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If you want to be more effective as a manager or leader in the non-profit sector, this 12-week course will teach you how to engage, inspire and influence staff, volunteer boards and key stakeholders to achieve strategic results. You'll get an overview of the key trends that are influencing the Canadian non-profit sector and how to develop strategy and influence systems from within the organizational hierarchy. You'll identify your own leadership style and learn components of governance, strategic innovation and implementation planning. Define leadership in the sector and apply practical tools to engage and inspire as a leader.Know how to lead system change. Use your influencing skills to advance strategic priorities.Adapt to shifts in the non-profit sector by understanding key trends and challenges.Build effective staff-board relationships by using core components of good governance.

In this 12-week follow-up to 3117 Non-Profit Leadership, Strategy & Change, you'll learn how to align organizational and human capital development systems and how to develop resource management plans to address the needs of your non-profit. Learn how to use brand management and marketing strategy to build compelling cases for support to secure and sustain resources to deliver on your organization's mission. Apply change leadership principles and identify, assess and manage operational risk to navigate system and organizational change. Engage key stakeholders and target markets. Build a resilient organization based on effective organizational and human capital development. Enhance fundraising through revenue diversification, funder strategies, donor relations and sponsorships. Develop an enterprise-wide approach to risk management. Know how to plan and evaluate outreach and community engagement activities.

This 12-week course takes you through the essential concepts and current techniques of program planning, design, implementation and evaluation. You will learn best practices for creating collective impact through collaboration, partnership development and considerations for mergers. Learn the power of strategies built on advocacy, the core concepts of successful partnership governance and ways to mitigate potential risks and pitfalls. A look at emerging trends globally and in the non-profit space will provide up to date insight into factors impacting the sector. Develop an understanding of key issues influencing the non-profit sector and its ability to enhance impact Identify the central tenets of program planning, design, and innovation with the steps in effective program implementation Develop familiarity with evaluation models and understand the effective use, interpretation and reporting of metrics to demonstrate impact. Develop an understanding of the role of advocacy in the sector and identify the central tenets of building an advocacy campaign Describe the steps to crisis and issues management Define the value of collaboration, partnerships, and mergers in the non-profit sector

Learn the Arabic script so you can become more at home in the language. You'll learn simple tactics and rules to read and write Arabic designed to accelerate your progress in any Arabic courses taught at the School. Your instructor will guide your progress with step-by-step mentoring, exercises and audio-visual materials. You'll also discover the beauty of Arabic calligraphy. This course will help anyone learning Modern Standard Arabic, colloquial Arabic and other languages that use Arabic script. Discover the principles on which Arabic script is based. Write Arabic words with assurance. Appreciate the beauty of Arabic calligraphy.

Begin to explore mindfulness meditation by looking at its classic and contemporary practice. Drawing from the ancient traditions of Buddhism, we teach the foundations of secular and contemplative mindfulness and mindfulness meditation. You’ll discover the clinical and scientific work that has given rise to the current healing practices of mindfulness meditation. You will also see how these practices understand and respond to pain and suffering. In this course, you will participate in foundational mindfulness practices, group discussions and begin to cultivate the basics of your own mindfulness practice to apply in your day to day life and work.   Learn to distinguish between mindfulness and mindfulness meditation practices Cultivate the basics of your own mindfulness practice Explore the ancient and contemporary roots of the practice of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation Develop an understanding of why we meditate

You will be fascinated to know what neuroscience is teaching us about the brain’s effect on how we think, feel, act, learn and change. Explore how this emerging science informs our understanding of the practice of mindfulness. It can promote psychotherapeutic change, strengthen interpersonal relations and enhance our learning.  Drawing upon the new neurosciences and 25 years of evidence based research, you will explore what we have come to know about the brain and how brain creates mind. You will then look at this foundational knowledge and its implications in health care, education and the mind at work. You will participate in group dialogue and in-class meditations.   Explore the new neurosciences and how they are changing our view of health care, education, leadership and the mind at work. Develop a foundational understanding of how the brain developed progressively over time; Develop a foundational understanding of how mindfulness practice affects brain structure and function. Explore emerging insights on how the brain, the body and our relationships cultivate the mind.

Trace the historical and contemporary development of mindfulness meditation (MM) as it has developed into scientific protocols for the purposes of clinical application and research methodologies. Learn about how these early protocols have been adapted and transformed into applications for education and the corporate world as Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI’s).  MBI’s are employed by practitioners and researchers as research-based methodological approaches to cultivating an optimal mind. Depending on the MBI, the intent is to enhance one’s health, wellness, resiliency, learning, and potential. This course briefly surveys and explores the spectrum of contemporary MBI’s and their practices, while helping learners to further target and train in MBI protocols. The spectrum of MBI’s covered may include MBSR, MBCT, DBT, ACT, Insight Dialogue, the burgeoning compassion models, as well as mindfulness based curriculums in education and the workplace. Distinguish between a range of mindfulness based interventions and their specific applications. Familiarize yourself with the diverse approaches and applications of mindfulness based interventions. Develop a basic understanding of growing MBI research, body of knowledge and its appropriate application.

Contemporary mindfulness and mindfulness meditation practices attempt to integrate Eastern and Western values and their resulting views of personhood and the world. This two day course brings these often erroneously contrasted views together, exploring the secular practice through the combining of psychology with philosophies which help explain the practice of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation. A range of philosophies will be explored contributing to an explanation and understanding of the buddhist roots of practice. Phenomenology - the study of perspective, epistemology - the study of knowing, and ontology – the study of ways of being. In this course you will deepen your understanding of mindfulness practice by experiencing an array of philosophical perspectives that focus on how we interact with the world. Learners are invited to explore a new way of relating to their own difficulty and to the suffering of others.   Explore the basics of a world view determined by 500 years of scientific materialism. Identify key shifts taking place in our perspectives that arise out of and are informed by the new sciences (quantum and neurosciences). Consider how these shifts in perspective will change our view of self, personhood, humanity and the moral compass we choose to live by. Learn to integrate the world views of the eastern and western mind as one mind.

In this experiential course  you will reflect on your motivations, intentions, values and practices in order to contribute to a secular, inclusive, universal and embodied practice. Discussions will surround an ancient set of 16 guidelines inspired by leaders committed to a culture that proposes mindful thought, values, relations and compassion-in-action  This course highlights how individuals may embody mindful practices in the everyday. Drawing from an ancient wisdom tradition, translated and stewarded by the Dalai Lama’s foundation in Great Britain, the 16 Guidelines proposes a palette of secular options that cultivate states of the embodied mind.  These guidelines can be integrated into everyday life as a secular practice to optimize one’s human potential as well as to promote a civil society. These include states of mind such as: compassion, kindness, authentic speech etc.   Understand the concept of the embodied mind. Interpret the ancient document known as the 16 Guidelines both historically and in its contemporary application and usage. Develop your own personal guidelines that will provide the scaffolding of your own embodied practice.

If you want to create effective advertising, this course will give you the right skills. Whether you want to work in an agency, or take on a greater marketing role, you'll learn how to take advertising campaigns from the big idea to execution. You'll learn how to work with creative teams to get the best results. You'll gain a solid theoretical foundation, explore current and historical initiatives across multiple channels and have an opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills. Master the client/agency relationship to produce outstanding advertising. Write and deliver an effective and inspiring creative brief. Manage and critique creative submissions. Work with various media channels on integrated marketing communications. Apply earned-media strategies, including PR, sponsorship exploitation, branded content and others.