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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.
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Summer 2026 Offerings
Stronger U partners with THRIVE Lifeline to bring these offerings for our Summer 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
June 28, 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
Featured speaker at 4-Day Align With Your Light and Follow Your Bliss: Astrology & Yoga Retreat in Mt. Shasta, California
August 6 – 9, 2026
Stuckness to Rootedness: Realigning into your Soul Purpose (2 hour workshop)
When everything feels overwhelming, you might feel stuck between two extremes: pushing yourself to keep showing up, or pulling away to protect yourself and your energy. When we’re out of alignment, it is easy to get caught in a cycle – overextending, then withdrawing – often losing ourselves while trying to engage with the world. This interactive session invites you to pause and ask what stuckness is telling you. What feels so impossible might just be the very thing that amplifies your next evolution into personal alignment.
When the World Feels Too Much: A Processing Space
The world is a hard place to be human and sometimes it helps to be able to call it what it is. Together in this trauma informed space, we’ll name what feels heavy, overwhelming, or disorienting. We’ll grieve the ish of the world and explore what feels better aligned, and heal within our collective cohort.
Staying Aligned Beyond Our Retreat
This celebration session invites you to reflect on what you’re taking with you and how to stay rooted in your most aligned self beyond the retreat. Together, we’ll explore what support, awareness, and practices can help you move forward with more clarity, agency, and alignment in the midst of everyday life.
(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
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).