Leadership series

The Leadership Series: Equip your team

This six-session series is designed for leaders who have completed The Basics and are ready to apply the concepts with themselves and those they support. Building on a shared foundation, the series moves from personal awareness and individual skills to team culture and application. Between sessions, participants practice skills within their role to nurture a culture of resilience. Throughout the series, there is an emphasis on balancing empathy and accountability within a trauma-informed approach.

The Resilience Champion Series

Move from “Aha!” to action.

Built for people doing the hardest, most human work. Across healthcare, education, social work, nonprofits, and corporate organizations, the challenges look different — but the need is the same: teams that can stay connected, communicate through stress, and help employees thrive and innovate.

The Basics On Demand is included with this course and is a prerequisite. If you’ve already taken The Basics, you’ll receive a $50 discount — email us for details. Teams are encouraged to participate together, and group rates are available for five or more who register together.

Who is this for?

  • Teams and staff
  • Develop the skills, shared language, and resilience practices that reduce burnout and strengthen the way people work together.
  • Leaders and organizations
  • Build a culture that retains people, reduces conflict, and unlocks what your people are truly capable of — grounded in resilience and trauma-informed leadership.

The journey

Six workshops,
one resilient culture.

This six-session series is designed for leaders who have completed The Basics and are ready to apply the concepts with themselves and those they support. Building on a shared foundation, the series moves from personal awareness and individual skills to team culture and application. Between sessions, participants practice skills within their role to nurture a culture of resilience. Throughout the series, there is an emphasis on balancing empathy and accountability within a trauma-informed approach.

Workshop 01

It starts with you

Leadership is personal. Before we talk about your team and the people you lead, we start with you: how you show up and what gets in the way of being the leader you want to be. Building on the shared language and concepts from The Basics, this workshop turns that lens on your own leadership. We’ll revisit the flipped lid framework and explore what it looks like in practice: what does your leadership feel like when you’re at your best, and what happens when your lid flips?

Workshop 02

Regulation skills for leaders

We can’t control the stressors around us but we can build skills to manage how they impact us. This workshop is all about expanding capacity. We’ll focus on slowing down and tuning into what up and down regulation actually feels like in the body, and build a toolkit you can reach for when things get hard: during a difficult conversation, a short-staffed shift, or just throughout your day.

Workshop 03

Knowing your team

Leadership is a team sport. As leaders, we play a role in the regulation of the people around us. That co-regulation is most effective when we actually know who our people are. This workshop is about developing a real understanding of your team: their strengths, their needs, what throws them off, and what support looks like for each of them.

Workshop 04

Communication and feedback

This is where connection comes to life. We’ll explore communication practices that help us stay connected, build trust, and give honest feedback without doing harm. We’ll also get honest about what gets in the way of hard conversations and what it costs our teams when those conversations don’t happen.

Workshop 05

Repair

We’re all human, and sometimes we get it wrong. This workshop explores what to do when a conversation goes sideways and how to repair when we make mistakes. We’ll deepen our understanding of why repair is so central to a trauma-informed culture and what it looks like in practice.

Workshop 06

Capstone: Your leadership in action

We close by taking stock of the journey. We will explore what has shifted, what actionable practices you will be taking with you, and what’s next. You will be activating the learning and identifying the concrete practices that will sustain the culture you’re building.

Your facilitators

Led by the founders
of Origins.

Andi Fetzner

PsyD · Clinical Psychology

Facilitator

Andi’s training mantra is, “you don’t have to be a therapist to be therapeutic.” Drawing on her personal and professional background, she uses real-life examples to show how this approach applies across sectors. Outside of work, she lives as a digital nomad and enjoys yoga, good food, and mountaineering.

Lori Chelius

MBA · MPH · Public Health

Facilitator

Lori works with organizations across many sectors to build strong foundations based on solid values, grow resilience, and provide even better care for the people they serve. She lives in California with her wife, three kids, and their dog, Benjji.

Why it works

Most training gives you information. This series gives you a process.

The Resilience Champion Leadership Series is built on the belief that culture change doesn’t happen through a single workshop or a one-time initiative — it happens when the right people inside your organization are equipped, supported, and given a structure to lead the work from within.

Over 10 years, we’ve seen what happens when organizations try to build a trauma-informed culture without internal infrastructure. This series builds that infrastructure — one champion at a time.

  • It develops internal champions — people at every level who can model and sustain a resilience-informed approach long after the series ends
  • It builds from the inside out — starting with each participant’s own leadership style, values, and vision before moving to organizational strategy
  • It connects personal and organizational — because resilience starts with each of us, and culture change follows when enough people share a common foundation
  • It produces something tangible — participants don’t just learn concepts, they leave with an action plan built from their own organization’s real strengths and needs
  • It’s designed for teams — the more people from your organization who participate together, the faster and more deeply the change takes hold

Bring the series to your team

Ready to develop your resilience champions?

Register a group of five or more for group rates, or book a free consultation to talk through how the series fits your organization.

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