*Please note that EmPaCT trainings and workshops run on average for a minimum of 90 minutes. When consulting with EmPaCT, you can request that sessions run for longer. During your consultation, our specialists may also do the same after evaluating group size, modality (virtual vs. in-person) and the context of the workshop request.
Difficult Conversations Drop-In Clinic
Feeling anxious about addressing tension with a colleague or discussing conflict with a supervisor or report? Would it be helpful to role play, write a script, or practice what you're planning to say? Workshop your challenge with EmPaCT. Experiment with different talking points and strategies for effective and respectful communication, and get real-time feedback from a conflict navigation specialist. Practice makes comfortable — don't be shy! First come, first served.
The Fall 2026 Drop-In Clinic will run from 11am-1pm on the following dates:
Holding Courageous Conversations: A Practical Communication Framework
This experiential workshop introduces Nonviolent Communication (NVC) as a process and practice to communicate observations, emotions and needs with more self-awareness, empathy and respect. Bolster the learning with mindfulness tips for emotional regulation, such as STOP and THINK.
Register on Zoom for the University-wide Courageous Conversations Workshop on Tuesday, September 29th from 11:00am-12:30pm ET.
Schedule a Consultation to organize this workshop for your team or unit.
Team Norming: Building Team Agreements for a Stronger Workplace Culture
This training is an ideal experience for offices and divisions of different sizes looking to standardize and create conversation around practices in their workplace. In this interactive workshop, our facilitators walk groups through the Team Norming process, explaining what team norms are, how they benefit units and offices, their differences from policy, and why they are so essential to building healthier workplace cultures and mitigating conflict. The workshop ends with teams building their own Team Charter, collaborating to design norms in four key areas: Work Processes, Team Wellness, Communication, and Conflict Navigation.
Note: EmPaCT can do this workshop to help an office build their own charter as well as train supervisors to carry out this exercise with their own team.
Schedule a Consultation to organize this workshop for your team or unit.
Me, Myself, and Conflict: An Internal Exploration
When figuring out how to navigate a conflict, the first person we often need to check in with is ourselves. What is our relationship to conflict? How were we taught to handle it? What are our conflict triggers and how do we create awareness around them? These questions and more will be explored in this virtual workshop. Together we will help participants develop a deeper understanding of their connection to conflict and strategies to navigate internal conflicts they experience in their workplace. Topics for discussion include areas like individual conflict patterns, imposter syndrome, and a conflict needs assessment. is training is an ideal experience for offices and divisions of different sizes looking to standardize and create conversation around practices in their workplace. In this interactive workshop, our facilitators walk groups through the Team Norming process, explaining what team norms are, how they benefit units and offices, their differences from policy, and why they are so essential to building healthier workplace cultures and mitigating conflict. The workshop ends with teams building their own Team Charter, collaborating to design norms in four key areas: Work Processes, Team Wellness, Communication, and Conflict Navigation.
Schedule a Consultation to organize this workshop for your team or unit.
Register on Zoom for the University-wide Me, Myself, and Conflict Workshop on Tuesday, October 27th from 11:00am-12:30pm ET.
Collab Lab: Practices for Better Work Together
Participants will explore best and worst practices, reflect on personal ways of working with others and areas for self-improvement, and leave the workshop with simple tools they can use immediately to foster collaboration. Activities to help develop self-awareness and accountability around collaboration include Evil Genius, crowdsourcing, Mad Tea and impromptu connection.
Schedule a Consultation to organize this workshop for your team or unit.
From Tension to Trust: A Feedback Lab
An interactive workshop to build confidence and comfortability in giving and receiving feedback with professionalism, clarity, and respect. Through practice and reflection, participants will learn strategies that foster trust and accountability, turning difficult conversations into opportunities for growth and connection.
Schedule a Consultation to organize this workshop for your team or unit.
Facilitated Dialogue
Facilitated dialogue works to address an underlying conflict that is halting or hurting the ability of two colleagues, a small group, or a team from working in harmony. It encourages parties to collaborate by sharing perspectives, identifying issues, and working toward a mutually agreeable path forward. EmPaCT’s trained specialists are there to guide and facilitate the process, ensure that everyone has an opportunity to speak, and support a more constructive conversation. During consultation, we can explain the process in more detail and help identify whether facilitated dialogue might be an appropriate option.
Schedule a Consultation to organize this workshop for your team or unit.
Leading with Conflict Competence
This highly engaging session is geared for supervisors and senior leaders who are ready to take their conflict competency to the next level. Participants will learn frameworks, mindsets, and simple adaptable tools for naming and claiming conflict, giving and receiving feedback, and leading and establishing norms & practices for addressing conflict early and often. Explore ways to model empathy, professionalism and accountability that leaders can adopt right away.
Please Schedule a Consultation to register your team or unit.
Search Inside Yourself
Participants are immersed in a two-day emotional intelligence and psychological safety program entitled Search Inside Yourself. You will learn practical ways to develop essential mindfulness, emotional wellbeing, and leadership skills through highly interactive and thought-provoking exercises. Walk away with tools that you can immediately apply to your work and life to increase confidence, clarity, and decisiveness - all essential leadership skills.
Register with SIY