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FOCUSED TRAINING or COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
We offer both nationally recognized and custom crafted training and interventions that focus on skill building, personal empowerment, and creating an enriching work culture that cultivates wellness and happiness.

This is a framework of peer support to empower your team to be first responders for mental and emotional health emergencies. Created by the National Center for PTSD. This information is public domain and free to anyone. We offer this training because the amount of information can be staggering and difficult to remember and employ.
Our certified trainers will bring this information to life in a way your staff will not forget and they'll know how to employ it in everyday situations. The skills learned in this workshop will create a community equip to care for each other in real time, reducing long term stress injuries. Make Stress First Aid part of your organization's everyday knowledge and protocol through our hands-on interactive workshop training. Ask about the 2 and 4 hour workshop options.
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This is skills-based training teaches people how to identify, understand and respond to signs and symptoms of mental health and substance use challenges in their peers, friends and colleagues. Our vision is to make mental wellbeing, which is thriving regardless of a mental health or substance use challenge, a reality for everyone.
Life is hard and your employees are valuable. Don't count them out you're struggling. Instead, equip yourselves to work together to keep each other staying a part of the team in a health way.
Our certified trainers will ensure your staff are prepared to perform QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer), the "CPR" of mental health.
This lifesaving protocol is the national standard for training individuals with the skills to confidently intervene when a potential risk of suicide is observed.
Standardized first-aid knowledge such as CPR works because of the widespread knowledge. Having an updated First Aid skills card is often a requirement for employment! Making QPR knowledge a standardized requirement for your staff will save a life. Empower your staff to care for each other with this lifesaving intervention training. Ask about this 2 hour workshop.

ASAP is nationally recognized, data supported, standardized protocol for first responders after a critical incident to reduce stress injuries, prevent PTSD, and avoid burnout.
This method is based on the EMDR model of "bilateral stimulation".
It is a non-invasive one-hour protocol that is proven to reduce stress through unlocking your brain's ability to process past and future traumatic events.
Make this facilitated recovery part of for your regular protocol of care after a traumatic event or part of your ongoing maintenance plan for quick stress relief and trauma recovery. Depending on your location, this may not be available as a stand alone offering. Learn More about ASAP
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EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS

STOP REDUCING YOUR EMOTIONS TO SOMETHING YOU'RE JUST REGULATING
Our emotional energy is a valuable currency we can use to get the things in life we want. This personal empowerment skill-building workshop will show you
how to use your emotions as the resource you have to grow your internal capacity for winning in life.
In this Vashti's House exclusive workshop, you'll learn how to get out of emotional debt and stop living depleted. You'll learn how to stop spending your emotional energy in ways that don't benefit you. You'll learn how to fill up your emotional energy bank and how to budget your emotional energy so it's getting you what you want from life. As an added bonus, this favorite Vashti's House original includes pre-and post surveys to acquire efficacy data...which also means FREE GIVAWAYS! *This training will give you tools you can share with your clients.
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THE ABC'S of SELF CARE
This Vashti's House exclusive created by George Escalante, is a skill-building workshop which will equip your staff to master self-care strategies that will bring an immediate boost of natural energy and motivation. These skills are most likely not what you think they are, and the good news is, they're probably easier! This two-hour workshop is the perfect pair to our other 1 and 2 hour offerings. *This training will give you tools you can share with your clients!
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ACTIVE LISTENING SKILLS
The Key to Resolving Everyday Conflict
The key to resolving everyday conflict is listening. In this personal empowerment workshop developed by George Escalante you'll gain the skills needed to create collaboration, inspire unity and gain allies in life.
This Vashti's House exclusive is a great team-building workshop and will create better overall relationships and strengthen communities.
*This training will give you tools you can share with your clients!
let our skilled and passionate trainers inspire, heal, and empower your workforce, your organization or your community.
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"Resiliency comes from a discovered self, not a constructed self. With a strong inner sense of who you are, you can easily adapt to and thrive in new environments.”
Dr. Al Seibert, The Resiliency Advantage
MEET OUR TRAINING SPECIALIST TEAM

Vashti Young MS
Captivating
Vashti oversees the creation and delivery of the highest level of services that surpasses industry standards. Vashti ensures all training is relevant with exceptional delivery and from training specialists who genuinely love and care for people.
Vashti's specialty is ensuring all interactions are memorable, relatable and diversified, guaranteeing the greatest long term impact.
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George Escalante MS
Empowering
With over 25 years of mental health and wellness intervention experience as a crisis negotiator, major incident responder, mentor, coach, mental health advocate, and a local and international chaplain to first-responders, George (Coach E) brings the most hands-on experience with the most diverse population groups and in the biggest variety of circumstances.
Coach E's approach reflects his genuine love for people

Laurie Jackson MS, LPC
Inspiring
Laurie is our resident clinician. As a practicing Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Laurie helps keep our services congruent with current clinical practices. She is gifted in taking helping theories and turning them into helping techniques that incorporate fun.
Laurie is an accomplished musician and a fitness enthusiast. She has the most diverse teaching experience as a a wellness educator, a fitness trainer, and a music teacher.
* Do you need a keynote speaker for a special event? Our training specialists are gifted speakers with amazing life lessons and stories that are sure to captivate and transform your audience. Contact us here to learn more.
"We go above industry standards by maintaining a three-fold service model of: Using the most up-do-date information, delivered in the most impactful way, by providers who have over 20 years of service experience so they can tell you how it works in real life." Vashti Young

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