Online and Remote Learning

Over the course of three months, take a 12-step journey with the Roman Stoic Emperor Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way as your guide. Accomplish your creative goals through this 12-week journey of intensive writing and meditation practices. Unblock your creative energy by drawing on the traditions of Hinduism, Stoicism, Buddhism, Sufism, mystic Christianity and Taoism. Connect to the work of creative and spiritual visionaries such as Lama Tsultrim Allione, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Angeles Arrien, Sue Monk Kidd, Richard Rohr, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, and Thich Nhat Hanh. For this 12-week Master class, you will commit to a daily practice of journaling and meditation and find support in “live” weekly meetings and a robust online board for community gatherings and course content. Wednesday webinars will include a blend of meditation, guided contemplation, generative writing, teachings and discussion. Weeks 5 and 10 will include writing workshop of longer submissions. In the interim between our “live” Wednesday meetings (all recorded for later viewing). you will delve deep into your creative soul through the power of faith traditions, Stoic philosophy, meditations, readings and writings.  This multi-genre Master’s class welcomes poets, fiction and nonfiction writers. You will have the opportunity to generate new material and receive support for a longer creative work. Experience the magic of walking the 12-step journey of philosophy, faith and creative joy. Explore and commit to a daily practice of meditation and writing for a period of three months thereby instilling powerful new habits. Make substantial headway on the first draft/revision of your creative project be it poetry, fiction or nonfiction. Engage with teachings, stories, music & poetry from faith traditions and the ancient Greco-Roman philosophy of Stoicism as a way of life. Apply mindfulness to emotional habits that sabotage your creative and life aspirations. Build a sustained genuine, disciplined and compassionate foundation over 12-weeks for your creative and personal endeavors and enjoy the support of a like-minded community.

This course is designed for those who have obtained competency in accounting principles. You will delve deeper into the concepts of financial reporting and analysis. You will examine topics including cash and receivables, inventory investments, property, as well as intangible assets and goodwill.   This fourteen-week online course features both synchronous learning activities, such as weekly webinars, and asynchronous learning components, such as practice questions and assignments.   This course is recognized by the CPA Ontario. You can find more details here. Understand Generally Accepted Accounting Principles; concepts, assumptions and guidelines; recording and interpretation of financial statements. Acquire knowledge of the use of analytical tools such as financial-ratio analysis, and the interpretation of financial information.

This course is designed for those who have obtained competency in accounting principles.  The focus for this course is on the reporting and analysis of financial information with statements, using key accounting principles.   Understand Generally Accepted Accounting Principles; concepts, assumptions and guidelines; recording and interpretation of financial statements. Acquire knowledge of the use of analytical tools such as financial-ratio analysis, and the interpretation of financial information.

Healthcare professionals are exposed to others’ suffering on a regular basis through the very nature of their work. Empathic distress can be experienced as a normal consequence of empathic connection with those who are suffering. Compassion, rather than leading to fatigue and burnout, is a way of responding to others’ suffering that can strengthen our fortitude and benevolence. Drawing upon research and various models of compassion, you will discover mindfulness and compassion based practices that promote greater positive affect, connection, and resilience, even in the face of suffering. Through transformational meditative practices you will learn to activate your natural capacity for compassionate presence while strengthening your inner resources, ultimately improving the quality of care for yourself and others. Understand the evolutionary basis of compassion and the neuroscience supporting the efficacy of mindfulness and compassion for improving wellbeing and reducing the risk of burnout. Experience mindfulness and compassion meditative practices aimed at cultivating self-awareness, attunement to others, empathic concern and resilience. Learn to detect signs of empathic distress and the barriers to compassionate presence with yourself and others. Discover various methods of transforming empathy into compassion to enhance our response to suffering. Increase and maintain satisfaction and fulfillment in your life and career, while remaining in your healthcare occupation.

This introductory 12 weeks course provides the skills you need to begin front-end development in today’s ever changing IT landscape. Angular 16 and TypeScript which is now considered one of the most popular JavaScript framework for front-end development. Skills in Angular 16 and Restful Web Services are regarded essential for full-stack developer in today’s competitive IT world. Learn the fundamental concepts of front-end web development using HTML, CSS, TypeScript and Angular 16. The course covers beginning to advance topics in the Angular 16 framework such as the concepts of one-way vs two-way data binding, AngularJS Services and Single Page Application development. In addition, students will learn how to create Restful Web Services using the SpringBoot (Spring framework) and calling Restful web services through Angular 16 client. Finally, you will learn how to deploy your Angular 16 and Restful Web Services application work on Amazon Web Service, to demonstrate your skills to potential employers Design and produce a simple web application using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Angular 16. Learn fundamental Angular 16 concepts such as One-Way vs Two-Way data binding, Services, Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control and Single Page Application Development.  Learn how to code and debug Angular 16 using Microsoft Visual Code and Google Chrome Learn how to deploy and showcase Angular 16 and Restful Web Services application on Amazon Web Service, on Tomcat 9. 

This online self-study course is your starting point for the Certificate in Translation in order to work as a full or part-time translator. Using modern translation theory, you'll acquire essential tools and develop a strong awareness of the issues that Arabic translators face. You'll learn how to preserve the meaning, style, syntax and tone of the original text, without being literal, and become proficient in analyzing, understanding and correctly translating complex real-world documents. Learn translation in the fields of law, commerce and literature. All course materials are available electronically. You communicate with your instructor electronically and share at least three webinars with the whole class.  Acquire introductory tools for translation. Understand the principles and goals of a high-quality translation. Prepare for upper-level translation courses.  

Learn how to translate English into Arabic, whether in the fields of law, commerce or literature. Gain skills that will help you critically analyze and accurately translate more complex documents, preserving the essence and integrity of the written word. All course materials are provided in PDF format and you communicate with your instructor by email and webinar.  Handle common translations of language structures. Avoid anglicisms and awkward syntax. Translate subtle and nuanced thoughts into written form. Translate complex material.

To work as an English-Arabic translator, you must be able to render complex ideas from the fields of law, commerce and literature. This livestream course will build your qualifications and skills. You'll learn to critically analyze and accurately translate documents and get feedback on your written translations. All materials are provided in PDF format and you communicate with your instructor by email and webinar.  Handle common yet difficult translations. Avoid anglicisms and awkward syntax. Translate subtle and nuanced thoughts into written form. Make complex material accessible.

This course introduces mindfulness and mindfulness meditation within the context of thanatology or the study of dying and death. You will learn how to use mindfulness and mindfulness meditation to attend to the suffering of all involved in care, including: a person who is chronically or seriously ill or dying, his or her family members, inter-professional teams, and those in organizational leadership roles overseeing service delivery. You will be introduced to  the conceptual framework for Mindfulness Informed End of Life Care (MIEOL) and the language used by practitioners. Foundational levels of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation will be taught so that practitioners can begin to integrate applications of mindfulness into their own lives as well as the care of others, after this first workshop. Identify the evidence based health benefits of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation for individuals, families and teams Integrate mindfulness and mindfulness meditation practices into your everyday life and work through mindful communication (mindful speaking, mindful listening, mindful presence) Cultivate a secular contemplative language of suffering, dis/stress and mindfulness meditation Explore the skillful use of teaching tales and narrative work in clinical care Outline the history, challenges and current issues within Canadian thanatology (including health care, Hospice/Palliative/end of life care)

This course explores our relationship with suffering. Contrary to those who view suffering as an accident or mishap that interrupts life’s flow, mindfulness end of life care assumes that suffering is a part of everyone’s life. Few are trained in an ability to speak about suffering let alone to transform suffering. In this course  you will explore the ideological and cultural frameworks in health care of curare (to fix) and haelan (to make whole) which determines our in/abilities to speak about suffering.  As well, you will explore and understand methodological approaches to transformative mindfulness meditation. Outline the importance of a death thought system Develop a practice that cultivates a language of suffering Develop methodological approaches for attending to suffering through mindfulness and mindfulness meditation Consider the use of teaching tales, world literatures, films as therapeutic wisdom traditions in end of life care to enhance death literacy Distinguish between two foundational approaches to health care: curare (to fix) and halean (to make whole) and their impact on us, the dying and the delivery of end of life care