Provider: Imagine Institute for Learning

Intergenerational Wisdom – Discount Code Living23

Training

Intergenerational wisdom – can be described as the sharing and transmission of knowledge, beliefs, and experiences from one generation to the next. Part of this includes intergenerational trauma where trauma and pain are transmitted through generations. However, there is more to intergenerational wisdom than passing on the hurt; it also includes the transmission of hope, strength, and resilience, which helps break the cycle of trauma. This Intergenerational Wisdom training is an extension of our Trauma-Informed Care training and will take on an Indigenous perspective. This training was built with the belief that there is resilience in education. Through the sharing of knowledge, it is possible to learn, grow, and find the capacity to create stronger relationships and a healthier future for everyone residing on the lands we share. Join us on this two-day training to reframe the way you think about intergenerational trauma and develop a deeper understanding of the trauma and resilience continually experienced in Indigenous communities in Alberta. This training will include a combination of science and narratives from Indigenous peoples, allowing for an informative and humanizing experience.

Objectives

  • Build awareness about the trauma experienced by Indigenous peoples in Alberta
  • Understand the various ways trauma is passed on through generations and the role trauma is still playing in Indigenous communities
  • Reframe the way we perceive intergenerational trauma into a learning opportunity and a story of resilience
  • Reflect on the wisdom shared and the next steps to break the cycle of trauma

Edmonton and area participants enter discount code Living23 during checkout on the provider’s website.

Dates Name of Training or Education Provider Link
April
Date: April 25 & 26 Training/Education: Intergenerational Wisdom - Discount Code Living23 Provider: Imagine Institute for Learning REGISTER

Workplace Wellness (Virtual) – Discount Code Living23

Training

Workplace Wellness workshops are presented in a four-part series. Each workshop session is a full day of training covering separate topics over a four-week period. The sessions may be taken separately. 

Workplace Wellness One: Moving Beyond “I’m fine” – May 9, 2023 

This full-day interactive session is for those employees whose working conditions and identities as workers have been changed and challenged by the pandemic. Through guided conversation and reflective activities, participants will engage with many of the complex mental health topics that are relevant to workers right now, such as surge capacity, ambiguous loss, and moral tension. By the end of the session, participants will be empowered to re-examine their experiences using newly acquired vocabulary and personal insight to move their needle towards wellness and compassion, both for themselves and others.  

Outcomes:  

  • Understand workplace wellness concepts of surge capacity, ambiguous loss, and moral tension.  
  • Using the “stress bucket” activity participants with can reflect on their own stress points and build self-awareness.  
  • Explore the Social Compass™ Tool to assess mental health and social capacity of work environments. 
Workplace Wellness Two: From Burnout towards Sustainability – May 16, 2023 

This full-day interactive session aims to support employees with practical tools to enhance their workplace wellness during challenging times. Participants will examine compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction through the lens of their own professional quality of life. By understanding what the warning signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue and burnout may look like in ourselves and others, we will be better prepared to respond by prioritizing well-being and mitigating potential harm to individuals, clients, and our organization. Participants will leave the session with practical tools and protective strategies to care for their mental health and minimize the experience of fatigue that can come from working in empathetically demanding jobs.  

Outcomes:  

  • Assess their professional quality of life (ProQOL 5)  
  • Explore the positive and negative impacts that can result from working in human service positions including compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue 
  • Identify the signs of compassion fatigue and burnout in themselves and others  
  • Employ practical workplace strategies and interventions to preserve mental health and promote self-sustainability 
Workplace Wellness Three: Reflective Practice – May 23, 2023 

Reflective Practice is a tool that translates and supports the space between various levels of accountability within an organization. Participants will have the opportunity to build a common language that creates space for growth at all levels of an organization. We will explore the wisdom in the room related to the behavioural competencies that participants already employ in their workplaces. Together, we will then apply the activating competencies of assertiveness, perseverance, and respectful curiosity to their context.  

Outcomes: 

  • Explore the role of met and unmet needs in the workplace environment and how that shows up in our professional competencies (knowledge, behavioural, and activating).  
  • Build understanding around what reflective practice offers to different supervisory spaces, including the role of the practitioner in the context of supervision.  
  • Employ practical tools that build self-awareness including a self-assessment of your own perceptions and ideas.  
  • Build capacity related to communication with the different roles, goals, and techniques within an organization. 
  • Explore strategies and tools to support moving from communication(talk) to consolidation (or action) related to reflective learning. 
Workplace Wellness Four: Supervision – May 30, 2023 

Supervision is often associated with stress and anxiety in the workplace; however, this session explores how to communicate and consolidate learning within supervisory relationships.

It takes a more practical approach to documentation and communication within the separate roles of supervision. By exploring the power of curiosity, mentoring, and relationships, this session focuses on tools for supervisors to support a space for reflective supervision. It attempts to address the fear of, “What if I say what I really feel?” and the supervisor’s fear of, “Now that I know about it, what do I do?” We look forward to learning together and supporting the human needs that show up at work.  

Outcomes: 

  • Create a space for sharing wisdom from within the group, related to tools of the trade. Supervisors can share what works within their organization as well as learn from other supervisors in the space. 
  • Employ practical tools that support goal communication, mentoring and playfulness in building relationships with practitioners. 
  • Explore tools that help supervisors when staff experience trauma or life experiences that interfere with a person’s ability to “show up” for work. 

Edmonton and area participants enter discount code Living23 during checkout on the provider’s website.

Dates Name of Training or Education Provider Link
May
Date: May 9 Training/Education: Workplace Wellness (Virtual) - Discount Code Living23 Provider: Imagine Institute for Learning REGISTER
Date: May 16 Training/Education: Workplace Wellness (Virtual) - Discount Code Living23 Provider: Imagine Institute for Learning REGISTER
Date: May 23 Training/Education: Workplace Wellness (Virtual) - Discount Code Living23 Provider: Imagine Institute for Learning REGISTER
Date: May 30 Training/Education: Workplace Wellness (Virtual) - Discount Code Living23 Provider: Imagine Institute for Learning REGISTER

Trauma Informed Care (Virtual) – Discount Code Living23

Training

This two-day introductory training acknowledges the prevalence and significant impact of trauma in an individual’s life and aims to inform service providers how to apply a trauma-informed lens to their current practice.

This workshop will define and describe the six main trauma-informed principles outlined in the literature and will
focus on how to translate these principles into practice.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Define trauma and understand the different types of trauma
  • Identify the signs and symptoms of trauma
  • Understand the impacts and effects of trauma
  • Define and understand trauma-informed practice
  • Identify the main principles of trauma-informed practice
  • Understand how to implement trauma-informed principles at the organizational, personal and practice level
  • Reflect on how this knowledge fits into your current work
  • Recognize the impact working with trauma can have on a practitioner and understand the importance of self-care and reflective practice
Edmonton and area participants enter discount code Living23 during checkout on the provider’s website.
Dates Name of Training or Education Provider Link
April
Date: April 27 & 28 Training/Education: Trauma Informed Care (Virtual) - Discount Code Living23 Provider: Imagine Institute for Learning REGISTER
May
Date: May 25 & 26 Training/Education: Trauma Informed Care (Virtual) - Discount Code Living23 Provider: Imagine Institute for Learning REGISTER
June
Date: June 19 & 20 Training/Education: Trauma Informed Care (Virtual) - Discount Code Living23 Provider: Imagine Institute for Learning REGISTER

QPR Online Gatekeeper Training (Virtual) – Discount Code Living23

Training

QPR offers extended learning opportunities for professions which are especially likely to come into contact with individuals who are in-crisis or suicidal.

Key components covered in the training:

  • How to Question, Persuade and Refer someone who may be suicidal
  • How to get help for yourself or learn more about preventing suicide
  • The common causes of suicidal behavior
  • The warning signs of suicide
  • How to get help for someone in crisis

This education is intended for professional practitioners and agency staff for the intention of expanding practice
and offering applied learning opportunities.

Edmonton and area participants enter discount code Living23 during checkout on the provider’s website.

 

Dates Name of Training or Education Provider Link
April
Date: April 4 Training/Education: QPR Online Gatekeeper Training (Virtual) - Discount Code Living23 Provider: Imagine Institute for Learning REGISTER
Date: April 28 Training/Education: QPR Online Gatekeeper Training (Virtual) - Discount Code Living23 Provider: Imagine Institute for Learning REGISTER
May
Date: May 17 Training/Education: QPR Online Gatekeeper Training (Virtual) - Discount Code Living23 Provider: Imagine Institute for Learning REGISTER
June
Date: June 7 Training/Education: QPR Online Gatekeeper Training (Virtual) - Discount Code Living23 Provider: Imagine Institute for Learning REGISTER