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TRAININGS 

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Our training courses provide the perfect opportunity to take your playful vitality skills to the next level while working through hidden blockages. 

For individuals, trainings are offered on a cohort basis, contact us if a training interests you. When a critical mass has been reached, we will send out an e-mail to confirm participation and find an appropriate time slot. This link takes you to the sign up form. While training fees are listed, all training are available on a sliding scale to keep these practices accessible. 

For organizations, trainings are customized to your specific context. Following an initial conversation, we'll connect you with a facilitator in our network. Training in playful vitality can support you in the following situations:
  • Conflicts are being ignored or aren't addressed in a healthy way. 
  • There is a need for deeper creativity in brainstorms. 
  • Members of the organization aren't having fun at work or in meetings.
  • There is a constant feeling of never being able to accomplish enough. 
  • There is a desire to more fully embody values of connection and communication. 
  • You are having trouble identifying and addressing difficult shadow dynamics. 
  • You want to be more creative as a team. 
  • You want to learn how to play together. 
  • You want to find more innovative ways to meet your organizational goals. 
  • You want to re-imagine your interactions and your communication. ​

These trainings are based on an experiential learning model that states that people learn best from experience, reflective observation, conceptualization and experimentation. 
TRAINING CATALOGUE: 
  • DANCING WITH CONFLICT
  • CREATIVE DREAM 
  • IMPROVISATION BOOTCAMP 
  • ​SOCIAL RISK WORKOUT
  • TIME FREEDOM 
  • NARRATIVE RE-CREATION
  • ​PLAY REIGNITED 
  • COMMUNICATION & FUN IN THE FAMILY 

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DANCING WITH CONFLICT

Re-invent how you engage with conflict using conflict theory, powerful role plays, creativity and group dialogue. ​
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TRAINING DESCRIPTION 
Conflict is everywhere: in the family, at work, in our friendships, in our romantic relationships, and even with complete strangers in the street. We are constantly confronted with actions and ideas that make us feel all sorts of difficult emotions. This is normal, and in fact desirable. Conflict holds the seeds for our own transformation through a deep invitation for growth and understanding of different realities. 

Unfortunately, many of us have not learned healthy ways of engaging with conflict and connecting with its potential. Typical maladaptive responses to conflict include ignoring it, emotionally distancing, exploding or over facilitating. In this program, we will be creating a new pathway, where you engage with conflict with confidence, honesty and compassion, all while respecting your needs and boundaries. Even in the most difficult situations, there are always pathways forward. By dancing with and exploring conflict creatively, we can find freedom in our most challenging interpersonal situations. 
TESTIMONIALS 
​This is an essential course allowing participants to learning this fundamental life skill of how to dance gracefully through conflict. It was facilitated with brilliant clarity, humour, experience, knowledge, tremendous skill and empathy. 
What brilliantly inspiring coaching and modelling!
I normally hate roleplays but I loved them here. The rest of the group was so supportive and lovely.  
I learned how to understand the structure of conflict so that I could lean into the discomfort of the process, not to rush to solutions or apologies (or defence!) but allow for a resolution to emerge with reflective caring listening, a desire to understand and request to be understood guiding the steps. 
LOGISTICS 
  • Schedule: 4 x 2 hour sessions, every week (total of 8 hours) 
  • Price: $250.00 CAD (+ applicable taxes) 
LEARNING OBJECTIVES 
  • Understand the role of the nervous system, emotions and psychological safety in conflicts
  • Have the language and tools to navigate challenging conflicts 
  • Create a bold new conflict vision for yourself
  • Understand the blockages and the shifts that are needed within yourself 
  • Learn active listening strategies
METHODS
  • ​Fictional & real life inspired roleplays
  • Group dialogue & analysis
  • Conflict coaching
  • Feedback

CREATIVE DREAM

Finally accomplish the creative project you have been dreaming of, but not doing. 
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TRAINING DESCRIPTION 
So many of us carry a creative dream that is so precious we fear bringing it to the world. Perhaps it was to write a book, to launch your own business, to travel around the world or create a weekly open mic. Precious as they may be, these dreams sometimes get pushed to the end of our priority lists, buried under daily obligations, procrastination and fear.

Are you carrying an unrealized dream ? 

In this training, join a group of adventurers that are ready to face their fears and blockages head on, and bring their dreams to life. 

​LOGISTICS 
  • Schedule: 4 x 2 hour sessions (total of 8 hours), every 2 weeks 
  • Price: $500.00 CAD (+ applicable taxes)
​LEARNING OBJECTIVES 
  • Understand blockages and how to overcome them
  • Identify the exact creative vision you are running towards and away from
  • Harness the power of a learning community
​METHODS 
  • Shadow work 
  • Project management 
  • Research
  • Accountability strategies
  • Coaching 
  • Visioning 
  • Mindfulness 

IMPROVISATION BOOTCAMP

Bring the life giving possibilities of improvisation into your day. 
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TRAINING DESCRIPTION 
​​By learning to improvise, every single interaction, conversation, presentation, brainstorm and collaborative session bursts into colour. In Improvisation Bootcamp, experience not one but five forms of improvisation: improv theatre, freestyle dance, freestyle verse, drawing & music. By tapping into different practices, the principles of improv become crystal clear, allowing you to connect to your inner creative force. 
​LOGISTICS 
  • Schedule: 3 x 2 hour sessions, weekly (total of 6 hours) 
  • Price: $150.00 CAD (+ applicable taxes) ​
​LEARNING OBJECTIVES 
  • Understand how the improvisational arts are connected
  • Discover easy creative outlets
  • Deepen your connection to creativity
  • Improve your collaboration skills
  • ​Learn to integrate improvisation into daily life
METHODS 
  • Improvisation theater
  • Freestyle dancing
  • Musical improvisation
  • Drawing 
  • Freestyle verse





SOCIAL RISK WORKOUT

Work through shyness and people pleasing, and unleash your full power in the presence of others.  
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TRAINING DESCRIPTION
When it comes to social anxiety or risks, we could easily go through our entire lives staying out of the spotlight, not drawing too much attention, not causing too much of a fuss. But, it's possible our lives would have been slightly less vibrant, that we would've missed out on some incredible moments of connection.  
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This training is about shedding the layers of shame that prevent us from being bold, loud, and audacious, despite fears of rejection or judgement. 

The roadmap is designed by you ! By the end of the training, you'll be accomplishing social feats you current self might gasp at. 
LOGISTICS & FEES 
  • Schedule: 4 x 1.5 hour sessions, weekly (total of 6 hours) 
  • Price: $200.00 CAD (+ applicable taxes) ​
LEARNING OBJECTIVES 
  • How to take risks
  • Emotional regulation in socially risky circumstances
  • How to be deeply uncomfortable in public
  • Learn strategies to overcome shyness
METHODS 
  • Shadow work 
  • Stretch zone 
  • Group coaching 
  • Incremental risk taking

TIME FREEDOM

Release yourself from constant busyness and find a peaceful relationship to time. 
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TRAINING DESCRIPTION 
We spend so much time running against the clock, never able to complete an endless to-do list. To reach an expansive relationship with time, we must go beyond the lists and the precepts that dictate our adult understanding of time.This training is designed to help you re-imagine your relationship to time and finally get the freedom you need to do the things that truly matter to you while feeling a sense of expansiveness when you are navigating your day. 


LOGISTICS 
  • Schedule: 4 x 1.5 hour sessions, weekly (total of 6 hours) 
  • Price: $200.00 CAD (+ applicable taxes) ​
LEARNING OBJECTIVES 
  • Understand the current origins of a western relationship to time 
  • Learn different cultural perceptions of time 
  • Imagine a new relationship to time that is empowering and uplifting through inspiration, group sharing and reflection
​METHODS 
  • Calendar analysis
  • Reflection and journaling 
  • Boundaries 
  • Time management 

NARRATIVE RE-CREATION

Craft a meaningful and inspiring life narrative. 
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TRAINING DESCRIPTION
Without always realizing it, we sometimes carry life narratives that do not support us. While the specifics vary, usually these negative narratives often hold the common thread that there is some fault in us. Examples: 
  • We failed 
  • We missed the boat 
  • We aren't good at anything 
  • We weren't successful 
  • We were the victim ​
Instead of letting these disempowering narratives sit dormant in us and sap our power, we can use our creativity to craft a new life narrative that, while using the exact same life events, brings us inspiration. You start by mapping out key moments that comprise your life, and then re-imagine your relationships to them. 

This is not therapy and it is also not about denying the pain that exists. Here, the goal is to experiment with different creative and visual tools to better understand our power to reimagine our life narratives. 
​LOGISTICS 
  • Schedule: 2 x 2 hour sessions, weekly (total of 4 hours) 
  • Price: $100.00 CAD (+ applicable taxes) 
​LEARNING OBJECTIVES 
  • Understand how to use creativity to rewrite a personal narrative. 
  • Learn different ways of conceptualizing a life path. 
METHODS 
  • Visual thinking 
  • Group coaching 
  • Storytelling

PLAY REIGNITED

RECONNECT WITH YOUR NATURAL ABILITY TO PLAY 
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TRAINING DESCRIPTION 
​A games session to reconnect with the delight & power of play as adults. Whether it be educational gamification, video games or gamified apps, the world has caught on that play generates engagement, belonging & performance. Despite this zeitgeist, our daily lives often remain devoid of playful energy. Luckily, play can be integrated seamlessly & easily into both personal and professional life, with a bit of practice. In Play Reignited, experience over 15 games, reconnect with your natural instinct of play, and learn how to keep the fun going long after the training ends. 
LOGISTICS & FEES 
  • Schedule: 4 x 2 hour sessions, weekly (total of 8 hours) 
  • Price: $250.00 CAD (+ applicable taxes) 
LEARNING OBJECTIVES 
  • Connect to an embodied sense of play on will 
  • Learn exciting play methodologies. 
  • Understand individual play styles.  
  • Easily strengthen trust & relationships.
  • ​Use play as a tool for improved meetings & work flow. 
  • Weave play into daily operations effortlessly. 
  • Increase daily team well-being.  
METHODS
  • Free play 
  • Improvisation 
  • Creative exploration 

COMMUNICATION AND FUN IN THE FAMILY

THE COMMUNICATION SKILLS YOUR FAMILY NEVER LEARNED 
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TRAINING DESCRIPTION
The family is one of the most powerful structures that exists. It is a constellation that in the best cases can bring us a deep sense of love and connection.  

Unfortunately families can also get mired in their differences and long running stories of hurt. How can a family with vastly different worldviews still connect, communicate, and have fun together? It is possible, but it requires communication frameworks, practice and some old fashioned effort.  

By having these conversations and setting up powerful family agreements, a lifelong deeper connection is possible. 

This training is not offered from a therapeutic angle, meaning there will be no work done attempting to heal any past family wounds. Instead, the focus is on building a specific communication skill set that allows your family to connect deeply using dialogue. When this skill set is in place, the stage is set for the healing to happen in your own time. 

​LOGISTICS 
  • Schedule: 3 x 2 hour sessions (total of 6 hours)
  • Price: $600.00 CAD per family (+ applicable taxes) 
  • For families with children older than 12
  • Sessions offered privately to individual families
  • This training can be done with missing family members
LEARNING OBJECTIVES 
  • Learn clear models for communication together. 
  • Identify ways that you like to have fun together as a family. 
  • Learn communication traps that your family can easily fall into and tricks to avoid them. 
​METHODS 
  • Initial survey
  • Group agreements
  • Communication styles 
  • Conflict theory 




Additional information 

All trainings take place online, audio only participation is possible for those joining with low bandwidth connections. 

There is sliding scale pricing, contact us if the pricing is a barrier to your participation. 
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Payments can be made by Interac money transfer, Paypal, or wire transfer. ​
  • HOME
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    • GAMES & ACTIVITIES >
      • CIRCLE IN
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      • CREATIVE WRITING
      • RHYMING
      • APPLIED IMPROVISATION
      • PARTY GAMES
      • DINNER PARTY
      • TRAVEL GAMES
      • KIDS GAMES
      • SINGING
      • SINGING
      • ONLINE
    • SOCIAL COURAGE
    • COMMUNITY
    • LEISURE OVER PRODUCTIVITY
    • EXPANSIVE RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
    • IMPERFECTIONISM
    • CONNECTION TO PLEASURE & FUN
    • MINDFULNESS & EMBODIMENT
    • WELLNESS >
      • LAUGHTER YOGA
      • BREATHWORK
      • ROUTINES
      • VISUALIZATION
      • AFFIRMATIONS
    • CREATIVE PRACTICES
    • GENERATIVE CONFLICTS & SHADOW WORK
    • CELEBRATION OF ALL EMOTIONS
    • ONE WITH NATURE
    • INCLUDING EVERYONE
    • FINANCIAL LIBERATION
    • FASHION & BEAUTY
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