Trainings and Workshops
Good learning makes room for questions, reflection, and new ways of seeing familiar challenges. Our workshops bring lived expertise and professional knowledge together to deepen understanding of homelessness and strengthen practice.
Explore the sessions below to find a starting point for your team. Each offers opportunities to connect ideas to real situations through discussion, reflection, and practical learning.
Trainings
Facilitating for Impact: Leading Conversations on Hard Realities
Create the conditions for better conversations. Conversations about homelessness, poverty, food insecurity, substance use, and other experiences of marginalization can bring uncertainty, strong feelings, and disagreement into the room. Facilitating for Impact helps people lead…
Homelessness 101: Understanding the Causes, Building the Solutions
Understand how we got here, and where change is possible. Homelessness can feel overwhelming. Understanding how it happens helps us see where change is possible. Developed by the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa’s Expert Steering…
Homelessness in Context: Systems, Stigma, and Everyday Encounters
Build understanding. Respond with dignity. For people working in public-facing roles, encounters with homelessness can raise difficult questions. How do we respond respectfully? When does someone need support? How can we distinguish an unfamiliar or…
The Empathy Project
The Empathy Project
See the systems. Explore what could change. What happens when getting support means navigating multiple services, repeating your circumstances, meeting competing requirements, and waiting, all with no clear path forward? The Empathy Project is an…