AI workshops for prevention & behavioral health teams
When to use AI, when to watch it, and when to walk away.
I lead interactive workshops that help prevention and behavioral health teams make practical decisions about AI without losing sight of trust, context, and professional judgment.
The problem
Someone on your team is already using AI.
Like it or not, AI is a cat that is not going back into the bag. If you have not started exploring ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar tools in your own work, others on your team almost certainly have. The tools are improving at a disorienting speed, and staff are gaining new capabilities faster than most organizations can agree on what appropriate use looks like.
The trouble starts in that gap: sensitive details pasted into the wrong tool, polished writing that turns out to be wrong and reaches your community anyway, newer staff leaning on a chatbot for judgment calls that should come from supervision and experience. None of this requires bad intent. It only requires the absence of shared norms.
Rather than treating AI as either a miracle tool or a threat to avoid entirely, my workshops invite teams to pump the brakes just a bit and build real discernment: which uses are safe within clear limits, which need substantial human oversight, and which are better left out of the work entirely. Teams draw those lines together, on purpose, before habits set on their own.
The flagship workshop
When to Use It, When to Watch It, and When to Walk Away
Participants use a smartphone or laptop to connect to an interactive experience that gives them firsthand practice weighing the promises and pitfalls of AI in realistic scenarios from their own field.
By the end of the session, participants are able to:
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Recognize
when AI may cause harm in their work, especially by weakening trust, introducing inaccurate or decontextualized information, or displacing professional judgment.
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Apply
a practical decision model to determine whether an AI use case is low-risk, requires substantial human oversight, or is inappropriate.
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Identify
use cases in their own workflows that should be avoided, handled with heavy oversight, or used safely within clear limits.
The first public edition debuts at the 2026 Connecticut Prevention Conference this coming September. A supervisor’s edition is in development for clinical and training programs whose trainees are already using AI, with or without their supervisors’ knowledge.
How it works
Phones out, please.
Most trainings ask people to put their phones away. This one begins by asking everyone to take theirs out. Participants respond to scenarios from their own devices, commit to a judgment before hearing anyone else’s, and watch the room’s thinking appear on the big screen, including the splits and disagreements that make for the best conversation. People build judgment by practicing it, and the session gives everyone practice, including the colleagues who would never raise a hand.
I built the workshop platform myself. I have used language models and generative AI tools professionally since early 2021, before ChatGPT was released, and my sense of what these tools can and cannot do comes from daily, hands-on work rather than secondhand headlines.
About
About me.
I have worked in Connecticut’s prevention field since 2019, supporting communication, coalition building, and education, and I facilitate workshops and trainings for organizations across the state.
I hold a bachelor’s degree in psychological science from Central Connecticut State University, with graduate training in clinical mental health counseling from the University of Saint Joseph. I am a certified instructor in Mental Health First Aid and QPR suicide prevention. I know the contexts you work in because I have spent my career in them.
Who this is for
Who books these workshops.
- Prevention coalitions and networks
- Behavioral health organizations
- Clinical training programs and supervisors
- Youth-serving organizations
- Conference planners
I serve the people who serve people.
Contact
Bring this to your team.
Email nathan@nathanlannan.com and tell me a little about your team and what has you thinking about AI right now. I am based in Connecticut, travel throughout New England, and can deliver sessions remotely when distance is a factor.
Plainville, Connecticut
Across New England and remote