Are you a Coach, Educator, Health, Wellness or Mental Health Professional?

We are so happy you have made this step to a more resilient future. 

Uplift Learning is committed to educating on building resilience. Adverse experiences of trauma impact resilience. We want to contribute to creating a trauma informed society which is the outcome of resilience. By taking the time to join us here we can see you are also looking to increase your ability to cope with life's difficulties or adversities.

This has been a tough time - for all of us.
How's it been going with taking care of others at work and at home?

More importantly, how is taking care of you going?

We can feel simultaneously guilty for not taking care of us and guilty for taking the time away from caring for others to take care of us. It’s like being between a rock and a hard place. 

It can feel like a luxury to take care of ourselves amidst so many demands. The truth none of us want to see is that we can only ignore our self care for so long before we can’t keep going on. 

As you may be aware, the first principle of trauma-informed practice is taking care of you because we need to take care of ourselves so we can keep taking care of others. 

In a time where you are being asked to bend over backwards with new safety protocols and quarantine measures. When are you taking time to take care of you...to put your own "oxygen" mask on first.

Have you been feeling overwhelmed? Stretched beyond your capacity to feel empathy or compassion? Overly emotional or numb?

During the pandemic, life’s stressors have been amplified as we deal with fear of our loved ones or ourselves being health compromised. Economic uncertainty has affected many people causing serious, destabilizing effects. Social isolation is at an all time high impacting mental and emotional well being in unprecedented ways.

The fear of losing our wellbeing while needing to continue to care for others is overwhelming. That is why,

We are here for you!

To support you through awareness, skill development, and a supportive community that has your wellbeing at its heart. Ernestina Malheiro has alchemized her 20+ years as an educational expert and her passion for mental health to support you in transforming yourself from burnout to breakthrough.

As a result, you’ll benefit through:

  • Proven Strategies

    Implement and integrate strategies for emotional regulation and triggers connected to the phases of the stress response.

  • Emotional Awareness

    Awareness is the first step in greater wellbeing. Gain clarity and discernment on how to identify trauma, chronic stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout for yourself and others.

  • Practical Skills

    Learn practical skills to build resilience and post-traumatic growth

  • Personal Alignment

    Evaluate how to align your offerings with trauma-informed practice.

Instructor

Ernestina Malheiro, MA

Ernestina has watched online learning evolve and grow for the last 20 years of her instructional design career. She’s worked with scientists, surgeons, storytellers, researchers, mental health professionals, nurses and refugees - just to name a few. Since 2016 she has focused on mental health advocacy after realizing the system was traumatic for patients and practitioners alike. Her graduate research looked deeply at blended programs for rural PTSD patients and she’s spent thousands of hours deep in research around trauma and resilience.

Her work has touched 150,000 people using five different learning management systems. She’s strategized and implemented e-learning for organizations with 25,000 to 90,000 employees. Her clients come from dozens of different specialties.

She has produced courses on transformative communication, anti-bullying, human rights, trauma-informed cultural competency, trauma-informed training for psychiatrists, curriculum creation for survivors of genocide (Rwanda, Bosnia) and Treaty 6,7,8 work with the Indigenous people of Canada, as well as, trauma-informed education for nurses.

Ernestina has lived experience with workplace bullying and mental health advocacy, This inspired her passion for trauma-informed workplaces. Which led to Uplift Learning’s vision of a Trauma-Informed Society - creating a kinder, more compassionate world.

Facilitated sessions and moderated offline spaces support you in implementing self care both personally and professionally for greater work-life balance.

Ernestina’s authentic transformational learner-centered process uses brain-based teaching strategies to integrate theories into practices. It is a meaning-making process designed intentionally to incorporate interactions between peers, facilitators and content in the most engaging way possible.

Information does not equal transformation. Transformation comes from application being expressly taught using brain-based teaching strategies.

Professionals who are

  • Worried about their health:
    Help yourself first. Then you can help others. Focus on tools and perspectives to avoid and recover from Burnout.
  • Wanting to improve professionally:
    Learning about trauma-informed practice will help them stay healthy at work and translate to better care and support for their clients.
  • Wanting to up their emotional IQ skills:
    Health of staff = health of clients = health of society.
  • Worried about their mental health:
    Due to the nature of their work, health and wellness professionals are subject to high rates of psychological trauma. I teach health and wellness professionals how to mitigate trauma impacts on the job and how to translate this into their practice with clients.

By the end of this program
we'll have helped you:

  • Define resilience and explore different types.

  • Practice resilience skills on a weekly basis to build or maintain resilience.

  • Acknowledge how stress and adverse experiences can impact health, behavior, and resilience for ourselves and the people we serve.

  • Examine the human stress response.

  • Explore causes and types of psychological trauma.

  • Discern the difference between trauma, chronic stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout.

  • Examine the connection between resilience, compassion fatigue, burnout, and trauma.

  • Become aware of foundational trauma and resilience research.


  • Discuss and self-assess personal resilience.

  • Explore trauma-informed practice as a resilience practice.

  • Review trauma-informed practice principles.

  • Respond to stress, adversity, and trauma with compassion.

  • Explore how to respond to stress and traumatic events personally and professionally.

  • Explore resilience and wellness skills in body, mind, social, and spiritual dimensions.

  • Adopt a strength-based perspective.

  • Use a post-traumatic growth lens to build and reclaim resilience.

  • This is a 6 week facilitated online program. This program is paced on a weekly basis and will take 3-4 hours a week. This flexible delivery decreases online fatigue and accommodates complex schedules.
  • Peer groups to support you throughout the program.
  • Facilitated live sessions and weekly drop-in office hours with instructor to support you.
  • Recordings will be available for the weekly live sessions.
  • Transformational learning processes where brain-based teaching strategies help you translate information into practice.
  • Private and safe online environment where social learning is an intentionally designed meaning making process. It allows for authentic interactions between content, peers and instructor.
  • Certificate of completion stating number of training hours for Continuing Education Units or CEU's.

  • "We really benefited from leveraging Ernestina's experience and education to provide an amazing experience for our clients. She is also a true joy to work with. Cannot recommend highly enough!!!"

    Dr. Tammy Hugie,
    MD, RRCP(C), Psychiatry Community Psychiatrist, Edmonton, AB

  • "Ernestina brought her expertise in a way that was engaging. Ernestina's enthusiasm and confidence were contagious and she was a pleasure to work with."

    Christine M. Carter,
    MD, FRCPC, Psychiatry

  • "I wanted to express my appreciation for you Ernestina for this vision... I think this is what the world needs now. I think you are very suited to lead this conversation."

    Terry Syvenky,
    Facilitator, Mediator and Coach Edmonton, AB

  • What happens if I miss a live session?

    All live sessions will be recorded so you can access them on your own schedule

  • Who can I contact if I'm having technical difficulties?

    The instructor is available to answer technical difficulties during business hours. The program includes a technology review at the beginning to help you work out any technical difficulties related to taking the program.

  • What can I do if I am struggling with a topic in the program?

    The program includes online office hours you can drop into. Email support is also available with a 24hr response time.

We want you to feel supported, respected, and understood.

If you or someone you know might be interested in exploring how to build your resilience through a trauma-informed perspective, here's how you can get started;