Training Opportunities

Facilitating social change requires building a culture of belonging and trust. Building such a culture involves both inner and outer work.

The most important instrument for social change is you. If you want to strengthen your skills and learn new approaches to inspire and facilitate sustainable social change, this is your chance to tap into your own wealth of experience as well as the guidance of Jessie Sutherland, creator of the award-winning Belonging Matters framework.

Many systems, policies, practices and even attitudes and behaviours are outdated and contribute to the social and environmental challenges facing our communities and our world. More and more leaders recognize what does not work and seek a fresh approach to build connected communities for meaningful action.

The Belonging Matters Foundations five-part training series provides practical tools and approaches to build cultures of belonging. Adopting these foundational steps is essential to engage diversity, unleash dormant talents, and ignite collaboration in order to address complex social problems.

In this series of customized, facilitated conversations, participants come together in a collaborative, problem-solving approach to build belonging and, together, address their priority challenges.

Through guided dialogues that nurture their own meaning of belonging, participants share stories and apply reflective learning strategies. The co-creation of visual legacies amplify participants’ voices, internalize key insights, and become the catalyst for participant-led solutions for lasting community change.

Through this 3-part series, learn how to facilitate our proven community-building Belonging Matters Conversations dialogue process to support the voice, dignity and leadership of people with lived experience. Our dialogue process is based within the Belonging Matters framework and these conversation experiences and outcomes can be used as assessment, planning and action tools.

As a result of taking this training, facilitators within organizations are equipped with the in-house knowledge and tools to foster belonging, increase meaningful participation and engagement, and gain insight for service improvement for sustainable and lasting change.

Learn to work with members of the community in ways that empower participants. Facilitators get access to a strengths-focused, problem-solving approach that engages diversity, builds belonging, and ignites meaningful participant-led collaborative action.

For changemakers who are ready to facilitate a long-term community transformation process that builds capacity and leads to both personal and system change with lasting results, this customized coaching package is for you.

We take leaders through our program to create long lasting social change within organizations and communities.