Our Program
Our workshops and seminars draw on skills from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), an evidence-based practice that provides a structured way of learning emotion regulation skills and building mental health resilience.
While DBT is practiced in a clinical environment, our approach is to make these skills available to everyone.
The core DBT skills fall in the following four categories:
Mindfulness Skills
Mindfulness skills are essential for managing thoughts and emotions, allowing individuals to stay present and reduce emotional reactivity. These skills empower individuals to shift their focus away from work-related stress toward relationships and personal interests, promoting better mental health and resilience.
Distress Tolerance Skills
These skills enable individuals to manage overwhelming emotions in crisis situations. They teach participants how to survive in a situation that has no immediate solution by reducing the emotional intensity, allowing them to be more effective for themselves and others while not making the situation worse.
Emotion Regulation Skills
By reducing emotional vulnerability and reactivity, these skills help people manage and respond to their emotions in a healthier way. Using these skills, people feel better, are able to cope with stress, and their relationships and communications are improved.
Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
These skills enable participants to build and maintain positive, healthy relationships through improved communication. Communicating effectively with others enables participants to attain objectives, resolve conflict, and strengthen the human connections needed to thrive in both work and home settings.