Facilitating Workplace Restoration
December 7, 2018 @ 9:00 am - December 8, 2018 @ 2:00 pm
| $570.00Traditional Indigenous Circle Processes adapted to heal workplaces. Created and Presented by Elder Vicky Whalen and by Paula Drouin Vicky and Paula have worked together over the past couple of decades. Modern workplaces are about to benefit from yet another collaboration between these two woman. During this two day workshop Vicky will provide participants with traditional indigenous circle teachings used for sharing, healing and addressing conflict. Paula will then provide practical ways to adapt traditional circle processes to restore modern post conflict workplaces. Employees are frequently harmed not only by the people they are complaining about, but also by formal complaint processes such as: grievances, investigations, arbitration’s, hearings, and appeals. Once the formal processes have concluded, these same complainants and respondents frequently have to continue to work together. The inspiration for this workshop came from being asked “how can we put this team back together?” Paula’s experience designing and delivering an Aboriginal Peacemaking Certificate Program for Native Counselling Services of Alberta, has provided her with a culturally rich exposure to traditional healing processes and the caring presence of many Elders. With deep respect for the work of these Elders and their application of sharing and healing circles to help families, groups, and communities overcome harm, Paula reached out to Vicky to co-create this unique opportunity that we are sure will challenge your thinking and inspire you to ‘think outside the box’ when addressing team tensions. Who is the course designed for: Anyone with the responsibility to work in workplaces helping teams pull back together post-conflict. This training will also help employees with a responsibility to help teams ‘clear the air’ or resolve issues as a group. Having previous training in conflict resolution and experience facilitating conflict resolution conversations will provide some confidence in preparing people for and facilitating workplace restoration circles. Dates and Times: Friday, 7th December 2018, from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm and Saturday, 8th December 2018, from 9:00 am – 2:00 pm LUNCH WILL BE INCLUDED FOR THIS COURSE. Instructors: Vicky Whalen – Vicky is currently the Elder in residence at Buffalo Sage Wellness House in Edmonton. She has worked with Native Counselling Services of Alberta (NCSA) in various roles over the past couple of decades. Vicky worked with Paula on a contract between NCSA and Corrections Canada to design and facilitate training for Elders and CSC Restorative Opportunity Facilitators, from across Canada, on how to work together to facilitate serious crime victim/offender dialogue through the CSC Restorative Opportunities program. Paula Drouin – Paula draws on her past experiences working in a maximum security prison and in Edmonton’s inner city to create links between theory and practice. She has designed and delivered training in restorative justice, workplace assessments, investigations, mediation, negotiation, conflict resolution and has provided mediation and other dispute resolution services in workplaces for over twenty years. The idea of preventing someone from registering for a course makes us all crazy, so we won’t do that. However, we need to order printing a week before the course and make final decisions about the number of coaches to bring in, and confirm the size of the classroom being rented. Therefore, we hope you will register as soon as possible (knowing we’ll be kind and easy to deal with if you have to cancel) and in exchange we will keep registration open until the day before the course. We will shut off online course registration a week before, however you can just give us a call at 780-460-7599 or send an email to admin@adrlearninginstitute.ca to register. We will confirm your registration and make sure we have all the materials you will need when you arrive on the course date. We know life happens. Sometimes schedules change or the universe interferes with your plans. Please provide us with as much notice as possible so we can provide you with a full refund and hopefully fill your spot. If the universe doesn’t let you know until five or less days before the course, then we will give you a full credit towards another course which you, or someone you choose to transfer it to, can use within a year. If your financial situation is such that you just really need the money to be put back into your account, then give us a call and we will provide a refund less any admin costs incurred through Pay Pal or Invoicing.
