Training Consultant & Coach
I am a training consultant and empowerment coach with a history of working in partnership with child welfare and other youth serving professionals in the child welfare and non-profit sectors providing training, facilitation, curricula development and coaching, in addition to technical assistance with program development, evaluation, strategic planning, and staff development. I thoroughly enjoy consulting with organizations that empower youth, families and professionals to make positive change on the individual, community and/or systemic level.
Services
Available Offerings
We facilitate innovative and highly interactive trainings and workshops for service providers in the nonprofit and public sector that serve youth that are impacted by systems of care. Our goal is to empower participants to make meaningful change in their work.
We provide virtual or in person coaching sessions for individuals and small groups to gain deeper awareness, and build or expand their knowledge, skills, and abilities to ensure high quality service delivery and to maintain the integrity to their personal and organizational values.
We develop curricula on a variety of topics dealing with better serving youth and emerging adults. Specializing in youth involved curricula development we focus on models that empower youth and communities to utilize their lived experience and insights to inform curricula for professional and community education.
Skilled teacher and leader
“Darryn is a skilled teacher and leader who brings warmth, conviction and care to all of his training and work environments. I have been inspired by Darryn for more than a decade, having met him as a young man who was already powerful, gentle, and kind – Darryn has grown into a finessed trainer who is smart, thought provoking and influential.”
Jamie, Executive Directer – Foster Youth Museum
Excellent trainer and facilitator
“Darryn is an amazing trainer. He is engaging, knowledge, approachable and friendly.”
“Trainer is excellent – very relatable and has lived experience.”
“Great trainer! Very Engaging and passionate about the topic.”
Training Participants
Effectively engage people
“Darryn brings incredible warmth to any working environment and is a true pleasure to have in one’s company. He understands how to effectively engage people, whether in a convivial environment or in a difficult one. In addition to being thoughtful, he is organized, can identify, anticipate, and meet challenges as they arise, and asks for guidance when needed while otherwise he works well autonomously”
Anne, Project Coordinator – UCSF
Blog
Expand Your Knowledge
- 5 Youth who are Changing the WorldWhen you think of empowerment what comes to mind? I think of Dr. Martin Luther King, Former President Barak Obama and my old boss and mentor Jamie Lee Evans – all leaders, advocates and powerful agents of change in theContinue reading “5 Youth who are Changing the World”
- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The Gottman InstituteI was exposed to Dr. John Gottman’s research in a Social Psychology course I took last fall. This video is a great summary of the the negative communication styles that serve as predictors of divorce and ways to change them.Continue reading “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The Gottman Institute”
- Cass Model of Gay/Lesbian Identity DevelopmentComing out is as an LGBT person is unique experience for each individual. The circumstances and barriers to coming out are specific to each person. However, research by Dr. Vivienne Cass (1979) offers a six stage theoretical model to helpContinue reading “Cass Model of Gay/Lesbian Identity Development”
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