Online and Remote Learning

Teens today need help to manage anxiety, cultivate empathy and compassion and develop coping skills. Mindfulness can help them, and this introductory workshop will help you teach mindfulness to teens. Whether you’re a teacher, education support worker, or other youth service practitioner, you’ll get the information and resources you need to design a new mindfulness curriculum or implement an existing one. You’ll explore the core elements of mindfulness training, practical applications, curriculum connections, neuroscience research, customized lesson plans and adaptations for different populations. Assess the resources needed to implement a mindfulness program. Use age-appropriate activities, practices and instructional materials. Select activities and practices that will support mindful core competencies: Show students how they can benefit from mindfulness practice. Help teens enhance their optimism, motivation, creativity and impulse control skills through the use of mindfulness.

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.

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.

Good managers need to maximize employee performance to achieve their organization’s strategic objectives. In this two-day workshop, you’ll acquire tools and skills you need to get the most out of individual employees and teams. You’ll learn which policies and procedures work, and how to engage your workforce to get the buy-in you need. You’ll learn how to keep your teams focused on improving and adapting. You’ll explore better hiring practices, effective human-resource management techniques and ways to handle interpersonal dynamics. Effectively manage human resources in human service organizations. Develop effective human-resource policies and practices. Align the vision and values of your workforce. Create and support opportunities for professional development and worker learning. Supervise your team more effectively.

Human service providers need to know which programs work best for various user groups. They need tools and skills to assess the impact of their efforts. Over the course of this four-day module, you'll learn about the basic approaches and skills needed to implement program evaluation with rigor, and how human service managers leverage these tools to articulate social impact. You’ll learn to collect and apply the data that contemporary funders and granting foundations want, and how to develop sustainable evidence-based programming.   Develop a structured program evaluation based on different stages of data collection. Assess the social outcomes of your service users. Know which methods to use when analyzing outcomes. Support improved outcomes, organizational development and sustainability. Monetize social goods that your organization creates.