Growing A New Heart - Consulting and Professional Training

Should I Stay
or Should I Go?

A Guide To Knowing If Your Relationship Can and Should be Saved

Lundy Bandcroft
and JAC Patrissi

Professional Training and Consultation Services

JAC Patrissi is a communications and design consultant specializing in training design, facilitation and ethical supervisory approaches. JAC brings extensive leadership experience to her consultations, designing and facilitating victim services projects for criminal justice, community-based advocacy and social services professionals. Her approach is based on the premises of Popular Education and its outgrowth, Dialogue Education.

When our daily work is in service to others, it renders us acutely aware of the dynamics of power. In designing our projects and trainings, we can employ a set of principles that are respectful, empowering and accountable. We can ensure that participants' contributions and learning are at the center of every design, and that we are continually inspired by the voices of those we serve.

As leaders and supervisors, we can navigate even the most complex terrain to forge effective relationships that will meet our project goals.

As trainers, we can improve even our most successful designs by:

creating the most effective sequencing of learning tasks
that ensure the participants know they are learning
in a respectful, energetic and challenging forum
that offers participants positive engagement
with ideas, attitudes, skills and concepts carefully selected
to meet the learning outcomes that the participants can accountably obtain.

We can do this together.

Professional Training Series: (Expand All)

Victim-Centered Training and Coaching Series

"Behind the Curtain of the Great Oz,"
an Advanced Train the Trainers Institute for trainers deepening their design skills.
Victim-Centered Program Facilitation and Design
(as presented to the US Maine Corps Sexual Assault Response Program)
Victim-Centered: The development of victim/survivor of crime councils
(as presented at the National Organization for Victim Assistance)
Victim-Centered: Restorative Justice Practice
(as presented at the National Coalition for Juvenile Justice)
"Victim-centered: the Victim Impact Panel"
Speaker preparation and speaker design

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Communication and Collaboration Training and Coaching Series:

Exploring Barriers To Collaboration in Victim Services
(as presented at the National Crime Victims Compensation Board National Conference)
Transforming Communication: Style and Method of Effective Supervision
Transforming Communication: Facilitation and Small Group decision-making
Growth in Groups: Embracing the Conflict

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Training and Coaching For Survivor Activists:

Laying Down The Stones: Speaking in Public about your experience
Coal Walkers: Becoming an activist and group member

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Domestic and Sexual Violence:

"Building Healthy Relationships,"
K-12 program
"The Question of Consent"
Changing conversations about sexual violence
The Child Witness of Domestic Violence
Gulliver in Lilliput: Understanding Domestic Violence
Anti-sexual violence advocates and Sex Offender Management
HIV and anti-sexual violence advocates
Making of Amends in Battering and Addiction

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Prosecution and Correctional based advocacy:

Co-Victims of Homicide
Cross-training: Community based advocates and Correctional workers
Structure and functioning of Department of Corrections
for grassroots and state-based advocates and victim/survivors.
Reparative Board Trainings
for Reparative Board volunteers, state and community based advocates and Department of Corrections personnel
(For DOC and Other Acronyms)
The structure and functioning of the Department of Corrections
for grassroots and state-based advocates and victim/survivors.

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Should I Stay, Or Should I Go?

Consulting and Training

Professional Training and Consultation Services

We can do this together.

Professional Training Series: (Expand All)

Victim-Centered Training and Coaching Series

Communication and Collaboration Training and Coaching Series:

Training and Coaching For Survivor Activists:

Domestic and Sexual Violence:

Prosecution and Correctional based advocacy:

Recognition