Training schedule

Learn to understand your body’s reaction to racial discomfort, identify where racial stress is stored, and metabolize that discomfort to avoid getting stuck in your anti-racism efforts. Class discussion will focus on healing and ways to root our anti-racism in healing justice. Indigenous, Black and Brown bodies will be offered an affinity space for deeper healing.

This interactive, in-person summer institute, designed for K-12 teachers, will provide you with tools to make learning relevant for students, while increasing their critical thinking, reading, writing and speaking skills. The institute will meet on the Augsburg University campus in Minneapolis.

Join us for this 3 hour preview of the Paideia (pie DAY a) approach. It is a pedagogy that encourages student-centered, democratic discussions around a common text to Improve K-12 students’ critical thinking, reading, writing, and speaking skills. Apply your registration fee to our Paideia Summer Institute!

Led by College Board endorsed consultants, the Advanced Placement Summer Institutes (APSI) are designed for AP teachers to learn content for specific AP courses. In addition to the instruction, the APSI is a valuable opportunity to join with other educators to share best practices, strategies and tips. Register for your APSI at Augsburg, where the APSI has been a tradition since 1986. We have both online and in-person options for this year's APSI!

Led by College Board endorsed consultants, the Advanced Placement Summer Institutes (APSI) are designed for AP teachers to learn content for specific AP courses. In addition to the instruction, the APSI is a valuable opportunity to join with other educators to share best practices, strategies and tips. Register for your APSI at Augsburg, where the APSI has been a tradition since 1999. We have both online and in-person options for this year's APSI!

Get a head start on coaching NSDA policy debate for the ‘23-24 season! We will cover topic content, pedagogical strategies, and team management techniques for new and returning coaches. Emphasis is placed on active participation strategies that teachers can leverage during the regular season.

This certificate consists of three self-paced, online courses titled, Understanding Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Trauma-Informed Practices for K-12 Classrooms, and Transformative Social and Emotional Learning. Together these courses will provide you with a solid foundation and tools to increase your ability to support the mental health of your students.

This course is one step toward equipping educators to understand, recognize, and respond to the myriad of ways that trauma is present in our students and our schools. By understanding trauma and its impacts on learning, educators at all levels can be informed about and invested in responding effectively to students' diverse experiences.

This reflective course aims to guide you through social and emotional learning when it is rooted in equity, identity, belonging, and community justice. By understanding the elements of transformative social and emotional learning (TSEL), teachers can identify spaces throughout the day and within their curriculum and classroom practices, where students can feel validated and celebrated for who they are as they become co-collaborators of the learning space.

Augsburg's Education Department is offering professional development opportunities this summer. You can earn CEU’s and/or graduate credit by completing the course. The course will include practice of self care activities, self reflection, and developing a personal self care plan.

Augsburg's Education Department is offering professional development opportunities this summer. You can earn CEU’s and/or graduate credit by completing the course. This experiential training will empower educators (you!) to bring out the unlimited potential (UP) in others to increase learning outcomes for all students.

Augsburg's Education Department is offering professional development opportunities this summer. You can earn CEU’s and/or graduate credit by completing the course. Teachers will examine their current feedback processes, and explore innovative practices to foster student agency and ownership in their classroom. Teachers will gain practical tools to apply to their classroom, and have workshop time to prepare these materials throughout the course.

Learn to understand your body’s reaction to racial discomfort, identify where racial stress is stored, and metabolize that discomfort to avoid getting stuck in your anti-racism efforts. Class discussion will focus on healing and ways to root our anti-racism in healing justice. Indigenous, Black and Brown bodies will be offered an affinity space for deeper healing.

Join us to grow in your ability to create awareness around issues of equity and racial justice in healthcare, recognize the scope of work of racial justice including power, privilege and white supremacy culture, and develop skills to become a change agent in delivering culturally relevant and just healthcare and social services.

This course was born from what we’ve learned at Augsburg University about serving diverse communities in our area. It is clear from our work that knowledge of religious diversity, and accompanying skill sets that integrate the religious/spiritual/worldview of patients as a key component of care, is vital to improving the overall health and well-being of our community. The course is designed to provide nurses and other healthcare professionals with an introduction to interfaith work and how it applies to pat

Rooted in Servant Leadership, Seeing Things Whole creates pathways for individuals and organizations to approach success through a multidimensional lens. This introductory course provides an overview of the philosophy and tools to contemplate your own leadership practice in relationship to your broader impact.

Leaders create pathways for people and organizations to thrive, but it’s no easy task in today’s workplace. How do effective leaders navigate persistent challenges while remaining true to their values? Join Augsburg University’s Reell Office of Seeing Things Whole for breakfast and conversation with compelling leaders from business, the arts, and education who share a common drive to bring greater wholeness and meaning to their organizations.

Our Seeing Things Whole Leader Roundtable exists to provide community while creating collaborative pathways to tackling today’s challenges. Through the Roundtable, we build trusting relationships that support leaders to reflect openly, gain insight, and see the whole of their own journey. Individuals from all backgrounds are encouraged to participate.

Learn how mindfulness can sharpen your decision-making and foster alignment, driving impactful growth and success. This 45-minute Zoom session will help you shape a strategy that resonates deeply with your team and/or organization.

Embrace a new approach to decision-making by balancing both your emotional and critical response. This approach will honor the affective side of decisions while thoughtfully evaluating and comparing the potential outcomes.

A trauma-informed workplace offers a culture of safety and compassion, mindfully avoiding re-traumatization. Our understanding of trauma is expanded beyond an acute individual experience of trauma to include toxic stress, chronic traumatization, and collective trauma. With this new understanding, leaders and their teams can more effectively build a resilient workforce by acknowledging and effectively intervening in stress and trauma.

In today’s rapidly evolving and complex business landscape, leaders who possess the ability to foster a culture of curiosity are better equipped to navigate uncertainty, drive innovation and cultivate high-performing teams. “Leading with Curiosity” is an interactive workshop designed to help leaders develop and enhance their curiosity as a leadership competency. Through engaging activities, insightful discussions, and practical strategies, participants will explore the power of curiosity and its impact on

All too often, we only think of boundaries when they are being violated. However, boundaries are essential for a successful business. A healthy business culture begins with individual boundaries and extends to intentional organizational boundaries. We can help you create an environment that respects and celebrates healthy boundaries, and provide practical exercises for stress management at work, and easy-to-implement routines to bring self-care into all aspects of life.

Conflict is an inevitable part of all organizations and can be an important growth opportunity for individuals and teams. Using Killman’s Model of Conflict, a simple tool designed by two psychologists, we will help you identify and understand your team’s and your own conflict management styles enabling you and your team to approach conflict in the workplace with curiosity rather than avoidance or fear. Building on this understanding, we’ll help you to learn how to effectively communicate through conflict.

Join us for this winter’s Centered Life Series at Augsburg University where we will explore the theme of “Our Calling to Be Neighbor and Do Neighbor”. A primary purpose of a university is to be a safe place to learn how to have meaningful interaction, debate, and dialogue. But even more than a place of dialogue, should be a place of understanding, support, and healing.

Join us for this winter’s Centered Life Series at Augsburg University where we will explore the question, “How do we go about the task of re-centering so that we can claim our calling for a ‘today’ that is in many ways a stranger to us?”