Dawn Herring

Whether your focus is on creating work place resiliency, maintaining a top notch team, or managing compassion fatigue or burn-out, Dawn Herring has made audiences laugh and learn for the last 20 years. If you want your team to feel greater cohesion, support and learn strategies for better self-care and team work, look no further.

Dawn has been an educator and therapist for the Marine Corps for over 14 years. She has taught classes and facilitated trainings for groups ranging in size from 10-2,000, with locations ranging from outdoor hangers to intimate classrooms to large theaters. Flexibility, humor and a love of teaching have been crucial to her success. Topics taught include stress management, communication skills and healthy relationships, with a focus on adapting these skills to both personal and professional situations.

While traveling and speaking with the Heroes & Healthy Families Program, Dawn has been able to travel throughout the U.S. and abroad. She speaks on the topic of Healthy Relationships to foster work place resilience within the Marine Corps. She has created and conducted workshops for active duty personnel and their spouses to educate all on the impact of combat trauma and coping as a family. She has also spoken for the Early Childhood Trauma Conference on the topic of Compassion Fatigue and prevention of burn-out for providers and caregivers. She has worked with law enforcement in three counties, as well as military law enforcement, educating and intervening in traumatic incidents.

Dawn's expertise includes training in EMDR, an evidence based treatment modality for trauma of any kind. This modality can be generalized to treating traumatized groups as well as individuals. Dawn has extensive experience using EMDR to treat trauma and educate teams and individuals who may have survived any traumatic experience.

Dawn always receives outstanding reviews and is known for her competence in delivering complex concepts in a way that is tangible and useful. She is skilled in identifying and meeting the unique needs of every group with whom she works. With flexibility, humor and experience, Dawn may be just what your team is looking for.