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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
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.
Register here
* 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.
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.
Please click here to access critical information
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.
Gentle Heroes: Men as Nurturing Caregivers – 6-hour workshop
- This workshop shares the value of storytelling, models different methods, and develops prompts to help male caregivers create their own stories for their children.
- Participants will cultivate expertise in storytelling to connect their experiences with gentle heroes to foster empathy and gentleness in the new generation. This enhances the well-being of children in their care and passes on knowledge, culture, language, enhance attachment through the fun and engaging elements of storytelling.
http://communities4families.ca/?page_id=3120&preview=true
Gentle Heroes: Men as Nurturing Caregivers – 6-hour workshop
- This workshop shares the value of storytelling, models different methods, and develops prompts to help male caregivers create their own stories for their children.
- Participants will cultivate expertise in storytelling to connect their experiences with gentle heroes to foster empathy and gentleness in the new generation. This enhances the well-being of children in their care and passes on knowledge, culture, language, enhance attachment through the fun and engaging elements of storytelling.
http://communities4families.ca/?page_id=3120&preview=true
Join us for a focused discussion about Downtown families and how best to serve them.
- This 8-hour facilitator training teaches you to run WGM, a physical activity and nutrition program for preschoolers and their parents
- Wiggle Giggle & Munch promotes physical literacy, healthy nutrition while having fun for children 1-4 years old and their families
- This 8-hour facilitator training teaches you to run WGM, a physical activity and nutrition program for preschoolers and their parents
- Wiggle Giggle & Munch promotes physical literacy, healthy nutrition while having fun for children 1-4 years old and their families
- This 8-hour facilitator training teaches you to run WGM, a physical activity and nutrition program for preschoolers and their parents
- Wiggle Giggle & Munch promotes physical literacy, healthy nutrition while having fun for children 1-4 years old and their families
- This 8-hour facilitator training teaches you to run WGM, a physical activity and nutrition program for preschoolers and their parents
- Wiggle Giggle & Munch promotes physical literacy, healthy nutrition while having fun for children 1-4 years old and their families
Tapping into Resiliency Through Storytelling (TRTS) – 4-hour workshop
- exploring ways of building resiliency skills through the lens of the oral stories we share
- empowers service providers working with children and parents with transferrable resiliency skills
Register here
Tapping into Resiliency Through Storytelling (TRTS) – 4-hour workshop
- exploring ways of building resiliency skills through the lens of the oral stories we share
- empowers service providers working with children and parents with transferrable resiliency skills
Register here
Join us for our first 2023 Lunch & Learn
Find out more about the supports in our community for families with special needs with presentations by:
- Inspire Community Outreach
- Family Advocacy Network of Manitoba (FAN)
- Others to be confirmed
Please contact us for the Zoom link
With summer here, outdoor play beckons. How can you take your indoor family programming outdoors? Cheri and Chris will help you discover how!
This workshop is great for any parent-child programs, but especially helpful if you run a Wiggle, Giggle & Munch program.
- free for downtown serving agencies and if you have taken WGM facilitator training within the past year
- $10 for those serving outside downtown Winnipeg
Part Time Contract Opportunity Job Posting
Start Date: Monday, September 25,2023
Salary: $20 per hour
Benefits: Laptop/headset provided, personal and professional development opportunities, access to a Health and Wellbeing Account
Time Requirement: 20 hours per week, semi-flexible, work from home/in person/online
Because C4F is passionate about supporting communities, service providers, and families to raise happy, healthy children, the person we are looking for will be able to work independently, is highly motivated, and has an engaging personality.
Discover the benefits of outdoor play as we enter a new season!
Contact us for zoom link for this event.
Bookmates’ Play to Learn, Learn to Play is a 5 week parent-child program founded on the importance of play in guiding early years learning and healthy child development.
This is an interactive workshop – participants will explore the value of play and the philosophy behind child led play. You will also receive a facilitator manual complete with all the information needed for running Play to Learn, Learn to Play in your community.
There is no cost to participate but you must commit to attending both days. Spaces are limited.
Registration for this workshop is now full. Thank you for your interest.