Workshops & Programs

Through a respectful and interactive approach to teaching (including practice-circles, small and large-group discussions, questionnaires, role-plays and other exercises), participants are encouraged to share their experiences and skills and to build on their own strengths. Essential knowledge is provided, community-based strategies are developed, and techniques are practiced that promote a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual balance that simultaneously enhances and integrates individual and community well-being.

All workshops and programs can be tailored to the specific needs of your community

5-DAY COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS

THROUGH THE PAIN:
Responding To a Suicidal Person

OPENING THE CIRCLE:
Developing Community Wellness/Response Teams

REACHING OUT:
Responding To a Person in Crisis

HEALING THE SOUL WOUND:
Responding To Grief & Trauma

TEAM BUILDING:
Creating and Maintaining Strong
Aboriginal Human Service Teams

POSITIVE PARENTING:
Healthy Family Communication and Discipline

A FRIEND IN NEED:
Peer Counselling Training

3 GENERATIONS OF YOUTH:
Peer Mentoring Training

BRIEF COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS

THE COMMUNITY IS THE MEDICINE:
Community Wellness Workshop (2 days)

SEEING THE FUTURE:
Visioning a Culturally-Rooted Positive Direction
for Community Development and Mobilization (2/4 days)

TEAM WORK:
Creating and Maintaining Strong
Aboriginal Human Service Teams (2/4 days)

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY:
Community-based Critical Incident Response (1 day)

MELTING THE ICE:
Grief and Trauma Recovery Workshop (1 day)

MOBILIZING THE COMMUNITY:
Visioning a Suicide Free Community (1 day)

1 & 2-DAY TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR:

COUNSELLORS/FRONT-LINE WORKERS

COMMUNITY MEMBERS/PARENTS

YOUTH

COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY TRAINING PROGRAMS:

THE COMMUNITY IS THE MEDICINE PROGRAM:
Community Wellness/Crisis Response Team Development and Maintenance Program (15 days)

TRAINING FOR TRAINERS PROGRAM:
Preparing Community Trainers to facilitate one of the 5-day Community Workshops (10 days)