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NOTE: For certification, you must complete ALL sessions.
RIRO offers evidence-based, resiliency skills training programmes to strengthen well-being and resilience in adults and children through role modeling and relationships.
Since 2002 RIRO has helped fuel resilience and support well-being in adults and young children under 8 years. RIRO teaches childcare and early learning staff and service providers the “3Rs of Resilience” – relaxation and reflection skills to help them respond instead of simply reacting to challenging situations.
RIRO 12-hour resiliency skills training programmes:
Teach adults resiliency skills to…
- Reach IN to develop healthy ways to cope with stress and tough times
- Reach OUT to find support and offer it to others
Show adults how to help children by…
- developing caring relationships
- being positive role models
- passing along the resiliency skills to them.
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Gentle Heroes is a workshop offered free of charge to downtown agencies working with dads/male caregivers.
Storytelling has been part of our cultures for millennia, as entertainment and as a way of sharing knowledge, building attachment, and empowering community members. Stories help us reflect on and overcome our challenges, developing skills like empathy, gratitude, and more.
This workshop will also develop and enhance our appreciation of diversity. It gives participants an opportunity and method to communicate their “story”. This is made possible through speaking, listening, reading and writing, art, music, humour, and role-playing, providing a language-rich environment for children, essential for early literacy. Honouring each family’s culture through storytelling encourages attachment and bonding by giving parents the opportunity to be a significant part of the literacy process as a storyteller.
Recommended Participants:
- Community leaders and administrators
- Family support practitioners
- Early Childhood Educators
- Childcare centre administrators
- Program leaders and facilitators
Gentle Heroes is a workshop offered free of charge to downtown agencies working with dads/male caregivers.
Storytelling has been part of our cultures for millennia, as entertainment and as a way of sharing knowledge, building attachment, and empowering community members. Stories help us reflect on and overcome our challenges, developing skills like empathy, gratitude, and more.
This workshop will also develop and enhance our appreciation of diversity. It gives participants an opportunity and method to communicate their “story”. This is made possible through speaking, listening, reading and writing, art, music, humour, and role-playing, providing a language-rich environment for children, essential for early literacy. Honouring each family’s culture through storytelling encourages attachment and bonding by giving parents the opportunity to be a significant part of the literacy process as a storyteller.
Recommended Participants:
- Community leaders and administrators
- Family support practitioners
- Early Childhood Educators
- Childcare centre administrators
- Program leaders and facilitators
This 2-hour workshop is a condensed version of the outdoor play course previously developed for Mosaic volunteers. Topics include:
- The importance of outdoor play for early childhood development.
- Four fundamentals of successful outdoor play, which touches on sensory play, child-led play, play with loose parts, and risky play.
- Other topics touched on include parental/caregiver roles related to outdoor play, and how to utilize space and resources easily accessible to anyone.
Participants will also be directed to links and resources for practical ideas and activities.
Note: This is a free workshop for those serving families in Communities 4 Families Downtown catchment area.
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* Agencies are reminded that any – or all! – of these topic areas can be tailored into custom workshops for your staff and volunteers. Please contact us to discuss further.
Learn to use active storytelling in your programs
Learn to use active storytelling in your programs
Gentle Heroes is a workshop offered free of charge to downtown agencies working with dads/male caregivers.
Storytelling has been part of our cultures for millennia, as entertainment and as a way of sharing knowledge, building attachment, and empowering community members. Stories help us reflect on and overcome our challenges, developing skills like empathy, gratitude, and more.
This workshop will also develop and enhance our appreciation of diversity. It gives participants an opportunity and method to communicate their “story”. This is made possible through speaking, listening, reading and writing, art, music, humour, and role-playing, providing a language-rich environment for children, essential for early literacy. Honouring each family’s culture through storytelling encourages attachment and bonding by giving parents the opportunity to be a significant part of the literacy process as a storyteller.
Recommended Participants:
- Community leaders and administrators
- Family support practitioners
- Early Childhood Educators
- Childcare centre administrators
- Program leaders and facilitators
Storytelling has been around for millennia, not only for entertainment but as a way of imparting education, connection, and empowerment. Stories help us reflect on and overcome our challenges and develop resiliency skills like empathy, diversity, gratitude, and many more. We wanted to discover ways of bringing resiliency and storytelling together, and there has never been a more critical time to do so. Throughout the pandemic, our resiliency has been put to the test. Communities 4 Families’ workshop helps participants reflect and explore the many ways to build on their resiliency skills through the lens of each oral story we share.
Storytelling has been around for millennia, not only for entertainment but as a way of imparting education, connection, and empowerment. Stories help us reflect on and overcome our challenges and develop resiliency skills like empathy, diversity, gratitude, and many more. We wanted to discover ways of bringing resiliency and storytelling together, and there has never been a more critical time to do so. Throughout the pandemic, our resiliency has been put to the test. Communities 4 Families’ workshop helps participants reflect and explore the many ways to build on their resiliency skills through the lens of each oral story we share.
Due to low registration
this event has been cancelled.
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on water safety.
Presented by: The Lifesaving Society of Manitoba
Hosted by: Communities 4 Families
Date: July 13th, 2022
Time: 10 am – 11:15am
Via Zoom
See below for more information:
Water Smart® Public Education
Every year in Canada there are between 450 and 500 fatal drownings, but most drownings are preventable. Learn how to be Water Smart® whenever you’re in, on, or around water!
Water Smart® is the Lifesaving Society’s public education initiative with the objective of making all Manitobans safe around water. Water Smart® delivers personal lifesaving education messages designed to modify high-risk behaviour and increase awareness of the responsibility individuals assume for themselves and others when in, on, or near the water.
Read their Public Education Guide for some Water Smart® ideas.
Please join us for the next Wiggle, Giggle, & Munch Virtual Training.
Dates: September 12-15th, 2022
Time: 9:30 am – 11:30 am
Location: Zoom (link to be provided to registrants closer to the starting date)