One Circle Foundation Courses
Below is a list of courses we offer with detailed descriptions. Please view our training calendar for upcoming trainings or contact us to bring a training to your agency or region.

Girls Circle Facilitator Training   |   The Council for Boys and Young Men Facilitator Training   |  Motivational Interviewing   |   Bullying SOLUTIONS Training - Solution Coach® and Solution Team®   |   Mother-Daughter Circle: Heart of the Matter   |   Strengths-Based Approach Training   |  
Advanced Girls Circle Facilitator Training   |   Gender-Specific Fundamentals   |   Cultural Competencies

Girls Circle Facilitator Training 13 Hours of Instruction, Course Outline This initial training provides a comprehensive course on the Girls Circle model for participants of all experience levels and solidly sets the foundation for implementing dynamic female responsive programming via Girls Circle support groups. Workshop facilitators use an experiential model of learning to include lecture, demonstration, group discussion, case studies, simulation, small group interaction, and brainstorming to stimulate participants’ learning. The subject matter relates to the scope of practice in all youth serving sectors in its particular attention to girls’ developmental stages and needs.

• 13 CE’S offered to MFT’s and LCSW’s in California
• 13 CE’s offered to LCSW’s in states approved by the National Association of Social Workers
• 13 CE’s Offered to MFT’s, LPCC’s, and Social Workers in Ohio approved by the Counselors, Social Worker, & Marriage and Family Therapist Board
• 13 CE’s offered to Registered Nurses in California
• 1 College Credit offered through Sonoma State University (Apply at training)
  
  

The Council for Boys & Young Men Facilitator Training
13 Hours of Instruction, Course Outline

The training provides a comprehensive course on the program model The Council for Boys and Young Men, for participants of all experience levels and solidly sets the foundation for implementing a dynamic strengths-based group approach to promote boys’ and young men’s safe, strong, and healthy passage through pre-teen and adolescent years. The training incorporates a relational-cultural framework and masculinity research practices to help participants build on boys' abilities and create opportunities for resiliency and healthy relationships in boys’ and young men's lives. Workshop trainers use an experiential model of learning to include lecture, demonstration, group discussion, case studies, simulation, small group interaction, and brainstorming to stimulate participants’ learning.

The subject matter relates to the scope of practice in all youth serving sectors in its particular attention to boys’ developmental stages and needs, building participant skills to meet a core developmental need in boys for strong, positive relationships. The model is utilized in all community-based service delivery models - including education, juvenile justice, child services, behavioral, and mental health treatment. The Council recognizes boys' strengths and capacities, challenges stereotypes, questions unsafe attitudes about masculinity, and encourages solidarity through personal and collective responsibility. Participants learn how to create a healthy and structured environment that is experiential and engaging so that boys and young men can gain the vital opportunity to address masculine definitions and behaviors and build their capacities to find their innate value and a sense of purpose – individually and collectively.

• 13 CE’S offered to MFT’s and LCSW’s in California
• 13 CE’s offered to LCSW’s in states approved by the National Association of Social Workers
• 13 CE’s offered to MFT’s, LPCC’s, and Social Workers in Ohio approved by the Counselors, Social Worker, & Marriage and Family Therapist Board
• 13 CE’s offered to Registered Nurses in California
  
  

Motivational Interviewing Training
13 Hours of Instruction, Course Outline

The training provides a comprehensive course on guiding principles, strategies and skills for incorporating motivational interviewing techniques in client-centered work with adolescent males and females with a particular focus on creating opportunities for behavior change. Participants of all experience levels are introduced to the foundation, theories, and framework for implementing a dynamic strength-based strategy for reducing risks and enhancing strengths in clients identified with compelling risk factors that may lead them into the criminal justice system. Workshop trainers use an experiential model of learning to include lecture, demonstration, group discussion, case studies, simulation, small group interaction, and brainstorming to stimulate participants’ engagement and learning, while increasing capacity and confidence.

The subject matter relates to the scope of practice in community based settings and juvenile justice in its particular attention to various treatment modalities including both individual and group experiences and approaches designed to create opportunities for young people to assume responsibility for their behaviors, establish personal and collective responsibility, and practice restorative principles.

Motivational Interviewing Training is building participants’ skills to meet a core developmental need to build rapport with clients, engage them in treatment and/or intervention, explore clients’ ambivalence, motivate clients towards behavior change, and supports efforts to reduce risk behaviors by acknowledging and enhancing natural capacities and assets.
Participants learn how to engage clients in a healthy relationship, practice skills and strategies, identify areas of strength and competency, identify areas of challenge and development, and set goals for implementation and practical application within their service delivery model.

• 13 CE’S offered to MFT’s and LCSW’s in California
• 13 CE’s offered to LCSW’s in states approved by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
• 13 CE’s offered to MFT’s, LPCC’s, and Social Workers in Ohio approved by the Counselors, Social Worker, & Marriage and Family Therapist Board
• 13 CE’s offered to Registered Nurses in California
  
  

Bullying SOLUTIONS Training – Solution Coach® and Solution Team®
1 Day, Selected School or Setting Staff, Course Outline

This training prepares educators and service providers to implement this award-winning, non-punitive, effective approach to your K-12 schools and sites and see bullying stop. Developed by No Bully®, a San Francisco nonprofit, this approach is a strengths-based method that works.

• Create safe and inclusive schools and sites for all youth and adults
• Increase attendance
• Engage the peer group to resolve problems and become allies
• Proven to reduce bullying in over 80% of cases and remained true at three-month follow ups

Participants learn:

• How to access student empathy and lead a team of students through all the stages of a Solution Team® to solve the bullying of one of their peers
• How to Solution Coach® students away from the role of bully and/or target using a student-centered approach to behavioral change and building missing social and emotional skills.
• How to integrate Solution Coach® and Solution Team® into your school’s or program’s policies and procedures for dealing with challenging student behaviors.

• 5.5 CE’S offered to MFT’s and LCSW’s in California
• 5.5 CE’s offered to LCSW’s in states approved by the National Association of Social Workers
• 5.5 CE’s offered to MFT’s, LPCC’s, and Social Workers in Ohio approved by the Counselors, Social Worker, & Marriage and Family Therapist Board
• 5.5 CE’s offered to Registered Nurses in California

Mother-Daughter Circle Facilitator Training
6.5 Hours of Instruction, Course Outline

This training prepares facilitators to offer a Mother-Daughter Circle program for mothers or female caregivers and girls 11 – 18 in their communities, utilizing the curriculum Heart of the Matter. The purpose of the training is to prepare facilitators intellectually, emotionally, experientially, and logistically to provide a quality prevention or intervention family services program to strengthen bonds between girls/young women and their mothers or female caregivers.

The workshop follows the 8-Week curriculum which integrates the Girls Circle model and best practice parenting approaches. Participants will practice portions of the curriculum to understand the tasks and develop the fundamental skills needed to help mothers and female caregivers promote empathy and a positive female identity, develop healthy coping strategies for stressful times, utilize quality communication skills, and demonstrate effective parental limit setting. Participants prepare to utilize demonstrations and role plays, trust activities, discussions, reflective listening, affirmations, I-messages, open ended questions, and application of the 5 S.T.E.P.S. ™ for navigating the relationship through stressful interactions. The workshop incorporates a variety of learning methods including large group presentations and discussions, small group activities, trainer demonstrations, role play, and small group skills practice.

• 6.5 CE’S offered to MFT’s and LCSW’s in California
• 6.5 CE’s offered to LCSW’s in states approved by the National Association of Social Workers
• 6.5 CE’s offered to MFT’s, LPCC’s, and Social Workers in Ohio approved by the Counselors, Social Worker, & Marriage and Family Therapist Board
• 6.5 CE’s offered to Registered Nurses in California
  
  

Strengths-Based Approach Training 6.5 Hours of Instruction, Course Outline

The training provides a comprehensive course on understanding and utilizing a Strength-Based Approach in service delivery, client interactions, treatment planning, and case management in working with adolescent and adult clients. The training is designed for participants of all experience levels and solidly sets the foundation for implementing a dynamic strength-based approach that incorporates practices to help identify and build on participants’ assets while modeling for participants how to identify and build on client assets. Workshop trainers use an experiential model of learning to include lecture, demonstration, group discussion, case studies, simulation, small group interaction, and brainstorming to stimulate participants’ engagement and practical learning.

The subject matter relates to the scope of practice in community based settings and juvenile justice, mental health and public health, education and prevention in its particular attention to building participants skills to meet a core developmental need to identify both risk and protective factors in clients, and to seek natural and inherent solutions from within clients. This approach has been demonstrated to successfully engage, treat, and discharge clients with a higher rate of success and reduction in harmful behaviors.
Strength-Based Approach Training recognizes in participants and clients their inherent strengths and capacities, challenges a deficit-driven approach, questions attitudes and beliefs about client capacities to change, and establishes a practice of remaining client-centered rather than solution-focused - encouraging success and personal accountability in one’s own treatment experience. Participants learn how to recognize, explore, elicit, and document client strengths in a full continuum of care or treatment - from intake and assessment through discharge and aftercare - to ensure successful behavior change.
Two days of training incorporates the practical application of the Strength-Based Approach in all aspects of service delivery: assessment, referral, treatment, case plans, discharge, and after-care with an in-depth focus on documentation.

• 6.5 CE’S offered to MFT’s and LCSW’s in California
• 6.5 CE’s offered to MFT’s, LPCC’s, and Social Workers in Ohio approved by the Counselors, Social Worker, & Marriage and Family Therapist Board
• 6.5 CE’s offered to Registered Nurses in California
  
  

ADVANCED Girls Circle Facilitator Training
13 Hours of Instruction, Course Outline

The Girls Circle Advanced Training offers the further development of facilitator skills and techniques in managing dynamics, influencing change in behavior, and motivational interviewing. The 2-day workshop includes experiential, interactive activities and role-playing opportunities to provide participants with the necessary skills to confidently and competently facilitate and run effective programming for girls. Workshop facilitators use an experiential model of learning to include lecture, demonstration, group discussion, case studies, role-plays, small group interaction, and brainstorming to stimulate participants’ learning.

The subject matter relates to the scope of practice in all youth serving sectors in its particular attention to girls’ misbehavior and faulty unconscious beliefs, the goals of misbehavior, and builds participants skills on how to identify personal barriers to effectiveness and practice strengths-based approaches to handling difficult misbehavior and group dynamic challenges. Day Two covers The “Stages of Change” and its cyclical nature, advanced listening techniques, and Motivational Interviewing theory to promote girls’ critical thinking in regard to their behavior and choices.

• 13 CE’S offered to MFT’s and LCSW’s in California
• 13 CE’s offered to LCSW’s in states approved by the National Association of Social Workers
• 13 CE’s offered to MFT’s, LPCC’s, and Social Workers in Ohio approved by the Counselors, Social Worker, & Marriage and Family Therapist Board
• 13 CE’s offered to Registered Nurses in California
• 1 College Credit Offered through Sonoma State University (Apply at training)
  
  

Gender Specific Fundamentals of Working with Girls
6.5 Hours of Instruction, Course Outline

The training provides a comprehensive course on the fundamentals of working with adolescent girls including those who are high risk and/or court-involved. Participants of all experience levels are introduced to the theoretical framework, philosophy, and theories of female adolescent development that form the foundation for implementing a female responsive approach in service delivery. Best practices are introduced in a manner that helps participants build capacity and confidence in working with adolescent females within a criminal justice intervention and/or a community based prevention model of service delivery. Workshop trainers use an experiential model of learning to include lecture, demonstration, group discussion, case studies, simulation, small group interaction, and brainstorming to stimulate participants’ engagement and learning.

The subject matter relates to the scope of practice in community-based settings and juvenile justice in its particular attention to incorporate a strength-based approach that models service delivery that is both gender and culture responsive. Training components are designed to build on participant strengths and capacity as well as identifiable participant skills to meet a core developmental need to work more effectively with adolescent females understanding compelling risk factors and identifying strengths and resiliencies in girls.

Gender Specific Fundamentals of Working with Girls Training recognizes participants and girls’ inherent strengths and capacities, challenges stereotypes, questions unhealthy attitudes and beliefs about female socialization, explores the impact of their own adolescence, and encourages relationships that are healthy and based on trust and safety.
Participants learn how to approach girls with a focus on their strengths and abilities, speak with girls in a strength-based and pro-social manner, and role model for girls how to be accountable and restorative in interactions using empowering methods of intervention throughout their service delivery.

• 6.5 CE’S offered to MFT’s and LCSW’s in California
• 6.5 CE’s offered to MFT’s, LPCC’s, and Social Workers in Ohio approved by the Counselors, Social Worker, & Marriage and Family Therapist Board
• 6.5 CE’s offered to Registered Nurses in California
  
  

Cultural Competency Training
6.5 Hours of Instruction, Course Outline

The training provides an introduction to Cultural Competency strategies in a strength-based approach to client management and service delivery that considers culture in all aspects of assessment, treatment, care, and discharge. Participants understand the framework and rationale of being culturally competent in client management through the use of techniques to effectively assess clients’ strengths and cultural factors that will help to link clients to appropriate and realistic community resources. Participants engage in practical learning by application of skills and techniques and experience a culturally competent training approach that models strategies to identify and build on client cultural assets, as well as for individual and agency action plans.

Workshop trainers use an experiential model of learning to include lecture, demonstration, case studies, and individual and small group interaction, to stimulate participants’ engagement and practical learning.

The subject matter relates to the scope of practice in community based settings, criminal justice, mental health and public health, education, and prevention in its particular attention to building participants’ skills to identify cultural factors in clients that may promote risk and resiliency, and to seek natural and inherent cultural connections and supports from within clients’ culture and communities that may enhance treatment and outcomes.

Cultural Competency Training recognizes in participants and clients the fundamental role of “culture” in seeking inherent strengths and capacities, understanding attitudes and beliefs about cultural identities, establishing a practice of honoring culture, and exposing cultural barriers that may exist between clients and providers. Participants explore definitions in diversity and culture, identify awareness of personal stages of cultural competence, practice skills in cross-cultural communication, participate in practical learning experiences for skill development in culturally competent strategies and application, and develop an action plan towards becoming culturally competent - both individually and in their service delivery system.

• 6.5 CE’S offered to MFT’s and LCSW’s in California
• 6.5 CE’s offered to MFT’s, LPCC’s, and Social Workers in Ohio approved by the Counselors, Social Worker, & Marriage and Family Therapist Board
• 6.5 CE’s offered to Registered Nurses in California