Leadership and Workplace Dynamics
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About the event
Through a mix of interactive activities and practical discussion, participants will explore and define respect, boundaries, and responsibilities in their work environment. The session will also introduce key concepts related to stress responses, workplace dynamics, and how these show up in day to day interactions. Continuing education units (CEUs) will be provided at no cost.
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Workplace dynamics influence how individuals communicate, make decisions, and collaborate — often in ways that are shaped by stress, roles, and organizational culture. This session offers nonprofit leaders and staff a space to explore how these dynamics show up in day-to-day interactions and how they can be navigated more intentionally.
Through interactive activities and guided discussion, participants will reflect on respect, boundaries, and responsibilities in their work environments. The session will also introduce key concepts related to stress responses, workplace dynamics, and how these show up in day to day interactions.
Participants will:
- Communicate their professional needs, boundaries, and social location.
- Identify nervous system responses to a perceived threat.
- Practice a range of somatic techniques that increase orientation to time and place, grounded presence, and internal space to make choices.
- Use creative techniques to explore personal and interpersonal experiences.
This session is designed for nonprofit leaders, staff, and board members seeking practical tools to strengthen communication, build healthier workplace dynamics, and support more effective collaboration.
About the Learning Hub
This event is presented through the Santa Fe Community Foundation’s Learning Hub and is part of the On the Ground program.
The Santa Fe Community Foundation proudly offers our Learning Hub as an educational space for nonprofit board, executive directors, staff members, and donors. Each year, the Hub offers dozens of events, workshops, and learning circles that promote leadership, skill building, and peer-supported growth.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Magdalena Karlick
Magdalena Karlick
Magdalena V.Karlick, M.A., Phd-c, SEP, ATR-BC, LPCC (she/her) is an art therapsit, somatic experiencing practitioner, and educator. Magdalena is the owner of Our Imaginal World, an organization that provides individual and group therapy, arts and somatic based supervision, post graduate education, community health consultation for agencies, as well as commissioned art installations. Magdalena has received training in Somatic Experiencing, Sandplay, & Psychodrama, and weaves these understandings of group, symbol, and body into her classrooms, work with clients, and supervisees. She is passionate about social justice, responsibility in leadership, and using the creative process tocommunicate stories and integrate understanding. She has been involved in multiple cross-cultural global art exchanges and plans to continue to collaborate globally. ourimaginalworld.com
Meet the people leading the conversation
Meet the people leading the conversation
Magdalena Karlick
Magdalena Karlick
Magdalena V.Karlick, M.A., Phd-c, SEP, ATR-BC, LPCC (she/her) is an art therapsit, somatic experiencing practitioner, and educator. Magdalena is the owner of Our Imaginal World, an organization that provides individual and group therapy, arts and somatic based supervision, post graduate education, community health consultation for agencies, as well as commissioned art installations. Magdalena has received training in Somatic Experiencing, Sandplay, & Psychodrama, and weaves these understandings of group, symbol, and body into her classrooms, work with clients, and supervisees. She is passionate about social justice, responsibility in leadership, and using the creative process tocommunicate stories and integrate understanding. She has been involved in multiple cross-cultural global art exchanges and plans to continue to collaborate globally. ourimaginalworld.com
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