For nonprofit and community teams in Milwaukee and across Wisconsin

Training your team can use the next day

We work with the people who show up for others every day. Our trainings are conversational and practice-heavy, built around the situations your staff actually face, and offered in person or virtually.

Free consultation with Jesse. He replies within two business days.

Jesse Jonesberg smiling and gesturing while leading a training session, with participants seated at tables.
Jesse leading a workshop.

A small team that knows community-serving work

Our trainers bring lived experience and years in community mental health, shelters, recovery, and peer support into the room. Every training starts with a conversation about who your team serves, what’s getting in the way, and what you hope will change. Then we shape the training around that, and stay flexible on length and format.

Jesse Jonesberg, smiling, in a plaid shirt.

Jesse Jonesberg, MSW, LCSW, CPS

Lead trainer & LCSW supervisor

More than 20 years in community mental health, a Certified Peer Specialist, and a long-time member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). Jesse is a neurodivergent clinician who teaches the way he’d want to be taught: conversational, practical, and with room to learn in your own way.

  • Shaina Buckner, smiling, wearing a knit hat.

    Shaina Buckner, MSW, APSW

    Nearly a decade in trauma-informed care, including nonprofit work supporting survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

  • Tony Gardner, smiling.

    Tony Gardner, MA, SAC-IT

    Trains on trauma, substance use, cultural humility, and peer support, drawing on the power of lived experience.

  • Brittney Fair, smiling.

    Brittney Fair, MSW, LCSW

    Facilitates trainings for nonprofit, education, and health care leaders on mindful self-compassion, trauma, and cultural humility.

Meet the team

Where most teams start

About MI training

Motivational Interviewing

Conversations that help people find their own reasons for change, and take some of the pushing and pulling out of your day. For case managers, peer specialists, therapists, nurses, and anyone whose work includes conversations about change.

About TIC training

Trauma-Informed Care

How trauma shows up in the people you serve, in your workplace, and in yourselves, and what to do with that understanding. It works especially well when a whole team goes through it together.

About neuroaffirming training

Neuroaffirming Care

Practical skills for working well with autistic and ADHD clients and coworkers, led by neurodivergent trainers. It asks a different question: not “how do we get them to comply?” but “what is this person’s brain doing, and what would help?”

What it’s like in the room

Our trainings feel more like a conversation than a lecture. We keep the slides light and spend most of the time practicing: real plays, role plays, and small-group talk using situations your team runs into. No forced sharing, real breaks, and materials ahead of time for people who like to read first.

Tony Gardner, Shaina Buckner and Jesse Jonesberg smiling in front of a screen that reads Breakout Session I: Neuroaffirming Therapy and Cultural Humility.

The trainer was very knowledgeable and did great facilitating the conversation and exercises… It was less about the slides and more about learning.

Jessica, Milwaukee, WI

Let’s talk about your team

Tell us a little about your team and share a few times that work. Jesse will email you within two business days to set up a free video chat on Google Meet, usually about 30 minutes, longer if you need it. Bring anyone you’d like.

Discuss training for your team

Prefer to reach out directly? jesse@intrinsicchange.com or 414-306-5068

About supervision

LCSW supervision

Weekly one-on-one supervision toward Wisconsin LCSW licensure: online anywhere in Wisconsin, or in person in Milwaukee.