Beat the Odds® Online Training - Fall 2025

Date Thursday, October 23, 2025 Time BTO Training: 9:00 am to 3:30 pm Pacific Time (PT)  BTO Youth-Led Extension: 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm Pacific Time (PT)  Instructor Ping Ho, MA, MPH Description Beat the Odds® (BTO) is an evidence-based, trauma-informed program that integrates the power of contemporary drum circles and group counseling to build core strengths such as focus and listening, team building, leadership, expressing feelings, managing anger/stress, empathy, kindness, and gratitude.   Our one-day, experiential online training covers all activities and key guidelines in the program, which offers positive affirmations, emotional coping strategies, and guided interaction with rhythmic activities in a collaborative, creative, and fun environment. Beat the Odds® can serve a whole classroom at a time as well as offer an effective tool for community building with staff and families. It can easily be adapted for any age group, and it is sustainably designed for delivery by those without