity
- Team Assessment Tool & Leadership Assessment Tool
- Learn the core type of each team member using Enneagram psychometric assessment tools
- Gain an in-depth understanding of each type’s strengths and challenges as they relate to the workplace
- Understand the characteristics of, and make adjustments to, each type’s conflict, self-sabotage, and self-criticism tendencies
- See how the inherent beliefs, cognitive distortions, and differing conflict styles of each type impact collaboration, decision making, giving feedback, sales, and communication in the workplace
- Learn how to use the information about your team’s core types, Lencioni’s model for identifying team dysfunction, and conscious communication tools to build a culture of trust & collaboration
- Understand how your interpersonal relational skills impact the productivity of your direct reports
- Estimate the impact of employee disengagement on dollars lost in your organization
- Create your own “heart meets head” facilitation foundation for affecting change as a manager
- Develop your role as leader to shape culture & reengage employees
- Discover keys to conscious power & collaboration structures
- Engineer a space for bringing your “whole self” into your organization
- Team Assessment Tool & Leadership Assessment Tool
- Understand how conflict avoidance wastes talent and money
- Learn how to tap into the healthy side of conflict
- Learn the “Difficult Conversation” template
- Identify the 3 core foundational skills for facilitating a mediation
- Apply skills successfully to relevant practice conflicts
- Understand how to access the synergy available in every successful mediation
- Mini Team Assessment Tool & Leadership Assessment Tool
- Learn 3 mindfulness and meditation paths that reduce stress and improve productivity
- Identify the practical skills that make creative energy accessible
- Identify your personal zone of sustainability to make a meditation practice work for you and truly “stick”
- Discover the role of mindfulness in successfully navigating triggering conversations
- Learn how to use mindfulness to improve physical health while working fewer hours
- Mini Team Assessment Tool & Leadership Assessment Tool
- Integration of key collaboration skills as introduced during onsite trainings, such as Effective Workplace Communication, Personality & Collaboration, etc.
- Team pre/post assessments with optional 360s
- Team-wide launch call
- Integration training days to support learning
- Group coaching options
- Webinars and online training adjuncts
- Executive coaching
- 100% of participants reported increases in their and others’ efficiency;
- A 67-90% estimated reduction of time to resolve issues, with problem-solving time estimated as cut by 10-33%;
- Overall efficiency increased up to 80%, and minimally by 10%;
- A reduction in the number of meetings needed to address an issue was estimated at 50-80%. Staff meeting time was estimated to be cut in half.
Free Consultation
To learn more about onsite trainings, offsite retreats, or an introductory presentation for your company on Conscious Communication for the Workplace, please submit the application by clicking here. We will connect with you soon to schedule a free consultation.
“Thank you Lumenaria and Mary. It is always exciting for me to learn to apply practical techniques for overcoming various barriers in my daily life at work.” KG
“This workshop helped me to identify and focus on the most powerful elements in my professional life so they could work better for me… A key way that Mary’s coaching around communication has improved my effectiveness as a facilitator of cross-sector teams (made up of corporate, education, government, and community-based partners) is to foster shared commitments regarding ambitious outcomes in the challenging field of education reform and equity. The principles of conscious comm/NVC especially speaks to the how to identify and address adaptive challenges in ways that bring about substantive, impactful change. No words express how radically transformative this work is…” Mary Roaf, PhD, Collective Impact Manager, Valley of the Sun United Way
“I’ve attended several of Mary’s workshops and look forward to more. She creates a environment for learning that’s inclusive and supportive and – most of all – fun! Even when covering difficult topics, she naturally and intuitively helps people open up. That engagement makes for a powerful learning experience. Highly recommended!” Earl J. Wagner, Software Engineer, Google
“I have participated in two trainings with Lumenaria Goyer, Ph.D., and Mary Goyer, M.S., and have learned powerful tools I can employ at work and in my daily life… I highly recommend their workshops not just for their results, but for the compassionate and loving manner in which they are given.” SA, Therapist
“Ms. Mary Goyer is a phenomenal trainer. She is extremely personable, friendly, professional and engaging. Ms. Goyer ensures that everyone feels comfortable within the group and encourages participation in a very authentic way. During her training sessions, she exudes ease and continuity in regards to content and delivery. She is excellent in acknowledging the varying perspectives and ways of communicating, making her very relate-able to different viewpoints. Mary does a fantastic job at reiterating key concepts at the end of every session, making sure participants have tangible skills to incorporate into their preferred communication styles while at the same time challenging them to expand their comfort zone in order to integrate the shared knowledge. I would strongly recommend Mary for any type of professional development opportunity in team building and communication.” Nikki Markman, USF Law School, Clinics Administrator
“I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate and teach with Mary, and I can highly recommend her work. She brings years of teaching experience, great energy, good humor, and her full self into workshops.” Christine King, Certified NVC trainer, NVC Santa Cruz