Language of Caring
Science of Change
Training in caring conversation that promotes the self-change process
and the science of change to make behavior change stick
Helping you help others help themselves
At no time in recent history, has the need been more great for people to help each other.
IWE’s training helps people shift mindset and change behavior in ways that work to deliver the results they want and fit their unique needs, values, interests, and preferences.
Welcome from David Mee-Lee, MD
Co-founder, IWE
Invitation from Dr. Deborah Teplow
Co-founder, IWE
Courses for Professionals, Community Activists, and Peers
How many times have you struggled to get people you care about or work with to make the changes they say they want or you think they should make?
Learn the language of caring conversation and science of behavior change to engage people in their own self-change process.
Gain the practical skills you need to help others help themselves live longer, healthier, happier lives.
Staff Training for Agencies and Organizations
Today’s “new normal” is anything but “normal.”
Never before have agencies and organizations been called on to do so much more with so much less at a time when the need was so great.
IWE provides the staff training you need to take the effectiveness and efficiency of your agency or organization to the next level.
Our approach is person-centered, strength-based, solution-focused, and outcomes-driven based on a biopsychosocial-spiritual model.
“taught me how to make change stick—for me,
my staff, and our clients”
“When I first took the course, I was transitioning from a case manager to a case manager supervisor, so this training really helped me with that transition.
It taught me skills on how to communicate with coworkers. It helped me a lot with change. The self-change process I learned was awesome because it helped me make a lot of decisions. And, it taught me about how to change and how to make the change stick--for me, my staff, and our clients.”
Program Coordinator
Healthy Start, Georgia
“ . . . surpassed some of their goals”
"The year was much better than in the past. I worked with about 47 women and 45 of them had moved positively towards their goals or even surpassed some of their goals."
Health Educator
Toledo-Lucas County Health Department
“ . . . this training will change your life”
If you work in public health or social services, this training will change your life. It will help enhance your life significantly--your career, family, and friends.
You will build better communication skills so you can help clients understand the need to change. You will get all kinds of education and information that you can actually use.
There is nothing in this training that can't be used in every facet of your life. It’s just a great training!”
Case Manager
Healthy Start, New York
“ . . . much better outcomes”
“When I would go to see clients at health centers or their homes, I would apply the techniques I learned and see much better outcomes.”
Breastfeeding Counselor/Community Outreach
Philadelphia Department of Public Health
Our SPRINGS Approach
Solution-focused: Shift attention from problems and deficits to the strengths, skills, and resources that people already possess, and then amplify and help them grow.
Person-centered: Find what works for each person to deliver the results they want using methods that fit with their unique values, needs, interests, and preferences.
Relationship-based: Provide a safe space for deep and meaningful connections that encourage and support shared learning and transformation.
Impact and outcomes-driven: Experiential learning that is monitored and tracked so that the achievement of proximal goals leads to the desired distal outcomes.
Novelty and curiosity-building: Use novelty to stimulate curiosity--the basis for the behavioral and psychological flexibility and complex decision-making that ultimately boosts the likelihood of success.
Growth-oriented: Develop the mindset that supports a sense of autonomy, purpose, and mastery that helps each individual make a life worth living.
Science-based: Learning activities based on the most current and cutting-edge discoveries from psychology, cognitive- and neuro-science, behavioral economics, behavior design, and human performance.
A Sample of Organizations Whose Staff We've Trained
Here's what people say about IWE's training:
“What I realized that at the end of the course, not only did I feel more capable of helping others, but I felt more capable of helping myself.”
"I received great information to help move clients through the stages of change and remain solution-focused instead of focusing on all their problems."
“This course opened up a door to my life that I never imagined was there.”
“There were so many different formats to learn from. The course broke everything down into a very simple, easy format that helped me with my interactions with clients. It gives you very specific examples and tools to practice. And you get a lot of great pointers, especially in the practice sessions.”
“One thing of the biggest things about this course is no matter what, your perspective will change. And if your perspective changes, then in the end, ultimately your behavior will change. And if your behavior changes, your environment, your experiences, everything, will also change for a better outcome.”
“This program will change your life. It will help enhance your life significantly, and help you with your career, your family, with your friends. You will get all kinds of education and information that you can actually use. There is nothing in this training that can't be used in every facet of your life. It’s just a great training!”
"The program gave me a new perspective and ideas to engage clients without putting up barriers."
"After each session, I not only shared the knowledge with my colleagues, but also with my clients, peers, personal friends, family members, and my therapist."
“Deborah is an awesome teacher. She will pull things out of you that you never thought you had in you. She will help you gain the skills and wording that you need to work well with other people, and she will work with you until you get it. I love Deborah. She did a wonderful job training us!”
“It was really interesting to see how my own peers, when we were going through the journal, would keep talking about it. At the end of a journaling session, they would ‘when are we meeting again?’ ‘When are we going through the next section in our journal?’”
“The program has helped me understand how to manage change for myself and my team. It gave me a lot of tools to use in the process of moving up into leadership positions. I can understand people better, which helps me be a better leader.”
“It’s a very reasonable approach in terms of time. it’s very reasonable in terms of cost. And the return on investment is certainly very high. Finally, you really develop some great colleague connections that I still have today even though I finished the first two courses already -- so I’d say, take a leap!”