Personal & Professional Development Learning Series/Courses/Workshops

Embodied Activism: Unpacking Our Practice and Building Our Power™

A learning series for activists, frontline workers, management, entrepreneurs, advocates, and anyone seeking a space for critical self-reflection, professional and personal development.  In the learning series, we will critically explore the methods and strategies of social change, social innovation, community/organizational engagement, and creative intervention. We will look at the tools and actions used by activists, advocates, educators, workers, entrepreneurs, academics, and community members.

 

Participants will move through creative sensory, mind and body activities and mindful dialogues that draw on their lived experiences and resource materials to deepen their self-awareness, 'unpack' and transform their practice.

  

Exploring Spaces to Be: 'Mixed Race' Identities and Activism™-This exploratory course will focus on how 'mixed race' folks navigate through everyday spaces, including activist spaces.Using a series of interactive activities and discussions,folks will engage in an exploration of the following topics: Intersectional identities; Interracial connections, dating and relationships; Building links to allies; and Working through oppression using tools of creative resistance.

 

Oppresshun Awareness:Moving Beyond Words into Action™-As our social/political/economic/personal environments change/transform, we are confronted with 'new' challenges that disrupt our core. Out of these disruptions, we may ask ourselves about our ability to identify, understand, and address different forms of oppresshun. This innovative 3 hour workshop creates a space for folks to explore the impact of oppresshun on their everyday lives. In addition, folks will engage in a series of interactive oppresshun awareness activities to develop different strategies to challenge oppresshun.

Intersectional Diversity™ & Youth Leadership-This youth leadership course integrates leadership development models with intersectional diversity™ and innovative strategies to engage 'new' and current youth leaders (13 years and older).

 

Abbreviated list of knowledge-based and skills building courses/workshops:

 

Community Development with a Twist: Integrating Cross-Cultural Communication with Multi-media/Social Networking

 

Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility: Making Organizational Plans Sustainable

 

Mental Health & Wellness at Work & in the Community

Using Humour and Mindfulness to Generate Innovative Conversations/Actions

Getting a ‘Grip’ on Building Sustainable Connections

Team Building Boot Camp

*The courses/workshops/seminars/e-learning are designed and delivered to maximize your organization's training and development needs. Course materials, training tools, assessment and evaluation tools have been developed to enhance, strengthen and sustain knowledge, skills, and job-related competencies, as well as build organizational capacity.