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If you already know how to use Python to organize and analyze data, this second-level micro course is for you. You’ll learn to apply data cleansing techniques and inferential statistical methods. You’ll develop a clearer understanding of how predictive models can support more informed business decisions, and create one using the insights you pulled. You’ll explore the fascinating world of data visualization and machine learning and emerge with greater confidence in the stories you tell and the data they’re based on. Within 4-6 weeks of successfully completing this course, you will receive your micro-credential indicating achievement of the outlined learning outcomes and competencies/skills. Micro-credentials are tamper proof, verifiable, blockchain-based and 100% digital. They can be shared on social media, including LinkedIn and Facebook, embedded in websites or downloaded as PDFs. By the end of this micro course, you'll be able to: Apply data cleansing techniques to your dataframe. Apply inferential statistical methods. Build a basic predictive model and draw insights. Competencies/skills developed in this micro course include: Cleaning Data Exploring Data Predictive Modeling Drawing Inferences from Data Assessing Data Quality Data Privacy Data Security

This course will equip you with the fundamental machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and techniques for mining and analyzing data, and extracting insights for data-driven decision making. You will learn how to formulate a ML/AI problem, prepare data, build and optimize predictive models using a wide range of algorithms and evaluate the performance of those models. Throughout the course you will use Scikit-learn and TensorFlow hands-on to build applications that learn from data. The Data Science courses are also offered online in partnership with University of Waterloo - WatSPEED.  3586 Machine Learning - ONLINE Note: If you wish to apply the 3586 Machine Learning - ONLINE completed at University of Waterloo - WatSPEED towards the Certificate in Artificial Intelligence at School of Continuing Studies, please follow the Prior Learning Application form on SCS website.   Formulate machine learning and AI problems Learn techniques to pre-process data for modeling  Train generalized predictive classification and regression models Identify clusters in data such as market segments Evaluate and combine models for best performance

If you want to achieve greater performance and success in your personal and professional life, this course is for you. You’ll learn how the science, practice and philosophy of mindfulness can reduce stress, enhance emotional intelligence and help you meet your goals. You’ll discover how to use cognitive-based and dialectical-based practices to work with emotions associated with stress, loss and change. You’ll learn practices that incorporate neuroscientific research, competitive advances and trends in athletics, military and executive leadership. Apply mindfulness practices that improve focus, concentration and performance. Use breathing, visualization and other techniques to reduce stress, manage pain and enhance emotional intelligence. Improve your intuition, decision-making and objective reasoning skills. Access “flow states” during performance events and everyday life. Develop greater resilience when dealing with adversity.  

The intent of this learning experience is to help you strengthen your own personal and professional contributions in group settings, to lead and develop stronger teams. You’ll learn how mindfulness can improve interpersonal relations, personal accountability, information sharing, productive conflict, support psychological safety and enhance team performance. You’ll also learn practical mindfulness techniques that can be applied in various team settings. Each live, weekly session will combine theory and experiential learning practices including several discussion points to cultivate a team environment amongst participants. Each week will also have a self-directed learning component that will include posting self-reflective assignments to support your understanding of the course content while creating opportunity to engage in on-going discussions to strengthen relationship building and enhance the course’s team environment. By the end of this course, learners will have an increased understanding on: How mindfulness can improve self-awareness and interpersonal communication to strengthen team relationships. The competencies and environments that contribute to team effectiveness. The top two downfalls of teams and how to overcome them. How to lead groups through a mindful pause and at least one additional mindful practice.

This introductory workshop is designed for educators, counsellors, and youth leaders who want to teach mindfulness to teenagers effectively. Through a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical application, participants will learn how to implement engaging mindfulness practices and strategies tailored to the unique needs of adolescents. Who Should Enroll: This course is ideal for educators, school counsellors, youth program leaders, and mental health professionals interested in integrating mindfulness into their work with teens. This program is also applicable to parents wishing to support their teens as they learn to manage the ups and downs of life. Outcomes: By the end of the course, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to confidently teach mindfulness to teens, fostering resilience, emotional intelligence, and well-being in their students or participants. Extensive resources will be provided to support you on your journey. Mindfulness Techniques: Learn and practice a variety of mindfulness exercises, including breathing techniques, reflective practices, and mindful movement, intended to calm the nervous system, with a trauma-sensitive and SEL (social and emotional learning) approach Foundations of Mindfulness: Explore the principles and benefits of mindfulness, focusing on its impact on mental health, emotional regulation, and academic performance. Developmentally Appropriate Practices: Understand the specific developmental stages of teens and how to adapt foundational mindfulness practices to resonate with this age group. Facilitating Group Dynamics: Gain skills in leading group discussions, fostering a safe space for sharing experiences, and encouraging peer support. Evaluating Impact: Discover methods for assessing the effectiveness of mindfulness practices and gathering feedback from participants to refine your approach.

Learn the principles of mindfulness as they relate to eating in this interactive course. This course introduces the theoretical and research underpinnings of disordered eating patterns and the rationale for the application of mindful eating interventions.  You will explore mindful eating practices and relevant exercises for eating problems. You will learn about triggers that can lead to overeating, emotional eating, and loss of control. In addition, you will learn how to apply a mindful framework for dealing with maladaptive eating behaviours, including emotional eating, loss of control, overeating and grazing.  Mindful eating exercises will be facilitated during this course.  Learners who are enrolled in the Online course will be required to purchase food in advance and a small list of foods will be emailed to you one week before the start of the course. Engage in mindfulness-based practices including meditations, mindful eating, visualizations and mindful movements. Notice the relationship between thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations associated with eating. Identify ways to incorporate mindful eating techniques into daily life in order to cultivate a healthier relationship with food. Learn 2-3 mindful eating practices, which can be used with clients/patients. Deepen mindful eating practices in your own life.

Discover the power and promise of clinical hypnosis in this foundation course. You’ll explore the power of the subconscious mind and understand how hypnosis works for change. You’ll discover why some clients are suitable for hypnosis while others are not. You’ll learn professional protocols and important ethical standards and boundaries. You’ll tailor induction to client needs to help them lose weight, quit smoking, manage stress and make other desired life changes – and you’ll be one-third of the way to certification. Clearing myths and pre-conceptions of hypnosis Getting to the real ‘it’ through questioning and goal setting Know how and when to use hypnosis for yourself and others. Explore criteria for suitable clients. Tailor induction to your clients' needs and learning modes. Learn hypnosis script-writing and the power of compounding. Help clients lose weight, quit smoking and manage stress.

If you’ve completed 3288 Clinical Hypnosis: Practice Basics, you’re ready to deepen your skills and help clients make changes more effectively. Adopt techniques to help clients get free of fears and phobias. You’ll learn how to change the beliefs that limit people, so they can manage anger, raise self-esteem and move beyond victimhood. You’ll explore the use of hypnosis for group work, along with contemporary clinical applications of neurolinguistic programming (NLP). . Apply hypnosis for self-esteem, anger management, pain management and victim lifestyles. Help clients get free of fears and phobias quickly and permanently. Monitor and change negative self-talk. Practice basic Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) in hypnosis. Effect change through early-life regression protocol. Understand innovative intake tools including “The Jars”

Achieve a certificate in clinical hypnosis by completing this final course in the program. You’ll learn to use hypnosis to heal the inner child. You’ll help clients overcome obstacles through regression and release, releasing the ties that bind them and make healthy life choices. Speedy inductions Future pacing and goal setting Use hypnosis to heal the inner child. Apply regression and release when clients are stuck. Release the ties that bind emeshment clients. Explore chakra balancing and healing. Learn forgiveness and healing techniques Apply in-womb healing to manifest change

Are you driven by a need to better inform the public about the issues that matter to you and your community? This course will help you start or boost your journalism or freelance journalism-writing career. Polish your newspaper, broadcast and magazine writing skills by exploring the essential journalistic tools and techniques required to produce compelling news copy, feature stories and opinion articles in both traditional and independent news outlets. This course also provides a unique opportunity to tap into the expertise and lived experiences of established journalists. As a class, we will collectively assess journalism’s responsibilities in an age of rampant misinformation and AI, and examine its often distorted representation of Black, Indigenous and racialized communities. Learners from this class have had their assignments published in CBC Arts, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail and Vice News.   Work on the fundamentals of writing articles for digital use. Adapt your writing knowledge and skills to a digital context. Use a range of online platforms to tell and promote your stories. Create resonant stories that integrate an online strategy. Build a portfolio of original online material you can share with employers and talent developers.