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Interactive education rooted in Lived Experience and Collective Care
Stronger U workshops, courses, and certification programs are designed to deepen awareness, empower your practice, and and spark meaningful dialogue. We offer education on a range of individual and community wellness topics, available either as public offerings or private training for organizations who contract our team.
Stronger U grounds our education in lived experience, facilitated by team members who are multiply marginalized and share vulnerably while offering concrete steps to improve your practices. Our facilitators are committed to creating spaces where real conversations happen – and, where learning goes beyond passive listening.
We don’t do lectures. We excel at collaborative, participant-driven training. Come ready to engage, reflect, and grow – together!
Advance Your Practice with Our Trauma-Informed Courses and Certificate Programs
We offer comprehensive, trauma-informed courses and internationally recognized certificate programs rooted in harm reduction and non-carceral care. Practitioners and survivors around the world trust our lived-experience-led training, developed through over 60,000 hours of coaching and facilitation, to deepen their skills, align their work with their values, and support communities with compassion and integrity.
All full certificate programs include access to coaching, mentoring, and practicum experience, so you’re never learning alone. Choose from full-length certificate programs or smaller course options tailored to fit your budget, capacity, and goals. The following programs are publicly available:
- Non-Carceral Certificate Program: Peer Support for Multiply Marginalized Communities: Discover how to formulate responses that are meaningful, non-judgmental, and open up safer space for healing dialogue. Stop second-guessing yourself when talking to people who navigate suicidality, self harm, complex trauma, or other stigmatized mental health situations. **THRIVE Lifeline and Stronger U team members are certified through our full non-carceral certificate programs.
- Each month, we donate up to 3 full peer supporter certificate program scholarships to successful THRIVE Lifeline Community Care Practitioner applicants, contingent upon completing all program elements and required service hours with THRIVE. If you would like to be considered, please submit an interest form.
- Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Certificate Program: Gain the confidence to act consensually and promote agency during crises within multiply marginalized communities. *We train practitioners internationally through our harm reduction certificate program.
- Building Community Care Fundamentals: Let us show you how to build sustainable, collective care practices that truly address the needs of multiply marginalized people.
Sign up for our newsletter to receive announcements of upcoming workshops. Click on the “Project Request” button if your organization is interested in hiring us to design and/or facilitate your workshops!
Winter and Spring 2025-2026 Offerings
Stronger U partners with THRIVE Lifeline to bring these offerings for our Winter and Spring series! Our workshops and training programs are aimed at destigmatizing and depathologizing marginalizing experiences through the lens of lived experience and community care.
Thank you for helping your communities to thrive!
Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Seminar: Introduction to the impacts of carceral systems and how we can do better
March 22, 2026
Dip your toes in to non-carceral support work! This 2-hour seminar will provide some fundamentals of our Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Certificate Program through presentation, discussion, case studies, and Q&A!
- Confront the dangerous impacts of carceral systems and institutionalized practices such as 988, forced hospitalization, and other non-consensual interventions.
- Discover and define your own non-carceral framework, within your daily roles and scope of practice.
- Join with likeminded learners who will boost your values-based community support.
- Gain lived experience insights into chronic suicidality, self harm, psychosis, and other stigmatized mental health experiences in multiply marginalized communities.
- Discuss real-life case studies.
Time: 3pm ET / 12pm PT
Location: fully virtual
Length: 2 hours
Pricing Scale $50, $65, $80, $110; Some scholarships available
(In-Person) Care Without Cages: Healing, Crisis, and Support Beyond Carcerality
April 24 & 25, 2026 in Toronto, ON
Sick of not having real conversations? This 2-day immersive retreat features a gathering of values-aligned practitioners from across disciplines— committed to care without punishment and elevating people’s agency!
Join us for sessions that weave together hands-on, trauma-informed Stronger U Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Seminar with practical psychotherapy training led by clinical supervisor Kaitlin Baldwin, RP, which culminates in a comprehensive skills practice.
What You’ll Gain:
- Expert non-carceral education from a combined lens of 35+ years of professional community support
- Collective in-person attunement, reflection, and community care
- Deep dives into real-life case studies and collaborative problem-solving
- Business and client-centered development tools, grounded in autonomy and humanity
- Access to an ongoing professional network of non-carceral practitioners for continued support
Date and time: April 24 and 25, 10a – 2p ET each day
Pricing: Sliding scale (in CAD) $350, $500, $650.
$350 CAD tickets sold out!
(In-Person) Reclaiming your Suicidality: Rooting into your Power during Chronic Flare Ups
A 4-hour immersive retreat to transform your relationship with suicidality through care, connection, and community.
Surviving and thriving as someone who navigates chronic suicidality is possible–it’s powerful. Reclaiming your Suicidality invites you to explore new ways of understanding yourself, your story, and your personal relationship with suicidality.
This 4-hour, in-person immersive retreat condenses our 6-week intensive into an attuned, relationship-centered experience facilitated by lived-experience practitioners. Together, we’ll co-create a space of deep care, curiosity, and non-carceral healing.
- 4-hours of facilitated discussion and community care activities
- A cozy, intimate space, capped at 15 participants
- A take-home workbook
- Light snacks
Sliding scale pricing: $75, $90, $110
Stronger U: Non-Carceral Reclamation Tour 2026
- February 1 (10a – 2p CT): Minneapolis, MN (Sold out!)
- February 6 – 8: Healing Together Conference, Orlando, FL
- March 15 (10a – 2p CT): Madison, WI
- April 12 (10a – 2p CT): Minneapolis, MN
- April 24 & 25: Care Without Cages (2-Day Practitioner Retreat in Toronto, ON)
- May 10 (10a – 2p CT): Chicago, IL
- July 12 (10a – 2p CT): Minneapolis, MN
Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Summit: Liberate your practice through this 1-day Immersive Retreat for Non-Carceral Collaborators
January 25, 2026 or April 26, 2026
Join us for a transformative 1-day retreat where you’ll advance your non-carceral harm reduction basics to engage in intimate, values-driven discussions with fellow Non-Carceral Collaborators, sharpen your practical skills, and reflect deeply on your personal journey of unlearning and relearning.
This immersive experience is designed to help you grow as a care provider navigating the complexities of offering non-carceral support—especially within systems that continue to cause harm.
What You’ll Experience:
- Confront internalized biases and explore the tensions of offering non-carceral care within carceral environments
- Learn to assess whether your support is reducing harm—or unintentionally perpetuating it
- Define your non-carceral scope of practice, including writing your own values-aligned transparency statement on mandated reporting
- Connect with a supportive community of Non-Carceral Collaborators, equally committed to liberation-based care
- Gain lived-experience insights into chronic suicidality, self-harm, psychosis, and other stigmatized mental health experiences in multiply marginalized communities
- Engage with dimensionalized case studies and receive real-time feedback to strengthen your approaches and deepen your impact
Come ready to listen, practice, reflect, and grow. This is your space to build a more liberated, non-carceral approach to care—together.
Location: fully virtual
Pricing: Included in the Non-Carceral Harm Reduction full certificate program, or advanced and comprehensive level courses. Basics course is a prerequisite for attendance.
Past Workshops
- People, Not Just Parts: Undoing the Pathology of Dissociative Experiences (speaker: kitty lu bear). Click here to purchase workshop recording.
- People, Not Just Parts: Redefining Peer Support for Dissociative Experiences (speaker: kitty lu bear). Click here to purchase workshop recording.
- Showing Up in Ways That Count: Creating Mental Health Safe Spaces (speakers: THRIVE Lifeline and Stronger U teams). Click here to purchase full course workbook.
- Showing Up in Ways That Count: Creating Suicide Safe Conversations (speakers: THRIVE Lifeline and Stronger U teams). Click here to purchase full course workbook.
- Disabled Realities: We need your help, but we don’t need saviors (speaker: Regina Hockert). Click here to purchase workshop recording.
- Disabled Realities: Crip Rage (speaker: Regina Hockert). Click here to purchase workshop recording.
- Liberatory Support: A Lived Experience Perspective on Eating Disorders (panel discussion). Click here to purchase workshop recording. We also have an ED Support Seekers resource guide, and ED Mini-Course Materials.
- Liberatory Support: A Lived Experience Perspective on OCD (panel discussion). Click here to purchase workshop recording. We also have an OCD Support Seekers resource guide, and OCD Mini-Course Materials.
- When we just don’t know: Safer suicide approaches in dissociative communities. Click here to purchase workshop recording. We also have the Suicidality in Dissociative Communities Mini-Course Materials.
- It’s On Us: Community Care for Living Essentials. Click here to purchase workshop recording.
- Very Real Pain: Lived Experiences with Chronic Suicidality. Click here to purchase workshop recording.
- Liberatory Support in Plural Communities: Creating Safer Spaces for Plural People. Click here to purchase workshop recording.
- Liberatory Support in Plural Communities: Supporting Plural People During Crises. Click here to purchase workshop recording.
- Reclaiming your Suicide Narrative: Taking back what was stolen from you when you disclosed in the past. Click here to purchase workshop recording.
- Reclaiming your Trauma Narrative: Reframing harm to invest the care that you want to experience in the world. Click here to purchase workshop recording.
- Reclaiming your Suicide Narrative (part II): Celebrating the power and beauty of telling your story. Click here to purchase workshop recording.
Organizational Workshops
If you would like to host Stronger U to facilitate workshops for your organization, we invite you to do so through our project request form.
Your organization might choose a variety of workshop customizations, based on your needs and budget, including hosting us to facilitate our workshops without customization, some customization (case studies that are relevant to your group’s needs and foster dialogue around your daily experiences), or full customization (you choose the topics and we assess your needs to design fully customized training, case studies, and group activities). We will use our assessment period to determine customization and make recommendations based on your needs and timing.
Our workshops are charged “per workshop hour” and include our consultations, email chats and video meetings leading up to your workshop date, 2 facilitators, and up to 25 participants (50, corporate). Higher Education and Nonprofit discounted pricing (beginning at $750 per workshop hour) is offered to organizations with <$500,000 annual budget. Nonprofits with ≥$500,000 annual budgets are offered a 15% discount off our Corporate pricing (beginning at $2500 per workshop hour).