Speaking Engagements
Keynotes
“A keynote that feels less like a presentation—and more like being invited into a story.”
Professional Dangerousness isn’t your typical topic. So why should the keynote be?
Jess and Brë take audiences on a story-driven journey—a tale of two social workers— navigating the complexities, contradictions, and everyday realities of human services work. Along the way, they encounter moments of connection, discomfort, and discovery—and begin to recognize the ways good intentions can sometimes lead us somewhere unexpected.
Through humor, honest storytelling, and real moments drawn from their own professional experiences, audiences get to see Professional Dangerousness unfold from the outside—creating space for curiosity, wonder, and recognition.
Because sometimes the best way to understand something is to see yourself in the story.
Participants leave with a new lens for understanding their practice, their impact, and the space between who they intend to be and how they’re actually experienced—with less shame, more curiosity, and a genuine sense of possibility.
Want to go deeper? Add a Conference Session!
A keynote opens the door. A conference session walks people through it.
For conferences and events looking to offer participants a more interactive experience, we offer breakout and conference sessions that complement the keynote — creating space for guided reflection, small group exploration, and the kind of conversation that a keynote alone can't hold.
If you're interested, ask us about our Keynote + Conference Session package pricing.
Trainings, Workshops & Retreats
Professional Dangerousness can be a lot to take in. There are layers to it that rarely have simple explanations or easy answers. Understanding them takes time, intention, and a willingness to slow down and tend to what we find.
Our training experiences create just that- space to slow down, get curious, and look at the realities of our work with honesty, compassion, and a little humor along the way. Through storytelling, real-world examples, reflection, and conversation, we help participants make sense of a topic that can be difficult to name—creating room for questions, connections, and deeper exploration along the way.
Each Training Experience Includes:
Co-facilitation
Minimum 3-hour engagement
In-person or virtual delivery
Customization to your audience, role level, and organizational context
Practice-based examples, real-world application, and research-informed insights
Guided individual reflection and small + large group-based discussions
Training investments begin at $1,765, with pricing tailored to the duration, format, and needs of your organization. Travel costs apply for in-person engagements.
Choose Your Depth
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This introductory experience creates an accessible, grounded space to begin exploring the topic of Professional Dangerousness (PD)—what it is, how it shows up, and why it matters. Through storytelling, real-world examples, guided reflection, and conversation, participants build a shared understanding of PD and begin to see the patterns that can quietly shape professional practice.
Three hours may seem like a lot for an introduction, but PD is layered—and understanding those layers takes time. This experience intentionally gives participants room to slow down, get curious, and develop a foundation for deeper exploration.
Best for: organizational kickoffs, teams beginning to explore PD, conferences, and introductory professional development.
Ready to Keep Going?
Checkout our companion session for further exploration in what we can do about it!
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Follow-up to the Introductory PD Training
Once we can see Professional Dangerousness, the next question is: What do we do with it?
Designed as a companion to the Introductory PD Training, this experience builds on the shared language and understanding established in the first session and moves into the question of response. Using the Self+ framework participants explore practical, human-centered ways to interrupt PD and strengthen their day-to-day practice.
This experience creates space to move beyond recognizing the patterns and begin considering what it looks like to respond differently—with intention, compassion, and care.
Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory PD Training is required. This session is designed to build directly from the concepts and shared understanding established in the introductory experience.
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Includes a lunch break to pause, recharge, and create a natural break between the morning and afternoon learning
This full-day experience brings the whole conversation together: What is PD? Why does it show up? And what can we begin to do about it?
The day offers both a grounded introduction to Professional Dangerousness and an opportunity to begin exploring what a more intentional response can look like. Rather than trying to cover everything in one day, we make room to slow down, make sense of the work, and introduce the Self+ Framework as a lens for moving from awareness toward response.
The morning: See it. Understand it.
The morning invites participants to slow down and look honestly at the work. Participants build a shared understanding of what PD is, how it emerges, and why it can happen—even when people care deeply about the work they're doing.
Together, we explore how these patterns may surface in individual practice while also beginning to consider the team, organizational, and systemic conditions that can shape them.
The afternoon: Begin exploring what we can do about it.
The afternoon introduces the Self+ Framework as an anchor for considering how we might respond to PD with greater intention.
Self+Awareness receives the deeper attention, while participants are introduced to the other elements of the framework and how they can support the work. Through reflection, conversation, and facilitated exploration, participants begin connecting the framework to their own practice and considering what meaningful change might look like in the day-to-day.
The day closes by bringing the learning together and creating space to consider what participants want to carry forward into their work.
Best for: organizations and teams looking for a deeper introduction to PD, shared language and understanding, and a first opportunity to explore moving from recognition toward response.
Want to Keep Going?
For those who want to spend more time with the Self+ framework and the inner work it invites, check out our Self+ Retreats!
Additional Training
Topics & Explorations
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Seeing Ourselves So We Can Better See Them
Leadership asks us to see a lot—to notice what is happening with our teams, our supervisees, and the people we serve. But what we see is also shaped by what we bring with us.
This experience invites leaders and supervisors to slow down and examine how our own blind spots, biases, assumptions, and self-protective patterns can shape what we notice, what we miss, and how we respond. Together, we explore the ways our own experiences and responses can influence supervision, decision-making, and the culture we create around us.
The goal isn't to become perfect—we won't. It's to become more aware of the lens we're looking through, so we can create teams where people have room to be honest, curious, and willing to examine the work together. In that kind of environment, Professional Dangerousness can be named and explored without turning it into blame—and we have a better chance of interrupting it when it shows up.
Want to expand your PD lens?
Explore our other training experiences, where Professional Dangerousness is woven into conversations about leadership, emotional intelligence, and the everyday realities of professional practice. Each experience offers a different way to explore the work while keeping a PD perspective at the center.
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Understanding what’s happening within us so we can better navigate what happens around us.
Emotions are already in the room, whether we name them or not.
Explore emotional intelligence in a practical, reflective way. We invite participants to notice what they're experiencing, understand how emotions show up in the body, and consider how their internal experiences shape the way they communicate, lead, and connect with others. Using tools such as the Mood Meter and body-based awareness practices, participants have opportunities to build greater awareness of themselves while considering how that awareness can influence the way they show up for others.
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Caring for Ourselves so we can Better Care for Others
Not every kind of professional development needs to be about doing more.
Sometimes, we need space to pause.
The Self+ Retreat is an in-person experience centered on the inner landscape of the professional. Grounded in the Self+ Framework—the retreat invites participants to slow down, reconnect with themselves, and tend to the parts of professional life that can be difficult to make room for in the middle of the work.
This isn't a PD training. There are no problems to solve and no professional shortcomings to correct. Instead, the retreat creates intentional space for reflection, wellbeing, connection, and care—because how we tend to ourselves shapes how we are able to show up for others.
Self+ is introduced in our full-day PD experience, but the retreat offers something different: time to actually sit with it. Participants have the space to explore the framework more deeply, particularly the practices of awareness, reflection, compassion, care, and growth, without needing to rush toward the next thing.
In-person Only Offering
The Self+ Retreat can be offered as an organizational experience or as part of a broader professional development journey. If your team has completed our Full-Day PD Training, the retreat can provide a natural next space to continue exploring the Self+ framework beyond the initial introduction.
Public Workshops & Retreats
In addition to organizational engagements, The PD Collective hosts publicly ticketed workshops and retreats — intimate, small-group experiences open to individual professionals and teams looking to join a shared learning space.
Our public offerings are intentionally kept small to preserve the depth and relational quality of the experience. Lunch and refreshments are included at in-person events. CEUs available.