Creating Cohesive and Inclusive Workplace Cultures (Part 1) – LearnSphere

This 2 part workshop series is designed to help elevate workplace culture through recognition of the value and contribution that diversity, equity, and inclusivity add to an organization. First, by identifying and understanding personal, team, and organizational key guiding principles, and then by using this learning to increase belonging, safety, and purpose by actively engaging in a collective applied learning project.

Module 1 (of 2): Cultural Impact Awareness: Values in the Workplace and Beyond

• Workshop 1 (2 hours): Pillars of Purpose: Core Values as Cornerstones of Workplace Success

Identify your core values and how they shape your role and impact at work

• Workshop 2 (2 hours): Beyond the Surface: The Influence of Values & Beliefs on Inclusive Practices

Understand how beliefs and motivations influence inclusion and team dynamics.

• Workshop 3 (2 hours): Charting the Course: Mapping the Journey of Personal Values and Organizational Culture

Create your personal values map to align with and influence workplace culture.

To register: LS – CCIWC1

Creating Cohesive and Inclusive Workplace Cultures (Part 2) – LearnSphere

This 2 part workshop series is designed to help elevate workplace culture through recognition of the value and contribution that diversity, equity, and inclusivity add to an organization. First, by identifying and understanding personal, team, and organizational key guiding principles, and then by using this learning to increase belonging, safety, and purpose by actively engaging in a collective applied learning project.

• Workshop 1 (2 hours): Building Blocks: Identifying Skills and Action Steps for an Inclusive Workplace

Identify key skills and choose an area of focus to apply your values and strengths. Begin crafting a personalized inclusion action plan.

• Workshop 2 (2 hours): Charting the Course: Tools and Techniques for Workplace Inclusion

Define your vision for an inclusive workplace. Explore tools, strategies, and best practices to bring that vision to life.

• Workshop 3 (2 hours): Navigating Obstacles: Solutions for Implementing Inclusive Action Plans

Tackle common barriers, refine your plan, and explore supports to successfully implement inclusive change in your organization.

To register: LS – CCIWC2

LGBTQIA2+ Inclusion in the Workplace – LearnSphere

Participants will explore inclusive language, the realities of coming out at work, homophobia and transphobia in the workplace, and concrete ways to be a supportive ally.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Define key terms related to sexual orientation and gender identity

• Recognize and address workplace homophobia and transphobia

• Access tools and resources to foster LGBTQIA2+ inclusion

• Take concrete actions to build a more inclusive and respectful workplace

To register: LS - LGBTQIA2+IW

Providing Trauma-Informed Care – The Family Centre

In this 2-hour workshop, we will review:

• Trauma 101: understand the basics of trauma, including its prevalence, types, and effects

• Neurobiology of trauma: learn how trauma impacts brain development and functioning

• Recovery and healing: explore the various paths to recovery and healing for those who have experienced trauma

• Trauma-informed care: understand the definitions, values, principles, and practices that form the foundation of trauma-informed care

Participants will gain the ability to:

• Describe what trauma-informed care entails

• Identify and apply the core principles, values, and practices of trauma-informed care

• Recognize and reflect on their specific roles in implementing trauma-informed approaches within their work

Join this workshop to become proficient in trauma-informed care and make a meaningful impact in the lives of those who have experienced trauma.

The content presented in this workshop is based on the Creating Cultures of Trauma-Informed Care model (CCTIC) developed by Community Connections.

TFC – Staff Skill Development

Trauma-Informed Approach to De-Escalation – The Family Centre

This workshop does not cover physical restraint procedures and promotes a “no physical contact” approach to de-escalation.

In this 3-hour workshop, participants will:

• Gain a deep understanding of the anatomy of a crisis

• Learn practical strategies to identify, prevent, and de-escalate crises effectively

• Learn valuable debriefing techniques to help service providers process and reflect on crisis incidents

Throughout the workshop, attendees will be introduced to a variety of techniques for supporting individuals in crisis through verbal and nonverbal communication. By mastering these skills, participants will be able to set effective boundaries and guide interactions toward positive outcomes. This workshop emphasizes the importance of creating a safe and supportive environment, ensuring that all interventions are grounded in empathy and respect.

After attending this workshop, participants will be better prepared to successfully handle future crises with resilience and confidence.

TFC – Staff Skill Development

Trauma-Informed, Objective Writing Skills – The Family Centre

Designed for professionals who handle sensitive information, this course provides essential techniques for writing that respects and acknowledges trauma experiences while maintaining objectivity.

Participants will learn how to:

• Avoid re-traumatizing and oppressive language through careful word choice, structure, and tone

• Enhance their writing skills to create supportive and accurate documentation

This workshop is perfect for anyone looking to improve their written communication skills so they can better support their service users and uphold professional standards in their writing.

TFC – Staff Skill Development

Understanding Attachment: The Impact of Trauma on Brain Development and Behaviour – The Family Centre

Join us for an enlightening workshop that delves into the intricacies of attachment theory.

Our 6-hour workshop includes:

• Detailed coverage of brain development affected by early attachment

• Identification of different attachment patterns

• In-depth discussion on complex trauma related to attachment

• Strategies for assessing and intervening with both children and caregivers

Through a blend of lectures, videos, and experiential exercises, participants will gain valuable insights into the impact of trauma on attachment behaviour. Participants will enhance their understanding and skills in working with service users in a supportive and engaging environment. This workshop uses content from: Alberta Family Wellness Initiative

TFC – Staff Skill Development

Building Trust and Resilience Through Relationship-Based Supervision – The Family Centre

By embracing trauma-informed values and adopting relationship-based supervision models, they will cultivate environments of trust, empathy, and support. Acknowledging the diverse past experiences of their staff members, participants will gain insight into how these experiences may influence their work with their service users. Participants will be equipped to intervene proactively to avoid burnout, fostering a culture of well-being and resilience.

Participants will develop essential skills to ensure that their teams can thrive in even the most challenging circumstances. Through this comprehensive approach, participants will not only enhance their leadership capabilities but also contribute to supporting their agency’s service users through an effective supervision model.

To register: TFC – Leadership Development

Principles of Trauma-Informed Supervision – The Family Centre

Through this workshop, attendees will gain an understanding of how these components intersect with and enhance the supervisory process. Participants will develop a proficiency in nurturing the growth and development of their staff. Additionally, they will learn to assess their supervisees' quality of life in relation to their work, ensuring a holistic approach to staff well-being and professional growth.

By nurturing qualities such as humility, hunger, and emotional intelligence, participants will foster cohesive, high-performing teams.

The content presented in this workshop is based on the Creating Cultures of Trauma-Informed Care model (CCTIC) developed by Community Connections.

To register: TFC – Leadership Development

Effective Intercultural Practice - Center for Race and Culture (CFRAC)

This workshop will examine the concept of culture, the effect culture has on one’s personal and professional life, as well as the role that our cultural norms and expectations play in our interactions with others.

It will equip the participants with practical tools to reflect on their programs and services, apply strategies to challenge cultural bias and discrimination, practice intercultural communication to create a more inclusive workplace where colleagues and clients from different cultural backgrounds feel valued and respected.

In this session, participants will:

• Explore culture, cultural norms, and the way our own cultural lens influences our work

• Understand our cultural biases and the way they can lead to discrimination

• Understand intercultural practice in the context of social inclusion and equity

• Use culturally informed practices to guide their interactions for effective intercultural communication

For more information: CFRAC Training

Understanding and Mitigating Bias - Center for Race and Culture (CFRAC)

Taking an intersectional approach, this workshop will help participants to build their understanding of bias and practice steps that can be taken to limit the impact of unconscious biases on our decisions and behaviours.

Participants will enhance their self-awareness of their own biases, build understanding of their social conditioning, and examine behaviour versus intention in professed values and daily behaviours. Through case studies and interactive exercises, participants will identify their biases and assumptions, and learn how strategies to mitigate biases at the personal and organizational levels.  After participating in this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand and define the concept of unconscious bias

• Recognize personal and organizational biases and the way they impact our behaviours, interactions, and decisions

• Identify and use tools and strategies to mitigate their personal and organizational biases

For more information: CFRAC Training

Anti-Racism Education - Center for Race and Culture (CFRAC)

This training aims to empower the participants by focusing on mobilizing anti-racism knowledge and providing tools for prevention, intervention, and meaningful ally-ship.

Participants with varying levels of experience and knowledge of bias, discrimination, and racism will be able to work through the material at a level that is meaningful to them. They will deepen their understanding of racism and its history, how it impacts communities and workplaces, how to support racial equity. After participating in this training, participants will be able to:

• Develop a common understanding of the concepts related to race, racialization, and racism

• Understand the history of racism and current realities in the international and national contexts

• Recognize the impacts of racism on an individual, institutional and societal level and the importance of anti-racism education

• Gain experience with tools for responding to situations of racial discrimination

• Learn anti-racist strategies to support racial equity in policies and practices

For more information: CFRAC Training

Micro-Inequities in the Workplace - Center for Race and Culture (CFRAC)

In this workshop, participants will have a good understanding of micro-inequities, the way they impact individuals and workplaces, how to identify and respond to such behaviours, and how to implement preventive strategies.

A micro-inequity is a behavior, a subtle form of discrimination where a person is singled out, devalued, overlooked, or ignored due to their accent, ethno-racial identity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, socio-economic class, disability, or membership in a minoritized group. Micro-inequities have negative impacts on workplaces and the wellbeing of individuals and communities. Focusing on education as the key to promoting inclusion and respect, the workshop’s main objectives to enhance the capacity of participants in addressing and challenging discrimination and inequity include:

• Raising awareness around micro-inequities

• Support skill development in the area of anti-discrimination to mitigate and intervene in instances of micro-inequities

• Promoting inclusive communication skills and service delivery

• Leading to new behaviors including reducing discriminatory habits and attitudes

For more information: CFRAC Training

Building Inclusive Workplaces and Practices - Center for Race and Culture (CFRAC)

This interactive workshop will focus on tools to recognize, articulate, understand, examine, challenge, and change workplace practices with the lens of using curiosity, collaboration, and conversation as a response and reinforcing that learning organizations use these moments (of potential constructive conflict) as learning opportunities.

Supervisors and employees will consider their separate but interconnected roles in creating and maintaining inclusive workplaces. Participants also will have the opportunity to apply these concepts in the context of their personal life in addition to their work, as we know that the ‘person’ and the ‘worker’ are one and the same, and that there are no clear boundaries between what we bring to work and what affects us in environments outside of the workplace.

In this workshop, participants will:

• Gain a deep understanding of key concepts around diversity, inclusion, and equity

• Learn how to apply the EDI framework to build stronger and more productive teams

• Work in groups on goal setting around creating and maintaining an inclusive and effective organizational culture

For more information: CFRAC Training

Unmasking Micro-Inequities - Center for Race and Culture (CFRAC)

Learn about micro-inequities, how they impact others, and how to hold people accountable for them.

The Centre for Race and Culture has developed a series of educational workshops and free open-access resources for service providers and the general public in Edmonton, Alberta under the name Unmasking Micro-inequities. This project supports participants to learn ways to hold themselves and others accountable when faced with everyday moments of discrimination—specifically micro-inequities—in their own lives and workplaces. We define micro-inequities as subtle, indirect, and often unintentional practices or behaviours that communicate bias or prejudice against members of marginalized groups, making them feel belittled, excluded, disrespected, or disadvantaged. These discriminatory acts occur across power dynamics, impacting members of marginalized groups such as women, 2SLGBTQ+ folks, people with disabilities, religious minorities, and persons living in poverty. By learning about the interplay between macro- and micro-level inequities, participants will learn why micro-inequities are not small or insignificant, but harmful. Together, we will explore the various forms of micro-inequities and the power dynamics that inform them, along with strategies for recognizing and meaningfully responding to incidents of micro-inequities. Educational content will include definitions, up-to-date theory, and a broad range of examples and stories, all contextualized to the realities we face in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Using an engaged approach, opportunities for self-reflection, sharing experiences, discussion and action-planning will be woven throughout the workshops and resources. 

We will learn: 

• What micro-inequities and microaggressions are;  

• How to recognize and unmask them;   

• Why and how they are harmful; and, 

• Strategies for intervening in them (as bystanders, allies and targets) 

For more information: CFRAC Training

HR and DEI Courses for Professionals - Canadian Equality Consulting

CEC offers a number of custom online, on-demand sessions focused on various HR and DEI topics.

These courses include:

• Black History Month: Exploring the Roots of Anti-Black Racism

• DEI Fundamentals

• Detangling Anti-Fat Bias in the Workplace

• Equitable and Inclusive Leadership Certification

• Equitable and Inclusive Boards

• Indigeneity in Turtle Island: Footprints Across These Lands

• Navigating Canada’s Complex Histories: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

• Over The Rainbow: A Celebration of Gender and Sexual Diversity

• Over The Rainbow: An Exploration of Trans & Non-Binary History

• Unconscious Bias & Bias Awareness

To register: CEC – Online Courses

Introduction to Hoarding Disorder – Hoarding Disorder Foundation of Alberta

This three-hour workshop, offered by the Hoarding Disorder Foundation of Alberta, will introduce you to important information about hoarding.

We present information on stigma and myths, assessment, complicating factors and treatment options, communication strategies and harm reduction. Finally, we offer practical tips and tools and local resources for helping in a good way.

This session is designed for people with a keen interest in providing appropriate support to a person living with HD:

• Family members, friends and neighbours

• Professional organizers/declutter coaches

• Property management, disposal & cleaning companies

• Municipal enforcement

• Social services and of course, mental health professionals

We encourage anyone who is interested to register. If cost is prohibitive, please contact us to discuss a sliding scale.

To register: HDFA – IHD

Workplace Mental Health and Psychological Safety Certificate Program – Charity Village

The interactive modules explain the many aspects related to workplace mental health and clinicians provide clear guidance on how to optimally address these delicate and complex issues within a work setting.

This 10-part Certificate Program is developed by leading psychologists and mental health professionals, so you know you are receiving the most up to date and clinically sound information on the market today.  Testing and Certification ensures knowledge transfer.

Modules:

• An Introduction to Mental Health and Psychological Safety at Work

• Assess Risks and Vulnerabilities to Mental Health

• Understanding Mental Health Issues in the Workplace

• Supporting Employee Mental Health: A Program for Managers

• Identifying and Managing Addictions at Work

• Principles of Prevention: A New Model to Promote Psychological Safety at Work

• Managing Change: Principles and Best Practices

• Management of Trauma and Critical Incidents in the Workplace

• Best Practices for Stress Management & Mindfulness in the Workplace

• Action Plan for Implementing Mental Health and Psychological Safety in Your Workplace

• This program is on-demand, meaning that you can take it anytime and at your own place. If you choose to complete the program in one sitting, it will take you approximately 8 hours. When you purchase a single course or a pre-set bundle, you have 12 months to complete the course(s) from the date of purchase.

To register: Charity Village – WMHPSCP

Reconciliation Education – First Nations University of Canada

In honour of the Residential School Survivors and on the heels of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action, Reconciliation Education is the foremost educational tool for corporate, community, and classroom anti-racist training in providing the basic foundational 1:0:1 on reconciliation with authentic Indigenous voices. 

2.5 to 3 hours. 10 interactive modules. Designed to educate all Canadians.

To register: Reconciliation Education

Cultural Awareness Training - Indigenous Psychological Services

Cultural awareness training designed for psychologists working with Indigenous populations.

Our training integrates the Two-Eyed Seeing approach, crucial for psychologists working Indigenous populations.

We offer programs designed to enhance awareness of historical factors impacting client well-being and review how cultural insights can promote healing.

We explore trauma-informed perspectives that are effective in colonized systems and focus on actionable truth reconciliation with cultural safety at the forefront.

We differentiate between cultural humility and competency and define holistic practices applicable in clinical settings.

Our training equips psychologists to adopt cultural and trauma-informed practices, including a Residential School in-service with impactful presentations and sessions for survivors.

To register: Indigenous Psychological Services - Workshops