Workshops
Bring People Together Around Something That Matters
You may be looking for new ways to support the people you care about. You may be gathering a group to learn alongside one another. Or you may be helping a team or organization move through change.
Grace & Growth Network workshops give you space to pause, reflect, and discover practical ways to strengthen communication, deepen understanding, and grow through relationship.
A Workshop Can Begin With One Person
Grace & Growth Network workshops are hosted in partnership with libraries, schools, parishes, parent organizations, churches, nonprofits, and other community groups.
Some workshops are created for people who already share a relationship or responsibility. Others bring individuals together to learn alongside one another and carry what they discover back into their own lives and relationships.
A workshop may be offered privately to an existing group or opened to wider registration.
You Can Help Begin the Conversation
You may be the first person to recognize that one of these workshops could support your community.
You don’t need to be the person responsible for organizing it. You can share a workshop with a leader or make an introduction so we can begin the conversation together. The practical details can develop from there.
Two Ways Your Group Can Grow
Every workshop brings people together for a shared experience. What happens after the workshop depends on why they gathered.
Some participants carry what they discover back into their own lives and relationships. Other groups carry it forward into the relationships, responsibilities, and work they already share.
That difference shapes two types of Grace & Growth Network workshops: Side by Side and Shared Reality. The descriptions below can help you recognize which one fits the people you have in mind.
Side by Side
Participants grow individually, alongside others.
You may want to learn alongside people who understand the questions, responsibilities, or season of life you are navigating.
Parents, caregivers, educators, and community members can reflect together, learn from one another, and leave with practical ideas to carry into their own relationships and circumstances.
Shared Reality
The group grows in something it carries together.
Your group may already work, serve, lead, or make decisions together.
A workshop gives you space to notice what is happening within those shared relationships, develop common language, and practice more intentional ways of communicating and responding.
Explore the Workshops
Several Grace & Growth Network workshops grew out of resources you can explore on your own. The resource gives you a place to begin on your own. The workshop brings the ideas to life through reflection, conversation, and practical application alongside others.
You do not need to read the related resource before participating. You can also use it after the workshop to continue reflecting and applying what you discovered.
Prefer to begin on your own?
➤ Here, You Don’t Have to Explain
For parents and caregivers
When much of your energy goes into helping other people understand your child, it can be difficult to find places where you feel understood, too.
This workshop gives parents and caregivers space to reflect, connect, and discover practical ways to build more supportive relationships around themselves and their families.
Related resource: When You Feel Like You Always Have to Explain
➤ Known and Loved
For parents and caregivers
Every child experiences the world in their own way. Sometimes the qualities that make a child unique can be missed when attention turns too quickly toward behavior, expectations, or what needs to change.
This workshop helps parents slow down, notice more fully, and find practical language that can help others know and appreciate their child, too.
Related resource: Known and Loved
➤ Little Moments Matter
For parents and caregivers
Connection is not built only through big conversations or carefully planned experiences. It also grows quietly through the ordinary moments that make up everyday life.
This workshop helps parents notice those moments, understand how they shape family relationships, and discover simple ways to create more connection in the life they are already living.
Related resource: Little Moments Matter
➤ Reconnecting After Tough Moments
For parents and caregivers of children entering or navigating puberty
When emotions rise, even a small interaction can become a tough moment. Afterward, you may find yourself replaying what happened and wondering how to reconnect.
This workshop helps you recognize what is happening within you, practice a simple framework for moving from reaction toward reconnection, and approach relationship repair with greater confidence.
Related resource: A Reset Guide for Tough Moments
➤ Parent’s Puberty Compass™
For parents and caregivers of children entering or navigating puberty
Puberty brings physical, emotional, and relational changes—and parents are changing alongside their children.
This workshop introduces four compass points that help you understand your own responses, stay grounded when circumstances change, and navigate these years with greater clarity and confidence.
Related resource: The Parent’s Puberty Compass™: A Workbook for Parents Who Want to Stay Close When Everything’s Changing
See a Workshop That Could Support Your Community?
You may already have a school, library, parish, parent organization, or other community group in mind. You can share the workshop with a leader or connect us so we can explore the possibility together.
Workshops for Organizations
Your organization may be focused on a particular opportunity for growth, or navigating several changes at the same time.
New expectations, shifting roles, leadership transitions, expanding programs, and competing priorities can all affect the way people communicate and work together. Even when people care deeply about the mission, relational friction can make it more difficult to move forward together.
An organizational workshop creates focused space for the people who share that work to pause, notice what is happening, and practice more intentional ways of communicating and responding.
What an Organizational Workshop Can Support
Navigating change and transition
Strengthening communication across roles or teams
Clarifying expectations and shared responsibilities
Recognizing relational patterns that create friction
Supporting leaders through growth and change
Examining how systems strengthen or strain relationships
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Organizational workshops are Shared Reality experiences. Participants carry what they discover back into relationships, responsibilities, and work they already share.
➤ Building Stronger Communication Between Home and School
For schools, parent organizations, faculty, and school leaders
Parents and educators often want the same thing: to support the child. But different perspectives, pressures, and responsibilities can make communication difficult.
This workshop helps parents and educators better understand one another, practice communication strategies that reduce misunderstanding, and discover practical ways to work together in support of children.
➤ Leading Through Relationships
For school leaders, leadership teams, and aspiring leaders
Leadership happens through everyday conversations, decisions, and relationships. Those interactions quietly shape how people experience communication, collaboration, and culture.
This workshop helps leaders notice the relationships that influence their organization and practice more intentional ways of leading through presence, clarity, and relationship-building.
➤ Strengthening the Relationships That Shape Your Organization
For leadership teams, schools, churches, nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations
Relational friction can influence every part of an organization’s work. It can affect communication, collaboration, decision-making, and the way people experience the organization’s culture.
This workshop helps participants recognize patterns of relational friction, consider how organizational systems support or strain relationships, and identify practical ways to create an environment that supports both people and the work they share.
You See an Opportunity for Your Team to Grow
You know your team and the work you share. You may have noticed a strength that could be developed, a relationship that could be supported, or an opportunity for the team to work together with greater clarity and intention.
You do not need to know which workshop would be the right fit. During our conversation, we’ll talk about what you have noticed, what you hope to support, and what kind of experience would serve your team well.
Workshops and Consulting:
Two Distinct Forms of Engagement
Both workshops and consulting can support stronger communication, intentional relationships, and more effective ways of working together. The distinction lies in the scope, timeframe, and way the work is structured.
A Workshop
A workshop is a focused, time-bound experience built around a particular topic, question, or shared goal.
It gives participants space to learn, reflect, develop common language, and practice ideas they can begin applying together.
A workshop may be a good fit when your organization wants to:
Explore a specific topic or shared area of focus
Create a meaningful learning experience
Develop common language
Begin an important conversation
Leave with practical ideas and next steps
Consulting
Consulting offers a broader form of engagement when the work extends across multiple areas or unfolds over time.
The work develops through conversation and may include attention to leadership, communication, relationships, organizational patterns, systems, and overlapping changes.
Consulting may be a good fit when your organization wants to:
Understand a situation more fully
Navigate several connected priorities or changes
Examine patterns affecting people and the work they share
Support leaders through an ongoing process
Develop approaches shaped around the organization’s particular context
One is not a required step toward the other. Some organizations choose a focused workshop. Others engage in consulting. During our initial conversation, we can explore which kind of support best fits what you have noticed and what you hope to strengthen.
Workshop Formats and Customization
A workshop should fit the people, purpose, and setting in which it will be offered.
Each engagement is shaped in conversation with the host, with attention to the audience, the time available, the goals for the experience, and the level of reflection, discussion, and application that would be most valuable.
60-Minute Workshop
A focused introduction to the workshop topic, with time for reflection and practical application.
This format works well for parent nights, faculty meetings, conference sessions, and community events.
Half-Day Workshop
Additional time allows participants to explore the topic more fully, engage in guided discussion, and apply the ideas to their own relationships or shared work.
Full-Day Workshop
An extended experience with greater space for reflection, conversation, practice, and application.
This format can support groups and organizations seeking sustained attention to communication, relationships, leadership, or culture.
Workshop Series
A series allows participants to return to the work over time.
Multiple sessions create opportunities to develop shared language, practice new approaches, reflect on what participants are noticing, and continue building on what they have learned together.
Thoughtfully Adapted for Your Setting
An existing workshop can serve as the starting point. The emphasis, examples, activities, and level of interaction can then be adapted to reflect the audience, setting, and purpose of the engagement.
Customization preserves the foundation of the workshop while making the experience relevant to the people in the room.
From the First Conversation to Workshop Day
Hosting a workshop begins with a conversation—not a completed plan.
You may already know which workshop interests you, or you may simply have a group in mind and an idea of what you would like the experience to support. We can begin there.
1. Begin the Conversation
We’ll talk about the people you are gathering, the setting, what you have noticed, and what you hope the workshop will make possible.
2. Shape the Engagement
Together, we’ll identify the workshop, format, and level of customization that fit the purpose of the gathering.
We’ll also consider whether participants will be learning Side by Side or strengthening something they hold within a Shared Reality.
3. Confirm the Details
You’ll receive a clear proposal outlining the scope, format, fee, and practical details of the engagement.
Once the workshop is confirmed, we’ll coordinate the date, location, audience, and registration approach.
4. Invite Participants
A workshop may be offered privately to an existing group or opened to wider registration.
When registration is needed, Grace & Growth Network creates an event-specific page for the workshop. The host can then share the registration link with the intended participants or the wider community.
5. Gather for the Workshop
On workshop day, Cathie guides participants through reflection, conversation, and practical application shaped around the purpose of the gathering.
When appropriate, related resources can help participants continue reflecting and applying what they discovered after the workshop.
Start With the People You Have in Mind
You may be thinking about parents who could learn alongside one another, a team ready to grow in something they share, or a community you would like to bring together.
Begin with the people you have in mind, what you have noticed, and what you hope the experience will support. From there, we can explore the workshop, format, and approach that fit your setting.
Let’s begin the conversation.
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