Practical Tools for Stronger Communication, Leadership, Collaboration, and Workplace Relationships
Workplaces work better when people feel respected, included, capable, and able to contribute.
Yet even strong teams can struggle with communication, accountability, conflict, difficult conversations, unclear expectations, and the everyday challenges of working with different personalities and perspectives.
Empowering People in the Workplace, or EPW, is an interactive certification training designed to help leaders and professionals strengthen relationships, encourage accountability, communicate more effectively, and create workplaces where people can contribute and grow.
This is not a training where you sit and listen to presentations for hours. EPW is experiential. We learn by participating, practicing, reflecting, asking questions, and connecting the tools to situations we actually face at work.
Live Online Certification Training
November 30 and December 2, 4, 7, 9, and 11, 2026
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday | 6 Sessions
Six live online sessions via Zoom
18 total training hours
United States Pacific: 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM Pacific Time
United States Eastern: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Eastern Time
United Kingdom: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM GMT
Central Europe, including Paris: 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM CET
India: 8:30 PM to 11:30 PM IST
Early Registration: $599 through October 29, 2026
Regular Registration: $650 beginning October 30, 2026
Who Is This Training For?
EPW is designed for people who work with, lead, develop, or support others, including:
• Managers and supervisors
• HR and people development professionals
• Organizational and team leaders
• School and nonprofit leaders
• Coaches and consultants
• Business owners and entrepreneurs
• Professionals responsible for workplace culture and employee development
• Positive Discipline educators and trainers interested in bringing these principles into workplace settings
You do not need previous Positive Discipline experience to participate.
What Will We Explore?
Throughout the six live sessions, we will explore practical ways to:
• Build trust, belonging, and psychological safety
• Communicate clearly while maintaining dignity and respect
• Encourage accountability without relying on blame or punishment
• Ask curiosity questions instead of immediately providing answers
• Approach mistakes as opportunities for learning
• Strengthen listening and collaborative problem solving
• Work through disagreement and difficult conversations
• Create environments where people feel capable and able to contribute
These tools are designed to connect directly to the workplace situations participants face every day.
Why Experiential Learning?
Knowing a leadership concept and actually using it are two different things.
EPW gives participants opportunities to experience the tools rather than simply hear about them.
We practice, reflect, discuss what we notice, and connect the learning to real workplace situations.
You may discover that a small shift in how you ask a question, respond to a mistake, hold someone accountable, or listen during a difficult conversation can change what happens next.
What Your Registration Includes
Your registration includes:
• Six live and interactive training sessions
• Digital EPW Facilitator Manual
• Workbook and Tool Cards
• Experiential activities and facilitated discussions
• Opportunities to practice concepts with other participants
• Certification review
Participants who meet the certification requirements receive recognition as a Certified Empowering People in the Workplace Facilitator.
Registration
Early Registration: $599 through October 29, 2026
Beginning October 30, 2026, registration is $650.
Register by October 29 and save $51.
Groups of 3 or more receive $50 off per person.
Organizations are welcome to register several colleagues so they can learn a shared approach and practice the tools together.
Payment Options
You may pay the registration fee in full or choose a payment plan.
The payment plan begins with a 50% deposit, with the remaining balance divided into two installments.
For team registration, organizational enrollment, employer invoicing, or questions about payment options, contact yogi@yogipateltte.com.
Cancellation and Refund Policy
A full refund, minus a $35 processing fee, is available when cancellation is requested at least 30 days before the workshop.
Beginning 30 days before the workshop, registration fees are nonrefundable.
For this training, which begins November 30, 2026, registration becomes nonrefundable beginning October 31, 2026.
Within the nonrefundable period, a paid registration may be transferred to another workshop within one year, subject to the applicable transfer conditions.
Meet Yogi Patel
Yogi Patel is a Positive Discipline Trainer and Master Trainer for Empowering People in the Workplace, with more than 35 years of leadership and management experience and more than 25 years in education.
As an entrepreneur, business owner, and founder of two schools, Yogi brings firsthand experience in leading organizations, developing teams, managing change, and creating environments where people from different backgrounds can work and learn together.
She has trained educators, school leaders, managers, and professionals in leadership, communication, workplace relationships, and Positive Discipline.
Her work brings together Adlerian principles, Positive Discipline, Montessori education, school leadership, experiential learning, and practical approaches to management and workplace relationships.
Yogi’s facilitation style is highly experiential. Rather than simply telling participants what to do, she invites them to practice, reflect, ask questions, learn from one another, and connect what they are learning to the real situations they face at work.
Her goal is to help people develop practical skills that strengthen communication, accountability, belonging, collaboration, and the way we work together.
Ready to Strengthen How You Lead and Work With Others?
If you are looking for practical ways to communicate more effectively, strengthen relationships, encourage accountability, and create greater belonging at work, join us for this live online EPW certification experience.
Practical Tools for Stronger Communication, Leadership, Collaboration, and Workplace Relationships
Workplaces work better when people feel respected, included, capable, and able to contribute.
Yet even strong teams can struggle with communication, accountability, conflict, difficult conversations, unclear expectations, and the everyday challenges of working with different personalities and perspectives.
Empowering People in the Workplace, or EPW, is an interactive certification training designed to help leaders and professionals strengthen relationships, encourage accountability, communicate more effectively, and create workplaces where people can contribute and grow.
This is not a training where you sit and listen to presentations for hours. EPW is experiential. We learn by participating, practicing, reflecting, asking questions, and connecting the tools to situations we actually face at work.
Live Online Certification Training
November 30 and December 2, 4, 7, 9, and 11, 2026
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday | 6 Sessions
Six live online sessions via Zoom
18 total training hours
United States Pacific: 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM Pacific Time
United States Eastern: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Eastern Time
United Kingdom: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM GMT
Central Europe, including Paris: 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM CET
India: 8:30 PM to 11:30 PM IST
Early Registration: $599 through October 29, 2026
Regular Registration: $650 beginning October 30, 2026
Who Is This Training For?
EPW is designed for people who work with, lead, develop, or support others, including:
• Managers and supervisors
• HR and people development professionals
• Organizational and team leaders
• School and nonprofit leaders
• Coaches and consultants
• Business owners and entrepreneurs
• Professionals responsible for workplace culture and employee development
• Positive Discipline educators and trainers interested in bringing these principles into workplace settings
You do not need previous Positive Discipline experience to participate.
What Will We Explore?
Throughout the six live sessions, we will explore practical ways to:
• Build trust, belonging, and psychological safety
• Communicate clearly while maintaining dignity and respect
• Encourage accountability without relying on blame or punishment
• Ask curiosity questions instead of immediately providing answers
• Approach mistakes as opportunities for learning
• Strengthen listening and collaborative problem solving
• Work through disagreement and difficult conversations
• Create environments where people feel capable and able to contribute
These tools are designed to connect directly to the workplace situations participants face every day.
Why Experiential Learning?
Knowing a leadership concept and actually using it are two different things.
EPW gives participants opportunities to experience the tools rather than simply hear about them.
We practice, reflect, discuss what we notice, and connect the learning to real workplace situations.
You may discover that a small shift in how you ask a question, respond to a mistake, hold someone accountable, or listen during a difficult conversation can change what happens next.
What Your Registration Includes
Your registration includes:
• Six live and interactive training sessions
• Digital EPW Facilitator Manual
• Workbook and Tool Cards
• Experiential activities and facilitated discussions
• Opportunities to practice concepts with other participants
• Certification review
Participants who meet the certification requirements receive recognition as a Certified Empowering People in the Workplace Facilitator.
Registration
Early Registration: $599 through October 29, 2026
Beginning October 30, 2026, registration is $650.
Register by October 29 and save $51.
Groups of 3 or more receive $50 off per person.
Organizations are welcome to register several colleagues so they can learn a shared approach and practice the tools together.
Payment Options
You may pay the registration fee in full or choose a payment plan.
The payment plan begins with a 50% deposit, with the remaining balance divided into two installments.
For team registration, organizational enrollment, employer invoicing, or questions about payment options, contact yogi@yogipateltte.com.
Cancellation and Refund Policy
A full refund, minus a $35 processing fee, is available when cancellation is requested at least 30 days before the workshop.
Beginning 30 days before the workshop, registration fees are nonrefundable.
For this training, which begins November 30, 2026, registration becomes nonrefundable beginning October 31, 2026.
Within the nonrefundable period, a paid registration may be transferred to another workshop within one year, subject to the applicable transfer conditions.
Meet Yogi Patel
Yogi Patel is a Positive Discipline Trainer and Master Trainer for Empowering People in the Workplace, with more than 35 years of leadership and management experience and more than 25 years in education.
As an entrepreneur, business owner, and founder of two schools, Yogi brings firsthand experience in leading organizations, developing teams, managing change, and creating environments where people from different backgrounds can work and learn together.
She has trained educators, school leaders, managers, and professionals in leadership, communication, workplace relationships, and Positive Discipline.
Her work brings together Adlerian principles, Positive Discipline, Montessori education, school leadership, experiential learning, and practical approaches to management and workplace relationships.
Yogi’s facilitation style is highly experiential. Rather than simply telling participants what to do, she invites them to practice, reflect, ask questions, learn from one another, and connect what they are learning to the real situations they face at work.
Her goal is to help people develop practical skills that strengthen communication, accountability, belonging, collaboration, and the way we work together.
Ready to Strengthen How You Lead and Work With Others?
If you are looking for practical ways to communicate more effectively, strengthen relationships, encourage accountability, and create greater belonging at work, join us for this live online EPW certification experience.
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