Training and Education
This training and education hub was created to help Edmontonians come together to support one another in living happier, more meaningful lives. Whether you're caring for family, friends, coworkers, or even strangers, we all play a role in looking out for each other.
These courses are designed to support your growth—whether you're a peer, a service provider, or someone just trying to help. Topics include mental health and addictions, suicide prevention, peer support, poverty and housing, parenting, and more. All trainings emphasize approaches that are fair, trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and rooted in community values.
Storysacks – Centre for Family Literacy
Storysacks training provides the participant with the necessary information, resources and skills to facilitate their own Storysacks program in their community.
CITC811 Critical Thinking – NAIT
Learn how to build your critical thinking skills and communicate with others.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
KAIROS Blanket Exercise – Reach Edmonton
The KAIROS Blanket Exercise is a workshop that explores the nation-to-nation relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Intercultural Learning and Social Justice Workshops – Multicultural Health Brokers Co-Operative
These workshops intend to increase knowledge and build skills of participants in understanding social and cultural identities and how they influence experience of privilege, oppression and marginalization.
Skills Building Workshops – Multicultural Health Brokers Co-Operative
The skills building workshops will enable participants to apply intercultural strategies and tools in various areas of practice.
Foundations for Intercultural Practice Workshop– Multicultural Health Brokers Co-Operative
This foundational workshop will increase your knowledge about interacting, relating and communicating with culturally diverse people.
Rights of Young People & In-School Human Rights Practice – John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Advocacy
Using diverse and age-appropriate educational resources and fun interactive activities, we guide the exploration of various issues and elements of human rights relevant to schools and the communities where they are located.
Building Equity, Diversity and Inclusion through an Anti-Oppressive, Human Rights Framework – John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Advocacy
These workshops aim to explore the complex nature of oppression and support the creation of anti-oppressive strategies in different contexts.
Peace Building and Transformative Dialogues – John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Advocacy
Guided by human rights principles and anti-oppressive practices, JHC supports organizations and grassroots communities in designing and facilitating safe and brave spaces for difficult conversations conducive to integrating human rights into their policies, practices, and guidelines, solving tensions, and engaging in strategic planning.
Human Rights as a Tool for Advocacy: Stride Training – John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Advocacy
JHC has developed a series of trainings to provide opportunities for community-based advocates or organizations to strengthen their awareness and understanding of human rights and discrimination, network with other advocates and organizations, and build skills to advance the rights of historically marginalized community members using the human rights mechanisms that exist for accountability.
First Responder to Sexual Assault and Abuse Training - Association of Alberta Sexual Assault Services
A training for first responders to learn how to respond to disclosures around sexual assault and abuse.
Counselling Adult Survivors of Sexual Violence - Association of Alberta Sexual Assault Services
This 12 week online integrative course is designed for counselors, therapists, and other mental health practitioners who are new to working with survivors of sexual violence, or who may be already working with survivors and would like to more deeply inform their counselling practice.
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.