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Guidance Quest: Consulting Services

The Guidance Quest by Resilience Quest offers creative consulting, trauma-informed training, and team-building workshops for clinicians, schools, nonprofits, and organizations seeking to blend creativity with connection. Using storytelling, art, and tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs), we help teams and professionals design creative group interventions that foster resilience, collaboration, and emotional growth.

Choose from one-on-one consulting, half-day trainings, or full-day retreats, available virtually or on-site anywhere. Each experience teaches you how to develop trauma-informed creative groups, build sustainable wellness programs, and write treatment plans that meet insurance or grant standards. From therapist consulting to workplace wellness retreats, Resilience Quest helps you forge programs where creativity and care come together to create lasting impact.

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The Learning Forge

Learning Forge is a trauma-informed training and professional development pathway designed specifically for schools, clinicians, and nonprofit organizations seeking creative, ethical, and collaborative approaches to care. This training integrates trauma-informed care principles with collaborative storytelling, narrative-based interventions, and structured creative practice. Grounded in safety, consent, empowerment, and voice, Learning Forge teaches how story can be used to build regulation, connection, authorship, and resilience without forcing disclosure or retraumatization. Drawing from the Collaborative Storytelling Model and the Clinical Collaborative Storytelling Framework, this program equips educators, therapists, social workers, and nonprofit leaders with practical, trauma-informed strategies that strengthen engagement while protecting agency.

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Tier I: The Character Within

The Character Within is a focused, experiential two-hour trauma-informed workshop introducing educators, clinicians, and nonprofit staff to structured character-building and metaphor-based reflection. Participants learn how to use narrative distance to support identity development, emotional regulation, strengths exploration, and safe engagement without retraumatization. This session is ideal for schools and youth-serving organizations seeking immediate, practical strategies to increase engagement and relational trust while maintaining psychological safety.
Investment:
Two-Hour Training: $950
Virtual or In-Person (travel additional)

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Tier II: Narrative-Based Intervention Design

Tier II is a half-day training designed for clinicians, school-based mental health providers, and nonprofit program leaders who want to design structured, narrative-based interventions. Participants learn how to build trauma-informed groups, classroom activities, therapeutic programming, and creative engagement strategies aligned with measurable goals such as regulation, relational connection, executive functioning, and agency development. This level emphasizes ethical structure, consent-based facilitation, pacing, and sustainable implementation within real-world settings.
Investment:
Half-Day Training (3–4 hours): $2,500
Includes implementation framework and training materials
Virtual or In-Person (travel additional)

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Tier III:Organizational Story & Systems Integration

Tier III is a full-day intensive designed for school leadership teams, clinical supervisors, nonprofit directors, and organizational decision-makers. This training applies trauma-informed storytelling principles at the systems level, addressing burnout, communication breakdown, power dynamics, and relational misalignment. Participants learn how to strengthen organizational culture through clarity, agency protection, collaborative problem-solving, and consent-based leadership practices. This tier supports sustainable culture change rather than one-time inspiration.
Investment:
Full-Day Leadership Intensive (6 hours): $4,500
Virtual or In-Person (travel additional)
Optional Add-On: Ongoing Consulting & Implementation Support
Monthly Consulting (90 minutes): $750 per session
Biweekly Consulting: $1,400 per month
Custom packages available for districts, multi-site nonprofits, and agencies.

The Connection Forge

The Connection Forge by Resilience Quest helps organizations, teams, and workplaces strengthen communication, collaboration, and creativity through trauma-informed, play-based experiences. These creative wellness workshops combine storytelling, experiential learning, and tabletop role-playing elements to promote team cohesion, reduce stress, and foster psychological safety. Available virtually or onsite anywhere, The Connection Forge offers a trauma-informed approach to team building, staff wellness, and organizational growth that helps teams reconnect, recharge, and rediscover shared purpose.

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Tier I: Discovery Session – Ignite the Spark

A personalized creative consultation for leaders, HR coordinators, or program directors. Together, we’ll identify your team’s needs and design a story-driven wellness plan or creative collaboration experience aligned with your goals.
Duration: 60 minutes | Investment: $150 | Capacity: 1 on 1

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Tier II: Half-Day Workshop – Forge Collaboration

A hands-on creative workshop where teams explore collaboration through storytelling, experiential learning, and guided role-play. Participants practice communication, empathy, and creative problem-solving while engaging in safe, imaginative experiences that promote belonging and resilience.
Duration: 3 hours | Investment: $900 (travel fees not included) | Capacity: up to 30

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Tier III: Full-Day Retreat – Create & Renew

A full-day creative wellness retreat where your team steps into an immersive narrative designed to build trust, creativity, and connection. Through collaborative storytelling, reflection, and guided play, participants recharge emotionally and strengthen the foundation for long-term team resilience and innovation.
Duration: 6 hours | Investment: $1,500 (travel fees not included) | Capacity: up to 20

The Collaborative Campaign

Collaborative Conflict Resolution & Team Cohesion Consulting

Every organization tells a story. The question is whether everyone feels like they are on the same page.
The Collaborative Campaign utilizes the Pillars of Collaborative Storytelling, a framework founded on curiosity, clarity, and co-creation, to help teams transform tension into teamwork.
Through trauma-informed facilitation and creative group process, your team learns to navigate conflict like characters in a shared quest: defining their roles, confronting challenges, and moving forward together.

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Tier One: The Starter Quest

For teams that have lost their narrative thread.
When communication begins to fray and collaboration feels strained, The Starter Quest helps teams rediscover shared language and direction. Members learn to recognize patterns of tension before they become conflict and rebuild a foundation of mutual understanding.
Challenges Solved:
- Unclear roles and responsibilities
- Avoidance or breakdowns in communication
- Team members feel unheard or undervalued
- Tension that hasn’t escalated yet, but is starting to disrupt progress
Outcome:
Teams walk away reconnected to a shared purpose, with a clear understanding of how to communicate needs, express boundaries, and approach collaboration with curiosity rather than frustration.
Every organization’s story is different. Retainers are customized based on team size, scope, and goals.
Engagements begin at a premium monthly rate reflecting the depth of consultation, accessibility, and integration support provided.
After a brief consultation call, you’ll receive a proposal that aligns investment with impact.

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Tier Two: The Team Campaign

For teams caught in recurring conflict or communication breakdowns.
When meetings turn into standstills and feedback feels unsafe, The Team Campaign helps groups move through entrenched conflict patterns. By reframing disagreement as co-authorship, team members learn to engage directly and constructively, even when emotions are high.
Challenges Solved:
- Repeated cycles of miscommunication or interpersonal tension
- Leadership frustration over unresolved issues
- Employees withdrawing, avoiding discussion, or feeling polarized
- Team morale and productivity dropping due to unresolved conflict
Outcome:
The team develops confidence in addressing conflict head-on, repairing relationships without blame, and transforming tension into collaboration. Leadership gains a clearer view of communication patterns and a roadmap for sustaining healthy team dynamics.
Every organization’s story is different. Retainers are customized based on team size, scope, and goals.
Engagements begin at a premium monthly rate reflecting the depth of consultation, accessibility, and integration support provided.
After a brief consultation call, you’ll receive a proposal that aligns investment with impact.