Supportive Care Training With Proven Results
Case Study: Valparaiso University
Valparaiso University, a private Lutheran university in Indiana, was looking for ways to bring a caring culture to their campus.
They turned to Inspiring Comfort for a two-day immersive training and ongoing programming for students, peer mentors, and faculty.
Read about the transformation on campus after 3 years of Showing Up training and embedding this work within the university.
White House Recognized Leadership Development Skill
The White House Leadership Development Program (WHLDP) and the U.S. Department of Labor recognize comfort as a leadership skill in our rapidly evolving workforce that:
Fosters resilience and adaptability
Increases employee retention and satisfaction
Creates a more cohesive, collaborative work environment.
Inspiring Comfort CEO & Founder Jen Marr spoke at the WHLDP’s session “Creating a Culture of Care in Our Pandemic-Weary Workforce” in November 2021.
College of the Holy Cross
When tragedy struck campus, RA Matthew Gasparrini felt at a loss for how to support the students in his care beyond his administrative duties.
When he read Jen Marr’s book, he reached out to her and invited her to campus.
What followed was a campus-wide transformational process of helping a college heal and equipping them with the skills to heal each other.
Watch the webinar featuring Jen Marr, Matthew Gasparrini, and Colleen Creighton (CEO, American Association of Suicidology) below.
Spreading Comfort Nation-Wide
Inspiring Comfort has trained over 10k across the country through organizational, adult, college, high school, and youth programs. We have Certified Trainers to facilitate our programming across the country.
Don’t see your state pinned here? Train to be a Certified Trainer and bring human care and connection to your community.
Research-Backed Programming
After being awarded a pilot research study from the Suicide Prevention Center of New York (SPCNY) in May of 2020, Inspiring Comfort partnered with Montclair State University to deliver and examine the effectiveness of our Comfort Skills Programming, specifically, our Project Comfort youth programming.
Despite the hit of the COVID-19 pandemic, results from self-report measures demonstrated a significant decrease in depression and loneliness symptoms in students from pre and post intervention, and a significant increase in compassion for others and self.
Testimonials
“People all around us are hurting and suffering. You may feel the deepest levels of compassion and empathy and have absolutely NO IDEA what you can say or do to show care and comfort that authentically supports healing. Jen Marr gives us the exemplar roadmap on how to bridge this empathy-to-action gap. Every company and professional services firm needs to incorporate this work into their gold standard training curriculum.”
— Deb Knupp, Managing Director, GrowthPlay
“Changing simple mindsets, habits and behaviors is having a profound impact on my life and the lives of those around me. This is helping us adapt to the massive societal shift of creating cultures where all of our employees and students feel seen, valued, and cared for.”
— Program participant, Rockland 21c
“The notion of planting seeds and building a common language — I think the thing that excites me the most about this is the prospect of repeating this with every incoming first year class, so that now we’ve got a campus-wide set of common perspectives. The fact that we were able to bring this skill-set to Peer Ministers, and to the Resident Assistants, puts into the residence halls a group of people with a common language and a common experience that can be there for students who are struggling.”
— Pr. James Wetzstein, Co-Director of Valparaiso Peer Minister Program
“It speaks to student’s strengths — you can give to others. Our students are often the recipients of services, and they don’t have very much confidence in themselves and in their ability to give to others. Now, they see themselves empowered to recognize their own strengths and to help others.”
— Ellen Mollen, LSCW, Clinical Supervisor at the Lorges School
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