Higher Ed Staff & Faculty Trainings & Retreats
​Cultivate Wellbeing & Enhance Effectiveness

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Empower Yourself and Your Staff
Sabrina Woods Coaching & Consulting offers a variety of engaging workshops and retreats designed to address the unique needs of higher education faculty, staff, researchers, and postdocs. The focus is on fostering resilience, wellbeing, and effectiveness in your work environment, so you can thrive both personally and professionally.

Strengthen Your Personal Foundation
  • Building Resilience to Handle Everyday Stress (1-1.5 hours):
    Learn practical tools from positive psychology and mindfulness to combat stress and enhance productivity
  • Reconnect & Renew Your Satisfaction with Work (1-1.5 hours):
    Rediscover your passion and purpose through mindfulness exercises and self-reflection
  • Understanding the Neuroscience of Stress (1-1.5 hours):
    Learn how stress impacts the brain and nervous systems plus ways to address stress, increase resilience and productivity
  • Reconnecting to Your Own Career Journey + Connecting with Your Teammates (2-3 hours):
    Combine individual reflection with team-building activities to reignite passion and improve communication

Deepen Your Impact on Students
  • Mindfulness, Positive Psychology & Neuroscience to Help Yourself & Your Students (2.5-3 hours):
    Explore evidence-based strategies to manage stress and foster resilience in yourself and your students.
  • The Incubator Lab for Higher Ed Professionals: Get Inspired & Turn Ideas into Action (2.5-3 hours):
    Spark creativity, refine project ideas, and gain valuable feedback from colleagues in a supportive environment

Strengthen Team Dynamics
  • ​Using the Myers Briggs to Enhance Team & Individual Effectiveness at Work (2.5-3 hours):
    Leverage the MBTI personality assessment to improve communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution within your team
With a science-backed approach to well-being and growth at work, Sabrina Woods brings 20+ years’ experience in Higher Ed and a Master’s in Holistic Counseling to Higher Education Institutions and Teaching Hospitals via workshops, trainings and staff retreats.  Her “finding-balance” approach is steeped in neuroscience and wellness research.

Past Higher Education & Teaching Hospital Clients


Thousands of Participants Benefitting from Energetic Workshops, Trainings, Keynotes 
Sabrina Woods’ prior trainings, workshops, and retreats at premier colleges, universities, and research and teaching hospitals include:
HIGHER EDUCATION FACULTY / STAFF WORKSHOPS & TRAININGS
  • ​Understanding the Neuroscience of Stress to Enhance Productivity, College of the Holy Cross, faculty and staff
  • ​Tapping Mindfulness, Positive Psychology & More to Foster Resilience & Self Care for You and Your Students, Johnson & Wales, faculty and staff 
  • Reconnecting to Your Career Journey, Northeastern University
  • ​Leveraging LinkedIn, Princeton University, staff in Office of Finance & Treasury; University of Liverpool, faculty and research staff; Florida International University, faculty and staff​​
  • Clearing out “Life Clutter” - Spring Cleaning for the Self, Syracuse University faculty and staff​
ALUMINI WORKSHOPS
​& WEBINARS
  • Building Resilience to Manage Stress, CalTech, University of Rhode Island, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
  •  Reconnect & Renew Your Satisfaction with Work, College of the Holy Cross
  • Building the Foundations for Career Advancement, Northeastern University, College of the Holy Cross
  • LinkedIn for Career Building, Networking & Job Search, Georgetown, MIT, Harvard Extension School, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Brooklyn College
  • Understanding the Neuroscience of Stress, College of the Holy Cross
POSTDOCTROAL WORKSHOPS
& WEBINARS
  • Career & Well-being 4-part Workshop Series, Boston Children's Hospital
  • Social Intelligence for Scientists, Northwestern, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Catalyst
  • Reconnect and Renew Your Satisfactions with Work, Boston University
  • Networking Tips, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital
  •  LinkedIn for Networking, Career Building & Job Search, University of Liverpool, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Rice University
  • Salary Negotiation for Industry, Columbia University​​
Experienced & Certified Trainer
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​Sabrina Woods is a holistic career coach and international trainer with extensive experience in higher education. She has a Master’s in Holistic Counseling and is certified in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Sabrina is passionate about empowering individuals and teams to thrive. See LinkedIn for more details.

Boost Staff & Faculty Morale--Contact Sabrina Today

We can customize workshops and retreats to fit your specific needs and time constraints.
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Let's create a thriving learning environment for faculty, staff and students

“Happy faculty, staff and researchers are more collaborative and productive. It’s incredible to see how well integrating neuroscience and wellness impacts work-life balance and overall career and life satisfaction.” – Career Wellness Trainer Sabrina Woods

Engaging, Interactive Facilitator for
​Higher Education & Teaching Hospital Staff

Sabrina facilitates highly sought-after workshops, retreats and train-the-trainer sessions on a range of topics relevant to work / career enhancement and well-being. Sessions are brought to life with interactive exercises, balanced with a few moments of mindful reflection, and wrapped up with goal setting for next steps.

In her staff trainings, Sabrina helps people connect more deeply to themselves and to each other creating a stronger sense of team and belonging. The aim is for teams to feel happier, more engaged and with an increased sense that they matter.
Working at the Intersection of Careers, Neuroscience & Well-being 
Workshop and training attendees as well as individual clients value Sabrina’s easy-to-implement tactics, strategies and techniques to enhance wellness at work:

  • Renew work satisfaction and growth
  • Reduce stress and employee burnout
  • Increase employee engagement 
  • Boost productivity and resilience for retention
Testimonials

Ignite creative ideas & gain a fresh perspective
“The Incubator Lab was a fantastic opportunity to share and ignite creative ideas. It was helpful to have time, space and a supportive environment to work on our projects, share thoughts/ideas with others and gain a fresh perspective. This was my second workshop with Sabrina, I love her facilitation style and ability to create a comfortable space and meaningful workshop.”
            ~Nicole Collins, Director of Career Services, Unity College
Session resulted in renewed awareness of the team’s strengths
"The workshop that Sabrina Woods hosted helped the team increase trust and improve communication. Her fun and relaxing reflection exercises led to self-discovery and a renewed awareness of the team’s strengths.” 

          ~ Laura Marchant, Senior Associate Director, Suffolk University
Mindful, Positive & Encouraged
​"Sabrina's outstanding facilitation at the Harvard Ed Portal's interactive Networking Tips webinar left me with three one-word takeaways: Mindful, Positive, and Encouraged!"
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          ~Anne Creamer, Recruiting & Events Coordinator, Harvard University
A ‘brilliantly designed’ retreat session ​
​"At one of Sabrina's Retreats, I saw her as ​a calm, authentic, fully present, beautiful soul who can bring people together, acknowledge the insights, while facilitating a brilliantly designed session. So much thought and so much heart went into it. This session was food for my soul.”  
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          ~Liane Hambly, International Educator of Career Professionals & Former Faculty at Coventry University (UK)
Deep understanding of your team goals
“Engaging teams, whether in online or in-person sessions, and helping them re-engage with their roles is incredibly rewarding work.” – Career Wellness Trainer Sabrina Woods
Sabrina Woods Coaching & Consulting, Providence, RI ​
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