Pam has developed a number of workshops based on her written materials and can customize them to your audience, event, and time elements. These include workshops on:
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Following are brief descriptions of these presentations. To contact Pam for detailed descriptions, objectives, or information about customized workshops, please go to the Contact page.
Resilience 101: Understanding and Optimizing Your Stress System After Deployment
Designed for service members and veterans, this presentation uses science and common sense to de-mystify and de-stigmatize post-deployment stress effects. It also introduces the Resilience 101 workbook and some basic resilience skills for re-regulating the stress system, and provides opportunities to try out these tools.
Resilience 101: Helping Veterans and Service Members Understand, De-Stigmatize, and Manage Post-Deployment Stress Effects
Designed for therapists, trainers, and peer mentors, this presentation provides a model for education and skill training of veterans and service members. Using the Resilience 101 workbook, it provides ideas for teaching basic stress system concepts and resilience skills, and provides opportunities to try out these tools.
Finding Balance After the War Zone: Considerations in the Treatment of Post-Deployment Stress Effects
This presentation is designed for civilian counselors and therapists who work with, or plan to work with, returning and transitioning service members and veterans. It provides information, a forum for discussion, and materials for clinicians and service members/veterans from the Finding Balance After the War Zone series. In some cases, Pam co-delivers these presentations with Angela Halvorson, Owner and President of TopLine Professional Strategies and a Major in the Kansas Army National Guard.
Breaking the Chain: Addressing the Effects of Family Trauma
Designed for professionals in a variety of human service settings, this presentation focuses on the intergenerational nature of trauma; the effects of difficult life situations on family balance and functioning; the neurobiology of resilience, stress, and trauma; the effects of trauma on family members; and considerations for prevention, treatment, skill training, and ongoing support. It includes information from the Breaking the Chain materials.
How to Get the Piranhas Out of Your Head
This presentation can be tailored for general audiences or for counselors, therapists, and peer mentors. Using concepts from How to Get the Piranhas Out of Your Head and exercises from the Piranha Workbook and Piranha Leader's Guide, Author Pamela Woll takes participants through the life cycle of the Brain Piranha and the 10 Suggestions for saying out of the piranhas' jaws.
Compassion and Joy: Caring in a Troubled World
In these increasingly troubled times, can we remain aware of the pain that surrounds us and still be happy? This presentation explores some of the core human experiences that are challenged by our concern for those who are suffering or in danger, and the values and qualities within us that can help us cope with and transcend these challenges—and ultimately transform our lives and our ways of caring and being in the world.
Worth Protecting: Building Healthy Relationships and Avoiding Manipulation and Aggression
This presentation explores the ways in which both men and women are taught to think of members of the opposite sex as commodities, and the link between that paradigm and sexual manipulation and violence. Based on the book, Worth Protecting, it questions the need for the age-old "battle of the sexes," and instead suggests a new kind of relationship in which mutual respect is paramount and neither partner tries to coerce or manipulate the other—where partners can have both safety and passion.
The Magnet: A Plan for Aligning Purpose and Professional Practice
This presentation is for people who feel stuck, confused, uninspired, overwhelmed, or mismatched in their current jobs or career paths—or people who work in vocational counseling or human resources with people who feel stuck, confused, etc. It introduces concepts and workbook exercises from The Magnet and provides opportunities for planning and exploration in the workshop setting.
Healing the Stigma of Addiction
The stigma that our society attaches to addiction can serve as a lethal weapon. It fosters shame and isolation, keeps people from seeking help, and pushes public policy away from medical responses and toward the criminalization of symptoms. Using concepts and exercises from Healing the Stigma of Addiction, this presentation explores the nature and psycholoigcal roots of stigma and steps we can take to eliminate it—in ourselves, in the people we serve, and in the larger society that surround us.
Healing the Stigma of Depression
This presentation is designed for human service professionals who may not specialize in mental health issues, but whose professional and personal worlds may include many people whose depressive disorders remain hidden and unaddressed because of stigma, self-stigma, and shame. Using concepts and exercises from Healing the Stigma of Depression, this presentation explores the nature and psychological roots of stigma and steps we can take to eliminate it—in ourselves, in the people we serve, and in the larger society that surround us.