Tomorrow on Zoom, 1:00-3:00pm

Free Winter 2021 Trainings for
Rising Up Service Providers
De-Escalation & Managing Strong Emotions
January 28, Thursday, 1:00-3:00pm
Here’s your opportunity to learn about anger, strong emotions, and techniques to de-escalate conflict. We’ll explore ways to effectively decrease strong emotions by using active listening skills and empathy. 

In this training, you will learn:
  • Techniques to de-escalate conflict in the moment
  • How to use empathy skills in times of strong emotions
  • Practice active listening to effectively de-escalate conflict

COMING IN FEBRUARY
Giving & Receiving Feedback with an Equity Lens
February 4, Thursday, 12:30-2:00pm
This workshop is an excellent opportunity to practice giving and receiving feedback with an understanding of how power and culture can play a role. You’ll explore your own experiences with giving and receiving feedback and how to frame feedback so that it can be better received. You’ll also learn techniques on the best ways to handle challenging feedback.

In this training, you will learn:
  • Why feedback is a positive and necessary aspect of learning and growing
  • How to give and receive feedback collaboratively
  • Examine how power and culture play a role in the communication loop
  • Skills to be more effective giving and receiving feedback
Project SURVIVE Training
February 11, Thursday, 1:00-3:00pm
Here's an opportunity to see an upcoming training being offered to youth led by Project SURVIVE. It will focus on: the characteristics of healthy relationships, understanding unequal power relationships and domestic violence, and resources for breaking the cycle of abuse. Come to this session to see what we'll be offering to the youth!

This session will also include important information about best practices for how to handle domestic violence situations.

About Project SURVIVE: City College of San Francisco’s Project SURVIVE is committed to social justice and is dedicated to ending all forms of power abuse — in personal relationships, social groups, and public institutions. It is a peer education program that offers workshops to young adults with strategies for identifying, avoiding, and leaving abusive relationships.
Chelsea Kaplan, Rising Up Program Coordinator
ckaplan@communityboards.org