How It Works
Providing the best transformative learning experiences for behavioral health professionals.
The Overview
The Way Onward is a leadership-based recovery program.
Rooted in The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®, The Way Onward is an expansion of The Leadership Challenge Self Empowered™ curriculum that guides individuals through the application of leadership behaviors to personal recovery journeys.
Become a Certified Facilitator through our two-day Certified Facilitator Training designed for behavioral health professionals, mental health clinicians, peer support specialists and recovery coaches.
The interactive agenda blends skill development, reflection, values clarification, goal setting, and practical leadership development actions to build recovery capital and reinforce sustainable change.
The Journey
The best way onward begins with a journey inward – because self-empowered leadership starts within.
Join a transformative 2-day, in-depth workshop that combines the proven power of The Leadership Challenge® Self Empowered™ with The Way Onward’s exclusive enhancements for mental health and recovery professionals.
You’ll begin by taking the LPI® Self Empowered™ assessment—an evidence-based self-assessment grounded in over 40 years of research on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®. You’ll gain insight into how frequently you demonstrate leadership 30 behaviors
The CUrriculum
Certified Facilitators are trained to deliver The Way Onward by integrating The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®
Day 1
Self Awareness + Personal Leadership
- Explore Your LPI® Report: interpretation of your strengths and growth opportunities through the lens of personal leadership within the context of recovery.
- Values Engagement: Connect the recovery journey to core values (Model the Way).
- Vision Crafting: Learn how to frame recovery not just as healing, but as co-creating a vision for a thriving life (Inspire a Shared Vision).
- Innovation in Healing: Reframe setbacks as growth opportunities and create pathways of resilience (Challenge the Process).
- Partnering to Lead: Encourage trust-building behaviors and relationships while promoting autonomy in recovery (Enable Others to Act).
- Celebrating Recovery Capital: Recognize both small wins and significant milestones to foster belonging and hope (Encourage the Heart).
Day 2
Integrate, Practice + Teach-Back
- Integrative Action Planning: Create a practical, session-by-session template for leading clients forward—driven by their values, strengths, and lived experience (plus your own, if applicable).
- Teach-Backs: Engage in one-on-one practice sessions and presentation breakout groups to bring it all together.
- Certificate Celebration: Celebrate your new credential as a Certified Facilitator for The Way Onward — ceremony-style!
Outcomes
Certification
- 2‑Day Virtual or In-Person Workshop (7 hours each day)
- All materials included: The Leadership Challenge Self Empowered™ Facilitation Set, LPI® Self Empowered™ Assessment, The Way Onward Facilitator Guidebook, The Way Onward Values Cards, The Way Onward Practice Pebbles
- Receive The Leadership Challenge Self Empowered™ Facilitator certificate and The Way Onward Certified Facilitator credential
- Optional pathway to Certified Facilitator in The Leadership Challenge®
What's in it for you?
Whether you’re a behavioral health provider, a peer support organization, a recovery community center, or an employer invested in workforce wellbeing, The Way Onward delivers high-impact benefits:
Enhance client outcomes with a curriculum that builds internal motivation, fosters resilience, and complements clinical care.
Equip your team with a trauma-informed, leadership-based toolkit that empowers peers and professionals to lead with authenticity and purpose.
Support employees in recovery by offering a values-aligned program that builds self-leadership, strengthens boundaries, and improves workplace engagement.
Invest in a scalable, evidence-informed model that bridges leadership and recovery to create sustainable community impact by working through our non-profit training partner, Brave Leadership.
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Will you join us?
Join our community of professionals committed to learning new skills for expanding pathways to recovery.
