Strengthening Belonging, Responsiveness, and Healing-Centered Practices: A 3-Part Webinar Series: July 2026

Sessions 1 and 2 build a foundational and applied understanding of how assumptions and mental shortcuts develop, how they show up in workplace interactions, and how teams can recognize and interrupt their influence on communication, collaboration, and decision-making. Session 3 focuses on healing-centered practices, grounding participants in approaches that promote wellness, transparency, and collective care during times of change and challenge.

Each 90-minute session is facilitated by Dr. Ashley Stewart and Dwayne Watkins, MPH of C4 Innovations, nationally recognized leaders in belonging-centered practice and organizational development. At the end of each webinar, participants will be invited to continue the conversation through individualized technical assistance or organizational consultation tailored to their needs.

Session 1: Understanding Assumptions — Foundations for Belonging-Centered Practice (Part 1)

Description: All people carry assumptions shaped by their experiences, upbringing, environment, and the messages they receive throughout their lives. This session introduces participants to how these mental shortcuts form, the different ways they can appear, and how they naturally show up in how we see, interpret, and interact with others.

Through reflection, examples, and discussion, participants will build shared language to talk about these dynamics in a grounded and non-judgmental way. The session focuses on increasing awareness of how our individual experiences shape perception and how ingrained patterns can influence workplace culture, decision-making, and the people we serve. This foundation prepares participants for applying these concepts in Part 2.

Session 2: Interrupting Assumptions — Strengthening Workplace Culture & Decision-Making (Part 2)

Description: Building on the foundation from Part 1, this session focuses on how ingrained patterns influence workplace interactions, communication, and collaboration. Participants will explore how unexamined assumptions can shape culture, affect relationships, and impact decision-making.

Through applied examples and practice, participants will learn strategies to recognize, pause, and reduce the influence of these patterns in real time. The session emphasizes accountability, psychological safety, and practical tools that help teams create responsive and supportive work environments.

Session 3: Prioritizing Wellness in Challenging Times

Description: Organizations and service providers continue to navigate increased demand, workforce pressures, and evolving community needs. This session explores resilience through a practical, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive lens, emphasizing wellness, transparency, alignment, and collective care.

Participants will reflect on what it means to sustain themselves and their teams during periods of uncertainty and change. Using tools that support communication, regulation, and connection, participants will explore how to cultivate environments that promote stability, adaptability, and long-term wellbeing.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how assumptions, bias, and mental shortcuts develop and influence workplace interactions and decision-making.
• Recognize how unexamined patterns can impact communication, collaboration, workplace culture, and service delivery.
• Develop practical strategies to interrupt bias and strengthen belonging-centered and responsive practices.
• Explore trauma-informed and culturally responsive approaches that support resilience, wellness, and collective care.
• Identify tools and practices that promote psychological safety, accountability, adaptability, and long-term organizational well-being.

Training Facts:

• Dates: on Tuesdays, July 7, July 14, and July 21, 2026
• Time: 12:30 - 2:00 PM ET
• Location: Online Zoom meeting room 
• Subject: Belonging, Responsiveness, Healing-Centered Practices
• Practice level: Beginner, Intermediate 
• CE credit: 
  • ASWB: 4.5 hours
  • NAADAC: 4.5 hours
  • NBCC: 4.5 hours
• Course type: Live interactive webinar 
  • 90 minute live webcasts
  • Participants will participate in weekly live webinars with the instructors. They will also have access to weekly readings, videos, and other actives on the learning page. They will be quizzed on the knowledge they learn from the live webcasts and learning activities every week to ensure understanding. 
• Covered topics:  Belonging, Responsiveness, Healing-Centered Practices
• Date created: 2026

Meet the Faculty: 

Who Should Take This Course:

Staff at all levels of health and human service agencies, behavioral health organizations, and recovery-centered organizations.

System Technology Requirements: 

Please ensure your viewing device complies with the following recommendations:

• Must be on a device that allows you to view MP4 files
• Ensure you have a strong enough internet speed to stream
• Ensure you don't have firewalls blocking the video (some firewalls block some HTTP addresses)

We will be using Zoom for the viewing of our live sessions. In order to have the best experience for Zoom, please download the application here: https://zoom.us. 

Refund and Cancellation policy:

Access is automatically provided to this course once purchased. Therefore, no cancellation will be allowed. For special circumstances before the live sessions begin, C4 may cancel your registration manually.

Training Certificates:

Participants may earn a Certificate of Course Completion and CEs by:

1. Attending all three, live webcasts (or watching the entire recording of each live session)
2. Completing all required learning activities
3. Scoring 80% or higher on each weekly quiz
4. Completing the course evaluation form and the certificate request form

4.5 hours of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of this course through ASWB, NAADAC, and NBCC. Certificates will be emailed directly to participants roughly two weeks after the completion of the final webcast.

Accommodations: 

If you need accommodations, please contact Project Coordinator, Isabel-Kai Fisher at training@c4innovates.com.

Grievances: 

If you would like to report a complaint, please contact Associate Director, Rachel Ehly at rehly@c4innovates.com. 

In order to fully complete this course and receive a continuing education certificate from one of the following boards, you must pass each of the five weekly quizzes with an 80% or higher (you will have unlimited retests) along with the final evaluation. The required posttest questions will be at the end of each week's section and the required evaluation will be provided at the completion of the course. Upon successful completion of this course, you can request a certificate using the certificate request form posted with the evaluation and on your learning page. C4 Innovations will then review your course completion and email you a certificate within 2-3 weeks in PDF format. If you are social worker, you will need to write in your license number in the certificate request form for us to be able to include it in your certificate. 

C4 Innovations, Provider #1457, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. C4 Innovations maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 10/17/2023-10/17/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 4.5 continuing education credits.  

C4 Innovations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6576. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. C4 Innovations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

This course has been approved by C4 Innovations, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #100990, C4 Innovations is responsible for all aspects of their programming.