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A Mindful Way Through The Creative Process offers a 10-step model that uses skills and practices informed by mindfulness to help you develop any project or even just uncover your next steps in life. Whether you are working on a business plan, writing a book, taking a leap into a new career or unsure of what you want to do, this interactive program shows you how to break everything down into manageable, bite-sized pieces to help you to accomplish your needs or discover your biggest dreams. As you learn to make friends with uncertainty and floundering, you will see how making a mess, creating your own unique relationship to structure and knowing who to go to for feedback are all part of the inescapable and important pieces of any creative process. Recognize and make friends with the emotional, mental and practical obstacles that could stop you from moving forward. Applied mindfulness practices that you can use in your professional or personal life. Arrange projects into achievable steps, with limited resources

Learn to apply mindfulness practice to reconciliation and conflict resolution. In this two-day course, you’ll learn to recognize and handle the roots of strong emotions in conflict, and communicate effectively at times of difficulty. You’ll explore the four-step framework of “Beginning Anew”, based on the tradition of scholar, Zen Master and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh. “Beginning Anew” offers a concrete structure that can be applied to a wide spectrum of daily settings, including workplaces, classrooms and the home. Apply mindfulness processes to reconciliation and conflict management. Identify and handle strong emotions. Develop effective communication tools that help navigate conflict. Integrate mindfulness into your interpersonal relationships. Use language and tools for healthy and sustainable reconciliation.

If you’ve already completed Neuroscience, Mindfulness and Mindfulness Meditation, this two-day workshop will help you build your understanding and skills. You’ll discover how mindfulness meditation enhances specific areas of the brain, and how these changes promote psychological and social well-being. Through lectures, videos and small group discussions, you’ll explore the latest research on neuroscience, neural integration and the many ways it’s enhanced by mindfulness meditation. Explore the latest research findings on mindfulness meditation and the brain. See how mindfulness meditation changes the brain to enhance wellness. Understand neural integration through the lens of interpersonal neurobiology. Discover how mindfulness meditation contributes to neural integration. Emerge with specific strategies to promote well-being and neural integration.

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.

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.

Human-service organizations need strong leaders to provide the best outcomes for their user groups. If that sounds like you – if you want to start or strengthen your leadership role – this two-day module is for you. You’ll learn how to engage successfully with government and for-profit actors to improve the social impact of your existing services. You’ll learn about key leadership characteristics and qualities, how to influence the culture of an organization and how to develop successful partnerships across multiple sectors. Know what makes a good leader in human services. Initiate and support organizational change. Understand and apply principles of strategic planning. Take a leadership approach with organizational personnel. Partner effectively with human service organizations, government and for-profit actors.

Human services leaders need to understand, manage and advance their organization’s financial resources. In this two-day workshop, you’ll learn the full range of funding sources available, including government, nonprofits and social enterprises. You’ll study financial reporting, including financial reports, budgets, audited statements and other critical data. You’ll learn about government procurement, social-impact bonds, social-investment funds and pay-for-performance contracts. You’ll emerge with a foundation of knowledge and skill that could help you launch or sustain programs in your human services organization. Acquire funds from diverse sources. Manage and advance your financial resources. Create budgets that work, and that people understand. Read and interpret financial statements. Know the regulations that apply to your organization.