Self-Guided Public Safety Personnel Wellbeing Course – PSPNET

Offered free to public safety personnel across Canada.

To register: PSPNET - SGPSPWC

Public Safety Personnel Spouse or Significant Other Wellbeing Course – PSPNET Families

The core strategies are the same ones offered in the PSP Wellbeing Course but provide examples and stories from other spouses of PSP. This means you will be learning the skills that can benefit not only you, but your spouse as well.

This course is accessible to all spouses or significant others of PSP in Canada who have access to the internet.

What to Know:

• The course consists of 5 main lessons that you complete at your own pace.

• Each lesson includes assignments that help you apply new strategies.

• There are 20 additional lessons you can review if you are interested depending on your needs on topics such as communicating with your spouse, PTSD, sleep, building motivation, anger, problem solving, etc.

• We will send you emails of encouragement to keep you on track.

• Course materials are accessible for up to 6 months after you’ve finished.

To register: PSPNET Families – SSOWC

Bridge Community Programs – Little Warriors

The Bridge Community Programs were developed by the Clinical Team at the Little Warriors Be Brave Ranch, in collaboration with Safe Places.

We began with a concept to develop a workshop to educate children and teens on how to help prevent sexual abuse, in line with the Little Warriors Prevent it! program that educates adults on how to help prevent and respond to child sexual abuse.

As the team began developing content, it became apparent that we could and should utilize the knowledge and expertise of our psychologists, social workers, professionals, and parents to develop a program that would become a platform to educate and empower children and youth on a much broader spectrum.

After registering to access the program, individuals or facilitators of groups can log into the platform and work through as many modules as they want to. Each module has information to read, videos, activities, reflection, calming grounding strategies, wrap up and resources. Facilitated programs for groups have facilitator notes and guidance as well as resources and supports to follow up with the group after the module has been delivered.

Topics Include:

Identity and Values, Culture and Traditions, Spirituality and Religion, Mental Health, Self-Care and Wellness, Resiliency, Self-Compassion, Challenging Our Thoughts, Mindfulness, Calming and Grounding, Gratitude, Mind and Body Connection, Body Image, Mindfulness and Movement (Yoga), Understanding Diversity, Gender, LGBTQI2S+, Relationships, Drama, Conflict, Jealousy, Bullying, Boundaries, Consent, Sexuality, Sexual Safety, Coming Out, Abuse, Stress, Trauma, Understanding Sexual Abuse, Dealing with Abuse, Internet Safety, Internet Child Exploitation, Sharing Intimate Images, Human Trafficking, Addiction, Self-Harm, Suicide, Eating Disorders, Effective Study Skills and Test Taking and Menstruation.

To register: LW – BCP

Parenting After Separation (PAS) – Government of Alberta

PAS provides parents with information about the separation and divorce process, the effects of separation and divorce on children, techniques for communication and legal information that affects parents and children.

PAS and PASHC e-Courses are available in English and French at no cost.

To register: GoA – PAS

Parenting After Separation High Conflict (PASHC) - Government of Alberta

PASHC provides information and strategies to help reduce the level of conflict between separated parents and help minimize the negative impacts of parental conflict on children.

PAS and PASHC e-Courses are available in English and French at no cost.

To register: GoA – PASHC

Digital Literacy – Norquest College

Digital literacy involves more than basic access, it involves competence and understanding to use technology effectively and critically. Digital literacy skills and strategies are survival skills for a digital era. Digital literacy increases learner confidence and promotes autonomy when learning in an online environment.

To register: Norquest – DL

Digital Literacy Program – Government of Alberta

Beginner Courses:

• What is a computer and how does it work?

• What is the internet?

• How do I access the internet?

• How do I get around the internet?

• How do I find information?

• How do I interact online?

• How do I save things I've found on the internet?

• What is cybersecurity?

• What information should I share online?

• What are the ways I can use the internet to communicate?

Intermediate Courses:

• How do I know if I've found good information?

• What is netiquette?

• What is a digital footprint?

• How do I keep myself safe online?

• How do I apply for work online?

• How can I use the internet to learn?

• How do I shop online?

• How do I access services online?

• Is social media right for me?

To register: GoA - DGP

CITC811 Critical Thinking – NAIT

Critical thinking calls for the use of reasoning skills. Being an active learner rather than a passive consumer of information is key. Instead of accepting ideas and presumptions at face value, critical thinkers vigorously challenge them. They are constantly willing to discover that the concepts, justifications, and conclusions do not fully capture the situation. Instead of relying on gut instinct or intuition, critical thinkers will discover, analyze, and methodically solve problems.

Today, many people experience information overload. We are bombarded with messages urging us to believe certain ideas, purchase certain products, support specific causes, and live our lives in this or that particular way. How do you know what to believe? How do you separate the truth from the myths? The answer lies in critical thinking skills. The ability to clearly reason through problems and present arguments logically and compellingly has become a key skill for survival in today’s world. With the tools you gain in this course, you will be able to differentiate critical thinking from non-critical thinking, recognize and evaluate assumptions, identify types of faulty reasoning, and apply practical techniques to achieve clarity in thinking and problem-solving.

Offered in self-paced on-demand or remote live formats.

To register: NAIT – CITC811

Strategic Thinking for Everyone Specialization – Arizona State University

With the expertise of Dr. Timiebi Aganaba from the ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society, the Strategic Thinking specialization will put the tools, knowledge and strategies of strategic thinking directly into your hands. You’ll learn the fundamentals and get acquainted with your strategy toolkit. Then, you’ll directly apply them in hands-on scenarios.

By the end of the specialization, you will be able to:

• Imagine possible futures with intentional questions and maintain agency over those futures.

• Analyze possible scenarios to plan for each and identify how to achieve desired outcomes.

• Gather relevant, comprehensive data for scenario planning and retain lasting insights to share.

• Identify the perspectives and strategies of others and gain influence using these insights.

Courses:

Futures Thinking (7 Hours)

Information Gathering and Vetting (5 Hours)

Perspective-Taking (5 Hours)

Strategic Thinking (7 Hours)

To register: Coursera – Strategic Thinking Specialization

The Strong Heart: A Series on Improving Your Important Relationships – Dr. Rick Hanson

Our relationships are fundamental to how we experience life and cope with challenges. And unfortunately for many of us, they’re often the source of our stress, frustration, disappointment, or friction.

Join psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Rick Hanson for a special 4-week series on Relationships. You’ll get down-to-earth practical help for important relationships, with a focus on effective ways to handle issues, grounded in the combination of strength and heart.

Discover methods for staying present with others while remaining centered in yourself, respecting the needs of others while honoring your own, and asserting yourself with both kindness and confidence.

We will focus on:

• Supporting Yourself

• Compassionate Strength

• Being Your Best

• Communicating Effectively

To register: DRH – TSASIYIR

Love, Trauma, and Relationships – Terry Real & Thomas Hubl

Many of us crave more connection and more intimacy in our relationships, but we don’t know how to create it.

And why would we? It’s something we’ve never been taught.

We live in a world that champions competition not collaboration, the individual not community.

And right now, we’re living in a world that’s more disconnected than ever, experiencing significant trauma and hurt.

This creates a pressure cooker environment in which pain radiates into our day-to-day lives and relationships, even though we may not consciously be aware of it.

By changing the way you relate to others, you can learn to heal the wounds of the past.

But in order to do that, you need a shared framework and mutual understanding of how to support one another and the planet as a whole.

As you move through these online teachings, you’ll watch Terry and Thomas work—combining methods from psychotherapy and spiritual practices—with individuals and couples who consciously choose to bring their relationships to the next level.

These are the topics you'll explore:

• How to shift from individual consciousness to relational consciousness.

• Moving from a 2-dimensional into 3-dimensional embodied consciousness that allows witnessing.

• How to stay open when your early wounds are brought to the surface, rather than becoming defensive.

• What it means to feel the trauma of your partner in your body and how to work with it together.

• How our body stores fear in the nervous system and what this means in relationships.

• The importance of co-regulation as a tool with our partner.

• What it means to transform our legacies in relationship & the different aspects we face when we choose to do the work.

Themes:

• Dealing With Wounds Within Our Significant Relationships

• Healing Our Legacies: Collective and Multigenerational Trauma

• Growth Practices for Sacred Relationships

• Eros and Embodiment in Relationships

• Dissolving Fear Into Vulnerability and Intimacy

To register: LTR – TRTH

The Revolutionary Love Training Course: How to Love Others, Our Opponents, and Ourselves – Valarie Kaur

A renowned visionary presents a training course in love-centered practices for transforming ourselves and our world.

How do we show up with love in a time of turmoil? What can love do in the face of fear and oppression? How do we find longevity and joy and beloved community? In The Revolutionary Love Training Course, renowned activist and visionary Valarie Kaur shows us how to harness the force of love in our relationships with others, opponents, and ourselves. It begins with wonder. You can look at anyone and say: You are a part of me I do not yet know. From there, we begin to transform the world around us—and within us.

In these sessions, you will explore the ten core practices of Revolutionary Love—how to reclaim wonder, be brave with your grief, harness your rage, reimagine solutions, embrace joy, and more. Drawing on wisdom learned on the front lines of social justice movements and research in religion, law, ethics, and science, Kaur’s new framework has been called a moral compass for our time.

Your training will include:

• The three pillars of Revolutionary Love: See No Stranger, Tend the Wound, and Breathe & Push

• Cultivating wonder as the building block for love

• Fighting for justice and liberation through fierce nonviolence

• Creating safe containers for our rage and harnessing rage for action

• Deep listening beyond “us” and “them”

• Loving ourselves as a way to find longevity and joy in all our labors

“The world is in transition,” says Kaur. “Some days are so deadly, I can taste ash in my mouth. Other days, I see glimpses of the world wanting to be born. A society awakened to the truth of our interdependence. How do we birth that world together? We can create a shift in consciousness and culture. A love without limit. Revolutionary love.” This is a powerful course to transform the way you relate to everyone in your life—and inspire you with a vision of a world that leaves no one behind.

Offered as either streaming audio or a CD.

To register: VK – TRLTC

The People's Inauguration: 10 Days to Activate Revolutionary Love – Valarie Kaur, Reverend Angel Kyodo Williams, Various Presenters

In Valarie’s words: “Revolutions do not happen only in grand moments in public view, but also in small pockets of people coming together to inhabit a new way of being.” Join Valarie and an extraordinary community of activists, thinkers, writers, and artists in this global movement to reclaim love as a force for justice and change in our world—including Baratunde Thurston, America Ferrera, Rev. Dr. Traci Blackmon, Rabbi Sharon Brous, Ai-jen Poo, Bryan Stevenson, and many more.

Let’s Birth a Future Where Love Is a Force for Justice!

Valarie Kaur considers revolutionary love to be the call of our time. As rising hate violence, pervasive social injustice, and an isolating pandemic threaten to drive us further apart, we must root ourselves in a culture of love that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves.

The People’s Inauguration puts those ideas into practice with 10 core teachings to take into the world. If you have ever felt hopeless about our future, overwhelmed by the challenges ahead, breathless from the continued labour for justice, or simply not sure where to start in activating change, this summit will provide you with a compass for navigating a world in rebirth.

What you’ll learn:

Loving Others—When we wonder about one another, grieve with one another, and fight with and for one another we can build the solidarity needed for collective liberation and transformation -- a solidarity rooted in love.

Loving Opponents—When we learn to harness our rage and listen to even our opponents, we can gain the information necessary to reimagine cultures and institutions that protect dignity for all of us.

Loving Ourselves—We can care for ourselves by remembering the wisdom of the midwife: breathe and push. Breathing together, letting joy in, and pushing through fear to become our best selves allows us to summon the bravery to transition from one reality to another

Presenters:

Valarie Kaur

Seane Corn

Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams

Adrienne Maree Brown

Many More

To register: VKRAKW - TPI10DARL

Ethics and Ethical-Decision Making Essentials – Dr. Ian Messenger

In this course, you will learn a number of different ethical theories, identify which ethical approach you align to based on your values, and discover how to make ethical decisions.

The philosophy of ethical behavior is the basis of any professional. You must always act with integrity and in your clients' best interests, no matter what. This means being honest and transparent in all your dealings, even when it may be difficult or inconvenient. It also means refusing to take shortcuts or engaging in unethical behavior, such as bribery or corruption. By following this philosophy, you can build a reputation as an honest and reliable professional, which will benefit you throughout your career.

This knowledge will help you stay on top of the latest changes in the field and ensure that you are always acting within the law.

The impact of ethics on society is undeniable. By following a code of ethics, individuals help maintain the trust and integrity of their professions. Following this course, you will be able to not only understand your values, but make effective ethical decisions.

In addition, by upholding high ethical standards, professionals set an example for others to follow. This can help create a culture of honesty and integrity, which is essential for the healthy functioning of any society.

To register: Udemy – DIM – EEDME

Ethics Fundamentals - Guthrie Weinschenk

Ethics impact you every day – in your personal choices, in your workplace, in your government, and more. Understanding ethics is integral to understanding different perspectives of right versus wrong and will fundamentally shift your world view.

This course serves as the introduction to some of the biggest concepts within ethics and set up the rest of the Ethics Certificate. Your instructor, Guthrie Weinschenk, is a licensed attorney in the state of Illinois and has extensively researched different schools of ethical philosophy to provide you a generalist, applicable understanding of ethics.

Topics in this course include:

• Understanding ethics in corporations.

• Discussing dark patterns and the ethics of nudges.

• Learning some of the basic "big ideas" in ethics, like the trolley problem.

• Inspire ethical change and ethical leadership.

To register: Udemy – GW - EF

Social Media Ethics – Eric Schwartzman

Social media ethics training course explains the requirements of the law, how ethics policy applies to social networking and how to engage in ethical conversations on social networks.

Promote ethical conduct online in this self-paced employee training on social media ethics. Certify employees and professionals to use social media effectively while enhancing ethics and compliance. This course is appropriate for anyone who wants to learn to use social media for business without violating Federal, State and local rules and regulations.

Covers liability for unethical behavior, how the National Labor Relations Act governs social media use at work, professional netiquette standards, rules concerning work related social media use on personal vs. branded social networking accounts, how to avoid provoking defamation, discrimination and harassment claims on social networks, the risks associated with confidentiality and confidential sources and much more.

What you'll learn:

• Exercise good judgment when using social networks for work

• Avoid tweeting something that could get you sued or fired

• Understand what constitutes ethical, respectful behavior on social media

• Demonstrate tolerance and consideration for others on social networks

To register: Udemy – SME – ES

Social Media and Ethical Challenges – MRD Training & Consulting Inc.

Social media is everywhere, and it can challenge your ethical decisions. Workplace social media ethics calls for the involvement of both management and workers in maintaining proper social media use. Join us while we discuss social media and ethics and the challenges you may face while posting, networking and marketing both yourself and your organization on social media. Focus is on the insurance industry.

Accreditation: 1 Hour

AB: General and Adjusters AIC#68596

To register: MRD – SMEC

Conflict of Interest - MRD Training & Consulting Inc.

Conflicts of interest occur when your own personal interests might be seen to conflict with those of the company or compromise your ability to make good business decisions. But would you recognize when a conflict occurs and know what to do if it does? Conflicts of interest are not as black and white as one may think and that is why they are conflicts.

Join us as we explore the challenge of conflicts of interest with a review of scenarios to better help you navigate through these times. This course is optimized for individuals in the insurance industry.

Accreditation: 1 Hour

AB: 70631

To register: MRD - CoI

Business Ethics: How to Create an Ethical Organization – Denis Collins

This Business Ethics course teaches managers, business leaders and corporate trainers how to design ethical organizations and manage organizations of high integrity. You will learn the 90 best practices for hiring ethical people, implementing codes of ethics, ethical decision making, ethics training, respecting employee diversity, ethics reporting systems, ethical leadership, engaging and empowering ethical employees, environmental management and community outreach. Assessment tools are provided to analyze the ethical performance of your organization.

Who this course is for:

• Managers

• Corporate Trainers

• Organizational Leaders

What you'll learn:

• Describe best practices for screening job candidates for ethics.

• Utilize best practices for managing ethics codes.

• Use a systematic ethics decision-making framework to arrive at moral conclusions.

• Conduct ethics and diversity training workshops.

• Create an ethical reporting system.

• Integrate best practices for ethical leadership into the organization.

• Integrate ethics into work goals and performance appraisals.

• Engage and empower employees.

• Develop an Environmental Management system plan.

• Align community outreach with the organization’s mission and assets.

To register: Udemy – DC – BEHCEO

Listening to Understand Not To Respond -MRD Training & Consulting Inc.

Have you ever been accused of not listening? It’s a common complaint, one that many of us can relate to. But did you know that there’s a difference between hearing and truly listening? It’s true! Good listening skills are not innate; they are habits that we develop over time. And the impact of these habits can be far-reaching, affecting our relationships and careers.

In our fast-paced world, where distractions abound, being a good listener is more important than ever. It can earn you respect, appreciation, and help you build stronger relationships in both your personal and professional life. But how can you become a better listener? That’s where our course comes in.

Our course goes beyond the basics of listening. It delves into the different types of listeners and helps you identify your own listening style. Understanding your listening habits is the first step towards improvement. This course is optimized for individuals in the insurance industry.

Accreditation: 3 Hours

AB: General and Adjusters #70951

To register: MRD - LUNR