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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.
- Non-Carceral Support Fundamentals: Explore the fundamentals of non-carceral support within multiply marginalized communities, and gain concrete skills to implement. This is the asynchronous version of our Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Seminar.
- Trauma-Informed Medical Fitness Academy: Choose from five different course levels to equip yourself as a holistic practitioner: both an exceptional exercise professional and a relational human, throughout clients’ complex health journeys.
- Building Community Care Fundamentals: Let us show you how to build sustainable, collective care practices that truly address the needs of multiply marginalized people.
- Very Real Pain: Lived Experiences with Chronic Suicidality Webinar: Increase understanding of chronic suicidality and start building safer, humanizing relationships.
- When we just don’t know: Safer suicide approaches in dissociative communities: Increase understanding of and better support the unique intersections of dissociation, suicidality, and complex trauma for plural and DID systems.
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!
Fall and Winter 2026 / 2027 Offerings
Stronger U partners with THRIVE Lifeline to bring these offerings for our Fall and Winter 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!
When Exercise Feels Unsafe: Trauma-Informed Coaching Strategies for Medical Fitness Professionals
Speaker at the MedFit Global Conference: September 24 – 27, 2026
Find this webinar and more in our Trauma-Informed Medical Fitness Academy.
Designed for holistic practitioners, this program helps you confidently align yourself with clients’ needs and navigate their suffering while staying firmly within your scope of practice.
Inside the 5 course levels, you’ll find:
- Guided exercises, reflections, and personalized mentorship
- Practical communication strategies to use when a client’s suffering enters a session
- Common coaching mistakes and how clients interpret these mistakes
- How to navigate scope while remaining deeply human
- Real-world, complex case study discussions:
- multi-system flare-ups
- medical trauma
- loss of self
- existential crisis
- Guided exercises, relfections, and personalized mentorship
Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Seminar: Introduction to the impacts of carceral systems and how we can do better
December 13, 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
Staying Human in Crisis: Relationally Safer, Non-Carceral Support for Dissociative Communities
February 26, 2027: a standalone 4-hour pre-conference intensive to the Healing Together Conference in Orlando, FL
Traditional crisis education often teaches people to reduce risk. This intensive asks instead: How do we remain deeply human when fear, uncertainty, and urgency are pulling us out of relationship?
Together, we will:
- Examine how coercive, fear-based, and compliance-oriented crisis responses can unintentionally increase distress, internal conflict, shame, or relational ruptures in dissociative communities.
- Explore the intersections of dissociation, chronic suicidality, complex trauma, and marginalization within crisis experiences.
- Learn how to uplift agency and humanity in non-carceral, sustainable, and boundary-aware ways.
- Increase relational and harm reduction skills for navigating complexity, uplifting autonomy, and deepening connection during times of urgency
- Gain practice and increase your confidence by implementing these skills into real-life case studies and receiving real-time feedback
Time: 8:30a ET
Length: 4 hours
Pricing Scale $45, $59, $79, $99; Scholarship deadline is November 15
Recording and workbook available to purchase separately for those not attending in person
Hosted at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Orlando at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida
at the Healing Together Conference Center 2027:
10100 International Drive,
Orlando, FL 32821
CareFull Practices: From Ideals to Embodiment
March 11-13, 2027
2.5-day immersive in Minneapolis, MN
Society teaches us care is boundaried or self-sacrificing, institutionalized or radical, professional or lived experience, deserving or undeserving, coercive or autonomous.
But polarized understandings of care rarely teach us how to tap into our deeper humanity when care feels complex, scary, or uncertain.
CareFull Practices invites you to Become the Care You Want to Witness in the World
CareFull Practices will send you back into your communities with:
- a clearer understanding of the care practitioner you’re becoming, no matter how new or far along you are into your care journey
- practical tools for navigating complexity
- increased comfort sitting with uncertainty
- greater awareness of the narratives shaping your care
- approaches for supporting people without coercion
- practices for working with fear, grief, and urgency
- a personal CareFull Practice you can continue developing long after the retreat
- relationships with others committed to practicing care intentionally
Location: Hosted at New City Center for Healing Justice in the Powderhorn neighborhood of South Minneapolis, MN
Pricing Scale $395, $495, $695, $745. Scholarship deadline is November 1
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).